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Mar 1, 2010 - 12:30 AM
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Rubyglass
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270842 - Directed by Anh Hung Tran based on the book by Haruki Murakami.
Greenwood confirmed that he is currently rehearsing/recording the score at the premiere of "Doghouse", his new piece for the BBC Concert Orchestra (he is still currently their composer-in-residence). Segments of the piece will form part of the basis for his Norwegian Wood score. Like the There Will Be Blood score, it will be conducted by Robert Ziegler.
Here's what he had to say about "Doghouse":
"I wrote this piece mostly in hotels and dressing rooms while touring with Radiohead. This was more practical than glamorous - lots of time sitting around indoors, lots of instruments about - and aside from picking up a few geographical working titles, I can't think that it had any effect where, on tour, it was written.
There's supposed to be a theme (or at least a source of inspiration) in music like this, but it's hard to pin down now as I write this. I was always mindful of who I was writing for - the orchestra, its players, its background in 'light music' and theme tunes, and its status as part of an institution. And that there had once been specific radio, dance and theatre orchestras as part of the BBC, as well as various regional variations. Perhaps this was also why it was important to me that the soloists should come from the orchestra itself, and the reason why we kept to the standard theatre orchestra line-up.
One conversation I had early on with Roger Wright (Controller, BBC Radio 3 and Director, BBC Proms) was about access to the BBC music library: I never got to go, but I imagined it being full of faded scores from radio themes of the 1950s, with parts missing and faded pages. (Most probably, it's just a tidy room in White City with little of that ephemeral stuff surviving.) Writing music in that style is, in any case, beyond me - and a pastiche of it would be wrong in all sorts of ways. Instead I took textural ideas inspired by the way the music would sound after being physically damaged, leaving the orchestra to play what's left."
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Well I guess he's not interested in winning an Oscar, considering it's a small, foreign film and he's once again using pre-existing music.
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I guess Grieg wasn't available.
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Regarding the composers he worked with. It is interesting to note that Greenwood and Thiet Ton-That are "contemporary" composers, whereas Santaolalla is a much more conventional composer.
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There will be a purchase!
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Good to know we all the same sense of humor around here... usually. 
