Alex Ross and Jonny Greenwood Interview

Really enjoyed this Interview between Alex Ross and Jonny Greenwood. Greenwood’s score adds so much to Power of the Dog. I’d never really thought before about how a mechanical piano could be used to make music that’s not really possible when a human is playing the piano. Listen to this crazy little ditty from the soundtrack.

Also, I loved this bit about being concise of what people can do with synthesized sounds and trying to stay ahead of it by making music and sounds that aren’t possible with stock plugins.

You start to recognize Penderecki-style plugins, for example. It’s quite a nice motivating thing in a way, because you end up writing things that are—O.K., well, you can’t do this sound yet, you can’t actually do this texture yet. So it’s the fight to keep your head above water that I get energy from, that I enjoy.