Jonny Greenwood
@JnnyG
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My life in the gush of boasts. Not now, silent singer!
Joined February 2009
There’s still no emoji to express my - very complicated - emotional reaction to this.
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Each Radiohead album described with Spongebob is perfect in so many ways. .
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Thanks for watching last week’s Coachella concert. This week, something new: we’ve tracked down the original desk audio for our Bonnaroo show. Filmed in 2006 in Tennessee it’s easily, comfortably, the best festival experience I’ve ever had in America.
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New Smile song out - Wall of Eyes - and album of the same name coming in January. Video by Paul Thomas Anderson (who he?) Strings by @LCOrchestra make up, clothes and music, models’ own.
The new album Wall Of Eyes, 26th January 2024. The title track, Wall Of Eyes is out today and is accompanied by a video from film director Paul Thomas Anderson. Pre-order the Wall Of Eyes album:
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My score to Lynne Ramsay’s "You Were Never Really Here" is out digitally March 9th on Invada Records/Lakeshore Records. Vinyl/CD formats later. Features @LCOrchestra @ollycoates & lots of #microtones #recorders #electricguitar #maxmsp. Hope you enjoy listening: the film’s great.
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Thanks to all the South Americans for coming to our shows - we loved every concert. (photo of Sao Paolo show by Borge_British_Photographer)
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I was surprised and very happy to get this - what Thom calls my ‘Ivor the engine’ award. Equal props should br going to my friends @DanielPioro @HughBrunt and the @BBCNOW / Proms Youth Orchestra. I shall try and shave the award into 62 equal parts.
Winner of the Ivor Novello Award for✨LARGE ORCHESTRAL✨at #TheIvorsComposerAwards 2020. Horror Vacui by @JnnyG. Find out more about the piece 👉
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Wonderful.
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I hope the heat, dust, and smell of fine southern whiskey comes over as well as the songs - and that we all get back to live music soon.
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Anyway. Won’t search my own name again either, so that’s a 2nd useful lesson learnt 😳 Thanks for asking. Can I recommend some unlistenable classical music for you?.
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Condolences to the families of the innocent concert goers, children and civilians of all ages murdered, raped or abducted in these massacres. It’s impossible not to despair.
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So sad to hear this. He was amazing in Curb: I was Marty Funkhouser on the last two Radiohead tours in tribute to his beautifully pitched performance. So subtle. And to think it was all improvised.
No! Early2019 RIP @JnnyG.
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Fat thumb. FWIW I only use twitter to share (and steal other people’s) enthusiasms for music / comedy / art etc. I also read lots of writers I like - but avoid commenting on things about which I’m ignorant - like this.
tell me why jonny greenwood liked this tweet :(.
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Its out! It's a lovely thing. Props to the developers, and Thom / Dan / Nigel for all the work on this. It's amazing. enjoy!.
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And - here’s the digested version for those simply miles from the nearest chair:
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My new music for solo violin and 68 strings has its first performance in 10 days time at Albert’s royal massive hall. Not heard it yet: first full rehearsal is in 9 days, so can’t change it now. Still, @DanielPioro is the superhuman soloist. That gives me faith in all this ink.
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What sad news to wake to. Penderecki was the greatest - a fiercely creative composer, and a gentle, warm-hearted man. My condolences to his family, and to Poland on this huge loss to the musical world.
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Cor, what a glorious piece of music - today was the first time I heard it, and I’m so impressed. Nice work, Noah. #prouddisreputablegodfathertweets.
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Anyone in New York fancy seeing There Will Be Blood with a live orchestra - here’s your chance. Our friend @HughBrunt conducting the NY Phil, tomorrow (Wednesday) and Thursday night. Then out for milkshakes at the nearest diner.
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Really happy to have a Tiny Desk concert of my music out today. I love these sessions - the whole Tiny Desk back catalogue is worth exploring if you don’t know it. Huge thanks to Ensemble Signal (nice gloves), and to Bob and Tom at NPR.
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I’m curating a station on this. it’s a very good idea. (Hope you like pianos). I will do a different playlist every week or so.
Check out Station Rotation! - Created by Danger Mouse & myself - it’s a simple app that hosts radio stations made and updated by their musical friends to share good music. .
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I sometimes wonder, when I’m writing, what a potential audience might be. Now I have the PERFECT footage. Glorious. Thanks so much for posting this. #microtonalduckjoy
The ducks were entranced to the point of paralysis by #jonnygreenwood @ Altarnun, Cornwall
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Fascinated to see this. Thank you. @colingreenwood played this every morning before we went to school for months and months. It’s a beautiful recording for dark winter mornings (and looking for school jumpers.).
Souvenir of Strawberry number 3 Everything’s Gone Green. The Doctor Rhythm and me together on this one.The start of odd relationship
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Sad news: Zaki Ali Qawwal has died. He was rehearsing with Shye and the Rajasthan Express in India yesterday - it was sudden, and is such a shock. Listening to Junun, and remembering this remarkable, warm-hearted musician, who inspired us all. Condolences to his family, and band.
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I’m curating today’s pick from our public library: it’s endless when you start looking - so perhaps these few clips will give you a way in:.
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Thanks @LCOrchestra @southbankcentre for There Will Be Blood live yesterday. Spot the sweaty bluffer hoping he's not about to be found out:
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I scored strings for a new Pretenders song - it's just been released. Easy to write for THAT voice: Chrissie sings so beautifully. Thanks to members of the amazing @12ensemble (and others) for their tender playing - It was a very happy session.
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I keep returning to this book - and aside from the delicious enthusiasm and clarity with which AR writes, I especially love his high regard for Sibelius alongside (rather than in opposition to) the later radicals. It’s a great chapter.
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(I know I over-retweet Mr Rhodes. but it’s the only consistency joyful and uplifting thing on my time line ATM!).
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I’ve written a new tiny piece of music for @benhughescello to play as part of this idea. Recorded by him in isolation in his flat, it’s due to be broadcast later this morning on @BBCRadio3. Looks like this:
Tune in to @BBCRadio3. Breakfast with @PetrocTrelawny. tomorrow for @bellepianist's piece kicking off #PostcardsFromComposers - miniature musical messages of hope by Jonny Greenwood @JnnyG @AnnaClyne.@dan_kidane @jamesmacm.& others #CultureinQuarantine.
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Out now, our album of Arabic songs with fantastic singers from across the Middle East: arranged, with Dudu, for Arabic orchestra, modular synths, brass, guitar, bass and ondes martenot.
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Hello! I'm playing shows in Europe soon for Jarak Qaribak - the project with Dudu Tassa and other singers from around the Middle East. I hope you can come and see us live in Berlin / Paris / Utrecht / Ghent / London next month. Check out the album here -
.@Dudutassa and @JnnyG will bring their magnificent Jarak Qaribak show to Europe in November. Tickets at
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Setting up for @BBC6Music @maryannehobbs session - just asked bass player Dave Brown if he can try out a stupid idea to sound like two bass players instead of one - and guess what. 🤪
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Just when I though looped music had reached the end of it's natural life - this arrives to save it:
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This is a cue from the soundtrack to Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here. The full album comes out (online) next Friday, as does Lynne’s fantastic film. The score is a mixture of string music, electric guitar and some sparse rhythms - like this one:
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I've updated my Station - all the best bits form the vinyl I used to collect when on tour in the 90’s. The routine: arrive at hotel, copy record shop addresses from yellow pages, get a map from reception & walk around US cities all day. Loved it so much.
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Just follow @dusttodigital - I can’t KEEP retweeting them. It’s usually as amazing as this 😬.
J. B. Lenoir performing “The Whale Has Swallowed Me” in 1965. Accompanied by Fred Below on drums.
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Éliane Radigue's "Seventh birth" - one of the first compositions for the ARP 2500 synthesizer!
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That’s nice! Huge props to @DanielPioro for steering this into the air with such tenderness - and @HughBrunt and @BBCNOW for their skill and patience. Here’s to more live concerts soon.
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We had so much support from Nightshift. All oxford bands did, and still do. Was so great when you put us on the cover. I know which accolade means more to me. and It’s still a great read (and very funny: I remember one review of a band was so cruel you typed it in wingdings. ).
In rather more exciting news today, the official programme for @radiohead's induction into the @rockhall Hall of Fame will feature two old Curfew pieces. Nice to be a little part of history.
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Practicing for the charity concert in Fermo. Maybe we’ll play this Messiaen too? #fermo #marche #arteproarte #ondesmartenot
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Favourite - I listen to his latest Pulse (2015) all the time. And Tehillim. And Music for 18 Musicians - which sounds like digitally granular music (only written and performed decades before that was possible . ) So much great music. Happy birthday Steve.
Happy 82nd birthday to @SteveReich! Share your favorite Reich stories and memories of listening to his music on this thread.
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New piano music on paper out today. It’s inspired by Glen Gould, and by the glorious mechanics of the thing. @kat_tinker (who played this version first) @JRhodesPianist (the only other pianist I follow)
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I wondered where I’d appear first - ego said @NotationIsGreat, reality replies with the great leveller that is: @ThreatNotation.
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I used to flinch at this accounts insistent use of exclamation marks - but now I think that if anything deserves them, it’s awe-inspiring images like this. So beautiful! (!).
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The real stars - along with Byron Wallen, John Edwards, Tom Skinner and Alex Hawkins - of this OST. Thanks so much.
A total joy to record @JnnyG’s brilliant score to Spencer. Featuring:.@eloisafleur .Alessandro Ruisi.Luba Tunnicliffe.@MaxRuisi .•.Appearing on:.02. Ancient & Modern.03. Calling The Whipper In.05. The Pearls.07. Frozen Three.08. The Boys.09. Delusion / Miracle.14. New Currency
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Glorious sound.
Listen to 'Future Love' the first single from Ride's brand new album 'This Is Not A Safe Place' out 16/8/19 on Wichita Recordings. Hear the full song + pre-order #ThisIsNotASafePlace @Andybebop @MarkGardener @SteveQueralt @doctorloz @erolalkan @wichitarecs
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Trying to make this user friendly - just by using capital letters and big labels. Still enjoyably unreliable though!
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This has me in a spin. All the minor key sinfonias and duets are amazing here - and so is Peter Serkin. This is a good one to start with. He plays them like they’re contemporary music. which they are. (Linked to wrong one before!)
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Terrible idea to lose forever such a precious part of the BBC’s musical heritage - and one that’s still very much in use by musicians today. It’s the BBC’s Abbey Road - equally iconic, and equally functional. Please sign the petition if you agree. .
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Yes - Scott is in our thoughts today.
Remembering Scott Johnson today, our friend and colleague. With love Px
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There Will Be Blood - didn't think I could be there, but am now confirmed to be playing Ondes Martenot with the LCO
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So glad to see Mr McL going strong. This has the same glorious feel as bitches brew / jack johnson / inner mounting flame - really inspiring. And true! Keep practicing. .
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Happy New Year! From @ShyeBentzur and my dear friends, the Rajasthan Express, in Ajmer. Miss you all - and Rajasthan - and THAT sound - so much.!🍎🍯
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Despite a fraught olive harvest in Italy (many farms had no fruit at all) we’re grateful to have managed to press any oil at all this year. So, even though it’s only 130 litres in total, the quality is really high. If you’re interested find out more here:
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Look who they let on prime time American TV - 3 minutes of devotional Sufi Muslim funk with our dear friends from Rajasthan. Props to @colbertlateshow @StephenAtHome for going out on a limb. #GharibNawal-GudriShahKhankah.#KhawajaMoinuddinHasanChisty.
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