Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Jon Brion & John Curran All Contributed To 'Stone' Score

So, following the vague news a couple of weeks ago that Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood contributed in some fashion to the score of "Stone," Edward Norton has finally cleared up just what the process was in fashioning the textural score in the film.

In an interview with the Oakland Examiner (via TwentyFourBit) the actor pulls back the curtain on how the score came together, revealing that Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood sent over some files, Jon Brion (aka John O'Brien) recorded some stuff as did director John Curran, and then it was all cut and taped together into what we hear in the film:

John (Curran) and I got to talking really early on about the whole theme of Stone and how he talks about becoming a tuning fork of God and how when sound comes to you, it's terrifying. And it wasn’t in the script, but Curran and I started talking about this idea of "Wouldn’t it be interesting to have a trope in the film that was like that tuning fork" and I happened to be in England and I was with Johnny (Greenwood), and Johnny is obsessed with sounds and he’s obsessed with wave form and all kind of interesting stuff, and so is Thom (Yorke). And I said to (Greenwood), "Hey, if you were going to try to deconstruct something, like a sound, what would sound like a huge tuning fork," and he was like, “Oh yeah, maybe an organ, maybe an organ…” (Norton says in a British accent).

Those guys didn’t score the film because they didn’t have time, but they play with stuff all the time, so they had files and files and files of stuff, like taking intrsuments and literally breaking them down into wave forms and sounds...and they flipped a bunch of stuff off to us, to just play with and then we worked with their engineer a bit, but then you needed themes too, so (Curran) went to Jon Brion, as we both really love his work, and it seemd in sync in many ways with what the Radiohead guys play with. (Brion) does a lot of atonal, arrhythmic stuff, so Johnny recorded some organs, (Brion) recorded some organs, (Curran) did some things and then two of the sound engineers came up with some textural stuff. And at the end of the day, John Curran really conducted it all, he just threw it all into a Cuisinart to create this sort of soundscape. It was fun, very experimental and very unusual.

OK, so now that we have the official explanation out of the way, is this going to get a standalone release? We somehow doubt it but anything that finds the likes of Yorke, Greenwood and Brion playing together deserves to be preserved in some kind of format.

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Edward Norton Developing TV Mini-Series About The Lewis & Clark Expedition, 'Stone' Director John Curran To Helm

What does Edward Norton do with the all spare time he affords by forgoing opportunities like joining "The Avengers"? By turning his hand to producing interesting projects like this, we guess.

Asked what's on horizon, Norton recently revealed he is currently in the process of developing a mini-series adaptation of "Band Of Brothers" author Stephen Ambrose's novel about the Lewis & Clark expedition, "Undaunted Courage," hopefully for television.

"We’re trying to make this big — HBO is doing all these historical miniseries, which I think they’ve done an amazing job with a couple of them," Norton told A.V. Club. "We’re trying to produce one for them about Lewis and Clark. There’s that Stephen Ambrose book, 'Undaunted Courage,' about the Lewis and Clark expedition. We’re trying to assemble that, and it’s very big. It’s so out of scale with anything my partners and I have produced. It’s a very interesting set of equations to get something like that made. We’re pretty thick in that right now."

Soldiers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark lead a team backed by Thomas Jefferson on an expedition to the Pacific Coast and back, the first overland one of its kind, which was instrumental in paving the way for much of the westward expansion of the United States. Here's a short synopsis of Ambrose novel about the tale, courtesy of Amazon.

A biography of Meriwether Lewis that relies heavily on the journals of both Lewis and Clark, this book is also backed up by the author's personal travels along Lewis and Clark's route to the Pacific. Ambrose is not content to simply chronicle the events of the "Corps of Discovery" as the explorers called their ventures. He often pauses to assess the military leadership of Lewis and Clark, how they negotiated with various native peoples and what they reported to Jefferson. Though the expedition failed to find Jefferson's hoped for water route to the Pacific, it fired interest among fur traders and other Americans, changing the face of the West forever.

"If we can get something like this Lewis and Clark thing made, it will be really interesting for us. It’s like making 'Lonesome Dove' or something. It’s something you don’t really expect to do more than once. And if we get it together, John Curran is going to direct it, which will be really fun." No word yet on whether Norton will feature in an acting capacity at all.

As for its prospects, we're sure cable television would eat up something like this — a perfect companion project for the plethora of strong projects set to hit screens within the next year or so. And with the success of Martin Scorsese and Terrence Winter's collaboration on "Boardwalk Empire," surely the way has already been paved for more and more cinematic talent to transition to the small screen.

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