Jonny Greenwood
Jonathan "Jonny" Richard Guy Greenwood (born November 5, 1971 in Oxford , England ) is a British musician, film composer and member of the alternative rock band Radiohead .
To person
Jonny Greenwood is one of Radiohead's two guitarists . He also plays several other instruments . In cooperation with singer Thom Yorke , who is primarily responsible for melodies and lyrics, he is responsible for the multilayered arrangements and is therefore significantly involved in the creation of the Radiohead sound. His excessive playing style, rich in effects and memorable guitar solos, stands out on songs like Paranoid Android (by OK Computer ). A forearm bandage, with which he performed for several years, was the result of his sometimes wild style of play.
Live, Jonny always stands at the right edge of the stage (as seen by the audience), surrounded by a wall of effects units, synthesizers and various instruments. While the other band members usually limit themselves to one or two instruments, Jonny fills any gaps that arise in the process. During the recording of Kid A , he dealt with the Ondes Martenot , which is still instrumental in the sound of many Radiohead songs to this day.
The soundtrack to the documentary film Bodysong (2003; by director Simon Pummel) is often viewed as Jonny's solo album. It mainly consists of electronic sound experiments that hardly show any song structures. Another soundtrack by Greenwood for Paul Thomas Anderson's film There Will Be Blood was released in 2007 and won a Silver Bear at the 2008 Berlinale . For all of Anderson's subsequent films, Greenwood composed and arranged the film music. He was nominated for an Oscar 2018 for the music in Anderson's film The Silk Thread .
In 2015, Rolling Stone listed Greenwood as 48th of the 100 best guitarists of all time . In a list from 2003 he was ranked 60th.
Equipment
Jonny Greenwood has been playing a Fender Telecaster Plus since at least 1993 , to which he added a cut-off switch in collaboration with the Radiohead technician Plank, which gives him the option of interrupting the signal for a short time, creating a "stutter effect" , which you can hear for example in the solo by Paranoid Android . He also uses a Fender Starcaster .
He also uses a number of effects that fundamentally shape the Radiohead sound:
- Electro Harmonix Small Clone ( Chorus )
- DigiTech Whammy ( Pitchshifter )
- Boss SD-1 (pitch shifting)
- Marshall Shredmaster ( Distortion )
- Boss RV-3 / RV-5 (Hall)
- DOD 440 (envelope filter)
- Demeter The Tremulator (Tremolo)
- Boss RE-201 / RE-20 (Echo)
- Max / MSP (software)
When it comes to the use of his amplifiers, Jonny Greenwood has been using a combination of the Vox AC 30 and the Fender Eighty-Five for years. All of its undistorted signals are played via the Vox AC 30 and its distorted signals via the Fender Eighty-Five. He uses a line selector to switch between the two amplifiers.
Greenwood also plays a number of keyboard instruments live:
- piano
- Fender Rhodes
- Ondes Martenot
- Moog Minimoog
- Dave Smith Prophet 08
- Analogue Systems French Connection
- Analogue Systems Modular System
- Midikeyboards
Awards
Since 2008, Jonny Greenwood has won 29 film awards and has been nominated for 39 more.
In 1998, the radiohead meeting People Is Easy documentary received two Grammy Awards nominations , including Best Long Form Music Video . In 2007 he was nominated as Composer of the Year and in 2014 for Best Original Score in an Action / Adventure / Thriller Film for Inherent Vice .
For the first time for his film music, Greenwood was named Breakthrough Film Composer of the Year by the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) in 2008 . From 2013 to 2014 Greenwood was Associated Composer of the BBC Concert Orchestra .
He received the Ivor Novello Award for the soundtrack in Paul Thomas Anderson's film There Will Be Blood .
In 2017, he won the International Film Music Critics Award for Film Score of the Year and Best Original Score for a Drama Film for the film music for The Silk Thread . In addition to numerous nominations and awards, he also received nominations for an Oscar , a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for The Silk Thread .
Discography
- Radiohead
All releases of the band Radiohead can be found in the Radiohead discography .
- Film music
- 2003: Bodysong
- 2007: There Will Be Blood
- 2010: Naoko's smile (Noruwei no Mori)
- 2011: We Need To Talk About Kevin
- 2012: The Master
- 2014: Inherent Vice - Natural Defects (Inherent Vice)
- 2017: A Beautiful Day (You Were Never Really Here)
- 2017: The Silk Thread (Phantom Thread)
- with Krzysztof Penderecki
- 2012: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima / Popcorn Superhet Receiver / Polymorphia / 48 Responses to Polymorphia
- with Shye Ben Tzur and Rajasthan Express
- 2015: Junun
Web links
- Jonny Greenwood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jonny Greenwood at Allmusic (English)
- Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood's Film Scores: A Listener's Guide RollingStone, January 23, 2018
- Rachel Martin: Jonny Greenwood On The Music Of 'Phantom Thread' National Public Radio , Music Interviews, February 26, 2018
supporting documents
- ↑ Short biography , accessed on June 8, 2018.
- ↑ Scott Wilson: 7 pieces of gear that helped shape Radiohead's timeless OK Computer factmag.com, May 21, 2017, accessed June 8, 2018
- ↑ Popularizing the Unpopular: Jonny Greenwood & the Ondes Martenot Primephonic, accessed June 8, 2018
- ↑ Awards of the Berlinale 2008 , accessed on April 29, 2017.
- ↑ 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 18, 2015, accessed August 8, 2017 .
- ↑ 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time - David Fricke's Picks. Rolling Stone , December 2, 2010, accessed August 8, 2017 .
- ^ Jonny Greenwood, Guitars and Gear. Retrieved June 8, 2018
- ↑ Potent Pairings: the Sound of Radiohead reverb.com, June 30, 2016, accessed June 8, 2018
- ↑ Interview with Jonny Greenwood , accessed June 8, 2016.
- ↑ IFMCA - Award Winners 2017
- ↑ Radiohead in Argentina , exitmusic.com, accessed June 8, 2018
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Greenwood, Jonny |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Greenwood, Jonathan Richard Guy (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British musician, guitarist for the English pop group Radiohead |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th November 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oxford , England |