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Take a 360° video tour of There Will Be Blood live in concert

31 Jan 2017

Words by Dan Einav

A young musician playing drums on stage in a dimly lit performance venue.
A young musician playing drums on stage in a dimly lit performance venue.
Watch Jon­ny Greenwood’s atmos­pher­ic score come to life.

One of the many stand­out aspects of Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood is the atmos­pher­ic, haunt­ing sound­track com­posed by Radio­head gui­tarist Jon­ny Green­wood. The orig­i­nal score, remark­ably Greenwood’s first for a fea­ture film, is per­haps best remem­bered for its unnerv­ing and dis­cor­dant strings-led com­po­si­tion, which effec­tive­ly cranks up the mount­ing sense of ten­sion that is cen­tral to the narrative.

In con­junc­tion with the 10th anniver­sary of the film’s release, Green­wood is cur­rent­ly tour­ing his score with the Lon­don Con­tem­po­rary Orches­tra. This isn’t the first time that the LCO have per­formed at live-the­atri­cal pre­sen­ta­tions” of There Will Be Blood, or col­lab­o­rat­ed with Green­wood. Back in 2014, the orches­tra played two sell-out shows at London’s Round­house venue, and have since pro­vid­ed back­ing on a num­ber of tracks on Radiohead’s most recent album A Moon Shaped Pool’.

Accord­ing to the LCO, this new show fea­tures over 50 orches­tral musi­cians and uses the ondes Martenot, a rare ear­ly elec­tron­ic instru­ment that resem­bles a cross between an organ and a theremin.” For those of us who missed out on a tick­et for this lim­it­ed run, Green­wood and the LCO have pro­vid­ed a rather neat behind the scenes video of the orches­tra rehears­ing the track Smear’, with Green­wood con­duct­ing and play­ing the ondes Martenot. Filmed in 360º view, let­ting you feel like you’re sit­ting right there in the con­cert hall, it’s well worth a watch.

PTA fans will also be glad to hear that the direc­tor has final­ly start­ed shoot­ing his hot­ly-antic­i­pat­ed new project, star­ring Daniel Day Lewis as a fash­ion design­er in 1950s London.

There Will Be Blood: Live plays at Birm­ing­ham Sym­pho­ny Hall on Sun­day 5 Feb­ru­ary, the Brighton Dome on Mon­day 6 Feb­ru­ary and Bristol’s Col­ston Hall on Tues­day 7 February.

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