BBC 6 Music 'The First Time With...', june 11th 2017
[Interview with Thom]
[This is a transcript from an audio recording. Clips from the interview were posted on the BBC 6 music website on june 8th 2017, the full programme aired on june 11th 2017.]
“It’s absolutely terrifying,” Yorke says of the experience. “It’s hard because I’m way out of my comfort zone, and I can’t read music so it’s not like I’m writing for orchestra. I’m building it all myself. In fact, I watched Blade Runner twice at the weekend. ‘Oh, that sound, I could do something like that, that’s quite easy,’” he jokes. “‘I’ll rip that bit off there and that bit there and I’ll be fine.’”
Vangelis, it’s his hands that made that. Which encouraged me. Because that was the thing I was finding most daunting. Normally [scoring] a horror movie involves orchestras, these specific things. But Luca [Guadagnino], the director, and Walter [Fasano], the editor, are very much, like, find your own path with it. ... I just have to find a way into it.