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The soundtrack is dropping tomorrow I believe but they're streaming the whole thing right here

We need some more Brion discussion here. I feel he's sorely overlooked.

You can listen to a bit of the score here

Ed Norton had this to say:

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.

WHY IS THERE NO RELEASE FOR THIS YET?

Sound clips are up at amazon

Really was disappointed when I heard the composing team on this as I love Kamen so much, but it actually sounds pretty good.

Sound clips are up at Varese

Actually sounds pretty good.

Link

Since he dropped out of Harvey, Steven Spielberg’s first project under the reconstituted DreamWorks has been a subject of much speculation. Now I hear who's at the center of the director's biopic of George Gershwin, which DreamWorks acquired last fall. It’s Zachary Quinto -- Sylar in the NBC drama-fantasy Heroes, and Spock in the JJ Abrams-directed megapic Star Trek. Quinto will play the famed composer and pianist, who with brother Ira was responsible for more than a dozen Broadway shows before dying at 38. DreamWorks is even supplying accent and dialogue coaches for Quinto, and shooting could begin as soon as April. Doug Wright wrote the script, and Marc Platt and singer/pianist Michael Feinstein are producing. A DreamWorks insider says this is one of 3 projects Spielberg is looking at for his next piccause he's anxious to get back to work. I wouldn't be surprised if there's an announcement later this week.

If true, I'd be very interested in the Williams score.