Jonny Greenwood performing "How to Disappear Completely" on his French Connection, based on the Martenot instrument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chE1_g3GAWw
And with Thom Yorke on Cymbal Rush:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHUnYBXc_C0
Wavemakers’ production began in June 2006 when we filmed the encounter between Suzanne Binet-Audet, one of the world’s Ondes Martenot virtuosos, nick-named “the Jimi Hendrix of the Martenot”, and the British musician Jonny Greenwood, who has composed for the Martenot and claims it as one of his very favorite instruments. The meeting took place during Radiohead’s concert stop at the Place des arts in Montreal.
Jonny Greenwood humorously likened his encounter with Suzanne Binet-Audet to “Elton John meeting Glenn Gould”! In the summer of 2012, when back on tour in Montreal, Greenwood took part in the cast & crew first screening of the film and was enthused: “Amazing! A film as beautiful and tender as the instrument itself.”
"While trying to make electronic music, I’m trying to keep it organic in a way, something you can touch rather than just keep inside a box. I’ve got a synthesizer… It’s just switches. You can’t put your personality into it like you can with a violin or an oboe. The Martenot is the only electronic instrument that can do that." – Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead)
A first introduction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mlD8uPD-SA&feature=player_embedded#! (NB: Jonny is appearing at 00:50)
The video is in french so I will translate you the Youtube comments of this video.
This video was published on the 17/01/2013
Directed by Caroline Martel, a documentary that immerse us into the world of music and of mankind with the most sensitive electronic instruments: the Martenot waves. Including direct cinema, unpublished archives and interesting registers, this ensemble film that follows a circle of enthusiasts who seek to unravel the mystery of this instrument.
Among them, the son of the inventor Jean-Louis Martenot, Suzanne Binet-Audet, "Jimi Hendrix" Waves and Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead).
Here you can hear a beautiful track appearing in this movie:http://artifactproductions.ca/lechantdesondes/portfolio/trame-sonore-du-film/
Jonny Greenwood and Montreal-filmmaker Caroline Martel.
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