Music written by Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood will form part of The London Sinfonietta which takes place at the London Royal
Festival Hall on the 27 and 28 Mar. According to the organizers, we'll have the chance to see "two evenings of experimentation, collaboration and cross-genre juxtaposition".
Greenwood told The Guardian: "I feel embarrassed talking about it.
I'm so patchy. I'll be obsessed with a few composers, and know nothing about the rest. I get these enthusiasms which can drive the band crazy, but I just say: 'Listen, French horns are amazing, we've got to find a way of using them. Or I'll say, 'It would be great if this song sounded like Penderecki, or Alice Coltrane'.
And it's childish because none of us can play jazz like Alice
Coltrane, and none of us can write the kind of music that Penderecki does. We've only got guitars and a basic knowledge of music, but we reach for these things and miss. That's what's cool about it."
On working with the Sinfonietta, he added: "They're a great orchestra because they're up for radically changing things at the last minute. I cut six minutes out during rehearsals…
There's something about classical musicians - they tend to be totally without ego, and so enthusiastic, but also just so talented."
Greenwood has no plans to work on music full time, however: "Radiohead is always going to be the centre of what I do. Everything starts with songs, and with Thom, and with the excitement you can get in the band when you hear new music, and you know you've got the chance to watch it mutate and change. There's nothing like that, nothing as exciting. We're rehearsing at the moment, and again it's fun. We all want to push forward, and when you have five people who are all like that, you couldn't ask for a better thing."