Actually, that was a misleading headline, because I'm not sure that this really is classical music, especially. I think perhaps it's structured in a classical way, and it's played on strings, but, according to reports, the music is inspired by a computer-simulated brain, or something, which isn't an especially classical way to go about things, but I certainly think this could be called avant garde. Anyway, let's get on.
'Cortical Songs' has been created by Nick Ryan and John Matthias (who previously played violin on Radiohead's 'The Bends') and it's a four movement piece, but they've also got in a number of other musicians to do various remixes of the work. Thom Yorke is one of them, as is former Verve man Simon Tong and John Maclean of the Beta Band. It's due out on 21 Jul.