Thom Yorke on BBC Radio 6

Thom Yorke talks to BBC 6 Music about scoring Suspiria. It is not the first film to ask: after OK Computer, when he was in no state for it, he was sent the script of Fight Club with a letter from Brad Pitt, said no, and thinks of it every time he sees the film. He hears a big overlap between strange modern composition and horror, both using a studio to mess with people's heads and make them feel ill, “that's my idea of a good time”. Goblin's original score was too strong a colour to reference at all, and with the film set in Berlin in 1977 he could put his krautrock hat on.

He wrote simple piano sketches from the script before filming and used almost all of them, building them up as the rushes came in, the way Morricone writes melodies almost like pop songs. “Has Ended” grew from a stretched piano in which he heard bells, with a drum rhythm from his son, who is 17, and words that got tied up with Trump's first big speech and a scene of soldiers marching. Watching the Conservative conference that week, he heard ignorance is strength.

Working to someone else's commission made him value his own freedom, and after a year and a half on the film he is desperate to use his studio for something else. The live show with Nigel Godrich began as a DJ set at raves and has moved into theatres, and the material that goes with it should come out next year. Asked whether there will be visual content, he says “I am the content”.