Thom Yorke on NPR

Tim Greiving's NPR feature on the Suspiria score opens with Claudio Simonetti of Goblin, the prog rock band who scored Dario Argento's original Suspiria. Argento told Simonetti the audience must always feel the witches are there, hence the looped lullaby. Luca Guadagnino, who saw the original at 14, says he thought of nobody but Thom Yorke. Yorke had never scored a film and was intimidated, until the director's confidence persuaded him. The central dance had already been filmed, and he made four or five attempts to follow its movements before he saw he had to disconnect from the picture. Jonny Greenwood's advice was to work away from it where he could. The song “Suspirium” came from the script alone, before he had seen a frame, and its piano melodies run through the film. He likens the work to being pushed into rooms he would never normally enter, each one darker.