Edward Norton says Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke sent sounds for Stone

Edward Norton says Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke sent the makers of Stone a large batch of their ambient sound experiments, and that the film's music grew out of them. He told the story tonight, Tuesday 28 September, in a question-and-answer session after a screening at the ArcLight Hollywood, the opening night of Variety's annual screening series. Stone, John Curran's prison drama, has Norton as a convict opposite Robert De Niro's parole officer, and opens in the US on 8 October.

Norton is friends with Radiohead, and met Jonny in London while he and Curran were developing the script. The film deals in spiritual themes, and Norton asked Jonny how he would go about one sound in particular. What would you use to record this divine-like tuning sound?³

Jonny and Thom, Norton says, had been playing a lot of weird ambient stuff at the time and so, amazingly, they just unloaded tons and tons of files to us of these sound experiments³. The film-makers listened in awe, and Curran brought in the composer Jon Brion to see what he could do with the material.