Jonny Greenwood plays Steve Reich unannounced in Sydney

Jonny Greenwood walked on unannounced at ACO Underground's concert at The Standard in Sydney on Sunday night, 2 December, and played Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint on his own, just over two weeks after Radiohead's Australian dates ended in Melbourne. Reich wrote the piece in 1987 for a guitarist playing live against recorded guitar parts, and Greenwood has played it before, at the Sacrum Profanum festival in Krakow in 2011.

ACO Underground is an electro-acoustic group of Australian Chamber Orchestra players and other musicians, with a repertoire that runs from Vivaldi to Radiohead. Before he came on, it played a few pieces Greenwood had written. Then Satu Vänskä, who fronts the group, brought him out to loud applause.

Jonny Greenwood plays Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint with ACO Underground, The Standard, Sydney, 2 December 2012· Moshcamwatch on youtube →