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Atticus Ross
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Atticus Ross is an English musician, composer, producer and sound engineer, born in 1968 in Ladbroke Grove in London. In the mid-1990s he made his name as a synthesizer programmer for Tim Simenon's Bomb the Bass, and he worked with Barry Adamson. After that he started a band of his own, 12 Rounds. In 2000 he moved to the United States and from 2002 worked with Trent Reznor on the side project Tapeworm. From 2005 he worked for Nine Inch Nails, first as programmer and producer, and since 2016 as the only official member besides Reznor.
Music and breakthrough
Ross and Reznor became best known for film music. Ross began with it in 2004 with the TV series Touching Evil, followed by The Book of Eli in 2010. For David Fincher's The Social Network they received an Oscar for best original score in 2010. For The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo a Grammy followed, and for Gone Girl in 2014 another collaboration with Fincher. They also wrote the music for Love & Mercy, about Brian Wilson, in 2015, and for Soul they received an Oscar together with Jon Batiste in 2021. In 2020 Ross was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Nine Inch Nails.
Influence
His work uses electronic sounds, programming and studio technique as an instrument, and comes out of industrial and electronic rock. Ross shows how you can have an influence behind the scenes on the popular music of an entire period: as programmer, producer and composer he turned his studio work into a second career in film.
Listening
Discography
Studio albums
- 2010The Book of Eli: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 2010The Social Network (soundtrack)
- 2011The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (soundtrack)
- 2013Broken City (soundtrack)
- 2014Gone Girl: Soundtrack From the Motion Picture (soundtrack)
- 2015Music From Love & Mercy: The Life, Love and Genius of Brian Wilson (soundtrack)
- 2016Almost Holy (soundtrack)
- 2016Before the Flood: Music From the Motion Picture (soundtrack)
- 2016Patriots Day: Music From the Motion Picture (soundtrack)
- 2016Triple 9 (soundtrack)
- 2017The Defiant Ones (soundtrack)
- 2017The Vietnam War: Original Score (soundtrack)
- 2019Bird Box (soundtrack)
- 2019Earthquake Bird (soundtrack)
- 2019Watchmen: Volume 1 (soundtrack)
- 2019Watchmen: Volume 2 (soundtrack)
- 2019Watchmen: Volume 3 (soundtrack)
- 2019Waves: Original Score (soundtrack)
- 2020Dispatches From Elsewhere (Music From The Elsewhere Society) (soundtrack)
- 2020Dispatches From Elsewhere (Music From The Jejune Institute) (soundtrack)
- 2020Mank: Original Musical Score (soundtrack)
- 2020Soul: Original Motion Picture Score (soundtrack)
- 2021Dr. Death (Original Series Soundtrack) (soundtrack)
- 2022Bones and All: Original Score (soundtrack)
- 2022Empire of Light: Original Score (soundtrack)
- 2023Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem: Original Score (soundtrack)
- 2023The Killer: Original Score (soundtrack)
- 2024Challengers: Original Score (soundtrack)
- 2024Queer: Original Score (soundtrack)
- 2024Shōgun, Volume II: Original Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 2024Shōgun: Original Soundtrack (soundtrack)
- 2024The Franchise: Soundtrack From the HBO® Original Series (soundtrack)
- 2025The Gorge: Soundtrack From the Apple Original Film (soundtrack)
In School of Rock
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- The Dream Factory: Film Reel 5NL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- Industrial and electronic texture scores Genre
Trent Reznor, founder of the industrial band Nine Inch Nails, and Atticus Ross began their collaboration with the director David Fincher in 2010 on The Social Network, for which they won an Oscar.