Atticus Matthew Cowper Ross (born 16 January 1968) is an English musician, composer, record producer, and audio engineer. He is best known for his work with American musician Trent Reznor, with whom he first worked on the musical project Tapeworm in 2002. He began working with Reznor's band Nine Inch Nails in 2005 as a programmer and producer, then joined as a musician and became the only official member of the band other than Reznor in 2016.
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| Born | 16 January 1968 London, England |
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| Years active | 1992–present |
| Spouse | Claudia Sarne |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Leopold Ross (brother) Liberty Ross (sister) Charles Glass (uncle) Miles Lampson (grandfather) Aldo Castellani (great-grandfather) Curtis Lampson (great-great-grandfather) |
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Outside of Nine Inch Nails, Ross and Reznor have become known for their work on film scores. They won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Social Network in 2010, the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in 2013, and the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Soul (alongside Jon Batiste) in 2021.
Ross was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Nine Inch Nails in 2020. He and Reznor co-created the virtual supergroup WitchGang in 2023.[1]
Early life
editAtticus Matthew Cowper Ross was born in the Ladbroke Grove area of London on 16 January 1968,[2] the son of Roxana Rose Catherine Naila and Radio Caroline co-founder Ian Cowper Ross.[3] His maternal grandfather was diplomat Miles Lampson, 1st Baron Killearn (1880–1964), who was the grandson of fur merchant Curtis Lampson (1806–1885).[4] He has five siblings, including fellow musician Leopold Ross and fashion model Liberty Ross.[5] His great-grandfather was Italian pathologist and bacteriologist Aldo Castellani (1874–1971),[5] while his uncle is English-American journalist Charles Glass.[3] Ross was educated at Eton College[3] and later at the Courtauld Institute of Art.[6]
Career
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Ross came to notice in the mid-1990s as a synthesizer programmer for Tim Simenon's Bomb the Bass during the period of the albums Unknown Territory and Clear. He worked on a number of production and remix projects with Simenon, as well as forming a collaborative relationship with Barry Adamson. He programmed The Negro Inside Me and Oedipus Schmoedipus, and produced As Above So Below before forming his own band, 12 Rounds, with his wife Claudia Sarne and Adam Holden. They released two albums, Jitterjuice and My Big Hero. A third full-length album was produced by Trent Reznor, but was ultimately never finished.[citation needed] Three songs from that album have since been released on the band's website.[7]
Ross moved to the United States in 2000, and as of 2002 was working alongside Reznor for his side project Tapeworm. He has been credited as a producer and/or programmer on the Nine Inch Nails albums With Teeth, Year Zero, Ghosts I–IV (on which he was a co-writer), The Slip, and Hesitation Marks. He has worked with Reznor in numerous other capacities, including work with Saul Williams and Zack de la Rocha, and they co-produced tracks for a reformed Jane's Addiction with Alan Moulder in 2009.
Other work has included two co-productions with Joe Barresi, the Loverman EP Human Nurture and Coheed and Cambria's Year of the Black Rainbow, as well as albums for Korn. He has also produced tracks or created remixes for such artists as Grace Jones, Perry Farrell, and Telepathe. In May 2010, he appeared in a cryptic video[8] and was named as a member of a secret project,[9] later revealed to be How to Destroy Angels, a collaboration between Reznor and his wife Mariqueen Maandig.[10][11][12] In 2016, Ross composed an original score titled 'The Journey' for FIFA 17's new single-player story campaign mode.[13] In 2020, he co-produced and co-wrote one track on Jehnny Beth's To Love Is to Live. In 2021, Ross and Reznor produced and co-wrote Halsey's album If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power.
Film and television scores
editRoss' work in film music began in 2004 when he scored the Hughes Brothers' TV series Touching Evil with his wife Claudia Sarne and brother Leopold Ross. He has since provided music for two further Hughes Brothers projects: Allen Hughes' vignette in the film New York, I Love You, and Ross' first feature film, The Book of Eli (2010). The latter's score was released through Reprise Records on 12 January 2010. It won at the BMI Awards and earned Ross a nomination as "Discovery of the Year" at the 2010 World Soundtrack Awards.
On 1 July 2010, Reznor announced that he and Ross were scoring David Fincher's new film The Social Network. The film's soundtrack was released on 28 September 2010, and was highly praised.[14] On 16 January 2011, they won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for their score to The Social Network.[15] On 27 February, they received the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Social Network. Ross and Reznor again collaborated on the soundtrack to Fincher's 2011 film Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. In 2013, the pair won the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for their Girl with the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack.
Ross was slated to work on the 2013 samurai epic 47 Ronin, but was soon replaced by Javier Navarrete.[16] Ross and Reznor again teamed up with Fincher to score his 2014 film Gone Girl. In 2016, Ross and Reznor, along with composer Gustavo Santaolalla and the band Mogwai, collaborated to create the score to the documentary film Before the Flood.[17]
In June 2017, Ross, along with Reznor, Maandig, Robin Finck, Joey Castillo, and Alessandro Cortini, appeared as "The Nine Inch Nails" in Episode 8 of Twin Peaks: The Return on Showtime, performing an alternative live rendition of the song "She's Gone Away" which previously appeared on Nine Inch Nails' 2016 EP Not the Actual Events.[18]
In 2021, Reznor, Ross, and Jon Batiste won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for the soundtrack for Soul.[19]
Personal life
editRoss and his wife, American musician Claudia Sarne, have three children together and split their time between London and Los Angeles.[20]
Works
editMusical scores
editFilm
editTelevision
edit| Year | Title | Original channel(s) | Notes |
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| 2004 | Touching Evil | USA Network | Composed with Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne |
| 2015 | Fear the Walking Dead | AMC | |
| 2016–2017 | Outcast | Cinemax | Composed with Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne |
| 2017 | The Defiant Ones | HBO | |
| The Vietnam War | PBS | Composed with Trent Reznor | |
| Black Mirror | Netflix | "Crocodile" (season 4, episode 3) Composed with Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne | |
| 2019 | Watchmen | HBO | Composed with Trent Reznor |
| 2020 | Dispatches from Elsewhere | AMC | Composed with Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne |
| 2021 | Dr. Death | Peacock | Composed with Leopold Ross and Nick Chuba |
| 2024 | Shōgun | Hulu and FX | Composed with Leopold Ross and Nick Chuba |
Video game
edit| Year | Title | Studio(s) | Notes |
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| 2016 | FIFA 17 | EA Sports | — |
Nine Inch Nails
edit- With Teeth (2005) (Production and programming)
- Year Zero (2007) (Production and programming)
- Ghosts I–IV (2008) (Songwriter, production and programming)
- The Slip (2008) (Production and programming)
- Hesitation Marks (2013) (Production, programming, arranging and engineering)
- Not the Actual Events (2016) (Production, performer and songwriter)
- The Fragile: Deviations 1 (2016) (Production)
- Add Violence (2017) (Production, performer and songwriter)
- Bad Witch (2018) (Production, performer and songwriter)
Production
edit- No Jahoda – Jahoda Witness
- Korn – See You on the Other Side (also co-writing)
- Korn – Untitled
- Coheed and Cambria – Year of The Black Rainbow (with Joe Barresi)
- Perry Farrell – "Go All the Way (Into the Twilight)"
- Loverman – Human Nurture (with Joe Barresi)
- Lil Nas X – "Old Town Road" (also co-writing)
- Jehnny Beth – To Love Is to Live (also co-writing)
- Halsey – If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power (with Trent Reznor)
Programming
edit- Bad Religion – Beyond Electric Dreams
- Barry Adamson – Oedipus Schmoedipus, The Negro Inside Me
- From First To Last – The Levy
- P!nk – Try This
- Saul Williams – The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! (2007)
- Bomb the Bass – Clear
References
edit- ^ "Nine Inch Nails - WitchGang". NIN.Wiki. 14 May 2024.
- ^ Ross, Atticus (June 2010). "How To Destroy Angels Official Blog". Tumblr. Archived from the original on 15 January 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
- ^ a b c Urwin, Rosamund (1 August 2012). "Don't dare cross a Ross... why Kristen Stewart should beware Liberty Ross's family". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 2152
- ^ a b Buckley, Cat (30 October 2013). "The Liberty Ross Family: Meet the Oscar Winners, Scientists, and Rock Stars Related to the Model". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
- ^ "Selected List of Alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art". courtauld.ac.uk. The Courtauld Institute of Art. Retrieved 12 January 2017. Note: Select "Entertainment and music industry"
- ^ "12 Rounds – the official site". 12rounds.net. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
- ^ "02". Vimeo.com. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
- ^ Breihan, Tom (28 April 2010). "Trent Reznor and Wife Mariqueen Maandig Are How to Destroy Angels". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 1 May 2010. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
- ^ Aditham, Kiran (27 April 2010). "How to Destroy Angels=Trent Reznor + Wife?". Prefix. Archived from the original on 6 May 2010. Retrieved 28 April 2010.
- ^ Woods, Travis (30 April 2010). "More News Leaks About Trent Reznor's Musical Collaboration with Wife". BeatCrave. Archived from the original on 21 August 2010. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
- ^ Goodman, William (28 April 2010). "Trent Reznor and Wife Form New Band". Spin. Archived from the original on 1 May 2010. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
- ^ "Making EA SPORTS™ FIFA 17 The Journey". www.easports.com. 13 September 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
- ^ "Road to the Oscars: Best Original Score;". Picktainment.com. 11 February 2011. Archived from the original on 27 February 2011. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
- ^ "2011 Golden Globe Award Winners". Zimbio.com. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
- ^ "Javier Navarrete to Score '47 Ronin' – Film Music Reporter". Filmmusicreporter.com. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
- ^ DeFore, John (9 September 2016). "'Before the Flood': Film Review – TIFF 2016". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
- ^ Kreps, Daniel (26 June 2017). "See Nine Inch Nails Perform 'She's Gone Away' on 'Twin Peaks's". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
- ^ "Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste Win Best Original Score at Golden Globes 2021 for Soul". Pitchfork. March 2021.
- ^ "Claudia Sarne on scoring Shining Girls".
- ^ "Watch "Visions of Harmony" posted by Apple Music Electronic on Apple Music". iTunes. 29 June 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ "Corazón official website". 27 April 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
External links
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- Nine Inch Nails' site
- Atticus Ross discography at Discogs
- Atticus Ross at IMDb