THE WILL GREGORY MOOG ENSEMBLE AND BRITTEN SINFONIA
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Performers
- Will Gregory Moog Ensemble
- Britten Sinfonia
- Ben Foster
- conductor
Programme
- J.S Bach / Wendy Carlos
- Prelude and Fugue in C minor
- Henry Purcell/ Wendy Carlos
- Funeral Music for Queen Mary
- Bernard Herrmann
- Fahrenheit 451 Suite
- Charles Ives
- The Unanswered Question
- John Carpenter
- Escape from New York
- Vangelis
- Theme from Chariots of Fire
- Ron Grainer/ Delia Derbyshire
- Theme from Doctor Who
- Will Gregory
- Heat Ray: The Archimedes Project (London premiere)
Experience a unique concert that brings together maths and music, synths and soundtracks, with composer and keyboardist Will Gregory – one half of electropop duo Goldfrapp.
Will Gregory's 10-piece Moog Ensemble features illustrious names from the world of pop and classical music, including Adrian Utley of Portishead, Florence and the Machine’s Hazel Mills and composer Graham Fitkin – each bringing their distinctive musicianship to the retro-futurist world of fizzing, funky synths.
The concert’s first half focuses on synthy, sci-fi movie soundtracks and simultaneously pays tribute to electronic music’s two great female pioneers: the BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s Delia Derbyshire and Wendy Carlos, creator of Moog-overdubbed Bach arrangements and the score for Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.
In the second half we hear the London premiere of Will Gregory’s suite for synths and orchestra, inspired by the theorems of the ancient Greek mathematician and physicist Archimedes. Alongside the work, there will be fascinating insights into the connections between maths and music.
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The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble perform Will Gregory's Archimedes Screw
Will Gregory: My Favourite Synthesizers
The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble's debut album Heat Ray: The Archimedes Project, recorded by the ensemble on analogue synthesisers, is out now on vinyl, CD and digital via MuteUK. Listen here.