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Concerts

THE WILL GREGORY MOOG ENSEMBLE AND BRITTEN SINFONIA

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.

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.