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Will Gregory’s Listening Chair

Elizabeth Alker presents her pick of the best new ambient and electronic music and welcomes Will Gregory to the Listening Chair to share a track that transports him.

Elizabeth Alker offers a range of tracks with Moogs and analogue synths at their heart as synth legend Will Gregory takes a seat in the Unclassified Listening chair to describe a piece of music that transports him elsewhere.

Will Gregory began playing music at school because “it was the only thing I was good at”, starting out on the oboe and then switching to the saxophone, which he played as a member of Tears for Fears in the 1980s. Since then, he’s performed with and composed for an extraordinary range of groups and ensembles, notably on synth as one half of Goldfrapp and as founder member of the Will Gregory Moog ensemble. For nearly two decades, that outfit has used a range of Moogs alongside Roland and Korg synths to perform specially composed music, transcriptions of classical works, and their own versions of music from popular culture and film scores.

Produced by Geoff Bird
A Reduced Listening production for ±«Óătv Radio 3

1 hour

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Sun 20 Oct 2024 23:30
±«Óătv Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gershon Kingsley

    Popcorn

    • Popcorn.
    • Exit Records.

  • Samuel J. Hoffman

    Solar Diamonds

    • The Day The Earth Stood Still (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • 20th Century Fox Records.

  • Carolina Eyck

    Echos

    • Waves.
    • yeyeh.

  • Benge

    1968 Moog Modular

    • Twenty Systems.
    • Expanding Records.

  • Qasim Naqvi

    Kindly Static

    • Chronology.
    • Erased Tapes.

  • Colleen

    Subterranean Movement

    • Le jour et la nuit du r​é​el.
    • Thrill Jockey.

  • Julianna Barwick

    Nebula

    • Will.
    • Dead Oceans.

  • Sarah Louise & Evan Burrows

    Cactus Flower

    • Cactus Flower.

  • Night Gestalt

    At The Beach

    • Thousand Year Waves.

  • Brian Eno

    Through Hollow Lands

    • Before and After Science.
    • Polydor.

  • Hekla

    ±á°ů˛ą°ě´Ú​öâ¶Ä‹l±ô

    • Xiuxiuejar.
    • Phantom Limb.

  • Will Gregory Moog Ensemble

    The Sand Reckoner (feat. ±«Óătv National Orchestra of Wales)

    • Heat Ray: The Archimedes Project.
    • Mute.

  • Ennio Morricone

    Metti, una sera a cena

    • Metti, una sera a cena.
    • Cinevox Record.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 9 Jun 2024 23:30
    ±«Óătv Radio 3
  • Sun 20 Oct 2024 23:30
    ±«Óătv Radio 3

What is unclassified music?

What is unclassified music?

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