Goldfrapp's Will Gregory and his Moog Ensemble
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- We were lucky enough to attend a rehearsal of the Moog Ensemble - not strictly all Moogs, but a collection of analogue mono synths playing classical pieces and contemporary compositions
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Awesome video!! Everything about it is great- the interview, the music, the instruments, etc. It was so much fun to watch.
one million thank you's
plus a hug or two
I would imagine psychoacoustics also playing a pretty big role in how we perceive these synth timbres as approximations of acoustic instruments. It's classical, it's Bach, so our brain is expecting to hear french horns, cellos and what have you, auto-correcting the input from our ears. Fascinating project, this, all the best! :)
Good watch, great interview.
I saw them at the Octagon in Reading around this time and it was absolutely fantastic. Unfortunately a concert scheduled for Cardiff landed right in the middle of the pandemic and consequently didn’t happen…and we’d bought Will some top quality gherkins to leave for him at the encore. Sorry Will but we ate those. I hope they tour again.
I liked this and I liked Will's overall views and philosophies. Very smart to use the wind controllers as well. Very well done.
Mind blowing. Thank you so much for this.
Great video! I love the channel's content even in the slow months. Keep it up!
Excellent preview / interview. The Ensemble sounds great.
It is a relief to know I'm not the only one with tuning issues. I can understand why
Dave Smith moved away from analog oscillators.
Beautiful, beautiful.
Would love a live album of this!
Superb stuff and good on will for doing this! I hope there's a lot more from this mob to come. Id love to see/hear this and would love even more to be a part of it, but i can't read music anymore to save my system 100 ;-)
Fascinating project, wish I lived in the UK so I could see a gig in person. BTW Moog rhymes with "vogue". That's probably why Moog put out a synth called the Rogue.
how do you pronounce MoogerFooger?
Nice to see this happening. It's been tried before with small synths - there was an ensemble in the 70s or early 80s with Francis Monkman and others - but there's a lot still to explore with this approach. Work clearly still needs to be done with the Bach, but of course these are rehearsals. I'd like to see this group in concert.
This is so great.
Saw the show at St.Georges Bristol very enjoyable.(No so keen on the slo-mo Tim Henman video though.)
Now all we need is for you two to work on an album like Black Cherry again, I love that album.
gr8... started on the same idea in the late 70s with a few friends... recreating an orchestra with analogue synths (anyway, there wasn't any other choice then), each connected to its own amp, like old-school rock, jazz or classical music, without any mixing console and main amplifier and sound system, to have the sound coming fresh and unadultared (and without any phase and pan location problem) from the machines, like in a real orchestra. and we used almost the same set-up: mini-moog D, MS20, SH2... (!!!!) plus a whole range of old Korg (700s, 770, 800dv, 1000, 2000, ms10, microPreset...)
there was a choice -- you could have played funk!
Wendy Carlos would be proud
Great work!
Moog is pronounced with a long o sound. It is named after Dr. Bob Moog. I am 100% sure, I meet him here in NC where the Moog company is from.
This is the one time the British pronunciation is incorrect. :)
huge fan of the original
Walter and Wendy ...lol
and then Clockwork Orange
are they touring? i would love to see this live. nothing more special than Bach and Moog
Is there any album available from the "Moog Ensemble". All research was currently in vain 🙁.
This is fantastic stuff. Did Gregory ever release this? I cannot find anything else about this project except here.
If in doubt or wondering, Discogs is THE music database catalog:
www.discogs.com/The-Will-Gregory-Moog-Ensemble-Undercurrents/release/7460211
The dream
Next they should try out 'Beauty In The Beast' by Wendy Carlos, amazing album. A live version of 'Poem for Bali' would be interesting.
Great! 😉
is there any albums of classical music on synths? i really liked the clockwork orange soundtrack.
Look up the Bermuda Triangle & The Planets, both by Isao Tomita. Both albums available in full on TH-cam. Also check out the album they referenced in the video, Wendy Carlos's Switched on Bach.
thanks a lot, downloaded the w. carlos stuff last night
Wow. How can I audition!!!
So where can we buy an album of the whole thing?
If in doubt or wondering, Discogs is THE music database catalog:
www.discogs.com/The-Will-Gregory-Moog-Ensemble-Undercurrents/release/7460211
Shame they aren't using new British analogue monosynths like Novation Bassstation II..
Laibach - Contrapunctus 1
lol Cool!
moog not pronounced right but great music
Mewwwg! hahahah.
I guess Buchla would not like this very much. "Brandenburg Concerto" played with Moogs and MS20? Not my kind of stuff. I think a real trumpet and french horn (or samples) sound so much better. Synths should not be used to repeat old music that sounds better on original instruments. Just take the TB-303 for example: It sounds good the moment you do acid on them. jm2c
I think Tomitas "pictures at an exhibition" and other LPs are very different to Bach switched on Synths.
The TB 303 was originally made to replicate a bass guitar , all be it very badly. it was only its miss-use that made it the legend it is. Tomita , yes. he is the master of classical synth music. If you want to hear original symphonic classical or neo-classical check out Vangelis' Mask album. It is a master work. Synths, like any instrument are simply creative tools. its the ideas that matter.
I disagree. The synth versions are captivating. I always loved Tomita, and agree it is very different from this, but I still enjoy both.
I like it a lot, but to me it lacks a crispness and clarity for Bach which clouds the structure which is the essence of his music.
i think it has to be done right. sometimes the electronic sound can be very gorgeous and put a whole new spin on the song. but for the most part i think it kind of ruins it.
Loving how Gregory will pronounce Bach properly, but says MOO-g instead of MOH-g... I suppose Bob isn't around anymore to correct people... I even heard Gregory pronounce Björk (as in work) right, but fails on the name of his own ensemble... Oh well... Great stuff nonetheless.
Guy can't seem to pronounce "Moog" nor get Wendy Carlos' name right.