A Clockwork Orange and Beyond - Australian Chamber Orchestra
Friday 12 May 2023 from 1:30pm to 2:30pm Saturday 13 May 2023 from 7pm to 8pm Sunday 14 May 2023 from 4pm to 5pm Tuesday 16 May 2023 from 8pm to 9pm Wednesday 17 May 2023 from 7pm to 8pm
12, 13, 16, 17 May @ City Recital Hall, 15 May @ Sydney Opera House
Richard Tognetti, the ACO, Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory and his ensemble of Moog Synthesisers perform music by Wendy Carlos, Vangelis, John Williams and more.
Touring to Sydney, Wollongong, Melbourne and Canberra.
“A yen for fusing tradition with trailblazing and the accessible with the experimental” – The Age
Music and image are inextricable in cinema. Blade Runner. Solaris. A Clockwork Orange. You see and hear them. Most of all, you remember the way they made you feel.
We go to the movies to explore the innovations that shaped a generation of trailblazing composers and their unique sound worlds for the screen. Joining the ACO is electronic artist Will Gregory, co-founder and member of internationally revered English electronic music duo Goldfrapp, and an ensemble of Moog Synthesisers.
Pioneers Wendy Carlos and Delia Derbyshire opened the floodgates in the 1960s. Carlos interpreted Bach for the electronic age with Switched-On Bach while Delia Derbyshire gave Australian composer Ron Grainer’s theme for Doctor Who its indelible sci-fi sound.
A Clockwork Orange is as much Carlos’s film as Stanley Kubrick’s. Its blend of original composition with synthesised treatments of classical music was audacious and wildly influential. Taking their cue from the innovations of Carlos and Derbyshire, while looking back to Hollywood’s golden age, sits the music of Vangelis, John Williams and Hans Zimmer – some of the most affecting and iconic in cinema.