Art of Moog performs the music of J S Bach, live, on synthesizers.
Live showreel:
‘The Lab Sessions 2019’ – Prelude in E minor:
In the studio (with the Moog System 55 modular synthesizer):
‘The Lab Sessions 2019’ – Truly Madly Moogy:
About
Art of Moog plays the music of J S Bach on cutting edge analogue and digital synthesizers.
The band, formed by harpsichord and synth player Robin Bigwood with fellow classically-trained musicians Steven Devine, Annabel Knight and Martin Perkins, made its debut in the 2018 Bach Weekend at Kings Place in London. In the ‘day job’ they play with some of the UK and Europe’s best orchestras and ensembles, have made award-winning solo recordings, and recorded soundtracks for Harry Potter and Wes Anderson movies. But in Art of Moog they swap old instruments for an array of Moogs, Nords, Rolands, vocoders, guitar pedals and an Akai wind-synth, to create scintillating soundscapes and atmospheres undreamt of 300 years ago. They’ve since played in a whole range of city and summer festivals, to audiences of classical specialists and electronica aficionados alike, to great critical acclaim.
Bach on synths has of course been done before: Wendy Carlos’s much-loved studio album Switched-on Bach notched up its 50th anniversary in 2018. But Art of Moog is different. Looking more like a Kraftwerk gig than a classical concert, and with boundary-crossing audience appeal, this is live synth-Bach with completely new levels of insight, and unsurpassed standards of performance.
‘…a special charm, as if stern old Bach had been sprinkled with fairy dust.’
The Telegraph
‘It was a delightful hour spent revisiting the past… This re-creation of pioneering work… invited a lighthearted, joyous reaction.’
MusicOMH 4.5*
‘Fine musicians… practiced in the subtle arts of the baroque… unleashed on the most up to date technological musical instruments. I was in bliss… a beautifully refined and strangely moving concert.’
Gscene
Concerts
2021
8th January, 4pm: ‘Truly, Madly, Moogly’
Online (Zoom) synthesizer demonstration with Robin Bigwood.
Part of Baroque at the Edge
9th January, 9.30pm: ‘Bach’s Friends Electric’
A filmed online concert from LSO St Luke’s, London
Part of Baroque at the Edge
20th July, 7.45pm: Petworth Festival, UK
Leconfield Hall, Market Square, Petworth GU28 0AH
Details (from 18th May) and Box Office (from 15th June)
20th October, 7.30pm: Music in the Village, Walthamstow, UK
St Michael & All Angels, Northcote Road, London E17 6PQ
Details and ticket info
2022
17th January: Valletta Baroque Festival, Malta
Past Concerts
2018
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire International Early Music Festival
Kings Place London Bach Weekend & 10th anniversary celebrations
2019
The Cello Factory, London Waterloo Festival
Antenna Studio, London Classical Transmission
Astor Theatre, Deal, UK Deal Music and Arts Keyboard Evolution Weekend
St Dunstan’s Church, Snargate, UK JAM on the Marsh
Gresham Centre, London London Bach Society Bachfest
St Martin’s Church, Brighton, UK Brighton Early Music Festival
2020
31st January, 1pm: Barber Institute, Birmingham, UK
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