Peter Gregson Peter Gregson

• Peter Gregson (b. 1987): Sphere:
• 1 Gregson: Sphere 03:43
• Prism:
• 2 Gregson: Prism 03:29
• Ritual:
• 3 Gregson: Ritual 03:40
• Constellation:
• 4 Gregson: Constellation 05:02
• Prayer:
• 5 Gregson: Prayer 04:52
• Vision:
• 6 Gregson: Vision 03:43
• Unsaid:
• 7 Gregson: Unsaid 05:35
• Horizon:
• 8 Gregson: Horizon 06:28
• Rise:
• 9 Gregson: Rise 06:01
• Total Runtime 42:33

Info for Peter Gregson

Award-winning cellist and composer Peter Gregson presents his long-awaited self-titled album: a collection of nine contemporary songs without words showcasing his signature cello sound and self-built modular synthesizer. Described by Gregson as “the closest to what I hear in my head that I’ve ever reached,” the album reveals a confident self-portrait of a composer and performer at the peak of his imaginative powers. During the recording sessions at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios, Gregson achieved his ideal sound by running his cello through his self-built modular synthesizer, allowing him to use every sound the cello can produce, including coarse scrapes and subsonic rumbles, for expressive purposes. The result is a collection of lyrical, atmospheric vignettes that together form the definitive representation of Peter Gregson’s artistry.

Peter Gregson

Peter Gregson
is a cellist and composer "working at the forefront of the new music scene" (The New Yorker) Recently, he has premiered works by composers including Tod Machover, Daníel Bjarnason, Gabriel Prokofiev, Max Richter, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Steve Reich, and Sally Beamish; he collaborates with many of the world’s leading technologists, including Microsoft Labs, UnitedVisualArtists, Reactify and the MIT Media Lab.

Peter developed and was commissioned to compose ‘The Listening Machine‘, a data sonification of Twitter in collaboration with Daniel Jones and Britten Sinfonia for the BBC/Arts Council’s “The Space”, where it ran continuously between May-January 2013.

His debut solo album, ‘Terminal’, was commissioned by Bowers & Wilkins and launched in April 2010. A limited edition 10′′ vinyl was commissioned by Mute in May 2011, featuring new solo works for Peter written by Max Richter and Jóhann Jóhannsson and was released at the ‘Short Circuit’ Festival at The Roundhouse. In May 2012, Nonclassical released Gabriel Prokofiev’s ‘Cello Multitracks’, a cello suite written for Peter which the two have toured around the world.

'Lights in the Sky', his second studio album, composed for cello, piano, and analogue synthesisers, was released at Imogen Heap's 'Reverb Festival' in August 2014.

His third studio album, TOUCH, will be released on Sono Luminus in August 2015.

In demand for his work across major film and television soundtracks, Spitfire Audio developed a sample library of Peter's extended techniques and sounds from his blue, five-string electric cello, all recorded at Pixel, his studio in London.

The score to his first feature film, 'A Little Chaos' , directed by Alan Rickman and starring Kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts, is available now on Milan Records.

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