Blackbird Peter Gregson

• 1 Opening 02:40
• 2 Broken Chablis 00:33
• 3 Peter Gregson: Recomposed by Peter Gregson: Bach - Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: 6. Gigue 01:56
• 4 Walking and Talking on the Beach 01:24
• 5 Gifts at Dinner 04:17
• 6 Getting Stoned 02:43
• 7 Washing Up 01:20
• 8 Peter Gregson: Recomposed by Peter Gregson: Bach - Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: 2. Allemande 03:35
• 9 The Sounds of Thought 01:25
• 10 Now I'm Scared 03:19
• 11 Paul Walks Alone 03:53
• 12 Blackbird 03:46
• Total Runtime 30:51

Info for Blackbird

Peter Gregson has scored score the drama Blackbird. The film is directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill, Changing Lanes) and stars Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Mia Wasikowska, Sam Neill, Rainn Wilson, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Lindsay Duncan and Anson Boon.

The movie is based on Bille August’s 2014 Danish feature Silent Heart and centres on terminally ill mother who brings her family together for one last weekend before she commits suicide. Christian Torpe (The Mist TV series) who also scripted the original film wrote the screenplay. Sherryl Clark (Plush, Wish Upon) and Millennium Films’ David Bernardi are producing the project. Gregson who is also known as an award-winning cellist has previously scored several films, including 2014’s Kate Winslet-starring A Little Chaos.

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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