Extract from soundtrack to Escaping Gravity.

Non Digital / Dissintegration

Libretto inspired by Süsskind's Perfume. One of a set of five arias exploring literary representations of the senses.  Written during lockdown for SetOperaFree.

Performed by Grant Doyle (baritone) and Roger Illingworth (saxophones & programming).

Words by Dan Smith. Music by Roger Illingworth

Before The Bottle Runs Dry

Originally written for Bedford Arts Choir to perform during national science week, the work combines samples from popular music with sonifications of elemental electron structures. 

Performed by Roger Illingworth (vocals, piano programming), Adam Jarvis (double bass), Raphael Saib (drums)

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Pyrrhic Victories

Blue Bow

Jugged Hare

Girls In The Straw

An extract from the soundtrack to Andy Holden's What A Time To Be Alive (2020). Music by Roger Illingworth, programmed by Roger Illingworth, samples by Andy Holden.

What A Time To Be Alive

Semi-improvised piece in which audience members donate “complaints” and section leaders used these to improvise interlocking melodic ostinatos.

Moan Moan Moan (extracts from rehearsal 13/01/15)

Written in collaboration with members of Sight Concern Dunstable (spoken and sung words). 
Music by Roger Illingworth. Performed by Roger Illingworth (saxophones, piano and programming), Adam Jarvis (double bass), Raphael Saib (drums). 
A Bedford Creative Arts mini-commission.

The Word Blind

Roger is a composer, songwriter & teacher, living and working and Bedfordshire. He is a PhD composition candidate at Goldsmiths University, with a focus on collaborative work. He plays in bands Grubby Mitts and Buzzard Lope, and works regularly with Bedford Arts Choir.

Roger Illingworth

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