Patrick Gleeson, legendary master synthesist, now 88 years young.
“An Evening With Patrick Gleeson,” part of our celebration of Bob’s Electric Birthday on May 23, has sold out of in-person tickets (tickets for the guided Moogseum tours and VIP lunch are still available).
So we’re now streaming Dr. Gleeson’s performance live from 7-9 p.m. ET (11 p.m. – 1 a.m. UTC).
Livestream tickets are pay what you can, starting at $10 USD, and include:
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Dr. Gleeson’s demo of the vintage Moog modular heard in “Apocalypse Now”
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His interview with Michelle Moog-Koussa about his reflections on the Moog legacy, his life in synthesis, film and TV scoring, touring, and making and recording music;
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And his DJ set.
The Gleeson modular at the Moogseum.
There’s a great insight into Gleeson’s fascinating, varied career on the website for Different Fur, the San Francisco recording studio he founded in 1968. Read it here.
Gleeson (Devo, Brian Eno, David Byrne), a lifelong friend of Bob Moog, is the former owner of the Moog modular on exhibit at the Moogseum as part of Patching Sound, and served as master synthesist on the soundtrack to “Apocalypse Now.”
Patrick Gleeson, left, with Herbie Hancock in the 1970s.
Livestream ticketholders for this event with Dr. Gleeson will receive an email with the broadcast URL after checkout, as well as a reminder on the day of the event.
“The (Moog modular synthesizer) gave us the ability to conceive the soundtrack to ‘Apocalypse Now’ as an entity in itself–one that joined with the film, and was at least as important as the film.”
– Francis Ford Coppola, in the foreword to “Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution”