17-474: Peter Howell may refer to: Peter Howell (musician) (born c. 1948), musician and composer Peter Howell (actor) (1919–2015), British actor Peter Howell (historian) (born 1941), British academic and historian Peter Howell (psychologist) , Professor of Experimental Psychology at University College London See also [ edit ] Peter Howells (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
34-517: A member of the Radiophonic Workshop, with which he would remain associated until 1997. His work on Doctor Who began in 1975 when he provided some accompanying incidental music for Revenge of the Cybermen and special sound for Planet of Evil . When John Nathan-Turner became producer of Doctor Who in 1980, he decided that the music needed to be updated and commissioned Howell to provide
51-576: A new arrangement of the Doctor Who theme to accompany a new title sequence. Whereas the original arrangement of the theme (written by Ron Grainer ) had been realised by Delia Derbyshire (and, originally, assisted by Dick Mills) using musique concrète techniques, Howell arranged Grainer's theme on analogue synthesisers - primarily using a Yamaha CS-80 , an ARP Odyssey Mk3 and a Roland Jupiter-4 . Howell's new arrangement first appeared in 1980 on The Leisure Hive , for which Howell had also recorded
68-668: A new theme arrangement by Dominic Glynn , ending Howell's association with Doctor Who on television. Since 2013 he has been part of the Radiophonic Workshop Band, touring the UK and abroad with Radiophonic archivist Mark Ayres and other former members of the Workshop. Aside from Doctor Who , Howell's Radiophonic Workshop work includes an album of original recordings in 1978 entitled Through A Glass Darkly (credited to Peter Howell & The Radiophonic Workshop) and "Greenwich Chorus",
85-510: A piece which accompanied an episode of Jonathan Miller 's popular The Body in Question which was controversial at the time for its use of the vocoder . Howell composed the theme tunes to The Machine that Changed the World (1992) / The Dream Machine (UK) , a 5-part television series on the history of the electronic digital computer, to Robert Hughes' 1979-80 8-part series on Modern art ( The Shock of
102-403: A regular writer for Universal Music Publishing Group , and other production music libraries, his music has featured in episodes of The Simpsons , Red Dwarf , Episodes , Homeland , The Late Show with Stephen Colbert , and Eerie Indiana , and the feature films Holy Man and Kevin & Perry Go Large . In 2005/2006, his composition "Dangerous Beauty" was used as the theme to
119-583: Is an English electronic composer. Glynn is a prolific composer of music for television and film. His work includes the arrangement of the Doctor Who theme music which served as the series' theme for Season 23 of the programme. It was replaced by Keff McCulloch 's arrangement the next season. He also wrote the incidental music for the Doctor Who stories The Mysterious Planet , The Ultimate Foe , Dragonfire , The Happiness Patrol and Survival . Big Finish Productions has used his arrangement of
136-563: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Peter Howell (musician) Peter Howell (born 1949) is a musician and composer. He is best known for his work on Doctor Who as a member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop . Howell's musical career began in the late 1960s working with John Ferdinando in various psychedelic folk bands including Agincourt and Ithaca. Howell and Ferdinando recorded five albums before Howell became
153-513: The Doctor Who stories The Leisure Hive and Meglos has appeared on volumes 3 and 4 of the Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop compilation albums, and much of his back catalogue, including his early folk material with John Ferdinando has also been re-released on CD. In 2021, Howell published his autobiography Radiophonic Times via Obverse Books . Dominic Glynn Dominic Francis Glynn (born 27 September 1960)
170-571: The 1990s on Rising High Records . Syzygy also released music on Infonet Records — an electronic music offshoot of Creation Records . He also co-composed the score of the video game Forsaken (performing as The Swarm) and also contributed music for Re-Volt , both published by Acclaim Entertainment . He has collaborated with Michael Faulkner's D-Fuse AV in both live performance and music videos, and has been seen regularly as both artist and DJ at The Big Chill . Glynn has written soundtrack music for many of B7 Productions's audio plays, based on
187-678: The New ), and to the Badger Girl and Spywatch series of the long-running BBC schools' programme, Look and Read . Howell was responsible for the BBC Video logo's music in 1984. In 1986, Howell composed music for the BBC children's TV show The Children Of Green Knowe . For the 1987 film Life Story , Howell took over the music "Grand Choral" from the film Day for Night , which Georges Delerue had composed. In recent years Howell's incidental music for
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#1733084800500204-598: The Storm (2021) which won the British Academy Scotland Award for Specialist Factual in 2021. In 1994, Glynn worked with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) to compose "Warped Mind", the entrance theme of professional wrestler Alex Wright , which he used for the entirety of his WCW career. In 1998, "Stressed Out" from "Strictly Drum 'N' Bass", an album made by Glynn, Justin Anthony Mackay and James Young
221-507: The hit Dutch television thriller series, Vuurzee . A number of his production music tracks have been aired on the Adult Swim TV channel "bumps". Glynn has also been active in the alternative electronica field, running the left field record label, No Bones Records and recording under the names Fluid and Cybajaz and, with Justin Mackay, as Syzygy. Much of his work as Syzygy was released during
238-506: The incidental score, and was used throughout Tom Baker 's final season on the programme as well as Peter Davison 's tenure as the Doctor and Colin Baker 's first season. Between 1980 and 1985 Howell also provided incidental music for ten stories of Doctor Who , as well as arranging the theme tune for K-9 and Company , composed by Ian Levine and Fiachra Trench . In 1986, Nathan-Turner commissioned
255-406: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Howell&oldid=1046719651 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
272-459: The theme on several audio plays featuring the Sixth Doctor , starting with Jubilee in 2003. Glynn has a long-term working relationship as composer for the films of British filmmaker Anthony Baxter, which began with the 2011 documentary You've Been Trumped . Subsequent films include A Dangerous Game (2014), You’ve Been Trumped Too (2016), Flint: Who Can You Trust (2020) and Eye of
289-612: Was used as the main theme for the Oblivion roller coaster at Alton Towers in Staffordshire . In the early 2000s Glynn collaborated with screenwriter David McGillivray , writing the music for a series of short low budget horror films which were screened at The London FrightFest Film Festival . In 2007, Glynn wrote and performed the score for the British crime thriller Bad Day , starring Claire Goose and Donna Air and Sarah Harding . As
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