Metropolis
Cultural commentator Paul Morley explores a history of popular music through some of the iconic recording studios in which classic albums were...
View ArticleA Sound British Adventure
Comedian Stewart Lee is passionate about electronic music and he take us on a remarkable musical journey. We discover how, after the...
View ArticleJohn Cage’s 4’33″ and other ‘daft’ compositions
It’s the 60th anniversary of the creation of John Cage’s Four Minutes, Thirty Three Seconds. In BBC Radio 4′s Today programme, Evan...
View ArticleTales From The Bridge – Martyn Ware
At level 1, one of the first assessment tasks I ask students to undertake is the creation of a soundscape. However, for...
View ArticleOut of Silence
Curiously, the word silent is an anagram of the word listen! In this edition of Something Understood the poet Seán Street reflects...
View ArticleLudwig Koch and the Music of Nature
Ludwig Koch was once as famous as David Attenborough, as pioneering as ‘Blue Planet’ and as important as the BBC Natural History...
View ArticleBush House Soundscapes
The closure of Bush House, home to the BBC World Service since December 1940, has provoked two wonderful soundscape projects. Firstly, World...
View ArticleStudents’ audio series is quality material for BBC Radio 4
University of Lincoln students who created an audio series about one of the world’s greatest scientists have had their work featured on...
View ArticleEarworms
Earworms are those nagging songs you find yourself humming on the bus. In this programme, music presenter Shaun Keaveny meets fellow sufferers...
View ArticleEssential listening – Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening (Radio 4)
A new series of 30 parts started today on Radio 4 – ‘Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening’, written and...
View ArticleThe Science Of Music
In this BBC Radio 4 series, Professor Robert Winston looks at music with a scientist’s eye in a series which seeks to...
View ArticleOblique Strategies
‘Infinitesimal gradations’, ‘Repetition is a form of change’, ‘Bridges -build-burn’ – just three of the gnomic aphorisms contained in the Oblique Strategies...
View ArticleFoghorn Requiem
There used to be more than a hundred foghorns stationed around the British Isles but now there are fewer than 30. The...
View ArticleHow The Money Gets Divided From A CD Sale
The average CD costs eight pounds. Who gets a share of it and how much to they get? Musicians, producers, songwriters and […]
View ArticleWWI soundscape ‘about humanity’
History has left many images that illustrate the destructive legacy of WWI, but there is almost a total absence of recorded sound […]
View ArticleDavid Attenborough: My Life in Sound
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lnzxh MONDAY 16th December 2013 at 11.00am on BBC Radio 4 In an exclusive interview for Radio 4 David Attenborough talks to […]
View ArticleBeyond Bollywood
Journalist Sarfraz Manzoor visits India to meet a new generation of musicians and singers performing Indie, Reggae, Ska and Rap, and examines […]
View ArticleWho Killed Classical Music?
The Composer Gabriel Prokofiev (grandson of Sergei Prokofiev) looks at the increasing disconnection between classical music and its audience. He investigates the […]
View ArticleI’ve Played In Every Toilet
John Harris visits some of Britain’s surviving small music venues and asks what will happen if they disappear altogether. All over the […]
View ArticleThe Rise Of Digital Music
Interesting piece on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme (27/02/14) featuring George Ergatoudis (Head of Music at Radio 1), Mark Williamson (Director […]
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