Sound and Music

The Winter 1999 issue of The Musical Times carried a guest editorial by the pianist Ian Pace, a state-of-the-nation critique provoked by his having 'heard numerous protagonists proclaiming that contemporary British music is the finest in the world'.

"Can I Get An Amen? is an audio installation that unfolds a critical perspective of perhaps the most sampled drum beat in the history of recorded music, the Amen Break.

I've just come across an article describing the work of the composer Emily Howell, which is- in fact a computer program, creasted by composer and computer scientist David Cope which searches databases for musi

Orientalism has existed in music since before orientalism existed.
 

Soundwalkers is a film by Raquel Castro. Raquel describes it:

Leeds Canvas will present a citywide collaboration between artists and arts organisations which will use the buildings, streets, and people of Leeds as the ‘canvas’ of the project. Leeds Canvas has invited internationally acclaimed artists the Quay Brothers to be artistic directors of the project.
 

"By directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons, scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had"

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(via Rob Myers on Netbehaviour)

This year's shortlist for the BASCA British Composer Awards has been announced, with a number of pieces by composers associated with Sound and Music:
Voices composers:
Patrick Nunn - Prism (Instrumental Solo or Duo), available through Sound and Music

Patrick Nunn's proposal to write a new work titled Sentiment of an Invisible Omniscience for large ensemble and electronics has won the Birmingham New Millennium Composition Competition. Patrick has also been nominated for this year's BASCA awards for Prism, premiered at the 2008 Bath Festival - see Richard Thomas' blog for details on other nominations.

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