Sound and Music

Radio Web MACBA (RWB) is a nonprofit online radio project for popular education, that explores the possibilities of the internet and radio as spaces of synthesis and exhibition.Programmes follow various strands including 'Curatorial' and 'Research sections. I'm about to get stuck into some episodes.

If you're around the Barbican Centre in London today, check out Felix Thorn's music installation in the foyer, There will be five performances, about 15 minutes long, throughout the day - at 12:30, 15:00, 17:00, 19:00 and 20:45.

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival have created two Spotify playlists to accompany this years festival.

Erik Satie emerged every morning from his tiny rented room in Arceuil, on the outskirts of Paris, dressed exquisitely in a velvet suit of which he owned an identical dozen, bought in the early 1890s with an inheritance. His dapper appearance was matched in his correspondence – even the most trivial note written in flawless copperplate, and in his painstaking music notation.

We've posted some calls on the Opportunities section of the website relating to INTO, Sound and Music's online members' magazine, with two ongoing ways you can get involved:

Having finally posted up the last of the summer school recordings and the video, I'm turning my mind to next year's residential. We've already got dates in mind and will be confirming details in the new year!

More electric cars are starting to appear on our streets, which has the potential to improve our environment as far as airborne pollutants are concerned, but what about sound?  They also have the characteristic that they have very little engine noise, so much so that research is going on to making replaceme

In case you didn't know, Sound and Music have a grant from the British Council which gives support to British or UK resident composers and artists to enable them to hear their work performed abroad.  I've just heard from Pete Wyer who is currently in Beijing for his performance of 'Somehow The Miracle' through this scheme.  This to me sounds like a great idea, so for all those of you

I have never played in, or conducted, the Rite of Spring and never expect to, but this week I did the next best thing - the Philharmonia Orchestra's Re-Rite installation in London.
 

After stumbling across the brilliant Music Think Tank site, I discovered their 'Indie Maximum Exposure 100', which is essentially 100 valuable pieces of advice (in blog form) for artists to consider when trying to promote their music. It was created by a team of industry experts