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Supporting Content

• Sound of the Week

  Composers reveal the sounds that have captured their imaginations and inspired new music.

  

• Stockhausen’s Gruppen – What’s the Big Deal?

  A user-friendly guide to a masterpiece of music’s post-War avant-garde.

  

• Pioneering Sound

  Listen to Radio 3 broadcasts which break technological boundaries in sound.

  

• New Music Biennial 2017: The Music

  Hear the incredible range of new music from 2017's festival, recorded in Hull and London.

  

• VIDEO - Cut and Splice Festival 2017 - curated by Distractfold Ensemble

  Cut and Splice Festival returns, presented by Radio 3 and Sound and Music

  

  Duration: 0:40

• Modern Muses

  Modern Muses is a major new series which focuses on composer-performer partnerships.

  

• Composers' Rooms

  A series of conversations with composers in their workspaces.

  

• Download Modern Muses Podcasts

  Exploring the creative collaborations of the world’s leading composers and performers.

  

• Penguins Galore!

  Composer Laura Bowler travels to the Antarctic in search of inspiration for her music

  Duration: 18:42

• Thomas Larcher on rocks falling in the Tyrol

  What sound inspires Thomas Larcher? That of rocks falling in the Tyrol.

  Duration: 9:49

• Bryce Dessner on the Basque Txalaparta

  The instrument inspired the composer and National guitarist's recent Piano Concerto

  Duration: 3:38

• Noise artist Lasse Marhaug crunches through the snow

  His piece 'Death of the Noise Artist' was premiered at Tectonics Festival in Glasgow

  Duration: 2:39
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• To See The Invisible, Aldeburgh 2018

• Music We'd Like To Hear

• Kammer Klang at Cafe Oto - Apartment House and Jacob Kirkegaard

• Tectonics Festival 2017
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