Resources

This is our virtual library. Through blogs, podcasts, articles, and more we want to build a resource for everyone to engage further with music and sound. There is also The Collection, an archive of over 40,000 scores and manuscripts from the past 30 years.

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The Earwig

And so the story begins...

Historians, like novelists, are in the business of telling stories. But one of the most difficult things about telling stories is knowing when the story starts. How can you write about a war without delving into the run-up to it? And what about the lead-in to the run-up? How far back do you go? A biography usually needs some account of the parents of the subject - but grandparents as well?

David with Bigger Beard David Rogerson

Aural Computer Game

Papa Sangre is a new video gama that doesn't use image but sound to immerse the player.

"It’s a first-person thriller, done entirely in audio by an award-winning team of game designers, musicians, sound designers and developers. We’ve created an entire world using the first ever real-time 3D audio engine implemented on a handheld device."

orange things Richard Thomas

Who'd want to make music on a telephone?

After a couple of things coming up lately on our facebook page related to using apps on phones for music making, I thought I'd look into it in a bit more detail.

David with Bigger Beard David Rogerson

Braun Tube Jazz Band

Wada Ei's performance installation uses TV screens as percussion instruments. A Nam Jun Paik-style gamelan. The artists says:

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Zoe Martlew's pick of the Christmas + New Year highlights (no Swan Lake)

 

JUICE - Thursday 17th Dec Forge, Camden

Brian Eno - APOLLO: ATMOSPHERES AND SOUNDTRACKS

In the NASA documentary For All Mankind's crowning moment, a man walks on the moon, planting a bright American flag on the barren lunar landscape. It's a moment we've all seen before, etched indelibly on the popular consciousness to the point of cliché.

Tape and the domestic soundscape

Tape is the material that gathered and collected a curious generation’s first experiments in home-recording, and historically disseminated the power to author, retain and remix the soundscape of the home.

Fracture/Fissure

It has been twenty-one years since Richard Barrett began his relationship with Elision, an extraordinarily fruitful period for both parties, which was celebrated with a concert at Kings Place, London.

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Links

A growing list of essential links, created by us and by you. Take a look...

Publications

In the next few Months, Sound and Music will launch a new publishing programme. To begin we have the recently released Recovery/Discovery

Podcasts

The SAM Podcast explores the outer edges of sound and music, from artists working within the fields of sound art, noise, electronic music, modern composition, field recordings, drone music and anything else we like; occasionally thematic and occasionally guest curated. Subscribe now...

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