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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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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?

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."

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.

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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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...

The Collection