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.

Blog

Richard Thomas

Sound and Music Last.fm

I've been having a look through last.fm and putting together some playlists, mainly as an introduction to the history of the music and sound we're involved in.

Please feel free to make contributions and to be our friend- I've tried to keep a broad range of artists, and those with playable material up.

The Earwig

Alternative histories

Arnold Schoenberg was born in 1874 and died in 1951 at the age of 77. George Gershwin was born in 1898 and died in 1937 at the age of 38. What if it had been the other way round?

What if Schoenberg had died in 1912 and Gershwin lived until 1975? Would the history of 20th century music been completely different?

Richard Thomas

The Sound of the World Cup

Something which has been pointed about this year's football World Cup has been the sound at matches. Many fans in South Africa have been bringing Vuvuzelas- long fixed-pitch horns and playing them in the crowd.

Frances Morgan

Musicians' Letters project

The Musicians' Letters Research Project is looking to collect and document correspondence from musicians, from 1900 to the present day.

Richard Thomas

ENF audio forensics

Today I read that the UK Metropolitan Police have started to use Electrical Network Frequency[PDF] (ENF- small variations in the frequency of AC mains electricity) in order to identify or verify the time when audio recordi

Richard Thomas

Conceptual recordings

One of the CDs which recently turned up at our office was marked with a sticker on the polythene with the following information:

"CONCEPTUAL ART"

NOTICE: This CD is made from an original source of P.C.M. DATA @ +1 -1 +1 -1... This will probably not be rendered as sound by a CD players[sic] DAC.

Read

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

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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...