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What's All that Noise?

Tom Service considers when is noise just noise and when is it music. He finds that, though we resent noises in the concert hall, music needs some noise in it to give it character.

The Listening Service - an odyssey through the musical universe with Tom Service. Join him on a journey of imagination and insight, exploring how music works.

Today - What's all that that Noise? Tom investigates. When is noise just noise, and when is it music? Is it just sound in the wrong place? Tom finds that, though we resent noises in the concert hall, music needs some noise in it to give it character. He also investigates the contemporary genre of Noise Music at an avant-garde club. He considers noise in our daily lives, and talks to Emily Cockayne, author of Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England 1600-1770; and to David Hendy, author of Noise: a Human History. We can't avoid noise, so can we learn to love it?

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29 minutes

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Sun 12 Mar 2017 17:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Double Keyboard Concerto in E flat Wq47

    Performer: Miklos Sanyi. Performer: TamΓ‘s Szekendy. Performer: Concerto Armonico Budapest.
    • BACH, C.P.E: Keyboard Concertos (Complete), Vol. 20.
    • BIS.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Rite of Spring (last section)

    Performer: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Performer: Riccardo Muti.
    • EMI.

  • GyΓΆrgy Ligeti

    Etude for Piano Book 1, No.1

    Performer: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard.
    • Ligeti: Works for Piano.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Frederic Rzewski

    Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues (North American Ballads, no.4)

    • North American Ballads.
    • HAT HUT HAT.
    • 4.

  • Richard Wagner

    Ride of the Valkyries (Die WalkΓΌre)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.
    • SONY CLASSICS.

  • Peter Bellamy

    The Ballad of Henry & Susannah (part 1)

    Performer: Peter Bellamy.
    • The Transports: A Ballad Opera By Peter Bellamy.
    • Free Reed.

  • Morton Feldman & FLUX Quartet

    String Quartet no.2

    • Feldman Edition Volume 6.
    • Mode.

  • Hirihito

    Metaric Machine

    • Tokyo Invasion Vol.1.
    • Virgin.
    • 10.

  • Vomir

    untitled composition

    • Live performance from Cafe Oto.

  • Helmut Lachenmann

    Tableau

    Performer: SaarbrΓΌcken Radio Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Hans Zender.
    • Lachenmann - Ausklang, Tableau..
    • Col Legno.

  • Bob Crosby's Bobcats

    Big Noise From Winnetka

    • Raging Bull OST.
    • EMI.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chaconne from Partita no.2 in D minor BWV1004

    Performer: Thomas Gould.
    • Bach to Parker - Thomas Gould.
    • Champs Hill.

  • Masonna and Yamazaki Takushi

    Spectrum Ripper

    • Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Vol.5.
    • Sub Rosa.
    • 11.

  • Edgard VarΓ¨se

    Ameriques

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • VarΓ¨se - The Complete Works.
    • Decca.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 22 May 2016 17:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
  • Sun 12 Mar 2017 17:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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