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Sound Frontiers: Listening to Recordings

As part of Sound Frontiers - Radio 3 Live at Southbank Centre, Tom Service explores recorded sound. How does a loudspeaker work? How has recording changed ways of listening?

As part of Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre, London, Tom Service considers the strange art of recorded sound - how can a cardboard speaker cone sound exactly like all the different instruments in an orchestra? How has the availability of recording technology changed our ways of listening? What of the future, when all possible recordings seem freely available? Musician and writer David Toop joins Tom to discuss the uncanny aspects of listening to disembodied sounds.

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Sun 25 Sep 2016 17:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen

    Hymnen region 3 ex.1

    Performer: Karlheinz Stockhausen.
    • Hymnen.
    • Stockhausen-Verlag.

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen

    Kontakte

    • OHM + : The Early gurus of electronic music.
    • Ellipsis Arts.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Aida Prelude Act One

    Performer: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Performer: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • Verdi: Aida.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Frank Ocean

    Close to you

    • Blonde.
    • Boys Don't Cry.

  • James Europe

    on patrol in no-mans-land

    Performer: Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th Infantry 'Hell Fighters' Band.
    • on patrol in no-mans-land.
    • Pathe.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Tosca: e lucevan les stelle

    Performer: Enrico Caruso.
    • Enrico Caruso.
    • Pearl.

  • Pettis and Waller

    St Louis Shuffle

    Performer: Fletcher Henderson.
    • Early Black Swing (Birth of Big Band Jazz 1927-34).
    • Bluebird.
    • 1.

  • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

    Danse Macabre ex 1

    Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.
    • Stokowski: The 1925 Electrical Recordings.
    • Biddulph.

  • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

    Danse Macabre ex 2

    Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.
    • Stokowski: The 1925 Electrical Recordings.
    • Biddulph.

  • Richard Wagner

    Magic Fire Muisic (Die Walkure)

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Wagner: Ring (Great Scenes).
    • DECCA.

  • The Beach Boys

    Heroes And Villains

    • Smiley Smile.
    • Capitol Records.

  • Augustus Pablo

    King Tubby meets the rockers uptown

    • King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown.
    • Yard Music.

  • Brian Ferneyhough

    string quartet no.4 1st mvt

    Performer: Arditti Quartet.
    • Brian Ferneyhough 2.
    • Montaigne.

  • Kate Bush

    Sensual World

  • RP Boo

    Speakers

    • Legacy.
    • Planet Mu.

  • Timothy Ferriss

    Golden Record

    • Voyager Golden Record.
    • Ozma Records.

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  • Sun 25 Sep 2016 17:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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