VIDEO PODCAST: Slava Ukraini! - recorded on 24 February 2022, the day the world woke up to the news that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces had invaded Ukraine. A fifty minute video which also features Caitríona O'Leary and Eric Fraad discussing their new film Island of Saints, and pays tribute to Joseph Horovitz, Malcolm Troup and Maria Nockin.
VIDEO PODCAST: Find out about composers from unusual places, including Gerard Schurmann, Giya Kancheli, Nazib Zhiganov and Nodar Gabunia, about singing in cars, and meet Jim Hutton from the RLPO and some of our regular contributors in this eighty-minute February 2021 video.
The Japanese American musician and composer Miya Masaoka was born in Washington DC in 1958. She began her career as a koto player, exploring both western and traditional musics. These days, her koto performances are often enhanced by string preparations and electronic triggers, and her improvisational technique combines experimental western approaches with koto tradition. She sometimes combines her music for live performers with unusual sound sources such as amplified brain waves, heartbeats, aircraft noise, bird song and hives of bees.
Record Box. Technically Exemplary - Music for birds, planes and cello, heard by Malcolm Tattersall