The Sound and Music Podcast

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Welcome to the Sound and Music Podcast – a place where extraordinary new music and ideas are brought to life by the people who make it. Each episode is hosted by Susanna Eastburn MBE alongside an invited guest host, and features interviews and music by three composers from diverse backgrounds and genres, introducing you, the listener, to new ways of understanding new music and the processes behind it. Featured composers include Shabaka Hutchings, Errollyn Wallen, Lei Liang, Reeta Loi, India Jordan, Rocky Dawuni, Cassandra Miller and Amble Skuse, with co-hosts Des Oliver, Fiona Robertson, Will Eaves and Ruari Patterson-Achenbach.

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Climate: Activism (Blythe Pepino, Rocky Dawuni, Emily Hall) | Ep.11

Nov 30 2021 31 mins

Composers Blythe Pepino, Rocky Dawuni and Emily Hall share their music and thoughts exploring activism in the climate crisis. What is the place of music in climate activism, and how do composers take action in their music? From protest songs to upbeat afroroots music inspiring hope and action, we listen to the origins of Extinction Rebellion’s “Emergency” anthem, what is

Climate: Place (Hanna Tuulikki, Colin Riley, Dai Fujikura) | Ep.10

Nov 01 2021 36 mins

Composers Hanna Tuulikki, Colin Riley and Dai Fujikura share their music and thoughts exploring the importance of place in music. How does the more-than-human manifest itself in the composers’ music, and what does it mean to be composing music in times of the climate crisis? From imitating birds to Japanese onomatopoeia, we listen to a song written for a stream in the Cairngor

Climate: Emergency (Daniel Kidane, Clarice Assad, Lei Liang, Evelien van den Broek) | Ep.9

Sep 29 2021 35 mins

Composers Daniel Kidane, Clarice Assad, Lei Liang and Evelien van den Broek share their music and thoughts exploring the climate emergency in music. What does it mean to be a composer in times of a climate crisis? How does our awareness of the crisis enter our work, and how do we find meaning in our work in these times? From exploring cultural belonging and understanding our pl

Queerness (Reeta Loi, Michael Wolters, Maya-Leigh Rosenwasser) | Ep.8

Aug 27 2021 35 mins

Composers Reeta Loi, Michael Wolters and Maya-Leigh Rosenwasser share their music and thoughts exploring queerness in music. What does it mean to be a queer composer today, and is there such a thing as queer music? From the playful to the divine, we listen to a drag character lost in space, gender-bending tracks, and work that plays with failure as a creative starting point. J

Distractions (Neil Luck, India Jordan, David Austin Grey) | Ep.7

Jul 23 2021 30 mins

Composers Neil Luck, India Jordan and David Austin Grey share their music and thoughts on the place of distractions in the process of creating music – are distractions bad or are they necessary? We listen to the sounds of a dream, hear the power of music to heal, and dive into what it means to create music during lockdown. Join our CEO Susanna Eastburn MBE and writer Will Eaves

Offerings (Errollyn Wallen, Richard Ayres, Hannah Catherine Jones) | Ep.6

Jan 26 2021 31 mins

Composers Errollyn Wallen, Richard Ayres and Hannah Catherine Jones join Susanna Eastburn MBE and Des Oliver to share their music and thoughts exploring the gift of making music with and for other people. We listen to music written for billions of listeners and music written for a community orchestra, the gift it is to write music and the gift it is to rehearse it. Join our CEO Su

Invitations (Shabaka Hutchings, Alwynne Pritchard, Oliver Leith) | Ep.5

Jan 22 2021 32 mins

Composers Shabaka Hutchings, Alwynne Pritchard and Oliver Leith share their music and thoughts exploring the nature of the human relationships which shape the music they make. We listen to compositions rooted in friendship, explore attempts to decolonialise music, and intimate performances recorded in a toilet during lockdown. Join our CEO Susanna Eastburn MBE and composer Des Oli

Portals (Anthony R. Green, Nathan Riki Thomson, Amble Skuse) | Ep.4

Nov 06 2020 34 mins

Composers Anthony R. Green, Nathan Riki Thomson and Amble Skuse share their music and thoughts on what music might mean beyond just sounds, and how we connect to each other and the world around us through the act of making music. We listen to the sounds of an augmented double bass, hear the inner workings of a digital opera, and dive into a social justice piano concerto. Join our C

Taste (Gerald Barry, Matthew Shlomowitz, Joanna Ward) | Ep.3

Apr 14 2020 30 mins

Composers Gerald Barry, Matthew Shlomowitz, and Joanna Ward share their music and thoughts exploring the theme of Taste. From writing a piece intentionally ‘in bad taste’, to cultural appropriation, from the memory of and ethics of taste; join our CEO Susanna Eastburn MBE and composer Des Oliver for a unique insight into composing. This podcast was produced by Michael Umney (Re

Inspiration (Richard Rijnvos, Cassandra Miller, Supriya Nagarajan) | Ep.2

Apr 14 2020 30 mins

Composers Richard Rijnvos, Cassandra Miller, and Supriya Nagarajan share their music and thoughts exploring the theme of Inspiration. From gardening, cheesecakes and lullabies, to listening to our own bodies as a source of inspiration, join our CEO Susanna Eastburn MBE and composer Des Oliver for a unique insight into composing This podcast was produced by Michael Umney (Resonance