Spiralling Back
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Composer Nico Muhly doesn’t buy the idea of a straight-line progression in music history, finding his creative kindling in distant…
Composer Nico Muhly doesn’t buy the idea of a straight-line progression in music history, finding his creative kindling in distant…
Philip Ball gives a scientific insight into the way music is hard-wired into our memories.
We expect both spontaneity and super-human levels of preparation from musicians. Violinist Hugo Ticciati explores the elusive ‘now’ of performance.
From 1900 to 1930, Einstein’s theories of relativity and those of quanta and quantum mechanics transformed the understanding of the…
Eliza Carthy belongs to a musical dynasty stretching back several generations. She reflects on her dialogue with her predecessors, and…
Fiona Maddocks muses on the way we use music to mark out and measure time, and the manifold tricks it…
Paul Griffiths explores the evolving relationship between time and western music in the last 1000 years.