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Your A-Z Guide to Time Unwrapped

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The tenth edition of our year-long series celebrates music as a temporal art in myriad ways. With just over a week left…

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On Time

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Paul Griffiths explores the evolving relationship between time and western music in the last 1000 years.

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Time Unwrapped

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Time Unwrapped is the tenth edition of Kings Place’s award-winning Unwrapped series. What does music have to tell us about Time? In Time Unwrapped we…

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Time Unwrapped 2018 – Official Trailer

Videos

What does music have to tell us about Time? In Time Unwrapped we show how music can stretch time, condense…

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A New Order

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From 1900 to 1930, Einstein’s theories of relativity and those of quanta and quantum mechanics transformed the understanding of the…

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15 Years of Kings Place

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Over the years, Kings Place has established an award-winning, innovative programme for music and spoken word, developing new series, festivals,…

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From Beginning to End

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As Kings Place’s Time Unwrapped season reaches its final phase, here are some of the highlights.

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Venus Unwrapped

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Venus Unwrapped throws a spotlight on the creative fire power of female composers, from Hildegarde of Bingen to Helen Grime,…

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Tempo Ticciati

Q&A

Hugo Ticciati is artist-in-residence for Time Unwrapped. Here he introduces his own curations and his fascination with the connection between…

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Feasting on Infinity

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The subject of Olivier Messiaen’s music was time itself. No wonder his music appears like a thread through Time Unwrapped.…

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Time Unwrapped – Spotify Playlist

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Kings Place’s year-long Time Unwrapped series features music that marks, measures and manipulates time, from Andriessen’s ever-accelerating De Snelheid, to…

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Top Tips for Time

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We find out what the artists and presenters of Time Unwrapped would choose to go and hear themselves.

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Thomas Gould in Gould Standard & Time Unwrapped – A Kings Place Podcast

Podcasts

Violinist Thomas Gould chats to our Creative Consultant, Helen Wallace, about his genre-defying ‘Gould Standard’ series, and shares his favourite…

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Venus Unwrapped 2019 – Official Trailer

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In 2019 Kings Place’s award-winning flagship series focuses on the creative firepower of women composers: Venus Unwrapped.

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Indian Time Unwrapped – A Kings Place Podcast

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Songlines magazine Editor-in-Chief Simon Broughton interviews celebrated sarodist Soumik Datta about the seasons and time-cycles of North Indian music, ahead…

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20 shows for 2020

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Our Nature Unwrapped 2020 programme opened last week with a spectacular series of events and performances from Theatre of Voices, Brian Cox,…

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Out of Time

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A new curation from Piano Nobile presents works from the Ruth Borchard Collection reflecting themes from the Time Unwrapped music…

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Venus Unwrapped Interviews

Interview

As our year-round celebration of women composers continues, we’ve been interviewing some of the stars of the Venus Unwrapped series.…

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Jackie Kay - Scotland Unwrapped

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Jackie Kay CBE is one of Scotland’s foremost poets and novelists, and a guest curator for Scotland Unwrapped. Here she…

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Cello Unwrapped

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The ninth edition of our now award-winning Unwrapped series features more than 30 great cellists, from legendary masters Christophe Coin, Pieter Wispelwey,…

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The Self in Time

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Time Unwrapped will be reflected in two major exhibitions at the Piano Nobile Gallery, Kings Place.

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Composing Herself Kathy Hinde

Interview

Bristol-based audio-visual artist Kathy Hinde makes a unique contribution to Venus Unwrapped & Luminate with Scattering Layer, (Sat 9 Feb, Hall…

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Colin Currie

Interview

Percussionist Colin Currie, appearing in Time Unwrapped, discusses his approach to performance with Amanda Holloway.

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Jason Singh, Earth Unwrapped Artist in Residence

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For Jason’s Earth Unwrapped residency, he will be further exploring his long-running connection with the natural world through a series…

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