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Sergei Eisenstein, Battleship Potemkin, 1925

Why Battleship Potemkin’s Call to Arms Needs New Music

19/08/2025

The Pit Orchestra reimagines the 1925 masterpiece for today's audiences...

Music from Weird Masses: Jarboe

26/04/2022

Experimental icon Jarboe remasters and rereleases her 1986 record Blood Women Roses. ...

Uncomfortable Music

24/10/2020

Pushing beyond warm nostalgic genres, Trebuchet guides you through the autumnal mental fog to a more mysterious place. Featuring: Mr Bungle, Napalm Death, Ricinn, Penny Rimbaud and Bunita Marcus...

Nomadic music and the convergence of style – Tengger Cavalry

05/03/2018

Sometimes, the tropes of contemporary Western culture can combine with the music of other eras and nations to turn up unexpected results....

Outside of the music, it’s a little quiet…. Dead Light (Interview)

15/11/2016

Dead Light, makers of 2016's intricate electro/ambient/classical apogee, discuss their debut album....

Make Better Music 74 : Collaboration

22/06/2015

The ability to listen, appreciate, evaluate and contribute towards a fellow-musician’s creativity is a high order skill and the rewards often completely justify the effort....

Midsummer Music Festival 2014

04/06/2014

Midsummer Music Festival gathers some of the world's finest classical musicians into an intimate and charming performance space....

Make Better Music 72 : Music Theory

30/04/2014

Music theory is way of labelling sounds and ideas in a way that highlights the relationships between them...

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Final Part]

10/04/2013

'Art is not made by committee' SWP concludes his series on the art of the soundtrack...

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us

14/03/2013

Stringwash and atmospherics? If you notice a film's soundtrack that means it's failed? Not in SWP's opinion. The art of the film score, revisited....

Metal, music, money and merch: for Malefice – life is a five letter word.

02/04/2012

Metal, music, money and merch: for Malefice - life is a five letter word....

Peter Broderick: Music for Confluence

21/11/2011

The somewhat fantastical world of Erased Tapes record making continues with Peter Broderick's Music for Confluence. After the happy accident in which Nils Frahm's efforts not to wake the...

Make Better Music 49: Accepting the New

28/06/2011

Make Better Music 49: Accepting the New. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham. ...

Chris Clarke: Acoustic Body Music

22/10/2010

Chris Clark or simply Clark these days is a busy man, making music, incessant touring and learning new instruments. While uncomfortable with the title of Warp records’ electronic standard...

Make Better Music 5: Be Your Own Worst Critic

22/10/2010

Make Better Music 5: Be Your Own Worst Critic. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham....

A Heroic Step Forward for Quest Ensemble

14/08/2020

Classical progressives Quest Ensemble's Other Side points us forward from genre to musical discovery. Has classical music rediscovered originality? ...

Linea Naturalis — Has hippie woo-woo finally achieved therapeutic maturity?

07/01/2025

The healing sound, plant based electronic music....

The London Jazz Festival Opens

15/11/2023

Jazz on the streets of London 2023...

The Discipline of Inspiration: An Interview with Samuel Andreyev. Part Two

27/06/2022

An interview with composer and educator Samuel Andreyev. Part two....

The Discipline of Inspiration: An Interview with Samuel Andreyev

20/06/2022

An interview with composer and educator Samuel Andreyev....

You’d Better Get Your Visualisations Right

07/11/2019

Interview with Jaz Coleman – Magna Invocatio: A Gnostic Mass for Choir and Orchestra Inspired by the Sublime Music of Killing Joke...

“Every Song was a Little World in Itself”

26/04/2019

Interview with industrial music shamans The Youngs Gods - Franz Treichler ...

China Changing Festival Returns for Grand Finale

08/08/2018

Southbank Centre’s China Changing Festival celebrating innovative contemporary Chinese culture returns with a packed four-day programme for its grand finale....

And Phil Keeps on Falling: Blade Runner 2049

10/10/2017

Very yellow and not very mellow. Is Blade Runner really due a reboot?...

Portraits: Zia Mohiuddin Dagar and Stephen O’Malley

15/09/2017

Sunn O))) guitarist and sonic adventurer Stephen O'Malley on his latest find: Dhrupad Music...

Beyond the Limited Imagination: M (Myrkur)

15/02/2016

Review of M, stunning album by multi-instrumentalist Black Metal phenomenon Myrkur...

HRH Prog 2015

08/04/2015

Pwllheli is a long way from anywhere at the far end of a winding single-track railway line. The train stops many, many times at little request stops, but only if you know how to pronounce the...