A joyful, beautiful, pain filled sound journey through South Africa – from a politically charged soundscape of the murder of striking miners, to the music of a living legend, Madosini, a Xhosa musician. Singer and musician Nathaniel Mann, recent recipient of a Paul Hamlyn award for composition, travels to the Cape to find an irresistible […]
Producer: Sara Jane Hall Summary: Music and dance are so tied together, it might be hard to imagine how a profoundly deaf dancer can become an international star in the contemporary dance world – but South African Andile Vellum has done it. Vellum lost his hearing at the age of five, but that hasn’t stopped him […]
An Orchestra of the Rainforest (BBC Radio 3) Art of Now The destruction of the rain forest has reached a critical stage – so how can the people who live there grab the attention of the world? One community, the Wauja, who live in the Xingu reservation in Brazil, had a new idea – music. […]
Producer: Sara Jane Hall Seriously… The sounds of casting, chiming, singing and clanging are fused together to make a magical sound track to the story of how meat cleavers have been used as musical instruments for over 300 years.. Growing up in Suffolk, Nathaniel Mann, heard stories passed down by his grandma about a tradition of […]
Producer: Sara Jane Hall Is karaoke the modern sea shanty? Containers are the nearly invisible carriers of 90% of the goods on earth – yet we know so little about them, or the people on board. The crew who power globalisation, are unsung heroes. Now we hear them sing, and capture something of that strange, lonely, […]
The Pigeon Whistles Seriously… The sound of music flying through the air, carried on the tails of pigeons. “I knew it was a noise maker, but it was the only thing in the museum that I had no idea what it might sound like. Because it works in a way no other instrument does. No […]