Composer and landscape painter Marc Yeats's new book Music, Painting, Landscape and Me is out now, published by Vision Editions.

We are delighted to present you go, once before by Sara Rahman, a composition for cello and voice, accompanied by a visual essay and commissioned as part of Beyond the Edge, an open call delivered in partnership with Heritage Quay.
Composer Sara Rahman crouches just inside the gate of a wind farm in Yorkshire. The wind turbines are visible in the image and span a lush green pasture bordered by a jagged stone wall.

Join us for the online premiere of you go, once before by Sara Rahman, winner of the British Music Collection Beyond the Edge open call.

In celebration of LGBTQ+ History Month, we invited writers, researchers and thinkers to pitch us editorial on queer music, sounds and the people who make it. This article by writer Seth Pereira asks why the UK rap scene hasn't yet seen an openly queer rapper go mainstream.

Digital Bridge artists XEXA and Sarmen catch up with Ray Morrison about building linguistic trust, telepathic WhatsApp messages and recording their environments through binaural sound.

Listen to Pensive Panic, the new single from new EP From Distance by Usher Lavelle, created as a result of the 2020 Black Composers Open Call. Plus, Usher chats to the British Music Collection about his creative journey over the past four years.

Digital Bridge artists Cutzi Hamid and Freya Edmondes talk to Ray Morrison about the art of digital collaboration, finding a common creative goal, and taking field recordings of motorbikes.

In celebration of LGBTQ+ History Month, we invited writers, researchers and thinkers to pitch us editorial on queer music, sounds and the people who make it. This article exploring the role of community in electronic music is by writer and photographer Mallory Bea.

Digital World is an audiovisual piece by Cutzi Hamid & Freya Edmondes, created as part of Digital Bridge, an international collaborative project between UK and Mexico, from Sound and Music, CMMAS and Supersonic, funded by the British Council.

Grain of Sand is an audiovisual piece by XEXA and Sarmen Almond, created as part of Digital Bridge, an international collaborative project between UK and Mexico, from Sound and Music, CMMAS and Supersonic, funded by the British Council.

Listen to A Way Home, a new track from FAUZIA, created as part of the British Music Collection's 2022 Black Composers Open Call.

Watch the music video for I Still, the new work created by music artist Joy Nkoyo as part of the British Music Collection's 2022 Black Composers Open Call.

Explore Mixed Feelings, a multimedia project created by Sound artist Thomas Harris as part of the British Music Collection's 2022 Black Composers Open Call.

In this new instalment of the 'Sounds of...' series on the British Music Collection, professional fiddler, composer, recording and touring artist and part of Sound and Music's New Voices 2021 programme, Jennifer Wrigley shares with us the aural traditions of her native Orkney, an archipelago off of the northeastern coast of Scotland.

In celebration of LGBTQ+ History Month, we're inviting UK-based writers, researchers and thinkers to pitch us editorial on queer music, sounds and the people who make it. 

We're thrilled to announce the winners of our Black Composers Open Call, which we ran as part of Black History Month 2022.

We are pleased to share Rubicon, a new audio visual work by New Voices artist Elijah Maja. 

Listen to the sounds of the 2022 Summer School as we share an eclectic selection of music created by students at the week-long residential.

We are seeking to support UK-based Black composers, artists and collectives from the African and Caribbean diaspora in a new Open Call opportunity for 3 x £750 grants for new sonic works.

Listen to a new work by Jamie Elless, created as part of the LGBTQ+ Composers Open Call 

Listen to a new work by Finn Patrick McLean, created as part of the LGBTQ+ Composers Open Call 

In this new monthly video series, Marc Yeats explores his relationship to composing, painting and landscape.

Sound and Music and the Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts (CMMAS) in partnership with Supersonic Festival are pleased to announce the artists selected for Digital Bridge – a new collaborative project supported by the British Council.  
Composers or sound artists based in or born in the UK are invited to join the British Music Collection. Scroll down to find out more...
Photo: Na'ama Zisser, London-based composer featured in the British Music Collection.

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British Music Collection: 50 Things
50 Things: Bryn Harrison's 'Open 2'

For our 50 Things series, clarinettist Heather Roche describes how learning the unique music of Bryn Harrison opened up a new way of thinking about her instrument.

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50 Things: Alwynne Pritchard's 'Craw'

For our 50 Things series, author Tim Rutherford-Johnson reflects on Alwynne Pritchard's Craw and the role of publishing and the internet in the lives of contemporary...

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British Music Collection: 50 Things
50 Things: Simon Emmerson's 'Spirit of '76'

For our 50 Things series, composer Georgia Rodgers investigates the elaborate tape experiment of Simon Emmerson's Spirit of '76.

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Spotlights
A Bespoke System

Composer Jonathan Pitkin describes the process of creating a bespoke software system to help him write for quarter tone flute.

 

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British Music Collection: 50 Things
50 Things: Shiori Usui's 'from scratch'

For our 50 Things series, Sam Mackay recalls the powerful shock of Shiori Usui's ensemble work, from scratch

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Unpredictable Series
In Conversation with Sharon Gal

'Unpredictable: Conversations with Improvisers’ is a series that has grown out of a deep research into the nature of Free Improvisation, its history in the UK and its...

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British Music Collection: 50 Things
50 Things: Tristram Cary's 'Nonet'

For our 50 Things series, writer Robert Barry looks at the unique and intricate score for Tristram  Cary's 1979 electronic work Nonet.

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British Music Collection: 50 Things
50 Things: Daphne Oram's 'Snow'

For our 50 Things series, soprano Juliet Fraser encounters Daphne Oram's wry and propulsive soundtrack to the 1963 film Snow (dir. Geoffrey Jones). #BMC50

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International Women's Day Campaign
Composer Profile: Leslie Deere

As part of our #afemalecomposerday campaign marking International Women's Day, we highlight the life and work of composer Leslie Deere. 

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