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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Spotlights
Seaside and Sun by Trevor Wishart and Friends

"Creative activity here, is the ability to enact a temporary alternative reality..."

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Spotlights
Sounding Food and Music

"Through our installation we invited visitors to listen to five pieces, while sitting at our musical dining table."

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Sloth Racket - 'Shapeshifters' (Cath Roberts) | Live at the Vortex, London, May 2016

Spotlights: Female Improvisers in London
An Interview with Cath Roberts

"I see improvisation as instant (usually collaborative) composition....an important form of musical communication..."

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Spotlights
SaM's Administrator, Sarah, On the Diversity of the Collection

"The British Music Collection doesn’t discriminate; anything goes – see for yourself…"

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Spotlights: Female Improvisers in London
An Interview with Sarah Gail Brand

"I had so much fun and felt so at home in this music... I knew immediately this was a music scene I wanted to be a part of."

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Martin Butler 2

Spotlights: How I Compose
'How I Compose' Series - IV - Martin Butler

"It felt experimental: seeing what would happen if I subjected strongly iconic musical ideas to somewhat mechanical, ‘alien’ treatments and procedures."

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Kay Grant voice June 2016

Spotlights: Female Improvisers in London
An Interview with Kay Grant

"There are always times – in conversation as well as in improvisation – when the best response is silence..."

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The Collection at 50
L’Italiano in Atene (a.k.a. The Greek Bailout)

"All I know is there’s a reason musicians and composers shouldn’t talk." 

 

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The Custodians

Spotlights: Female Improvisers in London
An Interview with Sue Lynch

"Improvisation to me is a journey each time, that is followed by a memory"

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