River of Music: 12 hrs Non-stop Music: Sunday 30 October

[doversoul1]

It will be a novel experience for some people, but that is the main purpose of visiting art galleries, so not all is lost.

I don’t know. I imagine most people would like to know something about the paintings when they visit a gallery and would feel short changed if they couldn’t have the information because they don’t own the gadget.

I suppose I just have to accept that radio broadcast is now multimedia and we are assumed to be equipped and prepared to go online if we want to receive programmes in full.

[ahinton]

I don’t know. I imagine most people would like to know something about the paintings when they visit a gallery and would feel short changed if they couldn’t have the information because they don’t own the gadget.

Unhelpful as I realise it is in context, I mut admit that the art gallery analogy cannot help but remind me of a certain pianist/composer's descripton - or rather re-entitlement - of a famous piano work as Exhibitionists at the Pictures...

As you were - my coat is on and all that...

[french frank]

I suppose I just have to accept that radio broadcast is now multimedia and we are assumed to be equipped and prepared to go online if we want to receive programmes in full.

I don't get the impression that everything will be changed for ever. Drama on 3 at 9pm, and Early Music Late with Simon Heighes from the Pyrenees Festival of Early Music.

And Breakfast, no doubt, as usual, on Monday morning.

[MrGongGong]

Let’s hope the playlist will be published in advance or those who have no access to the online information* will be left with a stream of music which may mean little more than background music in a shopping centre.

Do you really think that music without words is superficial?
i quite like the idea of a stream of music which I have no idea what it is, who composed it, how old it is, where it comes from
just the acousmatic experience without the babble of text or words

Not that this is likely to be like that though

[doversoul1]

I don't get the impression that everything will be changed for ever. Drama on 3 at 9pm, and Early Music Late with Simon Heighes from the Pyrenees Festival of Early Music.

And Breakfast, no doubt, as usual, on Monday morning.

I get the impression that everything is beginning to change but I hope it will be sometime before I am pushed into it.

I may not complain if Breakfast moves to online

MrG
Do you really think that music without words is superficial?

I don’t classify titles and composers’ names as words let alone as text. I like to know what I am listening to, as I don’t listen to music as an acoustic experience whatever that may be.

[MrGongGong]

I like to know what I am listening to, as I don’t listen to music as an acoustic experience whatever that may be.

Probably not the place to discuss this methinks

Though a possible "answer" is

What am I listening to? : Music
What is an "acoustic experience"? : Music (amongst other things)

http://www.mqup.ca/sonic-experience-products-9780773529427.php

is worth a read

[french frank]

I see this as another debate, like Cabaret on BaL, that simply ends up as losing any sort of perspective. And like the short 'New Year, New Music' ('can't stand the stuff, I've never switched off so often. Is this what Radio 3 has become?')

Yes, some people will want their Sunday Breakfast with Martin Handley or whoever, followed by Sunday Morning with Rob or Jonathan, then Private Passions - the usual 'Playlist programmes'. And so on through the day until Through the Night.

This is going to be a musical sequence which follows the development of the Third Programme and Radio 3. The major point is NOT just 'playing some interesting classical music'. It is the illustrative interest of the evolving sequence***, NOT the individual pieces qua music. If you'd rather have your own version of 'listener's requests' - where you are the listener requesting - without even sampling how this will work, that is your choice.

People who don't use the internet, or smartphones (like me), are quite used to missing out on what expanding technology now offers. If you do have it, but don't want to be online all day - use it intelligently to fix the point in the day's sequence if you dip in. It starts at 9am and ends at 9pm.

*** That's how I interpret the description.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

They could, of course, have a day of broadcasting programmes from Radio 3/Third/Music Programmes exactly as they were, with the original introductions. That would be interesting. We could then compare and contrast. . .

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This latest gimmick (effectively requiring a computer as well as a radio of some kind) falls at the first hurdle. There is no playlist whatsoever. (And it's less than 24 hours away.)

Classical Muzak?

[Bryn]

As the short-term participant here, Newtonality put it, "just listen". Anyway, I feel pretty sure a rolling playlist will appear as the sequence progresses.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

As the short-term participant here, Newtonality put it, "just listen". Anyway, I feel pretty sure a rolling playlist will appear as the sequence progresses.

What, for 12 hours? I don't think so. I do have a life.

It may be great, but I don't gamble.

[doversoul1]

Five ways to dive into Radio 3’s River of Music

3. Visit the Radio 3 website
Our presenters may be disappearing from the airwaves for 12 hours, but they’re resurfacing online. On 30 October, follow the River of Music live blog on the Radio 3 website, where presenters Rob Cowan and Sarah Walker will be posting regular updates about the music and the stories behind it.
Plus there are video appearances from five guest stars – including Gabriel Prokofiev, Mark Elder and Emma Kirkby – and a host of other digital goodies.

4. Follow Radio 3 on social media
Throughout the day, Rob and Sarah will be sharing their usual expert commentary and responding to listeners live on social media

(Visit here for 1, 2 and 5)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/20jDL514GP8wjzcLlMzJrxx/five-ways-to-dive-into-radio-3-s-river-of-music

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'm sorry, but this type of pathetic secrecy really isn't good enough. It's all-day Breakfast without the interruptions. Radio 1/2 format but with Radio 3 music, but without the interruptions.

THIS is how much they are prepared to tell us - i.e. nothing:-




Of course, the music may well be great, but what is wrong with announcing the title and composer and then playing it?

[Bryn]

Nan, the pathetic secrecy was last night, after the interval.

[doversoul1]

... but what is wrong with announcing the title and composer and then playing it?

… because that makes you listen to the music with preconceived ideas, and besides, it’s much more exciting to be engaged in multimedia…. (add an emoticon of your choice)