Richter: "Infra"; H&N, Sat, 19/5/18; 10:00pm

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Recordings form last week's Sounds and Visions events; a four-day mini-festival devoted to the interractions of Music and Film - so; perfect for Radio, then

Astonishingly, the Beeb website gives very little information about what is going to be performed, beyond mentioning that the programme is presented by Tom Service, and "includes" a Live performance of Max Richter(b1966)'s 2010 album, Infra, a work originally written in response to the London bombings of 2005.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b39cfh

More information about the Festival here:

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/series/sounds-and-visions-curated-by-max-richter-and-yulia-mahr

[Serial_Apologist]

Recordings form last week's Sounds and Visions events; a four-day mini-festival devoted to the interractions of Music and Film - so; perfect for Radio, then

Astonishingly, the Beeb website gives very little information about what is going to be performed, beyond mentioning that the programme is presented by Tom Service, and "includes" a Live performance of Max Richter(b1966)'s 2010 album, Infra, a work originally written in response to the London bombings of 2005.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b39cfh

More information about the Festival here:

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on...and-yulia-mahr

I guess it will all be based on the Richter Scale, then.

(Takes cover!)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I guess it will all be based on the Richter Scale, then.
(Takes cover!)

Seis doesn't matter.

But, honestly - regardless of the quality of the Music to be performed (and I don't know Richter's work, so I can't hazard an opinion) the ideas behind the conjunction between Live performed Music and (recorded) film/video Art are an important part of contemporary culture. If ever an event needed to be televised, this is it - to experience the whole aesthetic premise. The greater possibility of reaching an audience who wouldn't think of listening to R3; the chance of influencing new ways of thinking from at least some members of this audience; the opportunity to enable a present-day teenager to encounter an event that changes their life (so that in thirty years time, s/he would appear on a "Culture Show" to say that that broadcast was what started their creative life) -- none of that seems even vaguely attractive to the Beeb? And so we get a documentary on Tap Dancing, reruns of old TotPs and Good Old Days - and the Beeb continues to do its very best to ensure that creative cultural activity and discussion remains an "elitist" interest.

Several curses on all their feeble heads!

[Serial_Apologist]

Seis doesn't matter.

But, honestly - regardless of the quality of the Music to be performed (and I don't know Richter's work, so I can't hazard an opinion) the ideas behind the conjunction between Live performed Music and (recorded) film/video Art are an important part of contemporary culture. If ever an event needed to be televised, this is it - to experience the whole aesthetic premise. The greater possibility of reaching an audience who wouldn't think of listening to R3; the chance of influencing new ways of thinking from at least some members of this audience; the opportunity to enable a present-day teenager to encounter an event that changes their life (so that in thirty years time, s/he would appear on a "Culture Show" to say that that broadcast was what started their creative life) -- none of that seems even vaguely attractive to the Beeb? And so we get a documentary on Tap Dancing, reruns of old TotPs and Good Old Days - and the Beeb continues to do its very best to ensure that creative cultural activity and discussion remains an "elitist" interest.

Several curses on all their feeble heads!