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Episode 41 – The Whole History of Music (More or Less): For the Record with Trent Burton
Director and Cosmic Shambles co-founder Trent Burton joins Steve to explore For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music, and what notation, recording, live performance and AI reveal about what music is for.
Episode 40 - Voice, Power and the Big Machine: Opera Special
Bass Barnaby Rea joins Steve backstage at the Royal Opera House to explore the unamplified operatic voice, La Scala, class, access and the enormous machinery behind opera.
Episode 39 - A Cave, A Conch, An Algorithm
A collaboration with What We Did Before on the deep history of music, from prehistoric instruments and ritual to place, technology and AI.