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The Music Machine

on BBC Radio 3

Music and Science Fiction
To end the week, Sue
Nelson considers the musical technology used by modern composers and musicians to convey their visions of the future. it's a view that has inspired the often bleak and mechanistic sound of techno and cyberpunk.
Some musicians of today even programme their music to be beamed into space - to attract the attention of any passing spaceships.

BBC Radio 3

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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