Music for Spaces
The Resonating Room. The sound of hundreds of Tibetan voices echoing round a prayer chamber illustrates man's continuing fascination with resonant spaces. Composer Katharine Norman recorded one of her pieces in a tunnel under the River Thames.
Karlheinz Stockhausen describes how he created a performance sphere where the audience listened in mid-air. And the acoustics of Birmingham's new Symphony Hall can be changed at the flick of a switch. Producers Lizzie Jackson and Robert Worby WEB SITE: http://www.bbc.co. uk/music_machine/