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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Music: Classical

An odyssey through the musical universe, presented by Tom Service

Rethink music with The Listening Service. Tom Service presents a journey of imagination and insight, exploring how music works

The Listening Service: Sound Frontiers: Listening to Recordings

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How do you describe a teaspoon in music?

25/09/2016

Sound Frontiers: Listening to Recordings

BBC Radio 3 - The Listening Service, Sound Frontiers: Listening to Recordings

As part of Radio 3 Live at Southbank Centre, Tom Service explores recorded sound.

As part of Sound Frontiers - Radio 3 Live at Southbank Centre, Tom Service explores recorded sound. How does a loudspeaker work? How has recording changed ways of listening?

As part of Radio 3 live at Southbank Centre, London, Tom Service considers the strange art of recorded sound - how can a cardboard speaker cone sound exactly like all the different instruments in an orchestra? How has the availability of recording technology changed our ways of listening? What of the future, when all possible recordings seem freely available? Musician and writer David Toop joins Tom to discuss the uncanny aspects of listening to disembodied sounds.

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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