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Front Row: Nile Rodgers on his digital portrait, composer Hannah Peel

22/03/2021

Nile Rodgers on his digital portrait, composer Hannah Peel

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Nile Rodgers on his digital portrait, composer Hannah Peel

Nile Rodgers discusses his voice-interactive digital portrait.

Guitarist and producer Nile Rodgers on his new interactive digital portrait; composer Hannah Peel discusses her new album Fir Wave.

Nile Rodgers – guitarist, producer, songwriter, arranger, and co-founder of Chic in the 1970s – is the subject of what claims to be the world’s first voice-interactive digital portrait, In the Room with Nile Rodgers, in association with the National Portrait Gallery. Nile Rodgers and the project's director, Sarah Coward, discuss and explain the ambitious artwork.

Hannah Peel’s latest album Fir Wave is inspired by nature, and finds links between patterns in nature and in early electronic music. She explains the inspiration behind her new album, how she’s reinterpreted iconic music by the Radiophonic Workshop, and why Delia Derbyshire is such an important figure for her.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Jerome Weatherald

Main image: Nile Rodgers
Image credit: Dimitri Hakke/Getty Images

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