Between the Ears: Miniatures

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Between the Ears: Miniatures: Chromophonia

Chromophonia

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How is colour created, and how can it be used?

How is colour created, and how can it be used? And how does it feel to spend a career working with colour?

Five audio-makers from around the world take over The Essay to offer a series of Radio 3's innovative Between the Ears features in miniature. Each edition takes an image as its starting point - from a radio producer who finds herself caught in a news image to a painting come to life.

Chromophonia explores colour for the ears, through the eyes of two colour experts. Cheryl Porter is a books and paper conservator, specialising in medieval manuscripts and methods of creating and preserving pigments. David Batchelor is a contemporary artist and writer who works with and writes about colour. Through the colours black, yellow and blue, we hear physical processes and personal reflections. How is colour created, and how can it be used? And how does it feel to spend a career working with colour?

Produced by Calum Perrin
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3

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.

Audio-makers from around the world offer innovative Between the Ears features in miniature

Audio-makers from around the world take over The Essay to offer a series of Radio 3's innovative Between the Ears features in miniature.

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