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Stephen Adams
ABC Classic FM's Producer, Australian Music Unit
Four new works for lute commissioned by ABC Classic FM
Find out about the instruments and the music, including video demonstrations by lutenist Tommie Andersson. > moreOrpheus Remix Awards
It is 400 years since the premiere of the world's first acknowledged opera, Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. To celebrate, the ABC is inviting you to compose your own response to both the Orpheus myth and the notion of 'opera', in the form of original 4-minute works for radio. > more
The Val Camonica Pieces by David Young are a heterogenous collection of works for diverse ensembles and soloists created over a ten-year period in response to the composer’s experience of the huge collection of rock carvings scattered across northern Italy’s Camonica Valley. > more
Sonic Environments
A forest of players.
Music surfing on international data flows.
Environmental recordings in the concert hall.
Soundscapes and musicians behaving like eco-systems.
Noise, vanishing sounds and other concerns of aural ecology.
Sonic environments: actual, disappearing, virtual, ideal... > read more >> links to streaming audio
A trip through Australia's musical history via the music collection of the National Library of Australia, with audio of the entire series and concert. > more
An intriguing new web project created by composer Richard Vella, which presents a collection of music, sounds, images, memories, definitions and anecdotes around key words linking musical and spiritual ideas. Produced by ABC Classic FM, the A-Z features new recordings of Sonic Art Ensemble. > more
Listen to the Anniversary concert celebrating 20 years of the Elision Ensemble recorded on 11 June 2006. > About this concert and Elision >> Listen to the concert
10.30pm
John Cage: To the Air
The Song Company & Ensemble Offspring > more
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