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Sound Lounge
A weekly forum for contemporary music
Sundays from 9:00pm
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01 September 2024
Fisher, Salina: Kintsugi - New Zealand SO/Hamish McKeich (RNZ )
Dadson, Philip: Eye/Drum - From Scratch (Kiwi CD SLC 236)
Norton, Christopher: Sonatina - Carol Hohauser (fl), Karen Spiegel-Neumann (pno) (RNZ UA06)
Williams, Michael F: Equinox - New Zealand Guitar Quartet (SkyDeck promoEquinox )
Brownlee, Phil & Tikao, Ariana: Manaaki - Ariana Tikao (taonga pūoro), New Zealand String Quartet (RNZ)
Gately, Katie: Pipes - Katie Gately (voice, electronics) (Blue Tapes Blue Eight)
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Sound Lounge: Mystic George Gurdjieff - composer of electric guitar music?
13 Jul 2019Gurdjieff is remembered as one of the great mystics of the early 20th century. But he also composed! Gunter Herbig explains why he chose electric guitar to interpret Gurdjieff's music. Read more Video
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From dark to light - Mike Hogan's Matariki Suite
29 Jun 2019In his Matariki Suite for solo guitar Mike Hogan follows the transition of the Matariki star cluster from dark to light. Read more
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Sound Lounge: Tabea Squire explains how she turned the 'Ao' in Aotearoa into music
22 Jun 2019Tabea Squire explains how the multiple meanings of the Maori word Ao inspired her orchestral work of the same name. Read more Video
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New Music Dreams: Vampyr (1932)
16 Jun 2019Tune in to New Music Dreams after the 11pm news on Sunday 16 June to listen to an electronic re-imagining of the soundtrack to the 1932 horror film Vampyr while watching the film here . Read more Video
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Sound Lounge: Lyell Cresswell's new string quartet album
16 Jun 2019Music for String Quartet is is an excellent new collection of Lyell Cresswell's quartets from the 1980s to the early 2000s performed by Scotland's Red Note Ensemble. Read more
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Salina Fisher named 2019 NZSM Composer-in Residence
8 Jun 2019Award-winning New Zealand composer and violinist Salina Fisher will be the Creative New Zealand Composer-in-Residence for 2019 at Victoria University of Wellington's New Zealand School of Music—Te… Read more Video
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Sound Lounge: Louise Webster's Violin Concerto - In hollowed bone I hear the seas roar
1 Jun 2019Child psychiatrist, paediatrician, violinist and composer Louise Webster talks about her Violin Concerto. Read more Video
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Alex TAYLOR: Flute Concerto
18 May 2019The world première performance by Abigail Sperling and the Auckland Chamber Orchestra conducted by Peter Scholes in the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Auckland, 25 November 2018. Read more Video, Audio
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Ben HOADLEY: Turakirae
18 May 2019The world première performance by Peter Scholes (clarinet and director) and the Auckland Chamber Orchestra in the Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Auckland, 25 November 2018. Read more Video, Audio
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Sound Lounge: Four composers represent NZ at World Music Days Festival, Estonia
11 May 2019Alex Taylor, Tristan Carter, Nick Snowball and Simon Eastwood make the long journey to Tallinn to represent NZ at the the 9-day annual ISCM World Music Days contemporary music festival.
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Sound Lounge: John Rimmer at 80
4 May 2019We celebrate John Rimmer's 80th year with a few handpicked works from his long and varied career as a composer. Read more Video, Audio
Sound Lounge
A weekly forum for contemporary music
If you’re close to a radio on Sunday nights, pop into Sound Lounge to revitalise your listening buds.
Sundays from 9:00pm
Produced by Ryan Smith
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