A land without music?
Is our musical culture facing an existential threat? With ever smaller numbers of young people learning instruments, the gradual erasing of music from state education and years of declining funding, things may be worse than you think. Sound World investigates the state of music today and looks at what we can do to safeguard it for future generations.
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Monday Mar 17, 2025
Monday Mar 17, 2025
What are the dangers posed by AI and what opportunities does it bring?
What does it mean for music and for how we value, understand and experience creativity?
Leading AI researcher Prof. Peter Flach and psychiatrist, neuroscientist and author Dr. Iain McGilchrist shed light on this complex and hugely consequential subject.
Written and presented by Julian LeeksProduced by Sound World
Music:Trombone Phrases by Nico Muhly. Listen on Apple Music or Spotify
In The Steps of Apollo by Julian Leeks (performed by Zelkova String Quartet).Listen here.
Beehive by Julian Leeks (Note Performer demo version recorded for our sponsors)
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4 days ago
4 days ago
This is another of our bonus episodes featuring one of the full length interviews that we recorded for the main strand of A land without music?.
Following on from our last episode in which our guests discussed various aspects of AI and technology, we’re talking to Prof. Peter Flach. For anyone trying to make sense of AI, how it works and what it might mean for us to, Peter is someone to listen to. Professor of artificial intelligence and an expert in machine learning, Peter is a knowledgable and measured voice in a field often characterised by hyperbole and hysteria.
Written and presented by Julian LeeksProduced by Sound World
Written and presented by Julian LeeksProduced by Sound World
Music:Trombone Phrases by Nico Muhly. Listen on Apple Music or Spotify
In The Steps of Apollo by Julian Leeks (performed by Zelkova String Quartet).Listen here.
Beehive by Julian Leeks (Note Performer demo version recorded for our sponsors)
To get in touch with Sound World please email info@sound-world.org or leave a post on out Facebook page SoundWorldUK.
For more info about Sound World visit sound-world.org
Music:Trombone Phrases by Nico Muhly. Listen on Apple Music or Spotify
In The Steps of Apollo by Julian Leeks (performed by Zelkova String Quartet).Listen here.
Beehive by Julian Leeks (Note Performer demo version recorded for our sponsors)
To get in touch with Sound World please email info@sound-world.org or leave a post on out Facebook page SoundWorldUK.
For more info about Sound World visit sound-world.org
Written and presented by Julian Leeks
With guests including Sally Beamish, Daisy Fancourt, Peter Flach, Jess Gillam, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Sadie Harrison, Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason, Daniel Kidane, Iain McGilchrist, Nico Muhly, John Pickard and Jörg Widmann.
Produced by Sound World
Series Music
The Grace of Silence by Evelyn Glennie (performed by Harriet Riley and Paul Israel). Listen on Apple Music or Spotify
In The Steps of Apollo by Julian Leeks (performed by Zelkova String Quartet - planned release 2025)
Trombone Phrases by Nico Muhly. Listen on Apple Music or Spotify
Beehive by Julian Leeks
For more info on Sound World visit sound-world.org