Episodes: 45
Frequency: Irregular
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Gender skew: Neutral
Listener location: United Kingdom
YouTube: 464 subscribers
Instagram: 1.7k followers
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Steve Pretty - Musician and composer who also works as a music consultant and mix engineer.
Hwang Hyeyoung - Geomungo, Korean Musical Traditions, Instrument Design, Rhythm, And Performance.
Ha Suyean - Gayageum, Korean Musical Traditions, Instrument Design, Rhythm, And Performance.
Akram Abdulfattah - Maqam, Improvisation, Microtones, Violin, Musical Tradition, And Making A Living As A Musician.
Trent Burton - Music History, Documentary Making, Oral Traditions, Recording, Artificial Intelligence, And The Economics Of Live Music.
Barnaby Rea - Opera Singing And Vocal Technique, Opera-house Culture, Access, And The Economics Of Live Music.
Dal:um: Korea, Strung Differently
October 19, 2026
Two Korean string instruments, two very different ways of shaping a sound. Dal:um’s Ha Suyean and Hwang Hyeyoung join me after their concert in Finland to explore the gayageum and geomungo, from delicate silk-string sounds to surprisingly powerful, percussive playing.We get close to the instruments: a bamboo playing stick, frets, pitch bends and movable bridges called “goose feet”. They explain how their modern instruments differ from traditional versions, and demonstrate a way of feeling Kor...
Never the Same Melody Twice with Akram Abdulfattah
September 24, 2026
How much can you change a melody before it becomes something else? Palestinian-American violinist and composer Akram Abdulfattah joins me to explore a tradition in which variation is part of learning the tune from the start.Recorded at WOMEX in Finland in 2025, this conversation comes with plenty of violin demonstrations. Akram explains why a maqam is more than a scale, introduces the expressive possibilities between familiar notes, and shows how a phrase can take a different route each time ...
The Whole History of Music (More or Less)
September 12, 2026
How do you tell the entire history of music?If you're director and Cosmic Shambles co-founder Trent Burton, apparently you start with the Big Bang, interview more than 100 people around the world, and emerge four-and-a-half years later with a nine-part, 10.5-hour documentary.This week I'm joined by Trent to talk about For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music, the enormous new series presented by Charlotte Ritchie, which travels from the origins of sound and the earliest music through no...
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