An article about Composer Resource, featuring interviews with Philharmonia players, staff and short extracts of the composer's music was featured on Classic FM newsnight.
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© Bob Jones, reproduced here with thanks
To listen to the article click here
© Bob Jones, reproduced here with thanks
Our webcast reaches the Tate Gallery
Video first broadcast on The Sound Exchange in our Philharmonia Live concert webcast has now been exhibited as a work of art! The 40 artists 40 Days exhibition organised by Tate Online wanted to include the Philharmonia Orchestra in its line up of top UK artists supporting the London 2012 Olympic Bid.
Since the levels of skill and dedication required by top classical musicians is equivalent to that of the top athletes and gymnasts participating in the Olympics, we submitted video of Emanuel ax performing the 3rd movement of Beethoven's 5th piano concerto. To watch it is to see something every bit as remarkable as any Olympic performance and is the result of unimaginable hours of dedication.
The Guardian picked up on this and printed a short article on the topic under the headline, 'Beethoven backs The Bid' which you can read here.
Philharmonia Live praised in Gramophone Magazine
July's issue of The Gramophone, discussed in its 'Download' section the Philharmonia Live and Online Event, under the heading 'The Next Big Thing'. Describing the webcast, editor James Jolly said "As an event, as a technological advance and as an initiative by one of our great orchestras this is a highly laudable venture."
Stereophiles Like Our Downloads
The interest in Philharmonia Live, our live concert webcast on 23 April, extends far and wide and since we used one of the best recording engineers in the business, Tony Faulkner, even the readers of Stereophille have been finding out more about it: Read the article here...
Webcast - Excellent Reviews
Philharmonia Live, our live concert webcast on 23 April 2005 received excellent reviews in the Classical Source, who interestingly chose to review both the webcast experience and the concert separately.
The Sound Exchange in The Sunday Times
The Sound Exchange was featured this weekend in an article in The Sunday Times (17 April). The article ´Let´s log on and make music´ is part of their campaign for everyone to Get Digital in 2005.
The article features two members of our very own Sound Ideas project, Adam Nicholas and Dide Siemmond. Dide plays the Violin and her teacher at the Royal Academy of Music encouraged her to become part of Sound Ideas. She said herself ´Before, I was against using computers when composing - I thought that because it was much faster, it took something away from the music. I have learnt a lot though: that you can change sounds round so easily, edit them, distort them. Or you could find a sound like dropping stones and make that part of you music, something I´d never considered before´.
The article also looks at some other interactive music websites, which can help you whether you are studying, or making music for fun, and covers all the issues surrounding composing online today. Click on the link below to read the full article:
www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1571610,00.html
TSE on Classic FM
The Sound Exchange and the Philharmonia Live And Online Event are now being featured on Classic FM.
...[more]The Sound Exchange Newsletter No.1
Sent out on 24 February 2005, this first newsletter for The Sound Exchange welcomes those who have signed up, introduces the Composer Resource and Philharmonia Live & Online Event and quotes what people have said about the site so far....[more]