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Pioneering Sound

Experience more pioneering sound with 成人论坛 Radio 3 - the most significant commissioner of new and contemporary music in the country, broadcasting more live classical music than any other station, breaking technological boundaries in sound and supporting new composers, performers and artists across the UK.

Cut & Splice 2017: Katherine Young鈥檚 bow breath crow

Katherine Young鈥檚 bow breath crow, recorded at 成人论坛 Radio 3鈥檚 Cut & Splice festival.
Cut & Splice 2017: Elsa Justel鈥檚 GWERZ in binaural sound

Elsa Justel鈥檚 GWERZ, recorded at 成人论坛 Radio 3鈥檚 Cut & Splice festival in Manchester.
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (in binaural sound)

Listen on headphones to Mark Elder conducting The Dream of Gerontius in binaural sound.
The headphones that tune into the secret music of our devices — Hear and Now, Cut and Splice 2017

Take advantage of a rare opportunity to hear the electromagnetic fields that surround us.
Soweto Kinch: Jazz Planet — Jazz Now

Imagine if everything was turned upside down and jazz ruled the world.
Between Ballard's Ears — Between the Ears

Enter JG Ballard's innerspace with two new binaural dramatisations of his short fiction.

Release date:
22 Oct 2016
Matthew Herbert: Requiem — Between the Ears

Beethoven鈥檚 last string quartet pushed to breaking point.
Salford — Exposure

Verity Sharp hosts a gig from Salford with Ian Vine, Almost Credible Music and Chaines.

Release date:
27 Oct 2016
Composer in 3: Collide

Listen to the first of Matthew Kaner鈥檚 weekly commissions marking 70 years of Radio 3.
Alice Oswald: Rain — The Verb

Immerse yourself in the falling rain with Alice Oswald鈥檚 new poem.
Colour and music — The Listening Service

Tom Service explores the link between music and colour. Can music be colourful?

Release date:
16 Oct 2016
What if jazz ruled the world? — Jazz Now

Emma Smith explores the influences and environments that inspire Soweto Kinch鈥檚 Jazz.
What would Beethoven have thought of this? — Between the Ears

Tom Service explores Matthew Herbert鈥檚 deconstruction of Beethoven鈥檚 final finished work.
What extraordinary things can poetry do? — The Verb

Ian McMillan explores Alice Oswald鈥檚 new, immersive poem, Rain.
Video: Cut and Splice Festival 2015 — Hear and Now, Cut and Splice Festival 2015, Episode 1

成人论坛 Radio 3's ground-breaking festival of experimental sound Cut & Splice returns
Jump Blue — Between the Ears

A recreation of the final descent of the great Russian freediver, Natalia Molchanova.

Release date:
15 Oct 2016
Sound Frontiers: The Philharmonia performs Stravinsky — Radio 3 in Concert

The Philharmonia and Esa-Pekka Salonen in Stravinsky's Oedipus rex and Symphony of Psalms.

Release date:
29 Sep 2016
Oliver Knussen (1952-) — Composer of the Week

Composer Oliver Knussen joins Donald Macleod to discuss his life and career
You won't believe how like a train this harmonica sounds

Joe Filisko on harmonica and Kim Addonizio reading her poem about Joe
Rachel Musson plays sax with a nightingale

In the woods near Lewes saxophonist Rachel Musson improvised beside a singing nightingale
Sound Frontiers: Tom McKinney — Hear and Now

Live music from Bastard Assignments and 1960s landmark recordings from Radio 3's archive.

Release date:
24 Sep 2016
Modern Muses 16: Steve Reich and Russell Hartenberger

Steve Reich and Russell Hartenberger discuss Reich鈥檚 masterpiece 'Drumming'
David Toop on intimacy and the art of the mixtape

David Toop talks to Max Reinhardt about intimacy and the art of the mixtape
Three Score and Ten

Ian McMillan presents archive recordings of remarkable poets reading their own work

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