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New Voices 2018

New Voices is an annual composer support scheme raising the profile of some of the most talented and exciting new voices in the UK today.

#BMC50 Things

Introducing a new series of articles mapping the last fifty years of new music in the UK

British Music Collection: 50 Things

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Composers or sound artists based in or born in the UK are invited to join the British Music Collection. Scroll down to find out more...

Photo: Na'ama Zisser, London-based composer featured in the British Music Collection.

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Lawrence Dunn Working with Sounding Motion

Lawrence Dunn on Portfolio with Sounding Motion

Robert Percy on Paul Burnell’s Kiss

"I knew I’d found something that definitely wasn’t what I wasn’t looking for..."

Visiting Hugh Davies

Composer Built Instruments and the British Music Collection

An holistic approach to music making curated by Bill Vine

New Voices

Deborah Pritchard's Pre-Lichfield Premiere Q&A

Deborah Pritchard on Embedded with Lichfield Festival

Image of Ben Gaunt writing on manuscript paper

Composers Who Do Things I Don't/Won't/Can't Do

"I don’t want to write about myself. That’s boring..."

Spotlights: How I Compose

Lee Westwood – The ‘How I Compose’ Series – The Secret Art(s) of Composition

"In developing my own practices, and through a general interest in the lives and work of those whose music I most admire, I have frequently found myself transported by the details of another composer's writing habits"

New Voices

Leslie Deere on Sonic Art, Interactivity and Technology

Leslie Deere on Embedded with Music Hackspace

Jonathan Harvey - Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1980)

Composer Ben Lunn: The Brilliance of Jonathan Harvey

"The sheer fact Jonathan Harvey was the first British composer to really tackle Spectralism is enough reason for him to be celebrated for millennia..."

New Voices

Aleks Kolkowski - Reviving Sound, Reliving History

Aleks Kolkowski on Embedded with the British Library Sound Archive

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Jonathan Harvey - Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1980)

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