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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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Susanna Eastburn reflects on the Collection

"Where would you go to find an eclectic and fascinating collection of 20th and 21st Century British art?"

Hugh Davies - Shozyg 1 & 2 (1969)

Artist-researcher Tim Shaw on Hugh Davies

"Davies reveals the minute musical potential of all sorts of items including screwdrivers, egg slicers and scraps of metal..."

Solo Soprano - a portrait of Lol Coxhill (extract)

Film-maker Helen Petts on Lol Coxhill

"Lol's playing was totally unique. When Solo Soprano was showed in Cafe Oto project space, people walked in off the street saying 'I can hear Lol Coxhill'."

Sebastien Lavoie on Digitising the Collection

"The work I'm doing could be compared to monks copying manuscripts by hand. I feel I could be considered a monk of the 21st Century..."

Derriere Le Miroir

Sohrab Uduman

Sohrab Uduman began his musical life as a clarinettist before going on to study composition in Birmingham with Jonty Harrison and Vic Hoyland.

Getting the Most from Your Profile

We are starting to see the beginning of the transformation of the Collection into a world leading resource for new music discovery.

Have Your Say About the Collection

New Voices is a newly re-launched, annual composer support scheme that exists to raise the profile of the most talented and exciting new voices emerging in Britain today.

Solipsism Cinema

Shaun Blezard on Stephen Cornford

"The audio starts with the romantic sound of film going through projectors, the rhythm familiar to those of us that remember pre digital..."

Intern Tihomir Ranogajec on Jacob Thompson-Bell

by previous Sound and Music Intern and composer, Tihomir Ranogajec