Sound Lounge

Dirty Three's Warren Ellis goes solo to create the soundtrack for this French production about teenage rebellion in Turkey. Ryan Smith picks some tracks that show off both Ellis's talents on the… Read more Audio

Portishead's Geoff Barrow and British composer Ben Salisbury collaborate on the score for Alex Garland's thought provoking psy-fi film Ex Machina. Ryan Smith explores some of the results - a fitting… Read more Video, Audio

Jonny Greenwood and Paul Thomas Anderson collaborate again on the new 70s-era beach noir stoner comedy, Inherent Vice. Ryan Smith selects some tracks including one performed by Greenwood's Radiohead… Read more Video, Audio

Victoria, directed by Sebastian Schipper, is a German romantic thriller about a Spanish girl looking for fun in Berlin who falls in with a group of dodgy youths. The mostly ambient soundtrack is by… Read more Video, Audio

Seymour: An Introduction is a documentary directed by Ethan Hawke about American pianist, composer, and teacher Seymour Bernstein. The score features a lot of music composed and performed by Seymour… Read more Video, Audio

808 is a documentary directed by Alexander Dunn, about the legendary 1980s drum machine, Roland TR-808. Its soundtrack features music by a huge array of artists and producers who have used the 808 in… Read more Video, Audio

The sonic explorations of From Scratch founder and intermedia artist Phil Dadson are explored in Simon Ogston and Orlando Stewart's documentary, Phil Dadson: Sonics From Scratch. Emma Smith talks to… Read more Audio

1969, the year of the Apollo moon landing, marked another change of scene for the Arkestra, moving from New York to Philadelphia. That year also marked a change of fortunes for Sun Ra, with his face… Read more Audio

Sun Ra moved the Arkestra from Chicago to New York in 1960 and quickly became an integral part of the radical, politically conscious, avant-garde arts scene of the Lower East Side. Part 3 of Strange… Read more Audio

In the mid 50s Sun Ra formed the Arkestra, the cosmic big band that would become his vehicle for musical exploration for the rest of his life. In contrast to the strip club bands he'd been working… Read more Audio

The next Michael Hill International Violin Competition commission programme features the work written for the 2011 competition. It's about the piece Gyftiko by John Psathas. Here he is to tell us… Read more Audio

Each Michael Hill International Violin Competition commissions a local composer to write a new piece. This programme features Gareth Farr and his piece Wakatipu, which he wrote for the 2009… Read more Audio