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scott You mean Barry doesn't live there anymore?

Last night the BBC’s flagship arts programme Imagine had a special on Scott Walker. There was a lot of promise of “rare insights” and “first time that” but what we really got was a pretty short interview with the velvet tonselled man himself interspersed with a far greater amount of filler in...

Sounding Out Well if anyone else has a view on weekdays v weekends/evenings let me know.......

Sounding Out Well interesting you say that as this is kind of a pilot project and we where wondering if the day time thing woudl put people off, sounds like maybe we shoudl perhaps have gone for the evenings or maybe two weekends......?

Sounding Out Yes you are right the course looks at the mechanisms of the music industry rather than TG per se, but maybe Industrial Music for Industrial people will faeture in there somewhere as the ultimate expression of dystopian consumerism (or is that grime)?

This may be of interest. As part of their new Summer School Birkbeck College are offering an intensive one-week course entitled Sounding Out - Analysing Popular Music. The course aims to develop an understanding of the key theoretical approaches to the analysis of popular music. Locating...