Sonic Meditations #4: Concrete music

The Multi-Story Orchestra have been taking performances of classical music to car parks in London, Birmingham and Ipswich. At the end of the season, Emma Warren finds out what happens… Read more

Posted on: Friday, 13 Oct 2017
Categories: Events, Listen and you'll see

Faber Social present: Eimear McBride on Sonics or Sort-of

Faber Social is the unerringly cool arm of London’s Faber & Faber publishing house. Over the coming months we will be featuring exclusive essays, extracts and articles from some of… Read more

Posted on: Friday, 16 Jun 2017
Categories: Music, Faber Social, Listen and you'll see, What are you listening to
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Sonic Meditations #2: Professional ears

Broadcaster and journalist Emma Warren’s monthly column on listening investigates the subtle art of mastering with Jason Goz at south London’s Transition Studios Jason Goz is sat in front of… Read more

Posted on: Thursday, 8 Jun 2017
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Faber Social present Cosey Fanni Tutti on the role of music in the writing of Art Sex Music

Pioneering industrial musician and performance artist, Cosey Fanni Tutti discusses the complications of writing about music, in silence, in her recently published memoir Art Sex Music, one of the great,… Read more

Posted on: Thursday, 4 May 2017
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Sonic Meditations #1 Pauline Oliveros

Broadcaster and journalist Emma Warren’s new monthly column on listening starts at the source, with the queen of deep listening Pauline Oliveros Most of us hear, in the sense that… Read more

Posted on: Thursday, 27 Apr 2017
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The making of Dragonz, by The Apples.

The Apples new album Dragonz is the Society of Sound release for March. Though containing disparate influences, guests and production methods, Dragonz is undeniably The Apples and is possibly their… Read more

Posted on: Wednesday, 29 Mar 2017
Categories: Music, Discussing sound quality, Listen and you'll see, New music
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Wolfgang Tillmans’ Colourbox compilation available
from Society of Sound

At the centre of Wolfgang Tillmans’ extraordinary retrospective, currently showing at The Tate Modern, is the Playback Room, featuring a pair of 800 D3 speakers showcasing experimental British 80’s band,… Read more

Posted on: Friday, 24 Mar 2017
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Faber Social present: David Keenan on music and memory

Faber Social is the unerringly cool arm of London’s Faber & Faber publishing house. Over the coming months we will be featuring exclusive essays, extracts and articles from some of… Read more

Posted on: Thursday, 9 Mar 2017
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Adrift – making cosmic music

Adrift is an engaging marriage of art and science that takes place online, in exhibitions, in the space around the Earth and in this evocative video. The merging of art… Read more

Posted on: Friday, 24 Feb 2017
Categories: Music, Events, Events and shows, Hi-fi speakers, Listen and you'll see, Sound recording
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