Rosie Murphy: A Journey Of The Harp's History Through Contemporary Sounds: Irish History to Arab Maqam
In this episode of Curious Ears, Irish harpist, composer and improviser Rosie Murphy takes the listener on a journey through the harp's hist...
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The way we listen to music is highly determined by our predominant musical exposure during our youth. Tuning system, rhythm, form, timbre, ornaments, are all unconsciously assimilated, shapi...
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19 episodes
Fayçal Lahrouchi: Hmadcha: a living Sufi tradition of musical healing
This episode of Curious Ears takes the form of a captivating exploration of a Sufi tradition of music healing, in Tangier, Morocco. The trad...
Laura Farré Rozada: Music & Mathematics
In this episode, pianist and mathematician Dr Laura Farré Rozada shares her experience within the field of music and mathematics, and introd...
Hardi Kurda: Sonic Displacement
Hardi Kurda is a composer, improviser, sound artist from Kurdistan who researches the concept of 'urgent listening': becoming aware of sound...
Igor C Silva: Collaboration: a trigger for new music
Composer Igor C Silva, born in Porto and currently living in Amsterdam, made a new addition to our podcast series Curious Ears, in which he...
Rafaele Andrade: Brazillian music and its technologies for socio-ambiental impact
Brazilian composer, musician, designer, and artist Rafaele Andrade presents a collection and reflection of Brazilian music, its technologies...
Emine Bostancı + Ardashes Agoshian: Kemenche of Istanbul, Cretan Lyra and Contemporary Music
Emine Bostancı and Ardashes Agoshian talk about contemporary music and traditional instruments: Kemenche of Istanbul and Cretan Lyra with sy...
Julian Tjon Sack Kie: Kora Music - An insight into the West African Mandinka music tradition
Julian Tjon Sack Kie is a composer, DJ and electronic music producer, operating under his own name and his alias Julian Alexander. In his po...
Kim Spierenburg: As Waters Rise
Kim Spierenburg is a violinist and composer who works with live electronics and animation. In her podcast that she made for Gaudeamus, she t...
Dirge Secil Kuran: Listen Through My Ears As A Performer
Dirge Secil Kuran is a Turkish percussionist/composer/singer/performer with a broad experience in classical, contemporary music and music th...
Micaela Tobin: The Curious Voice
LA-based soprano and sound artist Micaela Tobin composes and performs experimental operas and electronic noise music. In her podcast The Cur...
Belarusian Suit: Sounding Souls of Belarus Pt. 2
Aliona Yurtsevich is an artist, composer and director born in Belarus. For our podcast series Curious Ears, she went back to her roots to pa...
Belarusian Suit: Sounding Souls of Belarus Pt. 1
Aliona Yurtsevich is an artist, composer and director born in Belarus. For our podcast series Curious Ears, she went back to her roots to pa...
Taqsim journey: appreciating temporal aspects in ‘Ud improvisation
Nizar Rohana is a Palestinian ud player and composer based in The Netherlands, distinguished for combining virtuosity within fresh contempor...
Maduswara: synergy of body and soul through music
Peni Candra Rini is a multitalented composer, poet and vocalist. Her career began as a pesinden, a female singer in the Javanese gamelan mus...
Hidden Pulse: Hearing Unplayed Grooves
Dutch pioneering guitarist and composer Aart Strootman kicks off the newest series of Curious Ears in which he explores rhythmic patterns an...
Cumbia: listen to the rhythm from a Colombian river that enchants the American continent and beyond
Eliana Echeverry, Colombian composer and folk music arranger, tells us why the cumbia moves the souls and bodies of the whole American conti...
A miraculous outburst of creativity: Chinese composers meet Nieuw Ensemble
Joël Bons, composer and charismatic artistic leader of Nieuw Ensemble, takes us through his own ears in a listening journey to China at the...
The magic of ornamentation: Appreciating and understanding Arabic Music
Nai Barghouti, performer and creator, shares her passion for musical ornaments from an Arabic perspective, in connection with contemporary p...