Sound of the Underground
What does the underground sound like? Tom discovers a noisy vibrant place beneath our feet, from plates grinding and volcanoes erupting to composers using the earth as inspiration.
What does the underground sound like?
Beneath the earth lies a noisy vibrant place, from the explosive roar of a volcano erupting, the echoes of caverns down to the barely audible grinding of the earth's plates.
All this noise has long inspired composers and musicians - from Stravinsky and Wagner to Howard Shore and Tom Waits, we burrow into the earth itself to uncover the musical treats that lie under our feet. How do you translate the underground into music and does it bear any resemblance to what is actually happening down there?
Tom discovers what really lies beneath with the sound recordist Jez Riley French who reveals the hidden sounds from the earth itself turning to underground woodlice going about their daily business.
Plus music actually made in the deep places of the world - from Pauline Oliveros's Deep Listening Band to the songs of Welsh miners.
Hannah Thorne (producer)
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Anna Thorvaldsdottir
In the Light of Air "Existence"
Performer: International Contemporary Ensemble.- Sono Luminus.
- DSL 92192.
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John Luther Adams
Earth and the great weather for voices, ensemble and percussion
Performer: Amy Knoles. Performer: Robert Black. Performer: Robin Lorentz.- New World Records.
- 80459 2.
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Howard Shore
A knife in the dark - Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
Performer: London Oratory School Schola. Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: London Voices. Performer: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Howard Shore.- Reprise Records.
- 9362-48110-2.
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David Bowie
Underground Labyrinth OST
Performer: David Bowie.- EMI.
- CDP-7463122.
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Igor Stravinsky
The Rite of Spring
Performer: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.- DG.
- 4778775.
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Hlynur A. Vilmarsson
bd for orchestra
Conductor: Dan铆el Bjarnason. Performer: Icelandic S O.- SONO LUMINUS.
- DSL 92213.
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Tom Waits
Underground
Performer: Tom Waits.- island records.
- 842 469 - 2.
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Richard Wagner
Das Rheingold [Part 1 of 'Der Ring des Nibelungen']
Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.- HLD.
- 7549.
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J贸n Leifs
Hekla Op.52 for orchestra
Conductor: En Shao. Performer: Iceland S O.- BIS.
- CD1030.
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Harrison Birtwistle
Earth dances
Performer: Ensemble Modern. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- DG.
- 4770702.
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Hans Zimmer
The Dark Knight
Composer: James Newton Howard. Performer: Hans Zimmer.- Warner Sunset/Warner Bros.
- PROMO-PROMO.
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Jamiroquai
Deeper Underground
- Sony / Tri Star.
- 666218-2.
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叠箩枚谤办
Mutual Core
Performer: 叠箩枚谤办.- One Little India.
- not known.
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Girls Aloud
Sound of the Underground
- Fascination/Polydor.
- FASC-017.
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Koji Kondo
Super Mario Bros - Underworld Theme
Performer: Koji Kondo.- 8 bit era.
- B0010FYHC.
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Groove Armada
Superstylin'
- Jive.
- xxx-xxx.
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Pauline Oliveros
Lear
Performer: Panaiotis. Performer: Pauline Oliveros. Performer: Stuart Dempster.- New Albion.
- NA022CD.
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Barry Cockcroft
Ku Ku
Performer: Barry Cockcroft.- RM.
- 002.
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo
shosholoza
- heads up.
- hucd-3109.
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Daryl Hall
You make my dreams come true
Composer: John Oates. Composer: Sara Allen. Performer: Daryl Hall & John Oates.- WARNER.
- 000105FS.
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Mike Batt
The Wombling Song
Performer: The Wombles.- Columbia.
- 489562-2.
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Gustav Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde
Performer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.- LPO.
- 0073.
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Tom Waits
Underground
Performer: Tom Waits.- island records.
- 842 469 - 2.
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- Sun 19 May 2019 17:0091热爆 Radio 3
- Fri 24 May 2019 16:3091热爆 Radio 3
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