Janet Beat is a composer living in Scotland whose impressive career spans back to the late 1950’s. She is widely considered to be a pioneer of electronic music in Britain and in 2019, Janet was the first person to be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by Scottish Women Inventing Music, a collection of music creators and industry professionals pushing for gender equality in the music industry. Now at 83, her music has been officially released for the first time with her debut album “Pioneering Knob Twiddler”.
Dancing on Moonbeams
Lighthouses Waltz
Echoes from Bali
A Willow Swept by Rain
Piangam
Ear to the Ground keeps you in the loop with interviews and gig alerts from Scotland’s top-notch composers.
Hosted by Aileen Sweeney and Ben Eames.
Sound edited by Mia Eames.
Website Links:
https://www.eartothegroundscotland.com/
Timothy Cooper: Shadows That in Darkness Dwell
Henry McPherson: Improvising, Moss and his new opera ”Maud”
Neil Tomas Smith: Stop Motion Music
Gemma McGregor: Music and Tales from Orkney
Gareth Williams: Seduced into Singing
Fergus Hall: Hydrophones, Henderson and a Jellyfish Rave
Stuart MacRae: Ursa Minor
Rūta Vitkauskaitė: Konnakol, Canntaireach and Collaborative Composing
Rufus Isabel Elliot: Voices, Feelings and Unspoken Words
Matthew Whiteside: On Doing It Yourself
Ailie Robertson: Revealing Hidden Sound Worlds
Darlene Zarabozo: Exploring Connection and Disconnection through Electronic Music
Alastair White: Fashion Opera
Tectonics: A Conversation with Ilan Volkov, Tania León and Olivia Furey
Lisa Robertson: "Telling It Like It Is" with Music and Nature
Art-Making in the Anthropocene
Martin Suckling: Exploring 'This Departing Landscape'
Jay Capperauld: The BBC Proms and "The Five Bs"
Ben Lunn: From Brass Bands to Spectralism and Accessible Music Technology
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