Nothing Concrete

Bringing our series of inspiring conversations to a close - Dickie Beau speaks to his friend and mentor, Fiona Shaw, for a poetic and even philosophical conversation about creation, perfection, intricacies of language and capturing your audience. 

London-based cross-disciplinary creative, Jamie Hale talks to award-winning comedian, Hannah Gadsby in our new podcast series where artists invite someone who has inspired or impacted their creative lives to share the stories behind their connection.

Boy Blue's Michael Asante talks to Oscar-winning director, Danny Boyle in the first of our new podcast series where artists invite someone who has inspired or impacted their creative lives to share the stories behind their connection.

In this episode from May 2017, Ben Eshmade speaks to DJ, producer and musician Sasha about 're-Fracted', his live debut performance at the Barbican over two sold out nights.

Another visit to the archive – in this episode, we time travel to February 2017 to listen to a series of interviews with the team of collaborators who brought the three-dimensional Japanese vocaloid singer, Hatsune Miku, to the Barbican Hall. 

In this episode we step back to 2016 when John Adams celebrated his 70th Birthday. We spoke to the composer and conductor about the music, sounds and even dreams that have defined his life.

This week we're travelling back in our audio archives to May 2018 to Sounds and Visions, a series of 18 concerts and film screenings curated by composer Max Richter and artist Yulia Mahr.

This week's podcast explores the legacy of Leonard Bernstein, one of the most important conductors from 1958-1969, bringing the orchestra to the television screens of America and beyond.

 

This week we're delving into our archive looking back to October 2017, and 'Different Trains 1947'. This was a fascinating project which featured composer Jack Barnett from These New Puritans and producer Sandunes amongst other key performers and filmmakers.

In an archive interview, Ben Eshmade talks to Robert Henke about his audiovisual project Lumiere with interviews from July 2014 and February 2017.

In an archive interview from March 2016, Ben Eshmade speaks to composer George Benjamin and counter tenor Iestyn Davies, just before the premiere of the then new work, Dream of the Song. 

From our classical music archive - an interview with Riccardo Chailly, former principal conductor of Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, from October 2011, talking about his approach to performing the odyssey of the Beethoven symphony cycle at the Barbican.