Tom Service presents more of the best in new music, including a world premiere by Conor Mitchell from the New Music Biennial weekend in London, orchestral music inspired by the Apollo moon landings, a work for bin bags, fans and air compressors from Glasgow Counterflows Festival, and in Sound Of The Week, composer and sound artist Aine O'Dwyer talks about musical interruptions. See all episodes from New Music Show. Like I Was A Spectator. Music for Church Cleaners. Speak, Be Silent 1st movement.

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The New Music Show
The final episode of season one of The Sound airs this Sunday, with a big and broad line-up set to take out the first series in style. The Sound is on at pm this Sunday, or you can catch up on iview afterwards. The show features a stack of fresh performances from Australian artists, hosted by Jane Gazzo and featuring our very own Zan Rowe as Music News correspondent. It's shaping up to be a huge debut, with a line-up of talent to cater for all sorts of contemporary music fans. Rounding out the line-up is emerging artist Jerome Farah , who will perform his powerful debut single 'I Can't Breathe'. There will also be a guest host joining Gazzo each week.
Created by John Martin , and intended to combine the spirit of magazines like Rolling Stone and New Musical Express with the format of a television newsmagazine , The NewMusic presented current popular music in a broad social , political and economic context. It won an Iris Award in Following its cancellation, the brand has been resurrected as a blog that features news items, concert reviews and exclusive pictures. There have been many songs used for the theme during the opening credits, each reflecting the music of the time. The original music was the opening bars of "Overture" from Rush 's , whereas the most recent theme song was an interpolation of Pigbag 's " Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag ", which was also used as the show's theme during the early s.