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Nathaniel Budzinski26AprApril262017

Learning to Listen: Tom White

Over the past year we worked with a group of students and staff at the world-renowned Royal College of Art in London to develop a series of sonic design experiments, pushing the envelope of sound design and communication.

Nathaniel Budzinski26AprApril262017

Learning to Listen: Tom White

Nathaniel Budzinski26AprApril262017

Learning to Listen: David Blamey

Over the past year we worked with a group of students and staff at the world-renowned Royal College of Art in London to develop a series of sonic design experiments, pushing the envelope of sound design and communication.

Nathaniel Budzinski26AprApril262017

Learning to Listen: David Blamey

Nathaniel Budzinski 7MarMarch 72017

Sound Matters: Borealis mix

Listen to a Borealis festival mix, featuring a selection of work by artists involved in the 2017 edition in Bergen, Norway.

Nathaniel Budzinski 7MarMarch 72017

Sound Matters: Borealis mix

Nathaniel Budzinski16FebFebruary162017

Design Matters: Pan label

Meet the artist, musician, designer, record label runner and all around cultural synaesthete, Bill Kouligas.

Nathaniel Budzinski16FebFebruary162017

Design Matters: Pan label

Nathaniel Budzinski10JanJanuary102017

In the details, People, Music

Composing Craft Matters

Meet the composers behind the soundtracks to our Craft Matters video series

Nathaniel Budzinski10JanJanuary102017

In the details, People, Music

Composing Craft Matters

Nathaniel Budzinski 5JanJanuary 52017

Meet Mont Jake

Meet Mont Jake, the musician behind our brand new Beoplay M5 speaker campaign.

Nathaniel Budzinski 5JanJanuary 52017

Meet Mont Jake

Nathaniel Budzinski18NovNovember182016

Code Cut Crew

WHERE'D THE RUCKUS GO?! Transcendental sound and vision through the glitch

Nathaniel Budzinski18NovNovember182016

Code Cut Crew

Nathaniel Budzinski26OctOctober262016

The Dream Returns: Ron McNair

Find out how the legacy of astronaut, scientist and musician Ron McNair has inspired a new series of parties, supported by B&O PLAY.

Nathaniel Budzinski26OctOctober262016

The Dream Returns: Ron McNair

Nathaniel Budzinski28SepSeptember282016

Enter The Hive

We visit London's Kew Gardens and meet the artist Wolfgang Buttress who guides us through his sculptural installation, The Hive.

Nathaniel Budzinski28SepSeptember282016

Nathaniel Budzinski26AugAugust262016

Music, In the details

Music Moves: Recovery and recuperation

The last in our series of posts celebrating the Olympic games in Rio and the dynamic relationship between music and sport

Nathaniel Budzinski26AugAugust262016

Music, In the details

Music Moves: Recovery and recuperation

Nathaniel Budzinski19AugAugust192016

Music Moves: Pushing Through the Wall

Part three in a series of posts celebrating the Rio Olympics and the rich relationship between music and athletics

Nathaniel Budzinski19AugAugust192016

Music Moves: Pushing Through the Wall

Nathaniel Budzinski12AugAugust122016

Music Moves: In The Olympic Flow

Part two in a series of posts celebrating the Rio Olympics 2016 and the rich relationship between music and athletics

Nathaniel Budzinski12AugAugust122016

Nathaniel Budzinski 5AugAugust 52016

Music Moves: Olympic Warmup

Part one in a series of posts celebrating the start of the Rio Olympics 2016 and the relationship between music, athletics, and getting in the zone

Nathaniel Budzinski 5AugAugust 52016

Music Moves: Olympic Warmup

Nathaniel Budzinski18JulJuly182016

Chris Watson: The Power of Sound

From making experimental industrial music to recording sounds for David Attenborough's BBC wildlife television programmes, and World of Warcraft game, one thing unifies the career of influential British sound artist and field recordist Chris Watson: the power of sound.

Nathaniel Budzinski18JulJuly182016

Nathaniel Budzinski 1JunJune 12016

Mix: Jazz New Lands

Sit back, close your eyes and tune in your ears – join us on a journey to musical freedom via the new lands imagined up by jazz in the 1960s. Our guide: Derek Walmsley, Editor of The Wire music magazine.

Nathaniel Budzinski 1JunJune 12016

Mix: Jazz New Lands

Nathaniel Budzinski18MayMay182016

Inside the track with Plan8

So many people asked about the song we commissioned for our A1 portable Bluetooth speaker launch video that we had to hop on the next plane to Stockholm and chat with Plan8, the composers behind the track.

Nathaniel Budzinski18MayMay182016

Inside the track with Plan8

Nathaniel Budzinski13AprApril132016

Nico Yaryan

Putting music first in the the age of Insta-fame, the influence of J Dilla and early hip hop, and being thankful for hippie parents: we caught up with singer-songwriter Nico Yaryan as he hit the road on his way to a Noon Pacific recording session in Sonoma, California.

Nathaniel Budzinski13AprApril132016

Nico Yaryan

Nathaniel Budzinski 8AprApril 82016

Mix: Hybrid Soundtracks

"A journey into a night that will lead you to the first rays of the morning light." Listen to a mix put together by film festival programmer, writer and music lover, Francesco Giai Via

Nathaniel Budzinski 8AprApril 82016

Mix: Hybrid Soundtracks

Nathaniel Budzinski23FebFebruary232016

Music, In the details

Soviet Light Music

Find out how back at the start of the 1900s, the first real innovators of synthesised musical instruments were Soviet Russians, working towards a musical revolution.

Nathaniel Budzinski23FebFebruary232016

Music, In the details

Soviet Light Music

Nathaniel Budzinski12FebFebruary122016

First Edition Stockholm

Listen to a mix of work by artists who will be featured in the First Edition music festival in Stockholm, by John Chantler

Nathaniel Budzinski12FebFebruary122016

First Edition Stockholm

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