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With Mira Calix

Mary Anne Hobbs is joined by artist and composer Mira Calix, for a 3 Minute Epiphany about the relationship between sound and colour.

Mary Anne Hobbs is joined by Mira Calix for a 3 Minute Epiphany about sound and colour.

The artist and composer talks to us about the perceptual phenomenon of Synaesthesia, the ability to see colour when you hear sounds, and how it has shaped the music she writes.

Mira Calix' most recent piece, The Aleph Project, combines film, music and colour, and questions whether colour changes depending on its context.

The project premiered at the Splice Festival in London and at the Turner Contemporary in Margate in 2017.

Expect to hear tunes from other artists who experience Synaesthesia, including Kanye West, Mary J. Blige and Gruff Rhys.

3 hours

Last on

Sun 21 Jan 2018 07:00

Music Played

  • The Kinks

    Set Me Free

    • Polygram TV.
  • First Aid Kit

    Fireworks

    • Columbia.
  • James Blake

    A Case Of You

  • GoGo Pengiun

    Bardo

    • Universal.
  • Nick Drake

    Pink Moon

    • Island.
  • Basement Revolver

    Bread & Wine

    • Fear Of Missing Out Records.
  • The Sugarcubes

    Birthday

    • Mute Records.
  • Rilo Kiley

    It's A Hit

    • Brute/Beaute Records.
  • John Grant

    GMF (feat. Sin茅ad O鈥機onnor)

    • Bella Union.
  • tUnE-yArDs

    Look At Your Hands

    • 4AD.
  • Boards of Canada

    In A Beautiful Place Out in the Country

    • In A Beautiful Place in the Country.
    • Warp.
  • Bob Dylan

    Tangled Up In Blue

    • Columbia.
  • Hercules & Love Affair

    My Curse And Cure (feat. Gustaph)

    • mr.intl / Sony BMG.
  • Brass Construction

    Movin'

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • Disky.
  • Manic Street Preachers

    International Blue

    • Columbia.
  • Ye

    Black Skinhead

    • MERCURY.
  • Django Django

    In Your Beat

    • Because Music.
  • Dusty Springfield

    All Cried Out

  • Khruangbin

    Friday Morning

    • Night Time Tales.
  • Gruff On Sound And Colour

    • Super Furry Animals

      Northern Lites

      • Creation Records.
  • Talk Talk

    Talk Talk

    • Parlophone.
  • shame

    One Rizla

    • Dead Oceans.
  • Massive Attack & Hope Sandoval

    Paradise Circus

    • VIRGIN.
  • Sunriser

    • Daniel Avery

      Slow Fade

  • Four Tops

    Reach Out I'll Be There

    • Motown.
  • Warm Digits

    Growth Of Raindrops (feat. Sarah Cracknell)

    • Memphis Industries.
  • Young Fathers

    Rain Or Shine

    • Big Dada.
  • Mogwai

    Old Poisons

    • Rock Action Records.
  • Mira Calix: Synaesthesia

    • Mira Calix

      Eavesdrop Hobbs Clickpop: Sound Art

    • Prince

      I Feel For You

      • Warner Bros.
  • Mr Jukes

    From Golden Stars Comes Silver Dew (feat. Barney Artist & Lalah Hathaway)

    • Island Records.
  • Rachel Evans: Young Poet Laurent

    • Saul Williams

      The Noise Came From Here

      • CAROLINE.
  • A Tribe Called Quest

    Award Tour

    • Universal Music TV.
  • King Krule

    Biscuit Town

    • XL Recordings.
  • The Selecter

    Three Minute Hero

    • One Step Beyond.
    • Virgin.
    • 13.
  • L.A. Salami

    Generation L(ost)

    • Sunday Best Recordings.
  • Washed Out

    Burn Out Blues (6 Music Session, 7th Dec 2017)

  • D'angelo

    Brown Sugar

    • EMI.
  • Doc Scott

    VIP Drums

    • Metalheadz.

Broadcast

  • Sun 21 Jan 2018 07:00