Music Weekly podcast: to infinity and beyond with Adam Harper

This week Alexis is joined by Dan Hancox and Ben Beaumont-Thomas for a heady mix of dance, throat singing … and even something called "granular synthesis". If music has such infinite variation and possibility, why do we spend so much time looking to the past and indulging in retromania? It's one question on the mind of musicologist Adam Harper, whose book Infinite Music claims to be "a new system for imagining music, built on the infnite possibilities of 21st century technology". Ben Beaumont-...

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