Curated Video
Moonlight (Clair de Lune)
This visualization attempts to capture the mood of Claude Debussy's best-known composition, Clair de Lune (moonlight in French). The piece was published in 1905 as the third of four movements in the composer's Suite Bergamasque, and...
Curated Video
How sign language innovators are bringing music to the deaf
Visualizing rhythms and rhymes through American Sign Language. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Amber Galloway Gallego is one of a growing number of ASL interpreters that specializes in the performing arts, specifically...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: What makes a poem a poem? - Melissa Kovacs
What exactly makes a poem - a poem? Poets themselves have struggled with this question, often using metaphors to approximate a definition. Is a poem a little machine? A firework? An echo? A dream? Melissa Kovacs shares three recognizable...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The secrets of Mozart's "Magic Flute" - Joshua Borths
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Die Zauberflote" ("The Magic Flute") is widely regarded as one of the most influential operas in history. And while it may seem like a childish fairytale at first glance, it's actually full of subversive...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why should you read "Hamlet"? - Iseult Gillespie
Explore William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, “Hamlet,” a play about conspiracy, deception and the tragic consequences of indecision. -- “Who’s there?” Whispered in the dark, this question begins a tale of conspiracy, deception and...
TED Talks
TED: How NASA invented a ventilator for COVID-19 ... in 37 days | Dan Goods
Get the behind-the-scenes story from visual strategist Dan Goods about how a single question launched NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab into action at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, propelling an unprecedented pivot from space-exploring...
Southbank Centre
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem | DOCUMENTARY - students' journey
To commemorate 100 years since World War One in Nov 2014, Southbank Centre staged a special performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem featuring hundreds of young performers. UNCOVERING CLASSICS: Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. More...
Southbank Centre
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem | WAR - the ethics of conflict and artistic responses to war
To commemorate 100 years since World War One in Nov 2014, Southbank Centre staged a special performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem featuring hundreds of young performers. UNCOVERING CLASSICS: Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. More...
Southbank Centre
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem | WORDS - the Latin requiem mass, Wilfred Owen's poetry
To commemorate 100 years since World War One in Nov 2014, Southbank Centre staged a special performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem featuring hundreds of young performers. UNCOVERING CLASSICS: Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. More...
Southbank Centre
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem | Watch full concert in HD, conducted by Marin Alsop
To commemorate 100 years since World War One in Nov 2014, Southbank Centre staged a special performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem featuring hundreds of young performers. UNCOVERING CLASSICS: Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. More...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Charles Bernstein - 'I's Song'
Charles Bernstein taught poetry and poetics, with an emphasis on modernist and contemporary art, aesthetics, and performance. He retired from Penn on June 30, 2019. Bernstein has published five collections of essays — Pitch of Poetry...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Charles Bernstein - 'Steve Dalachinsky'
Charles Bernstein taught poetry and poetics, with an emphasis on modernist and contemporary art, aesthetics, and performance. He retired from Penn on June 30, 2019. Bernstein has published five collections of essays — Pitch of Poetry...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Charles Bernstein - Teachers Make a Difference Stanley Cavell
Charles Bernstein taught poetry and poetics, with an emphasis on modernist and contemporary art, aesthetics, and performance. He retired from Penn on June 30, 2019. Bernstein has published five collections of essays — Pitch of Poetry...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Charles Bernstein - 'Devils Dictionary'
Charles Bernstein taught poetry and poetics, with an emphasis on modernist and contemporary art, aesthetics, and performance. He retired from Penn on June 30, 2019. Bernstein has published five collections of essays — Pitch of Poetry...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Charles Bernstein - PennSound - The Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
Charles Bernstein taught poetry and poetics, with an emphasis on modernist and contemporary art, aesthetics, and performance. He retired from Penn on June 30, 2019. Bernstein has published five collections of essays — Pitch of Poetry...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Sessions #3: Carleen Anderson
In this month's Barbican Session, Mercury-nominated Soul singer Carleen Anderson performs her song 'Before Me' from her latest album 'Cage Street Memorial'. Each month, we invite artists to perform a live session in our spaces, from our...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Meets: Eddie Peake
This video contains brief moments of nudity. For his new commission in The Curve, London-based artist Eddie Peake combines live performance with sculpture, video, installation and painting to create an energetic gallery experience. The...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Sessions #1: Black Top
Each month, we invite artists to perform a live session in our spaces, from our Conservatory to our highwalks and beyond. In the first of our Barbican Sessions, Black Top, the duo of multi-instrumentalist Orphy Robinson and pianist Pat...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Sessions #2: felicita
In this Barbican Session, London-based electronic musician felicita performs Track 6 from the 2016 'a new family' EP in our Conservatory. Each month, we invite artists to perform a live session in our spaces, from our Conservatory to our...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Sessions #5: Christoph Sietzen
For our latest Barbican Session, percussionist Christoph Sietzen performs in an empty Cinema 1. Each month, we invite artists to perform a live session in our spaces, from our Conservatory to our highwalks and beyond :...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Sessions #6: Microdisney
For our latest Barbican Session, Irish rock band Microdisney perform their song 'Dolly' in the Barbican Exhibition Halls. Each month, we invite artists to perform a live session in our spaces, from our Conservatory to our highwalks and...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Sessions #7: Laura Cannell
For our latest Barbican Session, experimental musician Laura Cannell performs in our Car Park 5. Each month, we invite artists to perform a live session in our spaces, from our Conservatory to our highwalks and beyond :...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Sessions #8: Keaton Henson
For our latest Barbican Session, English folk rock musician Keaton Henson performs an Impromptu on a theme from Six Lethargies in our Library. Each month, we invite artists to perform a live session in our spaces, from our Conservatory...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Sessions #10: Satu Vänskä
In an empty Theatre, Satu Vänskä, Principal Violinist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, performs JS Bach's ‘Allemande’ from Partita II in D minor. Each month, we invite artists to perform a live session in our spaces, from our...