Our guest this month is composer extraordinaire Roxanna Panufnik, one of Britain’s best loved composers. She studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music and, since then, has written a wide range of pieces – opera, ballet, music theatre, choral works, orchestral and chamber compositions, and music for film and television – which have been performed all over the world. She is renowned for her choral and multi-faith works (such as Love Abide; or Dance of Life: Tallinn Mass for the Tallinn Philharmonic) and for her love of music from around the world.

She has had work commissioned for Garsington opera (Silver Birch, 2017), the Proms (Three Paths to Piece, an overture for the World Orchestra for Peace, premiered in Jerusalem and at the Proms), the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the National Radio Symphony Orchestra of Poland (Faithful Journey – a Mass for Poland), the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and many more. Her Four World Seasons, for violinist Tasmin Little, launched the BBC’s Music Nation weekend, celebrating the Olympics.

Her work is also full of humour, and she has brilliantly put to music the words of poets and authors such as Wendy Cope and Vikram Seth (Beastly Tales – The Crocodile and the Monkey, The Hare and the Tortoise).

May 2021 saw the release of her new album with the Sacconi Quartet, Heartfelt, a striking compendium of touching pieces, such as the letters of a First World War soldier, folk songs (slightly macabre, pickled toes and all) and poems, and the heartbeat of Bristol Zoo’s European brown bear Albie set to music.

We urge you to watch this short film about the making of Heartfelt, which reveals how to take a bear’s heartbeat, put it to music – and see the bear himself enjoying the result!

Roxanna is now working on her next opera, Dalia, with a libretto by Jessica Duchen for the Garsington 2022 season, and Ever Us, for the Rundfunk Chor Berlin, will be performed at the Berlin Philarmonie 2022.

On this podcast, Roxana talks about The Music Programme by Paul Micou, The Lightless Sky – My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee by Gulwali Passarlay with Nadene Ghouri and Dancing Bears – True Stories about Longing for the Old Days by Witold Szabłowski, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.

She also mentions the Qu’ran, the Bible and the Torah.

You can also find all those titles in Roxanna’s list on our Bookshop.org page: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/onreading

Roxanna Panufnik

Here's another freebie for you - this was originally on Pirate Breaks in 2005 - still sounds pretty chunky....    Help yourself me hearties!

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SOUL OF MAN - DANCIN'

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Released at Xenium 2022 Demo party
Composed & Produced by Wojciech Panufnik

The Construction

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Released at Xenium 2022 Demo party (Futuris demo - "ID Gene")
Composed & Produced by Wojciech Panufnik

Reconnected

analog4 performed live electro/chillout track

a4_elekchill

Discord

Marek Bilinski - Ucieczka z Tropiku - Wojciech Panufnik (xceed) remix

A festival fave and Pirate Breaks limited vinyl release only, Soul of Man's classic Music's Getting Stronger is yours to download for free!  Still as fresh and funky as it ever was!

And if that's your tipple join Justin Rushmore and Jay Chapel for their new night in Brighton starting Saturday April 21st: Eclectic Discotech is exactly that! 

At the gorgeous Proud Ballrooms (formerly Hanbury) aimed at the more discerning old school raver with a supper club Roller Girl Burlesque show and an outstanding disco for dessert – sweet!  See www.facebook.com/events/302442006471385/ for more details

SOUL OF MAN - MUSIC'S GETTIN' STRONGER - free download!

Lazy electronic piece with orchestral strings theme, I created some time ago.

Icescape

Epic Hybrid Music - Wojciech Panufnik, composer demo 
Excerpts from selected projects (game & film trailer music)

Epic Hybrid Music (composer demo)

Wojciech Panufnik, music composer, sound designer. 

Music composed for various projects like games, commercials, animations and stock music tracks for production music libraries.

My electronic music is available on this page: 
http://www.soundcloud.com/x-ceed

This is where it all began!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ_ienyGhJ4
The legendary Soul of Man are Justin Rushmore and Jem Panufnik, co-founders of one of the most prolific and infamous indie electronica labels of the turn of the century, Finger Lickin' Records (with Plump DJs, Krafty Kuts & A-Skillz, Slyde and Drumattic Twins amongst it's signees).  The dynamic duo have recorded over 50 releases, sold well in excess of 100,000 records and remixed artists including Dub Pistols, Fluke, Dreadzone, Doug Lazy & James Taylor Quartet whilst mixing acclaimed compilations for React; Distinct'ive’s Y4K series and all six Finger Lickin' Thang compilations.

Here for the first time on Soundcloud a few of the golden oldies that put Soul of Man firmly on the map since the mid-nineties.  Enjoy!

Justin still continues to fly the Soul of Man flag literally all around the world with his storming sets - check a few out here: http://soundcloud.com/soul-of-man

For DJ bookings and licensing please go to http://www.fingerlickinmanagement.co.uk

On Reading is made up of three rather nosy friends who are curious about how, what and, most importantly, why readers read. The simplest way to find the answers to our questions was to ask – so we started knocking on people’s doors, and got them to tell us about their library.

Although reading is an act that most of us can perform, and many of us derive immense pleasure from doing so, our reasons for reading are as varied as our personalities.

It gives us great pleasure to share with you our encounters with the readers who so generously gave us their time.

Wojciech Panufnik, creating under nickname X-Ceed, Polish music producer and sound designer. Has been creating electronic music since 90s, making his first music tracks on Amiga demoscene. Member of ITOA group in the beginning of 2000. Nowadays he compose music in various electronic music styles. Moreover he works on production/media music as well as soundtracks for games. Founder  and owner of Soundimage, Royalty Free & Stock Music Library (www.soundimage.eu).

Releases:
- Agressiva 69, Koniec Sztuki: „Cisza xceed remix” (Pomaton EMI, 2002) 
- Co Jest Grane, VA: X-Ceed - Co Jest Grane” (2001, Radiostacja / Gazeta Wyborcza, 2001)
- Zakręcona Paczka 2, VA: X-Ceed – Inflorescence (1999, Spike / Palac Kultury Records, 1999)
- Zakręcona Paczka 2, VA: X-Ceed - Manitou's Revange (Spike / Palac Kultury Records, 1999)
- Beats Friendly‎, May I Beat You?: X-Ceed – Chronos (Life, 2007)
- Tramwaj numer 4, VA: X-Ceed – Chronos (80bpm.net label, 2007)
- Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Dub Band , VA: X-Ceed Subdued Thoughts (Qunabu, 2006)
- Aspic 01, VA: X-Ceed – Create (Sensitive Kemistry, 2012)
- Sundial Aeon, Wolfsberg: XCeed – Iced Melancholy Spectacle remix (Beatspace, 2012)

Remixes:
- Lamb – Butterfly Effect
- Blades Extravaganza, X-Ceed – Sundew (Creative Collective, 2005, contest 1st prize).
- Marek Biliński, Ucieczka z Tropiku, X-Ceed Remix

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