A Sharp Pair Of Ears: Andy Findon on stretching the flute and saxophone for Scott
A performer on Tilt, And Who Shall Go to the Ball? And What Shall Go to the Ball? and Soused, flautist and saxophonist Andy Findon talks to musical director Mark Warman about improvisation, and Walker’s unique working practices.
Must Go Lower: Mark Warman speaks to Pete Long about pushing deeper sounds on the tubax on Tilt and Bisch Bosch
Saxophonist Pete Long speaks to Mark Warman about Walker’s love of lower-hertz sounds and music as a zone that you enter.
Remembering Scott Walker’s Songs at the Barbican with Father John Misty
The setlist from Father John Misty, Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s concert at London’s Barbican in 2023, featuring material from Scott to Tilt, and an online review from actor Rob Delaney.
Christopher Rountree on working with Scott Walker on Rubato (lt: Stolen Time)
The conductor of LA new music ensemble Wild Up on his conversations and 2017 collaboration with Scott Walker.
Remembering the 2017 Late Night Prom: The Songs of Scott Walker (1967-1970)
Programme notes, a Q&A with conductor Jules Buckley, reflections by prom co-coordinator Dick Hovenga, a Behind The Scenes feature by Audio Music International’s Colby Ramsay, and an interview with Jarvis Cocker by Shaun Keaveny for BBC 6 Music.
Notes on Bish Bosch: Ambisymphonic
Details of the world premiere of Walker, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s Bish Bosch: Ambisymphonic at the Sydney Opera House, an immersive sonic re-imagining of his 2012 album.
Notes on 2008’s Drifting And Tilting, The Songs of Scott Walker
Programme notes and Walker’s drawings for the production of Drifting and Tilting at London’s Barbican, which presented songs from Tilt and Drift through performers, dancers and puppeteers, plus interviews with Artangel’s Michael Morris, Dot Allison, Damon Albarn, Gavin Friday and others.
Exploring Scott Walker’s Meltdown Festival, 2000
The full programme, plus notes, for Walker’s Meltdown at London’s Southbank Centre, including his film programme for the National Film Theatre, and an interview with Time Out’s Ross Fortune.
Scoring Ballet with Scott: BalletBoyz’ The Title Is In The Text
Guardian dance critic Judith Mackrell reviews BALLETBOYz’ The Title Is In The Text from 2017, and Scott Walker’s score.
What’s the Score? Remembering Walker’s Duet For One Voice
Exploring the world premiere of Duet for One, Aletta Collins’ re-imagining of Cocteau’s monologue One Voice for dancers, with an original score by Scott Walker.
Remembering And Who Shall Go To The Ball? for the Candoco Dance Company
Notes on the music commissioned by Walker for a contemporary dance piece for disabled and non-disabled dance company, CandoCo, plus footage and excerpts of reviews.
Simon Raymonde on Scott Walker, from his memoir, In One Ear
The Bella Union boss, Cocteau Twin and son of Walker Brothers arranger Ivor on meeting Walker as a child, co-directing the 2017 Songs of Scott Walker prom, and Walker’s influence on his career.
Exploring Scott Walker’s lyric collection, Sundog
A personal message from Walker to foreword writer Eimear McBride, details of the book’s standard, limited and deluxe editions, and Walker’s last interview, about Sundog, with Alex Clark.
Scott Walker and Artangel’s Plague Songs
Details of Walker’s track, Darkness, interpreting the ninth of ten plagues from the Book of Exodus, as part of Artangel’s The Margate Exodus, and the 2006 album, Plague Songs.
Walker as Pulp producer, collaborator and friend
Excerpts from interviews with Jarvis Cocker around the release of Pulp’s 2001 album, We Love Life, produced by Walker, plus Walker on Jarvis Cocker on The South Bank Show in 2006, and Cocker interviewing Walker, with Miranda Sawyer, for Q Magazine.
The Legacy of 1981's Fire Escape In The Sky
The Most Disarming Sounds: the Julian Cope compilation that revived the work of Scott Walker