House Music with Steve Pretty

Steve chats with astronaut and musician Commander Chris Hadfield about making music in space, what to do if you break a guitar string whilst in orbit and how Chris' extraordinary career has always involved music. Chris ends the episode by playing his beautiful 'space carol' "Jewel in the Night".Stay safe and have fun, quaranteam.

Musician and composer Steve Pretty takes you on a musical tour of your own house and your innately musical brain.  To close the series, comedians and husband-and-wife pair Rachel Parris and Marcus Brigstocke help Steve go through the postbag and answer some of your questions about music: Why do major chords sound “happy”? Why do most musical cultures have drums? Can anything count as music? And what’s it all for?Plus, they talk about the links between music and comedy and tell Steve what they’ve been listening to during lockdown. Steve’s own partner in crime, Jo, gets to take a peek inside the shed.Great fun for locked down families, friends or singles - or anyone curious to learn more about music. Steve can’t promise to turn you into a concert flautist, but this podcast will transform the way you hear and appreciate music.

A short bonus episode featuring the premiere of a brand new track by rock band Ubermanouevre, and inviting you to send your questions, where there'll be answered next episode by Steve and his guests, comedians Rachel Parris and Marcus Brigstocke.Follow Ubermanouevre on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4BfKpLMjFi8tz6O1pvbTuW?si=wti3MezaTWWrSMB36jPQiA and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ubermanoeuvre/And check out Rachel and Marcus' Lockdown Lipsync battles here: https://www.insider.com/married-couple-creates-lip-sync-videos-in-lockdown-2020-4

Musician and composer Steve Pretty takes you on a musical tour of your own house and your innately musical brain.  With a little help from folk singer and song collector Sam Lee - and some nightingales in a Sussex wood -  Steve explores how single line melody evolves into harmony. He assembles his family to experiment with singing rounds. His dad, Stan, also makes a brief appearance to sing a traditional Australian ballad about a sheep rustler drowning in a pond.Great fun for locked down families, friends or singles - or anyone curious to learn more about music. He can’t promise to turn you into a concert flautist, but this podcast will transform the way you hear and appreciate music.Music by:Stan Pretty - Waltzing Mathilda (Traditional)The Hilliard Ensemble - Sumer Is Icumen In (Traditional)Sam Lee - singing live with nightingales in Sussex (special thanks to The Nest Collective)The Fishmen, Sailor and Singers of Cadgwith Cove - Rio Grande (recorded by John Hopkins for the documentary WithSails And I)Sam Lee - Good Bye My Darling, from the Mercury Nominated album Ground Of Its Own (The Nest Collective label).Hackney Colliery Band feat. Mulatu Astatke - Derashe

Musician and composer Steve Pretty takes you on a musical tour of your own house and your innately musical brain.  Steve explores what happens to melody when you add a single, held note - a drone. He demonstrates the role of drones in Indian classical music with master violinist Jyotsna Srikanth, looks into why drones are so ubiquitous in film and TV (whilst pitching his own drones to TV producers), and searches for some tasty drone sounds in his household appliances.Great fun for locked down families, friends or singles - or anyone curious to learn more about music. He can’t promise to turn you into a concert flautist, but this podcast will transform the way you hear and appreciate music.

Musician and composer Steve Pretty takes you on a musical tour of your own house and your innately musical brain.  Steve explores melody with special guest Eliza (formerly Doolittle) and tries to play along to Amazing Grace with the contents of his cutlery drawer.Great fun for locked down families, friends or singles - or anyone curious to learn more about music. He can’t promise to turn you into a concert flautist, but this podcast will transform the way you hear and appreciate music.

Musician and composer Steve Pretty takes you on a musical tour of your own house and your innately musical brain.As a bonus to episode 5, here’s Amazing Grace to jam to. Grab your forks, grab your wine glasses, and let’s do this!Vocals by Eliza (via Zoom), accompaniment by Steve after the fact.

Musician and composer Steve Pretty takes you on a musical tour of your own house and your innately musical brain.  With astronomer Chris Lintott, Steve learns about a newly discovered planetary system that generates some incredible spacey music - the closest thing yet to a validation of the Ancient Greek theory of the “music of the spheres”. He then uses his lockdown beer supply to explore harmony and dissonance.Great fun for locked down families, friends or singles - or anyone curious to learn more about music. He can’t promise to turn you into a concert flautist, but this podcast will transform the way you hear and appreciate music.

Musician and composer Steve Pretty takes you on a musical tour of your own house and your innately musical brain.In this special bonus episode before the podcast moves to its new weekly format, Steve jams with some planetary sounds from outer space. Because everything is fine - he’s definitely not having a breakdown!Great fun for locked down families, friends or singles - or anyone curious to learn more about music. He can’t promise to turn you into a concert flautist, but this podcast will transform the way you hear and appreciate music.