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A BAFTA award winning animated film collaboration between Tate, Ardman Animations (the makers of Wallace and Gromit), the BBC and thousands of children across Britain, voiced by a cast including Miranda Hart, Rik Mayall, Vic Reeves, Catherine Tate, Alexei Sayle and David Walliams. The film incorporates the drawings of thousands of children that were uploaded to the Tate Movie Project website. 'The Itch of the Golden Nit' is available as a DVD and as a hardback picture book.

Eleven-year-old Beanie's bland life is changed for ever when he is sent on a mission. Armed only with laser lip-gloss and a pair of blend-in pants he has to save his parents from Evil Stella and return the Golden Nit to its rightful place at the heart of the sun, thereby saving the universe. In 2011 the project was awarded a BAFTA in the interactive category of the British Academy Children's Awards.

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A BAFTA award winning animated film collaboration between Tate, Ardman Animations (the makers of Wallace and Gromit), the BBC and thousands of children across Britain, voiced by a cast including Miranda Hart, Rik Mayall, Vic Reeves, Catherine Tate, Alexei Sayle and David Walliams. The film incorporates the drawings of thousands of children that were uploaded to the Tate Movie Project website. 'The Itch of the Golden Nit' is available as a DVD and as a hardback picture book.

Eleven-year-old Beanie's bland life is changed for ever when he is sent on a mission. Armed only with laser lip-gloss and a pair of blend-in pants he has to save his parents from Evil Stella and return the Golden Nit to its rightful place at the heart of the sun, thereby saving the universe. In 2011 the project was awarded a BAFTA in the interactive category of the British Academy Children's Awards.

Colour Beginnings is music composed by Tim Whitehead from transcribed improvisations which were originally recorded in front of, and inspired by JMW Turner's watercolour sketches, while Whitehead was artist in residence at Tate Britain in 2009.

In days that's past beyond our ken
When painters saw like other men
The music sang the voice of truth
Yet sigh'd for painting's homely truth
- JMW Turner

CD includes 16 page booklet of Turner watercolour sketches which inspired the music.

"You don't need to know that UK saxophonist Tim Whitehead has been a fan of Turner's paintings since he found himself crying in front of one many years back. Nor that injury in 2006 gave him the time to ponder a musical tribute to the painter. Nor even that this project made him the first musician to be an artist in residence at Tate Britain. No, Whitehead's music always stands on its own feet. His bands are consistently fine examples of attractively song-rooted composing and cutting-edge postbop improv, and his collaborations with Liam Noble inspire some of the gifted pianist's most memorable recorded playing. But the triggers here are transcribed from Whitehead's original solo improvisations recorded while viewing Turner's work - particularly the painter's fastest and most intuitive sketches and watercolours. Some of the music unfolds in twisting, long-lined themes, some in softly exhaled solo-sax reveries; there are skittish dancing melodies and speculative group conversations that suggest Wayne Shorter's musings. Noble often echoes Whitehead or plays in unison - and, like all the performers, he plays as deeply inside these pieces as if he were as personally involved as their originator." The Guardian

Electronic Music Soundtrack for 'The Disenchanted Forest x 1001' by Angela Bulloch

Disc One: Stereo Mix
Disc Two: Virtual Binaural Mix

Enjoy this beautiful selection of music which reflects the themes of Gauguin's work; from the romance of France to his exotic sojourns to Martinique and Tahiti.

All written by his French contemporaries, the pieces capture the essence of Gauguin's paintings (and of his time) in music.

Track listing:
Daybreak - Frederick Delius
Morning in Provence - Maurice Ravel
L'arlesienne Suite No.1 'Adagietto' - Georges Bizet
Scenes alsaciennes 'Under the Limes - Jules Massenet
Sirenes (extract) - Claude Debussy
Duet from The Pearl Fishers - Georges Bizet
Flower Duet from Lakme - Leo Delibes
Pelleas et Melisande 'Sicilienne' - Gabriel Faure
L'isle joyeuse - Claude Debussy
Gymnopedie No.1 - Erik Satie
The Mermaid - Cecile Chaminade
Aquarium - Camille Saint-Saens
Poeme de l'amour et de la mer, Interlude - Ernest Chausson
Meditiation from Thais - Jules Massenet
Habanera - Emmanuel Chabrier
Sunset - Frederick Delius

This CD is thoroughly entertaining... My kids love it!' - Rachel Whiteread

Do you know who dripped paint on to large canvases? Or which artist saw angels in the street? Can you explain what Cubism is? These quirky, catchy songs introduce listeners of all ages to fascinating facts about major artists. You will be intrigued by the variety of musical styles and inventive lyrics. A colourful illustrated booklet with full lyrics completes this unique collection.

Featured artists include William Blake, Frida Kahlo, Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, Henri Rousseau and J.M.W. Turner.

CD with 24 page booklet, illustrated in colour throughout and packaged in a cardboard case.

Mary Agnes Richards is a musician, writer and editor.

David Aubrey Schweitzer has composed music and songs for numerous films and TV programmes including the Bafta- nominated BBC Series Charlie & Lola.

Listen to audio clips: Henri Rousseau Wassily Kandinsky Frida Kahlo