Sound + Vision

Q1 2026 rewired culture: live events, AI collaborators, and brands-as-entertainment. Clear moves for brands to create meaningful cultural participation.

BTS returns with ARIRANG and two Netflix releases: the concert film BTS THE COMEBACK LIVE | ARIRANG and the documentary BTS: The Return. What to watch and when.

AI, modular synthesis, genre fusion and spatial audio are changing film scores. A concise look at how composers and storytellers are adapting and what comes next.

Dame Caroline Dinenage warns UK copyright reform has stalled as AI races ahead. What London creators need: fair pay, control, transparency and law, not just deals.

Bootle’s community-led bid for UK Town of Culture 2028 puts film, music and media centre stage, aiming to boost youth skills, wellbeing and local pride.

K-Pop Out of Time blends modern K-Pop and 1980s Cantopop in a time-travel musical from Phoenix Waters Productions and TE Creatives. Filming begins this year.

How Pavel Talankin turned school videography into an Oscar-winning documentary, exposing Russian propaganda with daring creative resistance in Mr Nobody Against Putin.

Inside KCC Spain’s strategy: multi-sector programming across music, film, art, food and literature that has grown Hallyu and inspired cultural diplomacy.

How AI is reshaping film scoring: tools composers use, creative partnership, ethical questions, and what the future sound of cinema could be.

Fans of Dimash Qudaibergen transformed a Galician farm into a Kazakh steppe for a birthday video, blending horses, falconry and yurts in a cross-cultural homage.