'Music is feeling, then, not sound': Joe Bates on his piece Muted the Night

'Muted the Night marks a major step forward in my musical ideas and moments of enormous change in my personal life.' Written during his time on the 2019/20 LSO Panufnik Composers Scheme and due to be workshopped by the Orchestra in March 2020, composer Joe Bates heard his piece performed for the first time one year on, in March 2021. This month, you can hear it for the first time too. Read on to find out more.