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Innovative and thought-provoking features on a wide variety of subjects

Innovative and thought-provoking features that make adventurous use of sound and explore a wide variety of subjects. Made by leading radio producers.

Between the Ears: Paul Klee, a Balloon, the Moon, Music and Me

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Paul Klee, a Balloon, the Moon, Music and Me

05/12/2009

BBC Radio 3 - Between the Ears, Paul Klee, a Balloon, the Moon, Music and Me

Ergo Phizmiz's fantastical encounter with Swiss painter Paul Klee.

Ergo Phizmiz's fantastical encounter with Swiss painter Paul Klee, set in an imaginary Klee-world of twittering machines, dream landscapes and singing colour polyphony.

A fantastical encounter with Swiss painter Paul Klee, in an imaginary Klee-world of twittering machines and dream landscapes, singing colour polyphony and scribbling violin. Composer and writer Ergo Phizmiz wanders through Klee's paintings in the company of their creator, evoking their vivid colours and whimsical humour in intricately composed soundscapes. Klee takes Ergo on a hot-air balloon ride which, like a magic carpet, miraculously flies them to Tunisia, the land where he 'became a painter'. Their voyage also passes through paintings of strange gardens, mountain carnivals, and abstract colour gradations, before they finally ascend to the moon, a dream-world populated by lunar monkeys, peculiar birds and trees bulging with seeping paint.

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