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Late Junction: Pierre Bastien and Aleks Kolkowski in session

Pierre Bastien and Aleks Kolkowski in session

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Invented mechanical instruments feature in this month’s session presented by Verity Sharp

Invented mechanical instruments feature in this month’s session presented by Verity Sharp. Plus weird electronic pop, an accordion virtuoso and a mass for the dead.

In a world of glowing screens and impenetrable CPUs, Verity Sharp presents a collaboration session where you can hear its inner workings, featuring two artists from the world of mechanical music. 

Pierre Bastien is a French composer and experimental musical instrument builder. For this session he assembled large meccano-style cogs to create rhythms, played prepared trumpet recorded onto a wax cylinder, used a fan and shredded paper for percussion and set up a circular system of flutes.

Aleks Kolkowski is a composer obsessed with sound recording and reproduction techniques of the turn of the century. To the session he brought a rare antique phonograph, musical saw, a stroh violin (mechanically amplified by a metal horn) and a 1920s mechanical zither.  

Having never played together before the pair spent the day in BBC’s Maida Vale studios to create a sonically rich selection of new pieces exclusively for Late Junction. Also in the show: weird electronic pop music from Sone Institute, a mass for the dead recorded in 1930 and a track by the accordion virtuoso Mario Batkovic. 

Produced by Rebecca Gaskell for Reduced Listening.

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