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Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

The best and latest in cutting-edge and experimental new music. Kate Molleson and Tom Service present exclusive recordings, new releases, composer interviews and features.

The best and latest in cutting-edge and experimental new music. Kate Molleson and Tom Service present exclusive recordings, new releases, composer interviews and features from around the UK, Europe and across the world.

New Music Show: Inspired by a troubadour poem and a sketch by Durer

Inspired by a troubadour poem and a sketch by Durer

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Electronic music explored and the Hans Durer-inspired sounds of a stifled harpsichord

Works for electronics inspired variously by John Cage, computer code, a troubadour poem and a 1920s poster, plus the stifled sounds of a harpsichord.

New Music Show:  works for electronics inspired variously by John Cage, 'Tidal cycles' computer code, a troubadour poem about distant love and a life-sized 1926 poster,' Man as Industrial Palace.' Also tonight, music inspired by a Petrarch sonnet and a sketch of a human hand by Hans Durer which essays the stifled sounds of a harpsichord and small ensemble.  And soon after 11pm, Robert Worby talks to Ann Cleare who creates: "highly psychological and corporeal sonic spaces that encourage a listener to contemplate the complexity of the lives we exist within."  		
Presented by Kate Molleson. 

Kaija Saariaho: 'Dolce Tormento'
Camilla Hoitenga (solo piccolo)

Louise Rossiter: Homo Machina
Louise Rossiter (electronics)

Jennifer Walshe: tracks from An Late Anthology of Early Music

Evan Johnson:  Linke Hand eines Apostel	(WP)
Goska Isphording (harpsichord), Riot Ensemble, Aaron Holloway-Nahum (conductor)	

Kaija Saariaho: 'Lonh' for soprano and electronics	
Raphäele Kennedy (soprano), Jean-Baptiste Barrière (electronics)

at approx 11.15pm: 
Robert Worby Interview: Robert talks to the sound designer Ann Cleare 

Shih-Hui Chen: Fantasia on the Theme of Guanglingsan for Zheng and Chinese Orchestra	
Hsin-Fang Hoi (zheng), Little Giant Chinese Orchestra, Shih-Sheng Chen (conductor)	
					
Fero Kiraly: Tidal C

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