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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: Elaine Mitchener

Elaine Mitchener

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Elaine Mitchener curates and presents two Christmas editions of the New Music Show.

The experimental vocalist, movement artist and composer, Elaine Mitchener curates and presents the first of two Christmas editions of the New Music Show.

Elaine Mitchener is an experimental vocalist, movement artist and composer.  She curates two special editions of the New Music Shows this Christmas.  Elaine’s playlists are inspired by improvisation, experimental and performance art: works old and new as well as those that have inspired her work as an artist.  Throughout the show Elaine is joined online by her new music friends.  Today she talks to composer and Professor of American Music at Columbia University, George Lewis about Rainbow Family, a “slice of electro-acoustic music history” which has just been released on the Carrier label, and to vocalist and composer Lore Lixenberg talks to Elaine about her new project, Nancarrow Karaoke which is about to be released on LP.

Neil Charles: Bass Solos 3, 5, 9
Conlon Nancarrow / Lore Lixenberg:  Study No. 6
Rolf Hind: Tiger's Nest (extract)
Clarence Barlow: 3,4,5 Reading nimbly through Ives’ 3-Page Sonata and Schoenberg’s 5 Piano Pieces; Dokumissa '87; Im Januar Am Nil
John Butcher/Joe McPhee: St Ida’s Breath (Less her Neck and Teeth)
Lily Greenham: Circulation from Lingual Music
George Lewis: With Derek Bailey
Olly Woodrow Wilson: Cetus
Conlon Nancarrow / Lore Lixenberg: Study No. 3
Liza Lim: Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus: Dawn Chorus
White Boy Scream / Micaela Tobin: Bakunawa

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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