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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: Alex Ho's The Glass Eye - a planet destroyed

Alex Ho's The Glass Eye - a planet destroyed

BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, Alex Ho's The Glass Eye - a planet destroyed

The latest in new music performance including Alex Ho's song cycle The Glass Eye.

The latest sounds from across the UK and beyond including an improvisation by the sheng player Wu Wei and Alex Ho's song cycle The Glass Eye sung by countertenor Hugh Cutting.

Tom Service introduces some of the latest sounds - including  an improvisation by the sheng player Wu Wei and a work for percussion, electronics and ice by Vivian Fung that laments and celebrates the disappearing ice in the Columbia Icefields. Also tonight, as performed by Apartment House at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Lithuanian artist and composer Ramūnas Motiekaitis's Snowless NY 1949, a work which reflects Motiekaitis’s life as part of the Lithuanian diaspora in New York after the Second World War. And at the centre of the programme comes The Glass Eye, a major song cycle by the award-winning composer Alex Ho. Elayce Ismail's words present a scenario in which a climate apocalypse has forced the survivors underground, to become part of the mud, at one with the worms, able to view the planet on which they lived - and which their pollution has destroyed - solely through a single lens, the eponymous Glass Eye. The world premiere by countertenor Hugh Cutting with the pianist Dylan Perez took place at the Oxford International Song Festival.

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