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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: Transcend the conventional materials of composition - Jessie Marino's Inspirations

Transcend the conventional materials of composition - Jessie Marino's Inspirations

BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, Transcend the conventional materials of composition - Jessie Marino's Inspirations

The latest in new music from Henry Threadgill and Jessie Marino, plus the latest tracks.

The latest in new music performance including the UK premiere of Chicago-born Henry Threadgill's Sixfivetwo for string quartet and Jessie Marino talking about her Inspirations.

New Music Show: Tom Service takes a deep-dive into the latest sounds.

Tonight's show includes the UK premiere of Chicago-born Henry Threadgill's Sixfivetwo, a work which pushes the boundaries of the string quartet, that most traditional of forms. As Henry Threadgill says: 'It's a shame that the classical concert world doesn't understand how important improvisation is… Everything is about exploration. We get to where we are because of exploration… and we won't improve anything unless we have an improvisational approach to life.' 

Also tonight, the world premiere in Cologne of Kristine Tjøgersen’s Pelagic Dreamscape: 'In the middle of the open ocean, in the pelagic island landscape, you hear the repetitive drumming song of the common snipe. The buzzing of insects tickles your ear before everything is swallowed up by big waves. Rolling up and down with powerful forces; the pelagic zone can be thought of as an imaginary cylinder or water column between the surface of the sea and the bottom. We are flying, we are on solid ground, we are floating, we are underwater.' 

And, in 'Inspirations', the Berlin-based composer, media artist and performer Jessie Marino talks about what inspires her to write works which, she says, 'transcend the conventional materials of composition and help audiences locate music in the most commonplace activities and relations.'

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