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Sonic Explorations Festival

Robert Worby presents music from the London Sinfonietta's Sonic Explorations festival. Curated by Jonathan Harvey, the festival explores new and old electroacoustic music.

Robert Worby presents new music from the London Sinfonietta's Sonic Explorations festival, recorded at Kings Place in London. Curated by composer Jonathan Harvey over the course of three days, the festival explores new and old electroacoustic music.

In a selection of highlights from one of the days of concerts, Robert presents interviews with the composers and a series of works from the past 40 years, ranging from Stockhausen's Pole for 2 performed using shortwave radios by Sound Intermedia to the world premiere of Claudia Molitor's 'it's not quite how I remember it' for cello, percussion, tape and 3D film.

Plus the first in a series of diary pieces from composers Mira Calix and Larry Goves, as they embark on their year-long collaborative project Exchange And Return.

Music includes:

Mira Calix: ort-oard (with film) (3:58)
Oliver Coates (cello)
Sound Intermedia

Duncan Macleod: Good Boy, Bad Boy (world premiere) (5:33)
Paul Silverthorne (viola)
Sound Intermedia

Jonathan Harvey: Other Presences (11:22)
Paul Archibald (trumpet)
Sound Intermedia

Stockhausen: Poles for 2 (17:11)
Sound Intermedia

Emily Hall: Put Flesh On! (9:16)
Oliver Coates (cello)
Sound Intermedia

Natasha Barrett: Deconstructing Dowland (UK premiere) (8:31)
Huw Davies (guitar)
Sound Intermedia

Claudia Molitor: it's not quite how I remember it (world premiere) (8:14)
Oliver Coates (cello)
Sam Walton (percussion)
Sound Intermedia

Luciano Berio: Naturale (19:14)
Paul Silverthorne (viola)
Sam Walton (percussion)
Sound Intermedia.

1 hour, 45 minutes

Last on

Sat 14 Nov 2009 22:15

Broadcast

  • Sat 14 Nov 2009 22:15

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