Berlin - Quiet City
Marking the centenary of the Weimar Republic and the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Unclassified shines a spotlight on music making in Berlin in 2019.
Tonight, it鈥檚 all about Berlin. As Radio 3 marks the Centenary of the Weimar Republic and the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Elizabeth Alker focusses on the city鈥檚 cultural life in 2019. Like lots of cities that experience an extraordinary and significant amount of political, social and industrial change, artists move into the broken and abandoned spaces and tell the colourful and bleak, troubling and triumphant stories in their work.
This episode explores Berlin鈥檚 contemporary and experimental music scene and some of the many incredible venues, labels and artists in the city. Berlin is famous for its electronic music but that world has influenced and reached out to other areas of music-making in the city and meanwhile, collaboration within and beyond the contemporary music scene is producing some fascinating results. We head to the famous brutalist Funkhaus with music by one of its resident artists Nils Frahm and we'll hear the skittishly wayward and wonderful music of Holly Herndon. Also in this episode, the acoustics of Lichte Studios are felt in the ambient guitar of Martyn Heyne and we pay tribute to Berlin's superclub dance floors with Pantha Du Prince.
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Nils Frahm
The Roughest Trade
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Lena Andersson
37 Years Later
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Sebastian Plano
Purples
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Ben Lukas Boysen
Fabrizio
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Holly Herndon
Fear Uncertainty Doubt
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Tom Rogerson
Canopy (Rogerson Rework)
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Hior Chronik
Elixir
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Alma Quartet
CCMYK4
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Gajek
Auf mit den lebenden
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Pantha du Prince
Lay In A Shimmer
Broadcasts
- Thu 14 Nov 2019 23:30成人快手 Radio 3
- Thu 17 Dec 2020 23:30成人快手 Radio 3
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