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The Rest Is Noise

Verity Sharp splinters the barrier between noise and quiet, playing pieces which probe the pregnant pause, the hushed tone and the deafening silence.

Verity Sharp listens to the silence in an increasingly noisy world with two hours of music that straddle the divide between noise and quiet. We play pieces that probe the pregnant pause, the hushed tone and the sounds you hear when you are paying attention. We flirt with the emergency tape with tracks from a new compilation called Now That鈥檚 What I Call Silence, a home for artists who were rejected by streaming platforms for being 鈥渢oo silent鈥 and feature Japanese Gagaku artists who cherish the idea of 鈥榤a鈥, a silence which gives form to composition. We remember the analogue noise of the cassette with Argentine band Reynols who released an album solely comprised of amplified slabs of tape hiss.

Elsewhere Verity plays the French cellist Leila Bordreuil who composes in silence, the data corrupted noise of Brazilian artist Cadu Tenorio and the electronic undertow of Irish musician Maria Somerville.

Produced by Alannah Chance
A Reduced Listening Production for 成人快手 Radio 3.

2 hours

Last on

Fri 5 Jun 2020 23:00

Music Played

  • Daniel Levitin

    Anticipation (feat. Jonathan Rundman)

  • Henry Koek

    silence

  • Robin Richards

    Gefail Yr Ynys

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Ikos

  • Omar Shooli

    Hab Isii (Hug Me)

  • Morton Feldman & John Tilbury

    Intermission 5

  • Maria Somerville

    All My People

  • The Beach Boys

    The Little Girl I Once Knew (45 Version)

  • Alvin Lucier

    I Am Sitting In A Room

  • Prince Jammy

    Martian Encounter

  • Whistling Arrow

    Whistling Arrow

  • Tadashi Tajima

    Yamagoe (Beyond The Mountain)

  • Lea Bertucci

    Wind Piece

  • People Like Us

    Cage Silenced

  • Bodies That Matter

    Mains Hum

  • Cadu Ten贸rio

    Pelagea noir roleplay

  • Sandy Denny

    Here In Silence

  • Danny Clay & Matt Atkins

    A3

  • Andaleeb M. Wasif

    KAB TEHRAY GA DARD-E-DIL KAB RAAT BASAR HOGI (When Will This Ache Abate, My Heart, When Will My Night End?)

  • Primitive Motion & Anthony Burr

    Breath Of Light Remains

  • Reynolds

    Untitled

  • Leila Bordreuil

    Headflush

Broadcasts

  • Fri 6 Dec 2019 23:00
  • Fri 5 Jun 2020 23:00

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