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Music for daydreams

Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen joins Verity Sharp to discuss how music can help us tune in to a slower rhythm. Plus the sound of metal objects and reflections on the anthropocene.

Have we lost the art of doing nothing? We live in a world that reveres the busy and productive, but what about the daydreamers and the dropouts? While many of us are forced to redraw our daily routines, we pause to ask how music can help us discover a different internal rhythm and question how we think about purpose. The writer and psychoanalyst Josh Cohen joins us to discuss the importance of music that slackens the pace, attuning us to slower, more drifting states of mind - boredom, weariness, ‘infinite languor’ and pure consciousness.

Elsewhere we float down stream with Australian composer Tilman Robinson’s sonic reflections on the anthropocene, a new release from Russian artist Kate NV and the sound of metallic objects pulled into focus by Electric Indigo, founder of female: pressure, an international platform for female, transgender and non-binary artists involved in electronic music.

Produced by Alannah Chance.
A Reduced Listening production for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3.

2 hours

Last on

Fri 24 Apr 2020 23:00

Music Played

  • ·¡²õ³ú³Ù±ð°ù±ôá²Ô³¦

    Elvesz A Nyom

  • The Still

    The Surely

  • Kate NV

    Sayonara

  • Lankum

    The Granite Gaze

  • Tilman Robinson

    We Came For Your Riches

  • Electric Indigo

    Ferrum 8

  • The Heavenly Gospel Singers

    Precious Lord, Take My Hand

  • Maurice Ravel

    Trois Poèmes De Stéphane Mallarmé: Soupir

    Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Ensemble: Ensemble.
  • Alice Coltrane

    Turiya and Ramakrishna

  • Cecil Taylor

    Calling It The 9th

  • Menzi

    GQOM Tera (feat. Ecko Bazz)

  • The Cheese Band

    I Like Cheese

  • Gundecha Brothers

    Raga Komal Rishabh Asavari: Alap

  • Tom Waits

    Rain Dogs

  • Beatriz Ferreyra

    La Ba-Balle du Chien-Chien a la Me-Mere

  • Linda Perhacs

    Parallelograms

Broadcast

  • Fri 24 Apr 2020 23:00

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