The Song of the Vending Machine
Verity Sharp listens to the late-night singing of vending machines, revisits Sun Ra’s classic album Lanquidity, and we salute pioneering composer Alvin Lucier on his 90th birthday.
Verity Sharp listens to the secret music made by vending machines, including a particularly talented hot chocolate machine in Turin and a singing machine in a Swedish hospital which inspired the latest album by Joakim Forsgren and Andreas Hiroui Larsson. Andreas describes how the machine was empty, atmospherically lit up and emanated an electrical hum. They were ‘captivated by the fact that it sold us nothing and at the same time performed for us’.
Also on the programme: we revisit Sun Ra’s classic album Lanquidity ahead of its reissue; we hear the latest soul-infused release by LA musician Georgia Anne Muldrow; and we celebrate the composer Alvin Lucier on his 90th birthday.
Produced by Alannah Chance
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Stephono-ZIP
Feedback 8 - The automatic hot chocolate vending machine
- Feedbacks (1​+​2​+​3) field recordings + synthesizers.
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Los Kings
Let´s start (Empecemos)
- Color De Trópico Vol 2.
- El Palmas Music.
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Anton Bruhin
1st poem
- Speech Poems / Fruity Music.
- Black Truffle.
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Maja S. K. Ratkje
Vannstand - Bergen A
- Vannstand.
- Motvind Records.
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Tirzah
Send Me
- Send Me.
- Domino Recording Co.
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Yasmin Williams
Through the Woods
- Urban Driftwood.
- Spinster Sounds.
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DINOSAWROID-MANE
190809
- AOB.
- Opal Tapes.
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Joakim Forsgren & Andreas Hiroui Larsson
Vacation
- Vending Machine.
- thanatosis.
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Sun Ra
Twin Stars of Thence (Alternate Mix)
- Lanquidity (Definitive Edition).
- Strut.
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Chimudon, Mashibato & Togus Ziguradan
The Venerable Genghis Khan (Mongolia)
- Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History Of The World's Music.
- Dust-to-Digital.
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Microtub
Sonic Drift
- Sonic Drift.
- Sofa Music.
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Kae Tempest
Lessons
- The Book Of Traps And Lessons.
- American Recordings.
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John Bowers & Tim Shaw
I Am Sitting In A Zoom (Shaw)
- I Am Sitting In A Zoom.
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Jean-Philippe Gross & Jérôme Noetinger
Cadavre 5
- Nos cadavres.
- EICH.
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Count Lasher
Perseverance (Jamaica)
- Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History Of The World's Music.
- Dust-to-Digital.
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anrimeal
Hello And A Half (feat. Butterfly Child)
- Could Divine, Remembered.
- Demo Records / Crossness Records.
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August, Yours Truly
Lady Angel
- In The Eyes of God.
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Khalab & M'berra Ensemble
Desert Storm
- M'berra.
- Real World Records.
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Anton Bruhin
4th poem
- Speech Poems / Fruity Music.
- Black Truffle.
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This is Pan
Third Eye
- Animal Heart.
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New Age Steppers
Radial Drill
- New Age Steppers.
- Missing Link Records.
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Giancarlo nino Locatelli & Alberto Braida
ninna nanna
- from here from there.
- WE INSIST!.
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Felicity Ford & Paul Whitty
Richard Hamilton Building Vending Machine being serviced
- Sound Diaries Project.
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