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The Art of Sinking

The latest in experimental new music including Ben Nobuto's The Art of Sinking for keyboard and child's voice and an Improvisation from Heiner Goebbels and Raymond MacDonald.

Tom Service introduces the latest in experimental music including, from Aberdeen Sound, Ben Nobuto's The Art of Sinking for portable keyboard and child's voice inspired by Alexander Pope's satirical The Art of Sinking Poetry and, from St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, a free improvisation for pipe organ and saxophone from Heiner Goebbels and Raymond MacDonald. Also from last year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival comes leading Lithuanian composer, Raminta Šerkšnytė's Oriental Elegy inspired by Alexander Sokurov's film which, she says, shocked her with its 'subtlety, ingenious fantasy and the deepest reflection of the mysterious world of nature sounds - the ripple of water, the murmur of wind and the rustle of the trees.' And the natural world is also the inspiration for Oliver Pashley's Inflorescence, the botanical term for a cluster of flowers on a plant's stem. There's also the chance to hear two works by the remarkable composer, pianist and musical thinker, Jonathan Powell who died at the end of last year.

Oliver Pashley: Inflorescence
Hermes Experiment

Ben Nobuto: The Art of Sinking
Zubin Kanga (ROLI keyboard)

Raminta Šerkšnytė: Oriental Elegy
Mivos Quartet

Jonathan Powell: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Zoe Martlew (cello) and Jonathan Powell (piano)

Jonathan Powell: Saturnine
Composers Ensemble

Improvisation
Heiner Goebbels (pipe organ), Raymond MacDonald (saxophone)

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Music Played

  • Shiva Feshareki

    Zohra

    Performer: Darragh Morgan.

  • Oliver Pashley

    Inflorescence

    Performer: Oliver Pashley. Ensemble: Hermes Experiment.

  • Eluned Davies

    No Language

    Choir: Exaudi. Conductor: James Weeks.

  • Zoë Martlew

    Nibiru

    Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Performer: Philip Dawson.
    • Zoë Martlew: Album Z.
    • NMC.
    • 2.

  • Ben Nobuto

    The Art of Sinking

    Performer: Zubin Kanga.

  • Raminta Šerkšnytė

    Oriental Elegy

    Ensemble: Mivos Quartet.

  • Jonathan Powell

    Beyond the Pleasure Principle

    Performer: Zoë Martlew. Performer: Jonathan Powell.

  • Jonathan Powell

    Saturnine

    Ensemble: Composers Ensemble. Director: Peter Wiegold.
    • Hoxton Thirteen.
    • NMC.
    • 2.

  • Erik Klinga

    Spring to Mind (extract)

    Performer: Erik Klinga.
    • Hundred Tongues.
    • Thanatosis Produktion.
    • 1.

  • Beatriz Ferreyra

    La Baballe du Chien-Chien

    Performer: Beatriz Ferreyra.
    • Huellas Entreveradas.
    • Persistence of Sound.
    • 2.

  • Heiner Goebbels

    Untitled improvisation

    Composer: Raymond MacDonald. Performer: Heiner Goebbels. Performer: Raymond MacDonald.

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  • Yesterday 22:30
    BBC Radio 3

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