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Chiyoko Szlavnics, Alvin Lucier, Iancu Dumitrescu

Robert Worby introduces highlights from the 2013 Tectonics festival in Glasgow, including music by Chiyoko Szlavnics, Alvin Lucier, Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana Maria Avram.

Robert Worby with highlights from the Tectonics festival in Glasgow, an event curated by conductor Ilan Volkov in association with the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Music includes a new work from Canadian composer and sound artist Chiyoko Szlavnics and the World Premiere of Iancu Dumitrescu's electric guitar concerto, performed by Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Chiyoko Szlavnics

    Materia/Immateria

    Performers: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)

  • Alvin Lucier

    Slices for cello and orchestra

    Performers: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Ilan Volkov (conductor)

  • Asparagus Piss Raindrop

    Dream Within a Dream, Last Night We Died in a Plane Crash

    Performers: Asparagus Piss Raindrop

  • Ana-Maria Avram

    Nouvel Archae

    Performers: Ana Maria Avram (voice, computer)

  • Iancu Dumitrescu

    Elan and Performance

    Performers: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Stephen O’Malley (electric guitar), Ilan Volkov (conductor)

  • Alvin Lucier

    Still Lives for piano with slow sweep pure wave oscillators

    Performers: Frank Denyer (piano)

Broadcast

  • Sat 25 May 2013 22:00

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