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Presented by Robert Worby.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3's ground-breaking festival of experimental sound Cut & Splice returns to the airwaves with recordings from this year's event at London's Cafe Oto, curated by the composer Joanna Bailie and featuring the group Ensemble Plus-Minus. Bailie's programme links the work of the early pioneers of the avant-garde to the trail-blazers of today and explores the relationships between music machines and the environment.

In addition to music from the second night of performances at the festival, Robert also visits a sound installation by Dawn Scarfe in Cafe Oto's Project Space, called Listening Glasses.

Peter Ablinger: Renate Fuczik (2006-2026) for piano and pre-recorded media
Alvin Lucier: Sferics (1981) for pre-recorded media
Bryan Eubanks: Double Portrait (2012) for clarinet, field recordings, sine tones and tuned noise
Peter Ablinger: Renate Fuczik (2006-2026) for piano and pre-recorded media
Mauro Lanza/Andrea Valle: Regnum Vegetabile (2014) for sextet and electromechanical devices
Peter Ablinger: Weiss/Weisslich 11b (since 1994) for pre-recorded media and readers
Hildegard Westerkamp: Kits Beach Soundwalk (1989) for pre-recorded media
Bryan Eubanks: Listening through glass walls (2014/15) for amplified violin and viola, and tuned space

Ensemble Plus-Minus: Mark Knoop (piano), Ilze Ikse (flute), Christopher Redgate (oboe), Vick Wright (clarinet), Aisha Orazbayeva (violin), Bridget Carey (viola), Alice Purton (cello)
Owen Green (electronics)
James Saunders and Matthew Shlomowitz (readers)

Recorded at Café Oto, London, 25-26 September. Cut & Splice is a partnership between Sound and Music, the national charity for new music, and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3's Hear and Now.