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Subterranean Sounds

Verity Sharp digs deep to uncover the sounds of the underground, from traditional Japanese mining songs to the sounds of tree roots growing.

Verity Sharp digs deep to uncover the sounds of the underground. Prepare to do some deep listening and tap into the world beneath our feet as Late Junction goes subterranean.

With our sonic archaeologist hard hats on we delve into the ambient reverb of an underground water cistern with Pauline Oliveros and her Deep Listening Band, as well as traditional coal mining songs from the northern shore of Japan鈥檚 Kyushu Island and the British industrial revolution. Experience the sounds of tree roots growing underwater as recorded by sound artist Patrick Farmer and some roots reggae from dub pioneer Lee 鈥楽cratch鈥 Perry. Plus immersive sounds from the artist Sandra Crisp, whose work explores the sites of ancient underground rivers beneath London.

Produced by Katie Callin.
A Reduced Listening production for 大象传媒 Radio 3.

2 hours

Last on

Fri 19 Feb 2021 23:00

Music Played

  • Laraaji

    This Too Shall Pass

  • Emptyset

    Chislehurst Mine - Kent, England 02.11.12

  • Steve Earle & the Dukes

    Devil Put The Coal In The Ground

  • Lee 鈥淪cratch鈥 Perry

    Underground Root

  • Patrick Farmer

    Brocket Hall Tree Roots Underwater

  • Maur铆cio Takara & Carla Boregas

    Linha D'Agua

  • Tony Allen, Hugh Masekela & Matthew Herbert

    We've Landed (Matthew Herbert's Absence Dub Remix)

  • Cinder Well

    From Behind The Curtain

  • Kanako Horiuchi

    Hope

  • Natalia Paruz

    Another Earth

  • Pepe Delux茅

    In The Cave

  • Group from Joban

    Coal miner's songs of Joban

  • Deep Listening Band

    CCCC (Cistern Chapel Chance Chants)

  • Chicago Underground Quartet

    Unique Spiral

  • Taeko Ohnuki

    Dobutsu Puzzle (feat. 銇娿仐銈冦倢罢痴)

  • Afel Bocoum

    Penda Djiga

  • Diamanda Gal谩s

    Skotoseme

  • Metadevice

    Hegemony of Homogeneity

  • Fragile Self

    Influx In Flux

  • Coober Pedy University Band

    Kookaburra

  • Sandra Crisp

    Mapping London's Subterranean Rivers

  • Louisa Jo Killen

    The Coalowner And The Pitman's Wife

Broadcasts

  • Fri 11 Sep 2020 23:00
  • Fri 19 Feb 2021 23:00

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