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Enter the Dream Machine

Verity Sharp begins a month-long season devoted to dreams and dreaming machines, with a mixtape by Kenyan artist KMRU and a unique commission by French composer Felicia Atkinson.

The dream world has long provided a rich source of inspiration to artists, from the 鈥榙ream music鈥� of La Monte Young to Delia Derbyshire鈥檚 radio inventions and Aphex Twin鈥檚 music for lucid dreaming. This month, as the UK wakes up from a year of hibernation, a time when many have experienced vivid dreams, Late Junction explores the music of dreams and the different ways they have inspired artists. In collaboration with the artist Sam Potter, we try to imagine what a communal dream, generated by the Late Junction audience, might sound like.

Last year Potter trained an artificial intelligence programme on pages from his dream diary until it could generate texts that convincingly mimicked his dreams. Over the last month, Sam has been feeding the machine dreams sent in by Late Junction listeners, and the result is a series of AI-generated, collective dream texts. We then invited a selection of composers to set these texts to music, starting with the French composer Felicia Atkinson. Verity is joined by Sam Potter to talk us through how the machine works and introduce our first commission.

Also on the show, we have a mixtape from the Kenyan sound artist and ambient musician KMRU. His work incorporates field recordings, machine learning, radio art and improvisation. For his mixtape, he dives headfirst into the dream world, crafting a kaleidoscopic, 30-minute, fever dream. Elsewhere we play devotional music from Gujarat and music by Jon Hassell inspired by Malaysian dream theory.

Produced by Alannah Chance
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Music Played

  • Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange

    Running

    • Inventions For Radio: The Dreams.
    • Psychic Sounds.

  • Aphex Twin

    Ageispolis

    • Selected Ambient Works 85-92.
    • Apollo.

  • The Eccentronic Research Council

    Maxine's Dream

    • The Dreamcatcher Tapes Volumes 1 & 2.
    • Castles in Space.

  • Jon Hassell

    Chor Moir茅

    • Dream Theory In Malaya (Fourth World Volume Two).
    • Editions EG.

  • Shirley Collins & Dolly Collins

    A Dream - Lowlands

    • The Harvest Years.
    • EMI.

  • Brion Gysin

    I Am That I Am

    • William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin.
    • Cold Spring.

  • Molly Lewis

    The Forgotten Edge

    • The Forgotten Edge.
    • Jagjaguwar.

  • Lady Vendredi

    I Seduce

    • Accidental Records.

  • Brij Joshi

    Aavi Chhy Sevane Kaj

    • Dream the Dreams So Far Denied: Devotional Music from the Gujarat.
    • Hive Mind Records.

  • F茅licia Atkinson

    We don't have to be here to be in such a state

    • Late Junction Dream Season Commission.

  • Okkyung Lee

    Burning

    • NA-REUL.
    • Corbett vs. Dempsey.

  • Dion McGregor

    Mr. Crench

    • The Further Somniloquies Of Dion McGregor (More Outrageous Recordings Of The Wor.
    • Torpor Vigil Industries.

  • Neil Luck

    Severed Heads

    • Downturn Fantasies.
    • 贰苍迟谤鈥檃肠迟别.

  • John Holt

    Ali Baba

    • Ali Baba.
    • Treasure Isle.

  • KMRU

    I L M C

  • Ahmoudou Madassane

    Zerzura Reprise

    • Zerzura.
    • Sahel Sounds.

  • DJ Raph

    Chant Of The Umuhara

    • Sacred Groves.
    • Noland Records.

  • Perera Elsewhere

    Drive

    • Untitled.
    • Spex.

  • Sudan Archives

    Come Meh Way

    • Sudan Archives.
    • Stones Throw Records.

  • Nuno Canavarro

    Bruma

    • Plux Quba.
    • Drag City.

  • Sven Kacirek

    Arsenal Aluny Village

    • The Kenya Sessions.
    • Pingipung.

  • Charles Curtis

    Unfinished Song

    • Performances & Recordings 1998鈥�-鈥�2018.
    • Saltern.

  • Katya Yonder

    Navernyaka

    • Multiply Intentions.
    • M茅tron Records.

  • Mary Lattimore

    Sometimes He's In My Dreams

    • Silver Ladders.
    • Ghostly International.

  • Nabalayo

    Domo Domo

  • Ngapa

    Rain Dreaming Ceremony

    • Australia - Aboriginal Music.
    • Auvidis.

  • Karan Casey

    The Labouring Man's Daughter

    • Songlines.
    • Shanachie.

  • Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet

    Dreams

    • Landfall.
    • Nonesuch.

  • Adrian Freedman

    Nightingale Soul Call (feat. Sam Lee)

  • Mouchoir 脡tanche

    Le r锚veur illimit茅

    • Une fille p茅trifi茅e.
    • Cellule 75.

  • John Zorn

    The Dream Machine

    • Dreamachines.
    • Tzadik.

  • Langston Hughes

    Dreams

    • The Voice Of Langston Hughes.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.

Broadcast

  • Fri 4 Jun 2021 23:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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