Rubbish Music
Jennifer Lucy Allan dumpster dives to share music made from and inspired by the world of rubbish, exploring the world of instruments made of recycled materials and odes to waste.
It’s not just any old rubbish this week on Late Junction: Jennifer Lucy Allan dumpster dives to share music made from and inspired by the world of waste, rummaging through her bins to bring you music from instruments made of recycled materials and odes to waste management. As London’s Design Museum launches their exhibition asking how we can reinvent our relationship with waste, Late Junction explores how artists have made music with and about literal rubbish.
Embracing the concept of ‘one man's rubbish is another man's treasure’, there’ll be plenty of music made by instruments created from things others have thrown away, from the likes of the Congolese eco-friendly collective Fulu Miziki, sculptor of found objects Lonnie Holley, and the plastic-obsessed electronic duo Matmos. There’ll be field recordings from a Materials Recovery Facility in Massachusetts, as well as the sounds of British post-punk trio Trash Kit. Plus brand new releases elsewhere in the show, including György Ligeti reimagined by a chorus of teenagers with composer Marina Rosenfeld and fuzzy ambience from Nigerian sound artist and violist Ibukun Sunday.
This episode was first broadcast on 22/10/21.
Produced by Katie Callin
A Reduced Listening production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3
Last on
More episodes
Music Played
-
The Cramps
Garbageman
- Bad Music For Bad People.
- I.R.S. Records.
-
Ernst Karel
Materials Recovery Facility
- Materials Recovery Facility.
-
Fungistanbul
Trash Oriental / Çer-Çöp Havası
-
Hence Therefore
Signal Drift 1
- Signal Drift.
-
Lonnie Holley
Earthly Things
- Just Before Music.
- Dust-To-Digital.
-
C Joynes
Barricades
- Poor Boy On The Wire.
- Sophomore Lounge.
-
Marina Rosenfeld
roygbiv&b (excerpt)
- Teenage Lontano.
- Room40.
-
SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL
RingRingRiddim
- Presents Ragga Preservation Society - Worldwide Sound.
- Diskotopia.
-
Juçara Marçal
Sem Cais
- Delta Estácio Blues.
- QTV Selo.
-
Sikiru Ayinde Barrister
New Fuji Garbage
- New Fuji Garbage.
- Globe Style.
-
Matmos
The Singing Tube
- Plastic Anniversary.
- Thrill Jockey.
-
Bow Gamelan Ensemble
Massed Percussion
- Great Noises That Fill The Air.
- Klinker Zoundz.
-
George Coleman
I Wish I Could Sing
- Bongo Joe.
- Arhoolie Records.
-
Carola Baer
Maker Of Me
- The Story of Valerie.
- Concentric Circles.
-
Trash Kit
Disco
- Horizon.
- Upset! The Rhythm.
-
FULU MIZIKI
Mokili Makambo (feat. Sekelembele)
- Ngbaka.
- Moshi Moshi.
-
Ibukun Sunday
Last Earth
- The Last Wave.
- Phantom Limb.
-
Myriam Gendron
Shenandoah (II)
- Ma Delire - Songs of Love Lost & Found.
- Feeding Tube Records.
-
Milan KnÞák
Composition N.2
- Broken Music.
- Sub Rosa.
-
Oneohtrix Point Never & Elizabeth Fraser
Tales From The Trash Stratum
- Tales From The Trash Stratum.
- Warp Records.
-
Pamela Z
In The Other World
- Echolocation.
- Z Music.
-
Benjamin Duvall
Piper at the crates of dawn
-
Carlos Niño
Thanking The Earth (feat. Nate Mercereau & Sam Gendel)
- More Energy Fields, Current.
- International Anthem Recording Company.
-
Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy
He Hu
- SON.
- Carrying Colour Records.
-
Aïsha Devi
The Favor Of Fire (Equiknoxx Remix) (feat. Gavsborg & Shanique Marie)
- S.L.F. Versions.
- Houndstooth.
-
Adam Cadell
Surrounded by detritus to make new home in this my birth place
- In The Court of No One Knows What.
-
Rammellzee
Jamin Zabar Jamin Zabar
- Bi-Conicals Of The Rammellzee.
- Gomma.
-
Barbara Lynn
Poor Old Trashman
- Movin' On A Groove.
- Demon Records.
-
Grouper
The way her hair falls
- Shade.
- Kranky.
Broadcasts
- Fri 22 Oct 2021 23:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3
- Fri 3 Jun 2022 23:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3
Is the synth the ultimate feminist instrument?
Five pioneering women and the technology they made their own...