大象传媒

The Oxford Improvisers came together online from different locations in 2021, to create a space of collaboration and dialogue in a piece called Between, a reflection of the physical distances between players. Here, they weave a world of ever emergent textures and terrains, filled with quiet sliding doors and rousing cacophonies.

Trio Eris 136199 - Catherine Sikora, Han-earl Park and Nick Didkovsky - mark their 10th anniversary with a long-distance improvisational collage, bringing new life to a performance originally recorded in Derby in 2017. Each player recorded a new part resulting in tectonic shifts, extraterrestrial buzzing and clandestine whispers across time. As Nick Didkovsky notes, 鈥淚t's like peering into a parallel universe and listening to what Eris in that world sounds like.鈥�

Elsewhere in the programme we hear a piece of rich and expansive improvising from a custodian of Shona culture, the late Zimbabwean master mbira player Dumisani Maraire. A committed ethnomusicologist, he created a new notation system for the instrument, and championed Zimbabwean music around the world.

Produced by Tej Adeleye
A Reduced Listening production for 大象传媒 Radio 3