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Corey Mwamba presents new music from pianists inspired by poetry, games and studies in human perception.

Marta Warelis creates a grainy and sinuous sound world on acoustic piano, offering careful studies in scale, perception and interconnectedness.

Eleonor Sandresky takes the evocative imagery of Mary Oliver’s poetry as cues for improvisation: fireflies at dusk, night-time swimming and alligators sinking into swamps. Playing these pieces live, she’d place a few words from each poem on her piano stand as a way of triggering the visceral feeling each piece had on her, using that as a jumping-off point for musical expression.

Haunting, disjointed keys appear via the Tara Clerkin Trio, who create a heady mix of hip-hop, drum and bass and glitching free jazz. The music was created via a musical version of the game ‘exquisite corpse’, where instead of drawing body parts blindfolded, the group improvised random parts to create a Frankenstein-like whole.

Produced by Tej Adeleye
A Reduced Listening Production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3