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Scratching, beat-juggling, sampling, looping… Experimental turntablists and improvisers Maria Chavez, Evicshen and Mariam Rezaei - who performed as a trio at the latest edition of REWIRE Festival in The Hague, following their live debut at Glasgow’s Counterflows at the start of April - join Verity Sharp to talk about the techniques and sonic possibilities that make the record deck such an exciting instrument to work with.

Hailing from different locations around the globe, and approaching the turntable each in a radically different way, the three artists have all been exploring the creative potential of this device for decades. Maria Chavez is an abstract turntablist and DJ, renowned for repurposing broken vinyl into sonic sculptures; Evicshen - stage name of Victoria Shen - focuses her practice on the materiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body; and Mariam Rezaei works at the intersection of hip-hop and new experimental turntable practices tapping into new music aesthetics and philosophies. The results are an exciting and unpredictable mix of musique concrète, ambient, noise, techno beats and rap-related rhythm.

Alongside an extract from their live set at REWIRE, specially recorded for Late Junction, folk trio Leveret mark ten years together with a new album, Charles Curtis, Alan Licht and Dean Roberts offer up minimalistic textures and resonant sine waves, and there’s fresh music of mesmerizing rhythmic patterns by @c + Drumming GP.

Produced by Silvia Malnati
A Reduced Listening production from ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3