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Unclassified Live: Isobel Waller-Bridge and Coby Sey at Bluedot Festival

Elizabeth Alker presents Isobel Waller-Bridge and Coby Sey performing with the 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra at this year鈥檚 Bluedot Festival.

In the second of our programmes recorded at this year鈥檚 edition of Bluedot Festival, Isobel Waller-Bridge and Coby Sey take to the stage at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire to perform with the 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra conducted by Robert Ames.

Isobel Waller-Bridge鈥檚 skills as the creator of sensitive and absorbing film scores and TV soundtracks (Black Mirror, Fleabag, Emma) has brought her critical acclaim, though last year鈥檚 debut solo album VIII brought her compositional voice into the limelight. At Bluedot, she plays piano in a suite of pieces taken from the album as well as a new untitled work, collaborating with orchestrator Lara Serafin to bring a fresh playfulness and experimentation palette of sounds and textures.

The world of Coby Sey鈥檚 artistry is hard to pin down, a music of deep atmospheres that straddles the genres of ambient, experimental, grime and hip hop. For this Unclassified Live performance, Sey worked with arranger George Barton to realise an expanded version of Eve (Anwummer蓻), a track from his 2022 album Conduit. The studio recording of the song features his wordless vocals, but, inspired by the festival surroundings, Sey speaks and sings new lyrics: 鈥淏eing here, absorbing the environment, I was thinking about what space means to me. I was thinking about what we mean to each other as humans, in this lifetime, on this planet. I think it鈥檚 good to be kept grounded while also looking upwards.鈥�

Produced by Alexa Kruger
A Reduced Listening production for 大象传媒 Radio 3

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Thu 21 Sep 2023 23:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Juni Habel

    I Carry You, My Love

    • Carvings.
    • Basin Rock.

  • Isobel Waller-Bridge

    An Exercise in Restraint (Until You Go)

    Performer: Isobel Waller-Bridge. Performer: Lara Serafin. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra.
    • VIII.
    • 6.

  • Isobel Waller-Bridge

    For a Moment

    Performer: Isobel Waller-Bridge. Performer: Lara Serafin. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra.
    • VIII.
    • 1.

  • Isobel Waller-Bridge

    Haiku

    Performer: Isobel Waller-Bridge. Performer: Lara Serafin. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra.
    • VIII.
    • 2.

  • Isobel Waller-Bridge

    Trace

    Performer: Isobel Waller-Bridge. Performer: Lara Serafin. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra.
    • VIII.
    • 7.

  • Isobel Waller-Bridge

    Arp

    Performer: Isobel Waller-Bridge. Performer: Lara Serafin. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra.

  • Coby Sey

    Eve (Anwummer蓻) - Live at Bluedot Festival with the 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra

    Music Arranger: George Barton. Performer: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Singer: Coby Sey. Conductor: Robert Ames. Composer: George Barton.
    • Conduit.
    • AD 93.
    • 8.

  • Hannah Peel

    Neon

    Performer: Hannah Peel. Orchestra: Manchester Collective.
    • Neon.

  • Self Esteem

    Just Kids (Live at 大象传媒 Proms)

    Performer: Self Esteem. Conductor: Robert Ames. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.

  • Douglas Dare

    Teardrop

    • Teardop.
    • Erased Tapes.

Broadcast

  • Thu 21 Sep 2023 23:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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What is unclassified music?

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