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Chance and Choice

Jennifer Lucy Allan explores the work of musicians who opt to let go of their creative control. Expect chance operations, aeolian harps and collaborations with AI!

Jennifer Lucy Allan explores the work of musicians who opt to let go of their creative control. What new sounds and freedoms can ceding the artistic reins bring? The playlist includes an iteration of John Cage's famous chance operations, the sound of wind-strummed aeolian harps and the algorithmic computer music of UK artist Mark Fell. Plus we hear from Mat Schulz, co-founder of Unsound in Krakow, about how it was to share curatorial duties with an Artificially Intelligent Artistic Director (AIAD) at this year's festival.

Produced by Cat Gough
A Reduced Listening production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3

2 hours

Last on

Fri 1 Mar 2024 23:00

Music Played

  • Areski & Brigitte Fontaine

    Vous et Nous

    • Vous et Nous.
    • Saravah.
  • Meredith Monk

    Education of the Girlchild: The Tale

    • Dolmen Music.
    • ECM Records.
  • John Cage

    Music of Changes I

    • Music of Changes.
    • hat[now]ART.
  • Mining

    Debris

    • Chimet.
    • The Leaf Label.
  • Lee Gamble

    Blurring

    • Models.
    • Hyperdub.
  • The 5000 Fingers of Dr T

    You're Not Rich

    • Cognition - A Collection of Twisted Grooves and Reconstructed Beats.
    • Clan Analogue.
  • Machine Listening

    Machine Listening Songbook #1: Clone Ursonate - Live at Unsound Festival, 2023

    • Machine Listening Songbook.
  • Alice Coltrane & John Coltrane

    Lord Help Me To Be

    • Cosmic Music.
    • Impulse!.
  • Yasunao Tone

    Solo For Wounded CD (extract)

    • Solo For Wounded CD.
    • Tzadik.
  • Benjamin Duvall

    Piper at the Crates of Dawn

    • Piper at the Crates of Dawn.
  • The Blue Tapes House Band

    Part Three

    • Vol. 1.
    • Blue Tapes.
  • Water From Your Eyes & Mandy, Indiana

    Remember Not My Name

    • Crushed By Everyone.
    • Matador.
  • Mark Fell

    SOA-7

    • Sentielle Objectif Actualité.
    • Editions Mego.
  • Ya Ya Choral

    Gods Buzzsaw

    • What's a Quaver ? [​+​].
  • John Zorn

    Presto

    • Cobra.
  • Lucy Railton

    Suzy In Spectrum

    • Corner Dancer.
    • Modern Love.
  • Vasconcelos Sentimento

    Brazileiro Com Z

    • Furto.
    • Far Out Recordings.
  • Céleste Boursier-Mougenot

    Part One

    • From Here to Ear.
    • Cassauna.
  • Annea Lockwood

    Passau To Jochenstein Dam

    • A Sound Map Of The Danube.
    • Lovely Music, Ltd..
  • A. Maiah

    Durangas

    • F(r)icciones.
    • Hegoa.
  • Tara Clerkin Trio

    The Turning Ground

    • On The Turning Ground.
    • World of Echo.
  • Iris

    For_got

    • The Green Doman.
    • Tax Free Records.
  • Z.M. Dagar

    Raga Yaman Kalyan - Alap

    • Vrindavan 1982.
    • Black Truffle Records.
  • James Ilgenfritz & Steve Dalachinsky

    Call The Doctor Twice (feat. Steve Dalachinsky)

    • The Ticket That Exploded.
    • Infrequent Seams.
  • unkle G

    unkle G

    • a honest meal.
  • Fairuz

    Prova (studio outtake)

    • Kifak Inta.
    • We Want Sounds.

Broadcasts

  • Fri 17 Nov 2023 23:00
  • Fri 1 Mar 2024 23:00

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