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Indulge in a little sonic escapism and submerge yourself in the healing waters of ambient and experimental music with Elizabeth Alker.

This week, she invites composer, producer, singer, and visual artist Gazelle Twin, aka Elizabeth Bernholz, to lead us on a surprising and transportive journey in deep listening. Experimental electronics meet folk-horror in Gazelle Twin’s sound, which weaves together themes of the pastoral, the supernatural and the disturbing through haunting vocals and industrial drones. Her latest album Black Dog is about confronting fear, but for her Listening Chair she selects a piece of Japanese ambient from the 1980s that she listened to during a cesarean delivery a few years ago, which made the experience feel serene, safe and gentle.

Elsewhere, there’s splashing waves and electronic dolphins from the late composer Joanna Brouk’s early new age masterwork Sounds of the Sea, and chamber-pop from Manchester’s Daniel O’Sullivan based on an apocalyptic sonnet written in the 1880s. Plus a new hypnotic work for carillon bells from New York minimalist composer Charlemagne Palestine dedicated to his collection of over 18,000 cuddly toys, which he calls his ‘divinities’.

Produced by Katie Callin
A Reduced Listening production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3