大象传媒

It鈥檚 been a whole half-century to the day since The Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi, China. A group of local farmers, whilst busy digging a well in a field, uncovered thousands of soldiers and hundreds of horses and chariots, all standing to attention inside the vast expanse of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum鈥� Well, there鈥檚 one way to use your spare clay! Jennifer Lucy Allan celebrates the sonic side to ceramics in a special edition of Late Junction that digs into the musical history and experimental present of the material clay. Expect the ancient sounds of the Ghatam in the hands of contemporary Carnatic percussionists alongside Bristol鈥檚 Copper Sounds, an artist duo whose experiments in the creation of clay instruments have led to their understanding of sound as a 鈥渕alleable material which you can manipulate through various sculpting and making processes.鈥�

Produced by Gabriel Francis
A Reduced Listening production for 大象传媒 Radio 3