2003-04-26
... ? BBC - Radio 3 - What's On Listings22:45 Hear And Now London Sinfonietta And Warp Records The London Sinfonietta conducted by Stefan Asbury joins forces with Warp Records for the opening concert from the second Ether Festival, given in March on London's South Bank. The music of Nancarrow, Cage, Ligeti, Ives and Stockhausen is heard alongside special arrangements by Margan Hayes and David Horne of tracks by Squarepusher, Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin. Plus, Warp artist Mira Calix performs a new version of her piece Nunu, made from recordings of insect noises. With Rolf Hind (prepared piano), Simon Haram (saxophone) and Sound Intermedia (electronics). In Electro-Instruments, the third instalment from the Cut And Splice festival, Robert Worby introduces music from the British sound sculptor Janek Schaeffer; the results of Oval's collaboration with Eriko Toyoda; and Quartet Electronische's new realisation of John Cage's Cartridge Music (1960).
