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Can you hear me now?

Experimental music including Ruth Morley's Reef, Karen Power's Can you hear me now? and a work for worldless chorus written in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Tom Service introduces some of the latest sounds in new music including Aletheia, a work for wordless choir, by the Lithuanian composer 沤ibuokl臈 Martinaityt臈. Written following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she says: 'Voice is our first and the very last instrument we have in our lifetime.... from the very first baby鈥檚 scream until the last breath and whisper...I was imagining that the only instrument people have even in situations of destruction, in the midst of war, is their VOICE.' Also in the programme is the premiere at Aberdeen Sounds of Ruth Morley's Reef, her reaction to the discovery by marine biologists that 'Damaged reef systems will regenerate faster when recordings of a healthy reef are played in the area.' And also from Aberdeen Sounds comes Karen Power's Can you hear me now? a work solo viola composed to sit within Karen Power's Polar Soundings installation at the entrance to city's Academy Shopping Centre. This multi-channel installation featured recordings captured during the composer's decade-long quest to listen above, below and inside the ice in the North and South Poles.

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Music Played

  • Jessie Cox

    Remains Unvoiced

    Singer: Elaine Mitchener.

  • Pawe艂 Malinowski

    floating: disappearance

    Orchestra: London Sinfonietta.

  • 沤ibuokl臈 Martinaityt臈

    Aletheia

    Choir: Carice Singers. Conductor: George Parris.

  • Helmut Lachenmann

    H盲nschen kleinz from Ein Kinderspiel

    Performer: Jonas Olsson.
    • Helmut Lachenmann Complete Piano Works.
    • Thanatosis.
    • 5.

  • Helmut Lachenmann

    Schattentanz from Ein Kinderspiel

    Performer: Jonas Olsson.
    • Helmut Lachenmann Complete Piano Works.
    • Thanatosis.
    • 11.

  • Amy Rooney

    Lining Out

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: David Brophy.

  • Ruth Morley

    Reef

    Performer: Ruth Morley. Performer: Tom Hunter. Performer: Iain Crawford. Singer: Laura Bowler.

  • Tristan Murail

    Doppler Variations

    Ensemble: Aleph Gitarrenquartett.

  • The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra

    Free Improvisation

    Orchestra: The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra.
    • 20/20.
    • NEWJAiM.
    • 12.

  • Karen Power

    Can you hear me now???

    Performer: Katherine Wren.

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  • Last Saturday 22:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3

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