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Highlights from Hidden Notes

Elizabeth Alker presents a special edition of Unclassified recorded at Hidden Notes festival in Stroud, with music from Maria W Horn, Afromerm and Leon Michener.

Elizabeth Alker is in Stroud to present a special edition of Unclassified recorded at the Gloucestershire town's annual two-day celebration of contemporary music, Hidden Notes. Like Unclassified, the festival prides itself on bringing together an eclectic bill of artists who are all, in their own ways, looking to re-imagine the boundaries of musical genres. In the show, we鈥檒l hear highlights from three live sets: Maria W Horn combines analogue synthesisers with acoustic instruments and choral melodies to explore timbre, space and memory; Leon Michener performs on a "hacked clavichord" that makes use of found objects and Meccano; and afromerm mixes electronic elements with live instrumentation, spoken and sung vocalisations, and her self-built motion-reactive instrument, Juniper.

Produced by Geoff Bird
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Sunday 23:30

Music Played

  • afromerm

    held

    • Live at Hidden Notes, 2026.
  • Maria W Horn

    Melting Pillars of Snow

    • Live at Hidden Notes, 2026.
  • Maria W Horn

    Empyrean Flare

    • Live at Hidden Notes, 2026.
  • Maria W Horn

    Scythe of Saturn

    • Live at Hidden Notes, 2026.
  • Maria W Horn

    Ouverture

    • Live at Hidden Notes, 2026.
  • Leon Michener

    Air loops into ground

    • Live at Hidden Notes, 2026.
  • afromerm

    Colours at Full Moon

    • Live at Hidden Notes, 2026.
  • afromerm

    She Had Sun

    • Live at Hidden Notes, 2026.

Broadcast

  • Sunday 23:30

What is unclassified music?

What is unclassified music?

Elizabeth Alker introduces five of her favourite 'unclassifiable' pieces of music.