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Raven Chacon: How to imitate a chair scraping along the floor

Native American composer Raven Chacon talks to Hear and Now about the variety of ways he recreates his sound of the week - the sound of a chair being pulled along a floor. Whether it's the hard scratching of strings in Journey of the Horizontal People written for the Kronos Quartet, or the piece Atsiniltlish鈥� iye, for flute, clarinet, bassoon, cello and percussion, or even his electronic work featuring the scratching of mull deer antlers against glass, Chacon has found a variety of inventive ways to recreate this sound.

This edition of Sound of the Week first appeared on Hear & Now on Saturday 17th March 2018.

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