Cut And Splice - Living Rooms [Hear And Now]

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01Cut And Splice20090627Robert Worby reports from 2009's Cut & Splice: Living Rooms festival, from Wilton's Music Hall in London. This festival of electronic music and sound art, co-promoted by Hear and Now and the Sound and Music organisation, features work inspired by and utilising the domestic environment.

Veteran American composer Alvin Lucier brings music which works on the resonant character of a room space, Aki Onda mixes soundscapes recorded on portable cassette and Tape That present their catalogue of sound objects.

Domestic Appliance Audio Research Society (DAARS) (extract) (12:34)

Tape That: Catalogue (extract) (10:32)

Catalogue Number 033 Shake spray and ring too

Catalogue Number 009 Ventilator and feedback

Catalogue Number 078 Mikes on and mikes off

Catalogue Number 106 Mike hits and feedbacks

Catalogue Number 107 Mike in hand with sliding arc

Catalogue Number 037 Dog feedback

Catalogue Number 049 Shellac versus the youth

Catalogue Number 047 Breeze on street

Catalogue Number 54b Doing the rag II

Catalogue Number 112 Street panning

Catalogue Number 099 In the basement

Catalogue Number 088 Walking the bike

Catalogue Number 093 Japanese soup

Christophe Meierhans (samples, mixer, microphones)

Koen Nutters (objects, minidiscs, cds, microphones, mixer)

Package: Robert Worby explores sound installations by Mark Vernon, Brandon LaBelle and Erik Belgum

Aki Onda (extract) (14:41)

Alvin Lucier: Still Lives (26:59)

1. Sunlight Diamond

2. Hammock

3. Barbecue Grill

4. Lamp Shade

5. Two Floor Tiles

6. Ferns

7. Bread Knife

8. Chop Sticks

Performed by Anthony Burr (piano)

With Alvin Lucier (electronics)

Robert Worby presents music inspired by the domestic environment from Alvin Lucier.

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

0220090704Robert Worby presents the programme from 2009's Cut & Splice: Living Rooms festival, from Wilton's Music Hall in London. This festival of electronic music and sound art, co-promoted by Hear and Now and the Sound and Music organisation, features work inspired by and utilising the domestic environment.

Brandon LaBelle examines the small pastimes of the home, Jason Lescalleet creates a new work using recordings made in Wilton's, and the duo of Carl Michael von Hausswolff and John Duncan create an intense electroacoustic climax to the festival.

Alvin Lucier: In Memoriam Jon Higgins (19:50)

Anthony Burr (clarinet)

Alvin Lucier (electronics)

Jason Lescalleet: Meditation for a Room (extract) (14:00)

Jason Lescalleet (tape loops and electronics)

Artists Discussion with Alvin Lucier, Brandon LaBelle, Bob Lavene and Robert Worby

Brandon LaBelle: Cloudy (extract) (13:10)

Matthew Lee Knowles (piano)

Brandon LaBelle (film)

Carl Michael von Hausswolff & John Duncan: Nocturnal Denizens (extract) (15:08)

Carl Michael von Hausswolff (electronics)

John Duncan (electronics)

Robert Worby presents music inspired by the domestic environment from Brandon LaBelle.

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions