BBC Radio 3 Late Junction: What’s a performance without a live audience? …
Ahead of Late Junction heading to the TUSK Virtual 2020 festival to host an online stage, we look at the phenomenon of remote performances that have proliferated over lockdown. Can the electricity of being in the same room, the communal experience of togetherness, be replicated through an electronic screen? Or is this the future for more sustainable, accessible live music?
Verity Sharp is joined by Fielding Hope, who runs experimental arts venue Cafe Oto in east London, to discuss how artists have adapted their performance for the virtual space and the music that has been created in response to these restraints.
Elsewhere, there’s Tunisian electronics inspired by Hindu mythology, solo violin experimentations based on space telescope data and field recordings of sonic landscapes imagining a biologically enhanced future.
Produced by Katie Callin.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
Playlist:
1 Ute Kanngiesser – 5am
2 Peter Broderick – Stop and Listen
3 Sunny Blacks Band – Se Ba Ho
4 Zuli – Kiwi Meld
5 Ammar 808 – Marivere gati
6 Martin Green – The Portal
7 Cosmo Sheldrake – Nightjar
8 Elite Barbarian – Gnat Trap
9 Zoe Gilby – River Man
10 Elaine Mitchener – Improvisation
11 Lil‘ Jurg Frey – Live Performance
12 Nine Inch Nails – I’m not from this world
13 Biga Yut – Walah
14 Τάσος Στάμου – Drama
15 Psarandonis – Mikio Kopelidaki
16 Michi Wiancko – Planetary Candidate
17 Mort Garson – Dragonfly
18 Sophia Loizou – Celestial Web
19 Oren Ambarchi – Salt
20 Johnnie Frierson – Have you been good to yourself