BBC Radio 3 Late Junction: GAIKA on sampling
Artist and composer GAIKA joins Jen ahead of his event at the EFG London Jazz Festival. For this year’s edition he’s collaborating with musicians Azekel and Miink at London’s Cafe…
Artist and composer GAIKA joins Jen ahead of his event at the EFG London Jazz Festival. For this year’s edition he’s collaborating with musicians Azekel and Miink at London’s Cafe…
Jennifer Lucy Allan presents the latest in our exclusive Late Junction collaboration sessions with a meeting of musical minds from across the Atlantic via the power of the internet. In…
Oren Ambarchi is a guitarist, composer and musical polymath with a reputation for deconstructing genre; combining elements of free jazz, rock and contemporary composition. His work hops from modern electronics…
Jennifer Lucy Allan shares a recent composition by Scottish jazz outsider Bill Wells, performed by young brass players from Glasgow as well as sludgy drones from Japanese doom-metal band Boris,…
We continue to plunder the recordings from our Lateness stage at TUSK Virtual, an annual festival in the north east that focuses on left-of-centre music. In partnership with Radio 3’s…
Jennifer Lucy Allan presents a 30-minute mixtape compiled by the genre-bending Egyptian producer ZULI. Ahmed El Ghazoly, aka ZULI, produces music at the intersection of techno, jungle, grime and hip…
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…
Verity Sharp digs deep to uncover the sounds of the underground. Prepare to do some deep listening and tap into the world beneath our feet as Late Junction goes subterranean.…
Jennifer Lucy Allan navigates the uncharted waters of adventurous music. En route we take in the tropical synthesizer sounds of Venezuelan producer Molero whose soundscapes prod at the exoticisation of…
Verity Sharp presents a 30-minute mixtape compiled by legendary singer Diamanda Galás, who chooses an array of works from her favourite avant-garde composers. After debuting with the San Diego Symphony…
Verity Sharp presents a 30-minute mixtape compiled by the legendary musician and artist Limpe Fuchs. Her selections include R Carlos Nakai, Klaus Nomi, and Staff Benda Bilili. Across a 40-year…
Spoiler alert: Verity Sharp starts at the end featuring an album of new compositions made entirely out of the final note of existing songs. The End of Music by Morusque…
Verity Sharp presents one of the strangest reissues this year, which brings together computer music pioneers David Behrman and Paul DeMarinis and artists Fern Friedman, Terri Hanlon and Anne Klingensmith…
Verity Sharp presents a home-recorded collaboration session from musicians Georgia Ellery of Jockstrap and Jamie xx. Georgia Ellery is a composer, musician and actor, and one half of the surrealist…
Hallo zusammen. Wenn ich auf meinen Terminkalender schaue werde ich ganz traurig. So viele Konzerte die nicht stattfinden und kein Ende ist in Sicht. Nicht ganz. Mit etwas Glück gibt…
Verity Sharp splinters the barrier between noise and quiet, playing pieces which probe the pregnant pause, the hushed tone and the deafening silence. Verity Sharp listens to the silence in…
Paul Purgas joins Verity Sharp to explore the lost history of India’s electronic avant-garde and we play music from Saharan WhatsApp messages and a new piece from Okkyung Lee. Paul…
Hallo zusammen. Es sind seltsame und verwirrende Zeiten. Mangels aktuellen Konzerten werden die Radio-Archive durchsucht und so finden viele Perlen wieder ihre Hörer. Überhaupt scheint es einen Zeittunnel zu geben.…
Experimental music and art pieces containing phone calls. Verity Sharp hangs on the telephone with Captain Beefheart and Captain Maurice Seddon. Telephone calls and remote communications are all the rage…
Have we lost the art of doing nothing? We live in a world that reveres the busy and productive, but what about the daydreamers and the dropouts? While many of…
Verity Sharp presents a mixtape of cutting edge electronics by producer Loraine James and we bring the outside in with field recordings from around the world. Cutting-edge producer Loraine James…
From her house, Jennifer Lucy Allan presents a programme populated with DIY, lo-fi, homemade music. Featured artists include Poul Gernes and Robert Ashley. From a newly built, DIY den-slash-studio in…
Verity Sharp with a stellar improvised session from a drummer and cellist who have never met or played together before. Plus a tribute to Cecil Taylor. Abel Selaocoe and Sarathy…
Tape loops, the earliest recording of reverb and the world’s longest echo. Verity Sharp explores the echo chambers of adventurous music. Verity Sharp explores the echo chambers of adventurous music.…
Jennifer Lucy Allan creates and considers sonic safe spaces with her guest, academic Mack Hagood. Hear work from composer Daniel Fishkin and violinist Mandhira de Saram. Noise-cancelling headphones, white noise,…
Verity Sharp presents a collaboration between two artists who’ve never met before, writer and reader-outer Roy Claire Potter and Korean multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha. Influenced by linguistics and performance theory, Roy…
Verity Sharp presents a mixtape by the Berlin-based electronic producer Ziúr, and we play apocalyptic rebetika and music for turntables and accordion. Verity Sharp hands over 30 minutes of the…
Does the avant garde fall in love? Can you fall in love with a spoon? As couples across the country finish their Valentines dinner for two, Jennifer Lucy Allan settles…
Join Verity Sharp for the late-night showing. Expect weird and wonderful cinematic sounds. To mark the 92nd Academy Awards we feature some of the weirder and more wonderful film music…
Verity Sharp hears from Berlin-based composer, academic and artist Holly Herndon. Herndon is interested in our complicated relationship with technology, often using the voice to explore the boundaries between the…