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Fun House Mirrors: Interview with composer Charles Uzor

This interview with composer Charles Uzor discusses melody, timbre, texture, mimicry, guitars, accordions, Ligeti, and more. We listen to a work...

In this interview and listening session with Linda Catlin Smith we listen to and discuss unusual music. We hear Smith’s strange...

Chris Newman’s weird parlour songs first came to via a friend at York University during postgraduate study. At first they didn’t...

Ailbhe joins me to listen to the viola, the violin, some guitars, a horse-hair harp, some outside jazz and a sewing...

New radio show with ResonanceFM. First episode is a collage of previous exchanges with Martin Arnold on the Codex Chantilly, Sublime...

Strange meandering lines that I wish would go forever. They kinda do. Arnold says: “I’ve always maintained that all the music...

Listen to the music of Martin Arnold, Rudolf Komorous, Archie Shepp, Jessie Mae Hemphill, and Nightjars. Martin is a brilliant thinker...

How guitars and banjo can be so themselves and so strange at the same time. Experimental composition with the energy of...

An eclectic radio show on Glasgow’s Clyde Built Radio. We listen to a song of mine, Sonic Youth, composer Allison Cameron,...

“Madame Press Died Last Week at 90” is a weird and beautiful work by Feldman, here performed by John Adams conducting...

“My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell” brings so many sounds, genres, moods together. It’s a lovely trip. My Magic Dreams...