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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (1/4): Ghost Trance Music

Kate Molleson presents a live performance of Anthony Braxton's Composition 284 by guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe and turntablist Mariam Rezai.

Kate Molleson presents live from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the first of four programmes from this long-running key event in the new music world. Tonight we hear a live performance of Anthony Braxton's Composition 284 - part of the composer's Ghost Trance Music system - by guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe and turntablist Mariam Rezai. Also tonight, the eight trumpets of the Monochrome Project perform a new work by one of this year's featured composers, Wadada Leo Smith, keyboardist Zubin Kanga plays the dazzling music of Alex Paxton, and Tom Service explores Yrttitarha, one of the multimedia installations at the festival, an interactive herb garden from Finnish artist Tytti Arola.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Anthony Braxton

    Composition 284 - Ghost Trance Music

    Ensemble: Ghost Trance Duo.
  • Unsuk Chin

    Gran Cadenza

    Ensemble: Arditti Quartet.
  • Perttu Haapanen

    intoNations

    Performer: Hanna Hohti. Performer: Anders Pohjola.
  • Wadada Leo Smith

    Flight of the Eagle: The Sonic Memorial of Jiddu Krishnamurti

    Ensemble: Monochrome Project.
  • Alex Paxton

    Car-Pig

    Performer: Zubin Kanga.

Broadcast

  • Sat 23 Nov 2024 22:30

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