For anyone allergic to metal

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat 23 May
10pm - New Music Show
Kate Molleson with new music recorded live in concert. Plus interviews and features.

Adam Stanovic - Metallurgic

Frank Denyer - String Quartet

Ying Wang - Schmutz

Stevie Wishart - Eurostar: A Journey Between Cities in Sound

George Benjamin - Ringed by the Flat Horizon

Nomi Epstein - Combine, Juxtapose, Delayed Overlap

Pierre-Yves Macé - Rhapsodie sur fond vert

(Well, I mean, it's gotta be better than in blue .)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jg8c

[MrGongGong]

Thanks for this

I didn't know that Frank had written a string quartet.
A bit of a departure for him IMV
unless it's for

Viola, Horse-head fiddle, Kantele & bowed monochord
(and the players wear Ghungroos on their ankles)

[Quarky]

I get the impression that Kate Molleson may be one of those "Allergic to Metal".

Otherwise, a very good selection.

[Bryn]

Thanks for this

I didn't know that Frank had written a string quartet.
A bit of a departure for him IMV
unless it's for

Viola, Horse-head fiddle, Kantele & bowed monochord
(and the players wear Ghungroos on their ankles)

Oops! I still have not listened to this edition of the 'show'. Only another 50 minutes or so of this glorious rag to go.

[Quarky]

The best New Music Show for me so far, since the rebranding from Hear And Now. Overall a consistently good selection of works, let down for me only by Denyer's overly-long String Quartet.

Yes, I was unimpressed by Denyer, but hesitant to criticise it, in case I was missing the point.

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes, I was unimpressed by Denyer, but hesitant to criticise it, in case I was missing the point.

Have courage in your convictions, young man - if not in any criminal ones!

(If it was, for example - and naming no names - a conviction for sticking a poster advertising a Reclaim The Night demo on an electricity junction box in Bristol, sometime around 1979, then that's OK ).

[Bryn]

. . . (If it was, for example - and naming no names - a conviction for sticking a poster advertising a Reclaim The Night demo on an electricity junction box in Bristol, sometime around 1979, then that's OK ).

How about avoiding being charged with criminal damage for tearing of NF stickers from telephone junction boxes? I suspect the constables in question were concerned about that a stipendiary magistrate might make of the circumstances.

[Serial_Apologist]

How about avoiding being charged with criminal damage for tearing of NF stickers from telephone junction boxes? I suspect the constables in question were concerned about that a stipendiary magistrate might make of the circumstances.

I remember saying to the young police officer who then booked me, "Looks good placed there, right on the pedestrian crossing where lots of people can see it, don't you think?"

The usual practice when we were at it involved sticking our posters over theirs: one of the sisters incurred a £200 fine, inclusive of costs, for "criminal damage" to the underside of a railway bridge, (er, train bridge), for so doing: a lot of money back in them days.

[MrGongGong]

Loved Frank's quartet
Having studied with him and heard more or less everything he has made in the last 35 years it is an interesting addition to an extraordinary body of work.

Adam's piece was good n'all

Not heard the rest yet

[Boilk]

Loved Frank's quartet
Having studied with him and heard more or less everything he has made in the last 35 years it is an interesting addition to an extraordinary body of work.

I suspect that having known someone for many years somewhat skews one's usual objectivity in critiquing their music. Hearing Denyer's music is surely a little inseparable from some nostalgia of student days?

Adam's piece was good n'all

Had never heard of Adam Stanović but may well now get his release on empreintes DIGITALes.

De Montfort University's Convergence Festival seems to throw up consistently good pieces - glad the lockdown has forced the NMS to revisit its archive of live recordings.

[MrGongGong]

I suspect that having known someone for many years somewhat skews one's usual objectivity in critiquing their music. Hearing Denyer's music is surely a little inseparable from some nostalgia of student days?

Not nostalgia really... and there's never "usual objectivity" anyway

Had never heard of Adam Stanović but may well now get his release on empreintes DIGITALes.

De Montfort University's Convergence Festival seems to throw up consistently good pieces - glad the lockdown has forced the NMS to revisit its archive of live recordings.

A couldn't possibly comment

[Serial_Apologist]

A couldn't possibly comment

I expect he'll be ordering in boilk!

[Quarky]

Have courage in your convictions, young man - if not in any criminal ones!

(If it was, for example - and naming no names - a conviction for sticking a poster advertising a Reclaim The Night demo on an electricity junction box in Bristol, sometime around 1979, then that's OK ).

My problem was I didn't have any convictions, civil or otherwise. I had listened to the "Show" three times, but each time Denyer floated beneath my power of perception - hence literally unimpressed. Listening a fourth time, I gather it is meant to be in an undertone or undervoice, and illustrates that a single solitary voice, when joined by others, has a lot to say. I didn't find there was a lot said in the Denyer piece.