On Saturday 4th July, BBC Radio 3’s “Hear and Now” features music from 2009’s Cut & Splice: Living Rooms festival, from Wilton’s Music Hall in London. This festival of electronic music and sound art, co-promoted by Hear and Now and the Sound and Music organisation, features work inspired by and utilising the domestic environment.
The broadcast includes a recording of Carl Michael von Hausswolff and John Duncan in duet, creating an intense electroacoustic climax to the festival.
CD - 4 tracks
Track listing:
Track A: Day and Night 27:14
1. Day
2. Night
3. Alas!
Track B
4. The Sleeper in the Valley 13:32
I was approached by my old friend and Radium 226.05 colleague Ulrich Hillebrand, now director of Angered Theatre in Göteborg. He informed me that there was a new play in the process of being written by author and theorist Michael Azar called "Jag är en annan" (I is another) stemming form the famous letter written by Arthur Rimbaud in his youth. The play uses Rimbaud's life from being a young poet in Charleville ending with him being the trader in Harar, Ethiopia. Hillebrand asked me if I was willing to compose the music to this play. I accepted. I told Hillebrand that I needed to use material that had something to do with Rimbaud's life and as he had connections in Ethiopia and in the small city of Harar he said: why don't you go to Harar for 10 days and see what you can find?
So I went to Addis Ababa where a guy was waiting for me and drove me the 10 hours beautiful ride to Harar. I made recordings and looked for other useful material.