What does a hurdy-gurdy sound like?
Jennifer Lucy Allan cranks out the tunes for a hurdy-gurdy special of avant-garde and traditional exploitations of this most modern-sounding instrument.
Jennifer Lucy Allan cranks out the tunes for a hurdy-gurdy special of avant-garde and traditional exploitations of this most modern-sounding instrument.
Its name sounds more like a ride at the fair but in fact, the hurdy-gurdy is an instrument that produces sound by a hand crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against strings. The wheel functions like a violin bow, and creates drones that a melody can be played over, much like a bagpipe. Its intriguing sound, look and name mean the hurdy-gurdy has been used in a variety of musical styles and genres. Jennifer Lucy Allan shares some of the more unusual performances by the likes of Keiji Haino, Cyclobe, Matmos, and Stevie Wishart.
Produced by Rebecca Gaskell.
A Reduced Listening Production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3.
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The Sound Of Feeling
Hurdy Gurdy Man
- Spleen.
- Limelight ?.
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La T¨¨ne
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- Bongo Joe.
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Fred Frith, Stevie Wishart & Carla Kihlstedt
Postcard From The Back
- The Compass, Log, And Lead.
- Intakt Records ?.
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Carolina Eyck
Commemoration
- Elegies for Theremin & Voice.
- Butterscotch.
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Equiknoxx
Solomon Is A Cup
- Eternal Children.
- Equiknoxx Music.
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Matmos
Regicide
- The Civil War.
- P-Vine Records ?.
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Keiji Haino
Untitled
- ΚΦοLΗΩ The 21st Century Hard-Y-Guide-Y Man.
- P.S.F. Records ?.
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Cyclobe
Brightness Falls From The Air
- The Visitors.
- Phantomcode.
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Kumio Kurachi
Glittery Lip Sticks In Spring
- Sound Of Turning Earth.
- Bison ?.
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Luis Perez
In Altepetl Tonal
- Ipan In Xiktli Metzli, M¨¦xico M¨Άgico C¨®smico, En El Ombligo De La Luna..
- ISSSTE.
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Henri Vasson
La Bouree D'Aurillac
- Hurdy Gurdy Music / Le Maitre-Sonneur Henri Vasson.
- Folkways Records ?.
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Laurie Anderson
Lotus Born, No Need To Fear
Composer: Tenzin Choegyal. Composer: Jesse Paris Smith.- Songs From The Bardo.
- Smithsonian Folkways.
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Charlie Megira
Tomorrow Is Gone = ??? ??? ???
- The Abtomatic Miesterzinger Mambo.
- Pit/kit ?.
Broadcast
- Wed 14 Aug 2019 23:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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