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The Song of the Vending Machine

Verity Sharp listens to the late-night singing of vending machines, revisits Sun Ra’s classic album Lanquidity, and we salute pioneering composer Alvin Lucier on his 90th birthday.

Verity Sharp listens to the secret music made by vending machines, including a particularly talented hot chocolate machine in Turin and a singing machine in a Swedish hospital which inspired the latest album by Joakim Forsgren and Andreas Hiroui Larsson. Andreas describes how the machine was empty, atmospherically lit up and emanated an electrical hum. They were ‘captivated by the fact that it sold us nothing and at the same time performed for us’.

Also on the programme: we revisit Sun Ra’s classic album Lanquidity ahead of its reissue; we hear the latest soul-infused release by LA musician Georgia Anne Muldrow; and we celebrate the composer Alvin Lucier on his 90th birthday.

Produced by Alannah Chance
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Fri 14 May 2021 23:00
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Music Played

  • Stephono-ZIP

    Feedback 8 - The automatic hot chocolate vending machine

    • Feedbacks (1​+​2​+​3) field recordings + synthesizers.

  • Los Kings

    Let´s start (Empecemos)

    • Color De Trópico Vol 2.
    • El Palmas Music.

  • Anton Bruhin

    1st poem

    • Speech Poems / Fruity Music.
    • Black Truffle.

  • Maja S. K. Ratkje

    Vannstand - Bergen A

    • Vannstand.
    • Motvind Records.

  • Tirzah

    Send Me

    • Send Me.
    • Domino Recording Co.

  • Yasmin Williams

    Through the Woods

    • Urban Driftwood.
    • Spinster Sounds.

  • DINOSAWROID-MANE

    190809

    • AOB.
    • Opal Tapes.

  • Joakim Forsgren & Andreas Hiroui Larsson

    Vacation

    • Vending Machine.
    • thanatosis.

  • Sun Ra

    Twin Stars of Thence (Alternate Mix)

    • Lanquidity (Definitive Edition).
    • Strut.

  • Chimudon, Mashibato & Togus Ziguradan

    The Venerable Genghis Khan (Mongolia)

    • Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History Of The World's Music.
    • Dust-to-Digital.

  • Microtub

    Sonic Drift

    • Sonic Drift.
    • Sofa Music.

  • Kae Tempest

    Lessons

    • The Book Of Traps And Lessons.
    • American Recordings.

  • John Bowers & Tim Shaw

    I Am Sitting In A Zoom (Shaw)

    • I Am Sitting In A Zoom.

  • Jean-Philippe Gross & Jérôme Noetinger

    Cadavre 5

    • Nos cadavres.
    • EICH.

  • Count Lasher

    Perseverance (Jamaica)

    • Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History Of The World's Music.
    • Dust-to-Digital.

  • anrimeal

    Hello And A Half (feat. Butterfly Child)

    • Could Divine, Remembered.
    • Demo Records / Crossness Records.

  • August, Yours Truly

    Lady Angel

    • In The Eyes of God.

  • Khalab & M'berra Ensemble

    Desert Storm

    • M'berra.
    • Real World Records.

  • Anton Bruhin

    4th poem

    • Speech Poems / Fruity Music.
    • Black Truffle.

  • This is Pan

    Third Eye

    • Animal Heart.

  • New Age Steppers

    Radial Drill

    • New Age Steppers.
    • Missing Link Records.

  • Giancarlo nino Locatelli & Alberto Braida

    ninna nanna

    • from here from there.
    • WE INSIST!.

  • Felicity Ford & Paul Whitty

    Richard Hamilton Building Vending Machine being serviced

    • Sound Diaries Project.

Broadcast

  • Fri 14 May 2021 23:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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