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Rubbish Music

Jennifer Lucy Allan dumpster dives to share music made from and inspired by the world of rubbish, exploring the world of instruments made of recycled materials and odes to waste.

It’s not just any old rubbish this week on Late Junction: Jennifer Lucy Allan dumpster dives to share music made from and inspired by the world of waste, rummaging through her bins to bring you music from instruments made of recycled materials and odes to waste management. As London’s Design Museum launches their exhibition asking how we can reinvent our relationship with waste, Late Junction explores how artists have made music with and about literal rubbish.

Embracing the concept of ‘one man's rubbish is another man's treasure’, there’ll be plenty of music made by instruments created from things others have thrown away, from the likes of the Congolese eco-friendly collective Fulu Miziki, sculptor of found objects Lonnie Holley, and the plastic-obsessed electronic duo Matmos. There’ll be field recordings from a Materials Recovery Facility in Massachusetts, as well as the sounds of British post-punk trio Trash Kit. Plus brand new releases elsewhere in the show, including György Ligeti reimagined by a chorus of teenagers with composer Marina Rosenfeld and fuzzy ambience from Nigerian sound artist and violist Ibukun Sunday.

This episode was first broadcast on 22/10/21.

Produced by Katie Callin
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Music Played

  • The Cramps

    Garbageman

    • Bad Music For Bad People.
    • I.R.S. Records.

  • Ernst Karel

    Materials Recovery Facility

    • Materials Recovery Facility.

  • Fungistanbul

    Trash Oriental / Çer-Çöp Havası

  • Hence Therefore

    Signal Drift 1

    • Signal Drift.

  • Lonnie Holley

    Earthly Things

    • Just Before Music.
    • Dust-To-Digital.

  • C Joynes

    Barricades

    • Poor Boy On The Wire.
    • Sophomore Lounge.

  • Marina Rosenfeld

    roygbiv&b (excerpt)

    • Teenage Lontano.
    • Room40.

  • SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL

    RingRingRiddim

    • Presents Ragga Preservation Society - Worldwide Sound.
    • Diskotopia.

  • Juçara Marçal

    Sem Cais

    • Delta Estácio Blues.
    • QTV Selo.

  • Sikiru Ayinde Barrister

    New Fuji Garbage

    • New Fuji Garbage.
    • Globe Style.

  • Matmos

    The Singing Tube

    • Plastic Anniversary.
    • Thrill Jockey.

  • Bow Gamelan Ensemble

    Massed Percussion

    • Great Noises That Fill The Air.
    • Klinker Zoundz.

  • George Coleman

    I Wish I Could Sing

    • Bongo Joe.
    • Arhoolie Records.

  • Carola Baer

    Maker Of Me

    • The Story of Valerie.
    • Concentric Circles.

  • Trash Kit

    Disco

    • Horizon.
    • Upset! The Rhythm.

  • FULU MIZIKI

    Mokili Makambo (feat. Sekelembele)

    • Ngbaka.
    • Moshi Moshi.

  • Ibukun Sunday

    Last Earth

    • The Last Wave.
    • Phantom Limb.

  • Myriam Gendron

    Shenandoah (II)

    • Ma Delire - Songs of Love Lost & Found.
    • Feeding Tube Records.

  • Milan Knížák

    Composition N.2

    • Broken Music.
    • Sub Rosa.

  • Oneohtrix Point Never & Elizabeth Fraser

    Tales From The Trash Stratum

    • Tales From The Trash Stratum.
    • Warp Records.

  • Pamela Z

    In The Other World

    • Echolocation.
    • Z Music.

  • Benjamin Duvall

    Piper at the crates of dawn

  • Carlos Niño

    Thanking The Earth (feat. Nate Mercereau & Sam Gendel)

    • More Energy Fields, Current.
    • International Anthem Recording Company.

  • Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy

    He Hu

    • SON.
    • Carrying Colour Records.

  • Aïsha Devi

    The Favor Of Fire (Equiknoxx Remix) (feat. Gavsborg & Shanique Marie)

    • S.L.F. Versions.
    • Houndstooth.

  • Adam Cadell

    Surrounded by detritus to make new home in this my birth place

    • In The Court of No One Knows What.

  • Rammellzee

    Jamin Zabar Jamin Zabar

    • Bi-Conicals Of The Rammellzee.
    • Gomma.

  • Barbara Lynn

    Poor Old Trashman

    • Movin' On A Groove.
    • Demon Records.

  • Grouper

    The way her hair falls

    • Shade.
    • Kranky.

Broadcasts

  • Fri 22 Oct 2021 23:00
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  • Fri 3 Jun 2022 23:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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