Good Morning

BBC Radio 3

Sunny day
but it is damn blustery.
Been to the local shop to get some food, a bottle of wine and cider.

Listening to BBC Radio 3," Discovery and Invention", a series of some of the best live recordings from the BBC Symphony Orch., BBC Scottish Orchetra, and BBC Concert Orchestra.
What I love is all the new music they commissioned over the years.

And some of my fave composers -

Anna Meredith
Jonathan Harvey
Harrison Birtwistle
Thomas Ades
Mark Anthony Turnage
James Dillon
and more besides -

I suppose I am very much more into contemporary or modern composers that includes serialism, minimalism, spectralism. and new complexity. You can extend that to acousmatic, and electro-acoustic composers.

When the BBC Proms are back this year I do intend to go once all this COVID shit is over.

Anna Meredith

Fairly new to me but only discovered through Wire and BBC Radio 3 is the Scottish composer and avant popster, Anna Meredith.

So here is a selection of her wonderful inclusive music - starting with an audiovisual delightful piece form the BBC Proms.


BBC Proms: Anna Meredith: Five Telegrams - Sender & Receiver (2018)

Her current and second "pop" album from 2019 "FIBS" includes this delightful electronic pop number -


ANNA MEREDITH - Sawbones

And apparently, this was the single form FIBS -

ANNA MEREDITH - Paramour

Wow! Such highly energetic music. I love it! So yes I do have FIBS in my collection.

And finally another live event -

Anna Meredith: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Anna Meredith was a former BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Composer in Residence. The songs performed here come from her 2016 release called Varmints, which is where two of the three songs performed here can be found. It's been a long while since a contemporary composer has captured my musical imagination. I hope and trust this will open many to a new way of thinking about what music is and what it can do.

SET LIST
"Nautilus"
"Ribbons"
"The Vapours"

MUSICIANS
Anna Meredith, Jack Ross, Tom Kelly, Sam Wilson, Maddie Cutter

ENJOY

This one is for pigshitpoet and coming42

Finally ,,,