Ambient Inventions
Elizabeth Alker with a late-night journey through new music from today’s most exciting genre-defying artists.
Join Elizabeth Alker for a selection of fresh music from genre-defying artists as we journey through landscapes of ambient and experimental sounds. Along the way, we'll hear from emerging independent producers whose work plays with orchestral textures and classical form as well as the latest sounds from a new generation of contemporary composers who look to embrace the spirit of rock, pop and electronica.
Produced by Geoff Bird
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VOCES8
For Now I Am Winter
- Winter.
- Decca.
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Gabriel Prokofiev
Soft Sorb
Orchestra: The F.A.M.E.S. Orchestra. Performer: Etienne Abelin. Performer: Viviana-Zarah Baudis.- Dark Lights.
- Nonclassical.
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Isobel Waller-Bridge
Tapes
- Tapes.
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Memotone
Glimpse
- Smallest Things.
- World of EcHO.
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Stepmother
Drunk
- Bring Me Flowers And Tell Me You Love Me.
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Drexler
Kirrikee
- Kirrikee.
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tUnE-yArDs
Siren
- Tell the Future With Your Body.
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Max Richter
River (It's Coming On Christmas)
- River (It's Coming On Christmas).
- Decca.
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Hen Ogledd
Scales Will Fall
- Discombobulated.
- Weird World.
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Ludwig Berger
Between Water in Circuitry
- Ecotonalities: No Other Home Than The In-Between.
- Ous.
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Laura Cannell
The Drones of Winterlore
- Winterlore.
- Brawl Records.
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Sufjan Stevens
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
- Songs for Christmas.
- Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Broadcast
- Sun 30 Nov 202523:30BBC Radio 3
What is unclassified music?
Elizabeth Alker introduces five of her favourite 'unclassifiable' pieces of music.
