Mary Lattimore’s Listening Chair

Elizabeth Alker welcomes the American harpist and composer Mary Lattimore into the Unclassified Listening Chair to share a track that transports her elsewhere. Mary uses her harp alongside perfectly-placed effects to conjure impressionistic musical worlds forged out of memory and movement - one critic suggested she has, 'the uncanny ability to pluck a string in a way that will instantly make someone remember the taste of their fifth birthday cake.' Committed to the creativity that comes from both improvisation and collaboration, Mary has worked with artists including Thurston Moore, Sharon Van Etten and Jarvis Cocker on albums such as ’Hundreds of Days,’ ‘Silver Ladders’ and ’Goodbye, Hotel Arkada’. Elsewhere in the programme, Elizabeth selects fresh music from genre-defying artists who take us on a journey through landscapes of ambient and experimental sounds.

Produced by Geoff Bird
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3