Program 820: Cat Hope and Iain Sinclair
KALW Broadcast Date: April 6, 2025 | Host: Ed Herrmann
This program begins and ends with references to Percy Grainger. Australian composer Cat Hope uses pitch tracking and spectral processing to realize Grainger’s concept of Free Music, an idea inspired by watching waves on a lake. British writer and filmmaker Iain Sinclair, whose work is associated with psychogeography, reads his story “Dark Before Dark,” about a mysterious box that appears on the beach, and should never be opened, while accompanied by the London Experimental Ensemble. The show opens with Hazel Scott’s jazzy improvisation on Grainger’s “Country Gardens.”
Program Audio
30-Second Spot
Track Info & Links
Title: Country Gardens
Composer: Percy Grainger
Performer: Hazel Scott
Recording Title: Hazel Scott 1939–1945
Record Label: Classics Records
Catalog Number: 1308
Title: Mississippi Goddam
Composer: Nina Simone
Performer: Nina Simone
Recording Title: Forever Young, Gifted & Black
Record Label: Sony
Title: Blue Monk
Composer: Thelonious Monk
Performer: Abbey Lincoln
Recording Title: Straight Ahead
Record Label: Candid
Catalog Number: 30152
Title: It’s After the End of the World
Composer: Sun Ra
Performers: June Tyson & Sun Ra Arkestra
Recording Title: Space Is the Place (book, DVD, CD)
Record Label: Harte Recordings
Title: What’s To Say
Composer: Joseph Jarman
Performer: Art Ensemble of Chicago
Recording Title: Fanfare for the Warriors
Record Label: Atlantis
Catalog Number: 1651
Title: Dark Before Dark
Composer: Iain Sinclair (text)
Performers: Iain Sinclair & London Experimental Ensemble
Recording Title: Dark Before Dark
Record Label: 577 Records
Catalog Number: 5863
Title: Kaps Freed
Composer: Cat Hope
Performer: Gabriella Smart
Recording Title: Works for Travelled Pianos
Record Label: ezz-thetics
Catalog Number: 1012
