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Industrial memories and free-wheeling jazz

Verity Sharp presents sonic highlights from Barnsley’s Abandon Normal Devices festival, and plays music from Jon Waine, Fågelbörs and Thorn Wych.

Verity Sharp shares sounds and words from Abandon Normal Devices, a nomadic, site-specific experimental multimedia festival that is held in Barnsley at the end of September. Among the highlights are a newly commissioned work from Berlin-based 4D spatial sound collective MONOM (excavating the acoustic memory of Barnsley's industrial past) as well as an extract from Egyptian electronic producer ZULI, who has scored a film documenting the shifting landscapes of the Nile Delta.

Elsewhere in the programme: a resurfaced recording from “afro nu-wave muzic” outfit Jon Waine: free-wheeling spiritual jazz courtesy of Finnish group Fågelbörs; and occult music from Thorn Wych, made on instruments carved from the branches of a tree.

Produced by Silvia Malnati
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

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1 hour, 29 minutes

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  • Fri 9 Oct 202622:00

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