Hear and Now - Cut & Splice: Living Rooms - Cut & Splice

Robert Worby reports from 2009's Cut & Splice: Living Rooms festival, from Wilton's Music Hall in London. This festival of electronic music and sound art, co-promoted by Hear and Now and the Sound and Music organisation, features work inspired by and utilising the domestic environment. Veteran American composer Alvin Lucier brings music which works on the resonant character of a room space, Aki Onda mixes soundscapes recorded on portable cassette and Tape That present their catalogue of sound objects. Domestic Appliance Audio Research Society (DAARS) (extract) (12:34) Tape That: Catalogue (extract) (10:32) Catalogue Number 033 Shake spray and ring too Catalogue Number 009 Ventilator and feedback Catalogue Number 078 Mikes on and mikes off Catalogue Number 106 Mike hits and feedbacks Catalogue Number 107 Mike in hand with sliding arc Catalogue Number 037 Dog feedback Catalogue Number 049 Shellac versus the youth Catalogue Number 047 Breeze on street Catalogue Number 54b Doing the rag II Catalogue Number 112 Street panning Catalogue Number 099 In the basement Catalogue Number 088 Walking the bike Catalogue Number 093 Japanese soup Christophe Meierhans (samples, mixer, microphones) Koen Nutters (objects, minidiscs, cds, microphones, mixer) Package: Robert Worby explores sound installations by Mark Vernon, Brandon LaBelle and Erik Belgum Aki Onda (extract) (14:41) Alvin Lucier: Still Lives (26:59) 1. Sunlight Diamond 2. Hammock 3. Barbecue Grill 4. Lamp Shade 5. Two Floor Tiles 6. Ferns 7. Bread Knife 8. Chop Sticks Performed by Anthony Burr (piano) With Alvin Lucier (electronics)