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Last broadcast on Sat, 11 Apr 2009, 22:30 on BBC Radio 3.

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Robert Worby explores the spoken word in new music and sound art, with a concert which brings together a poet with musicians.

Larry Goves: sinew
Matthew Sergeant: this was not a film about a drowning man (world premiere)
Larry Goves/Matthew Welton: Poppy
Larry Goves: deaf John's dark house
Ian Vine: X
Larry Goves: riviniana and the vermilion border
Matthew Welton: Writing 21
Simon Holt: brief candles
Goves: talking microtonal blues

Performed by the ensemble 'house of bedlam' and poet Matthew Welton
(recorded at a Cutting Edge concert in the Warehouse, London)

Plus Anne-Hilde Neset reviewing the book Playing With Words: the spoken word in artistic practice.

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  1. Sat 11 Apr 2009
    22:30

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