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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's Listening Chair

Elizabeth Alker invites Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith to the Unclassified Listening Chair to select a track that transports her elsewhere.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is a perfect fit for the Unclassified Listening Chair, with a training in classical composition at Berklee that led her into a Buchla-fuelled career in electronic and experimental music. Shifting tone and tempo so that dissonance, transcendence and pin-sharp pop playfully overlap, she’s never content to stay in one sonic space for too long. The track that she for the Listening Chair that has the power to take her elsewhere is a classic from Four Tet that she played on repeat at a point of personal discovery.

Elsewhere in the show, Elizabeth offers up a vibrant selection of 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3

1 hour

Last on

Sun 10 Aug 2025 23:30
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Caterina Barbieri

    Alphabet of Light

    • Myuthafoo.
    • light-years.

  • Annette Vander Gorne

    Ce qu'a vu le vent d'Est (after Debussy)

    • Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Est (after Debussy).
    • Persistence of Sound.

  • Dustin O’Halloran

    Gold

    • Gold.
    • Splinter Music.

  • Nick Sylvester

    Meg

    • Meg.
    • smartdumb.

  • Ólafur Arnalds & Talos

    Borrowed Time

    • A Dawning.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Four Tet

    Parallel Jalebi

    • Beautiful Rewind.
    • Text Records.

  • Spafford Campbell

    Tomorrow Held

    • Tomorrow Held.
    • Real World Records.

  • Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Arvo Pärt

    Vater Unser

    • Tractus.
    • ECM Records.

  • Yorkshire Modular Society & Dominick Schofield

    Echo For The Unseen

    • Beneath the Hanging Sky.
    • Dragon's Eye Recordings.

  • Cate Le Bon

    'Is It Worth It (Happy Birthday)'

    • Michelangelo Dying.
    • Mexican Summer.

  • Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

    Gush

    • Gush.
    • Nettwerk.

Broadcast

  • Sun 10 Aug 2025 23:30
    ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3

What is unclassified music?

What is unclassified music?

Elizabeth Alker introduces five of her favourite 'unclassifiable' pieces of music.