Adelle Stripe's Listening Chair
Author Adelle Stripe shares a track with the power to transport her elsewhere. Plus news of an opportunity for composers and producers who take inspiration from the natural world.
As the ѿý's Wild About Nature Week draws to a close, Elizabeth Alker explores how contemporary ambient and experimental musicians are using field recordings to bring a sense of the natural world into their music. Plus she'll share news of an exciting opportunity for composers and producers interested in working with nature. Also in the show, Listening Chair guest Adelle Stripe revels in the beauty of Small Hours, a track from John Martyn’s One World album, recorded on the shores of a lake at Woolwich Green Farm in Theale, Berkshire.
Stripe has written on a wide range of subjects including music, and her biography of the cult band Fat White Family - Ten Thousand Apologies - was a Sunday Times bestseller and a Rough Trade book of the year. Her most recent book, Base Notes: The Scents of a Life, is a memoir of working class life in Northern England told through the prism of perfume.
Produced by Geoff Bird
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