Friday 10.30pm - 12.30am (On digital and online)
Saturday 10.30pm - 12.30am
Do you like to be excited? Intrigued? Outraged?
Now broadcasting two days a week on digital radio and online, New Music Up Late is your space in which to explore the amazing universe of contemporary music, be it a visceral improv set or a spacious meditation for orchestra.
You’ll meet some of the most interesting thinkers and innovators in sound, who have dedicated their lives to reshaping the way we listen. And the new Friday edition is your chance to hear more international new music including new concert recordings from broadcasters around the globe and long-form late-night meditations from diverse new and recent releases. It’s another big listen.
So leave tradition at the door as we step into the future. Hear the sounds of tomorrow – tonight!
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Focussing on last year's Witten Days for New Chamber Music, a prestigious festival in Germany. Also, electroacoustic pieces from Portugal.
Tonight we meet a pan-Pacific power couple. Martin Bresnick is a renowned composer and professor of composition at Yale University. His wife Lisa Moore is an Australian-born pianist who studied with Yvonne Loriod and is known as the "NY queen of the avant-garde".
Audio usually updates by 1.30am Sydney/Melbourne time.
A special LIVE collaboration between two very different ensembles, austraLYSIS and Halcyon, direct from ABC's Ultimo studios.
Focussing on last year's Witten Days for New Chamber Music, a prestigious festival in Germany. Also, a captivating extended work for electronics by Sweden's Mokira AKA Alexander Tilliander.
A stack of new discs this week, including The Escalators from Melbourne and Dither electric guitar quartet from New York.
Focussing on last year's Witten Days for New Chamber Music, a prestigious festival in Germany.
New and innovative sounds for your late night listening.
Focussing on last year's Witten Days for New Chamber Music, a prestigious festival in Germany.
Tonight we investigate a 'durational chamber work' involving an array of sound artists, including Robin Fox, Ros Bandt and David Young. We also hear an exclusive set by Japanese noise artist KK Null and give pianist Chris Abraham's new disc a spin.
Focussing on last year's Witten Days for New Chamber Music, a prestigious festival in Germany.
Music played on New Music Up Late on August 14 | 13 | 7 | 6 | July 31 | 30 | 24 | 23 | 17 | 16 | For earlier dates, start at the index of Archived Music Details.
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