The Sampler Mixtape on Resonance FM: Hosted by Kelly Lovelady

“A foray into my curatorial laboratory as I develop a programme around birdlife and bushfire.”


Tracklist

00:00 — Intro
00:36 — Ruth Theodore: Buffalo (Cactacus, 2016)
03:44 — Florence Anna Maunders: Not Getting Out (Villiers Quartet, 2021)
08:50 — Zhou Deming: Joyous Xinjiang 欢乐的新疆 (Mantawoman: Sun 陽, 2017)
13:19 — George Crumb: Apparition – Vocalise No. 1: Summer Sounds (Zubin Kanga & Jane Sheldon: Chiaroscuro, 2015
14:22 — Nneka Cummins: 3 Planets – III (Philharmonia Orchestra/Robin O’Neill: Philharmonia Composers’ Academy Vol. 6, 2023)
16:18 — Mietze Conte & Otto Benson: Shut Up (Hobby’s, 2024
16:44 — Emily Doolittle: Social Sounds from Whales at Night (Catherine Lee: social sounds, 2013)
25:22 — Nwando Ebizie: I Will Fix Myself (Just Circles) (Zubin Kanga: Machine Dreams, 2023)
30:37 — Errollyn Wallen: Triple Concerto – II. (Kosmos Ensemble & Worthing Symphony Orchestra/John Gibbons, 2018)
41:06 — Raymond Antrobus & Evelyn Glennie: Horror Scene as Black English Royal (captioned) (Another Noise, 2024)
43:44 — Bex Burch & Leafcutter John: In the moments (Boing!, 2021)
48:24 — Balladeste: Interlude (Conversations in Ritual, 2023)
50:32 — Arlene Sierra: Painted Bunting (Steven Beck: Birds & Insects, 2025)
52:04 — Gabriel Prokofiev: Voyage III – Cloudburst from Suite for Global Junk (Joby Burgess/Powerplant: Import/Export, 2010)
54:22 — Nina Harries: Prayer (Water, 2022)
58:32 — Outro


Press Release: Black Summer, Black Ice

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Sydney’s Ensemble Offspring joins London chamber orchestra Ruthless Jabiru for Black Ice, a music-led reflection on Australia’s devastating Black Summer on Friday 24 April at Peckham Levels. 
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Press Release: Ruthless Jabiru to examine asylum policy

London chamber orchestra Ruthless Jabiru will use its forthcoming performance to foster a revival of empathy towards refugees.

Centred around the world premiere of The Drowners, a major new orchestral song cycle by British-Australian composer Andrew Ford, the project will honour tidal forces and the many lives lost seeking asylum by sea. This focal work will be framed by the music of composers Nicole Lizée, Rosalind Page, Wolfgang Rihm and Fausto Romitelli to conjure a muted submarine dreamscape: a dark world of distorted gravity, out of body experience and ominous fantasies of the inner ear.

Ruthless Jabiru is an ensemble uniquely dedicated to exploring humanitarian, sustainability and social justice stories through the music of contemporary composers. Using orchestral Continue reading