This week I sit down with Pierre-Henri Wicomb (EJNCP/Purpur Festival) and we discuss musical automatons, pond living and being flagellated for one's Art.

Featured music:

"Eine Kleine Dubstep" (Matthijs van Dijk, performed by the Signum Quartet)

"Double Bass Concerto" (Pierre-Henri Wicomb, performed by Brydon Bolton, the South African New Music Ensemble, conducted by Robert Fokkens)

"And So Began" (Text: Robert Bolton; Music: Pierre-Henri Wicomb, performed by L'Instant Donne and narrated by Joanna Bailie)

"Self-Portrait" for solo piano & contact microphones (Pierre-Henri Wicomb, performed by Coila Enderstein)

"Now For Triads" for robot toy piano & MIDI soundtrack (Pierre-Henri Wicomb, instrument built by Ranjit Bhatnagar)

"An Aesthetics of Rat Bites" from "This Country_Lonely" (written & performed by Pierre-Henri Wicomb)

"Me [an]D" for piano & MIDI soundtrack (Pierre-Henri Wicomb, performed by Coila Enderstein)

"Solecism" for horn & soundtrack (Pierre-Henri Wicomb, performed by Matthew S James)