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Experimental Explorations with Elodie Lauten

Featuring music from the composer's haunting 1985 pop opera album, The Death of Don Juan. Plus more adventurous tracks from Comus, Gentle Giant & Ben Vince, to name a few.

Featuring music from the composer's haunting 1985 pop opera album, The Death of Don Juan. Plus more adventurous tracks from Comus, Gentle Giant & Ben Vince, to name a few. Born in Paris in 1950, Elodie Lauten was daughter of the jazz pianist and drummer Errol Parker. She studied piano at the Paris Conservatoire at age seven and started composing at age twelve. She then moved to New York in 1972 and was an active member in the the downtown classical and punk scenes, counting the legendary Beat poet Allen Ginsberg as a friend and mentor. Lauten tragically passed away in 2014. The Death of Don Juan is considered her breakthrough work and an underground classic, featuring appearances from avant garde visionary Arthur Russell and Peter Zummo.

2 hours

Music Played

  • The Residents

    Laughing Song

    • Duck Stab!.
    • Mute.
    • 005.
  • Panda Bear & Sonic Boom

    Go On

  • Igor Jadranin

    NUB

  • Elodie Lauten

    Overture

  • Andrew Woodhead

    Plain Hunt III​/​Ring Down

  • Gentle Giant

    An Inmate's Lullaby

  • Sam Gendel

    Batou

  • Comus

    Diana

  • Elodie Lauten

    Despair

  • Elodie Lauten

    Despair Postlude

  • Steve Hillage

    Pentagrammaspin

  • Reza Solatipour

    Panic Attack

  • William Doyle

    Seeing Spectral

  • Enslaved

    Kingdom

  • Bachdenkel

    Stalingrad

  • Ceza Evi

    Punish You

  • Cucina Povera & Ben Vince

    Sumu Puistossa

  • Alcatraz

    Simple Headphone Mind

  • Bo Hansson

    The Horns Of Rohan & The Battle of the Pelennor Fields

  • Elodie Lauten

    Prelude

  • Elodie Lauten

    Death As A Woman

  • The Hardy Tree

    A Garden Square In The Snow

  • Seamus O'Muineachain

    Lost Fishermen

  • Darren Price

    Airspace

Broadcast

  • Sun 4 Sep 2022 20:00