Cole Pulice’s mixtape

Verity Sharp serves up a pleasantly discombobulating mixtape crafted by the California-based electroacoustic saxophonist, improviser and composer Cole Pulice.

Cole’s music weaves together the sounds of shimmering cosmic jazz, ripples of electroacoustic minimalism and the twinkly playfulness of a video game soundtrack. Collaboration is central to their practice and process of music-making, both with other artists and with their audiences - Cole believes that "listening rituals are forms of magic… the relationship between musical listening and creating is deeply interrelated, even symbiotic – they necessitate each other. In other words: listening can be a form of composition, and composition a form of listening." Inspiration come from the likes of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Terry Riley and Pauline Oliveros, but also from sounds in nature that they attempt to recreate through their instruments. Their mixtape for Late Junction reflects these influences and their belief in the magical power of listening - tune in to be bewitched…

Elsewhere Verity shares chamber music for lawn mowers, a journey on horseback sung in Scots language, and spiritual jazz inspired by an ancient astrological stone circle.

Produced by Kit Callin
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

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