{"id":43,"date":"2015-09-03T00:31:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T00:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/03\/bbc-proms-extra\/"},"modified":"2015-09-03T00:31:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T00:31:13","slug":"bbc-proms-extra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gojonstonego.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/03\/bbc-proms-extra\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Proms Extra"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last month I was on the Proms Extra bill, performing alongside the John Garner Quartet, a roving band of dexterous young jazz musicians. We were up at the Albert Hall, in the Elgar Room, doing a one-hour set just after the main Proms performance. This was subsequently edited down to a 45-minute radio show<\/a>, which may or may not be available for streaming at the time of writing. Will the link even work? Who knows.<\/p>\n

Part of the show was collaborative, in that we rehearsed mixing two poems with musical effects and inflections: the violin as wailing wind, snare as thunder crash and so on. It\u2019s a shame one of these was cut from the pared-down broadcast, presumably either because the producers were sensitive to the need to keep my four \u2018between-element\u2019 poems as a set, or else because they noticed one of the collaborations, \u2018Lightning Conductor\u2019, is just an over-extended pun.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve written about some of the poems I performed in this set before – here, if you\u2019re interested<\/a>\u00a0– so I don\u2019t really want to bang on about them. But it was great to get the chance to do Steam<\/i>, Mud<\/i>, Dust<\/i> and Ash<\/i> all one after the other, since they\u2019re designed to have an overall structure and pattern that makes the sequence more than the sum of its parts \u2013 also because I hope it did a little (just a little, maybe, perhaps, hopefully) to dispel the notion that contemporary poets don\u2019t do rigorously controlled rhyme and meter anymore.<\/p>\n

I was interviewed part way through the show by Georgia Mann, the presenter, and I feel like I should give her a load of credit for (a) doing her research, and (b) asking questions about interesting things, like voice, collaboration and the cross-over between games and poems, rather than going through the usual \u2018interview with a poet\u2019 motions: what are your influences, is poetry enjoying a revival etc.<\/p>\n

The John Garner Quartet were a warm, easy-going bunch who fused jazz with other disparate influences. I recommend their song \u2018Tiny Grass is Dreaming\u2019 in particular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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