2021.05.14

Verity Sharp listens to the secret music made by vending machines, including a particularly talented hot chocolate machine in Turin and a singing machine in a Swedish hospital which inspired the latest album by Joakim Forsgren and Andreas Hiroui Larsson. Andreas describes how the machine was empty, atmospherically lit up and emanated an electrical hum. They were ‘captivated by the fact that it sold us nothing and at the same time performed for us’. Also on the programme: we revisit Sun Ra’s classic album Lanquidity ahead of its reissue; we hear the latest soul-infused release by LA musician Georgia Anne Muldrow; and we celebrate the composer Alvin Lucier on his 90th birthday. Produced by Alannah Chance