Moonlighting ghostwriter Ben Thompson shakes up a snowdome of real and imaginary sessions with guests from the far-flung frontiers of musical and literary endeavour. Today: in the second of two special Resonance Fundraiser shows, musician turned academic Simon Crab (of Bourbonese Qualk fame) explores "the irrational roots of electronic music", arguing that those beginnings lie not in 1950s materialist modernism, as Stockhausen and others insisted, but rather as an expression of C19th mystical romanticism - "I don't want to blame Stockhausen for everything but he's an easy target". For further information visit @btfoshizzle on X and find playlists at Ben Thompson's Facebook page.
