Avocado Music Productions

A rich, packed and deliciously experimental edition of Friday Tonicfeaturing live music, film and a sound installation. WCM Orchestrapresents the Squeaky Singles Project - a multifarious blend of 50s and60s pop instrumentals, contemporary classical and punk jazz condensedinto a three-minute pop single format led by James Hesford and AlfiaNakipbekova. 'They bring the cello into the 21st century' (RobertWyatt).

Support comes from the 'funkily strutting' (The Guardian)international drum and flute duo, Zashiki Warashi. With an audioinstallation by sound artist Mark Peter Wright and a screening byChiara Ambrosio of her short animated film Charon, produced by MichaelNyman - 'the standout short of the programme’ (Cambridge Film Festival).