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This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on composer and pianist Midori Hirano.

Born in Kyoto and based in Berlin, Midori is out now with The Juniper Tree, a new score for Nietzchka Keene's 1990 film starring Björk in her first screen role.

We talk about writing without the original soundtrack in her ears, turning field recordings of birds and a waterfall into instruments, and how Pauline Oliveros and the Japanese idea of "ma" led her to strip the music down.

(The musical excerpts heard in the interview are from Midori Hirano's The Juniper Tree)

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