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For this New Sounds program, experience an hour of music for multiples of the same instrument. Take the dense layers of guitars in Glenn Branca’s Symphony No. 2, introduce gradual massive bursts, and incorporate metal percussion and drums and you have a massive soundmass. On the other hand, there’s music by Alex Shapiro - a work called “Bioplasm” for 4 flutes. It’s a squishy piece, something that she thought of as “an organism that oozes across the sonic floor.” Also, there’s a work by Mary Jane Leach for multiple female voices inspired by early music polyphony. Rounding out the show is music by Raphael Mostel for Tibetan Singing Bowl Ensemble.

PROGRAM # 2479, Music for Multiples (First aired on Tuesday, 11-29-05)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Los Angeles Flute Quartet	Above And Beyond	Alex Shapiro: Bioplasm [12:00]	LAFQ #0605 www.losangelesflutequartet.com
Glenn Branca	Symphony #2, The Peak of the Sacred	Slow Mass, excerpt [14:00]	Atavistic #05 www.atavistic.com Branca's website is www.glennbranca.com
Mary Jane Leach	Ariadne’s Lament	O magna Vasti Creta [9:30]	New World #80525 www.newworldrecords.org
Raphael Mostel	Nightsongs	Nightsong, excerpt [11:00]	Digital Fossils #10008 www.mostel.com

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