Episode #2858
Stories from the City at Night.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Composer/guitarist Pete M Wyer presents "Stories from the City at Night" for this New Sounds program. The work is a unique mix of storytelling, song, sound design and scored music, with help from pianist Matthew Shipp, cellist Matthew Sharp, and actress Jenny Agutter, alongside many cameo appearances (including one by host John Schaefer!)
PROGRAM # 2858, with Pete M Wyer (First aired on Thurs, 10/23/08)
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Pete M Wyer |
Stories From The City At Night |
Rain At Night, excerpt [5:00] |
Thirsty Ear Records** online at www.thirstyear.com * |
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Comments [3]
How amazing I should find a fellow Wyer on the WNYC pod cast? It's brilliant!
Sounds pretty coherent to me, Dano. Though it's such a rich aural experience, I don't know what kind of video you could do that wouldn't take away from that. A video pretty much tells you what to see; your imagination is usually much more interesting...
Just my opinion...
Very different from anything I've heard in a while. As Jon Scheifer says in the interview, Wyer's work harkens back to spoken word poetry of the middle of last century.
Wyer has found a form that is "new" by suggesting something "old", musics and sequences that exist on the fringes of our consciousness because we're one of the last generations to have as part of our consciousness older, grander rock and musical theater inspired wonderfulness.
Don't know how coherent that was (I'm still trying to figure out if this could be useful for me creatively -- I'd love to see a music video to this. I'd do it myself, if I could.
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