Episode #2648
Music, Nature, and Technology
Sunday, February 22, 2009
"There is music in nature and nature in music. What may be most wonderful is that we can love and be immersed by both without needing to understand how the two are forever intertwined. It is enough to know that they are," says musician, composer, author and philosopher-naturalist David Rothenberg in "A Sense of Soundscape." Possibly on another side of the spectrum, is the musician and artist known as Scanner, a.k.a Robin Rimbaud, whose audio works range from the use of ‘found sound’ conversations which earned him the nickname ‘telephone terrorist’ to meditative use of tape-loops, ambient albums, and composed electronic soundscapes for film and ballet. For this New Sounds, listen to in-studio performance of music for clarinet and two laptops by David Rothenberg and the audio artist Scanner. Look forward to music with recordings of nightingales, grasshoppers, crickets, Beluga whales and an orgy of copulating animals.
PROGRAM # 2648, with Scanner & David Rothenberg, live (First aired on 3/5/07)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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David Rothenberg |
Why Birds Sing |
Beezus, Beeten, Breep [2:00] |
Terra Nova #0501 www.whybirdssing.com |
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David Rothenberg & Scanner |
Live |
Improvisation #1 [6:30] |
Not commercially available. |
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Various Artists: David Rothenberg |
Belly of the Whale |
Inside The Whale [1:30] |
Important #098 www.greenmuseum.org |
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David Rothenberg & Scanner |
Live |
Improvisation #2 [5:00] |
Not commercially available. |
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Scanner & Patricia Rozario |
Private recording |
Faultline, excerpt [8:00] |
Not commercially available. Info at www.scannerdot.com |


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