Composer Ben Frost, Brian Eno, & host John Schaefer
((WNYC/Caryn Havlik))
For this New Sounds, we'll take a listen to the symphonic suite by Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason, "Solaris." The international Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative's music protégé for 2010-2011, Frost, (mentored by none other than Brian Eno) joins us in the studio to present the reimagined soundtrack for the 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky film.
Combining the warmth of a string orchestra with prepared piano and waves of guitar, for "Solaris", the composers took Melodyne, (music software designed to improve music and pitch), and "turned it against itself and encouraged it to misbehave." We'll hear what that sounds like, and much more.
PROGRAM # 3270, with Ben Frost & Brian Eno (First aired on 11/17/2011)
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Brian Eno |
Ambient 1: Music for Airports |
Music for Airports, 3, excerpt [2:00] |
Editions EG #17 Available at Amazon.com* |
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Ben Frost |
By the Throat |
The Carpathians [2:57] |
Bedroom Community HVALUR6 bedroomcommunity.net |
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Ben Frost / Daníel Bjarnason |
Solaris |
Simulacra II [7:37] |
Bedroom Community HVALUR 012 |
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Comments [3]
Awesome...'Solaris' is amazing, ahead of it's time, very fitting these musicians present us with a great score also ahead of it's time. The future is now
Listening to last night's program brought back vivid images of the movie "Solaris". The composers captured the at once frightening and deeply beautiful essence of the movie.
30 years and still relevant.
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