For this New Sounds, listen to some music with found sound. We'll hear Steve Reich's City Life which uses conversation, sirens, boat horns, traffic, and in the final movement, some of the emergency response from the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.
There's also music by John Adams, his "Christian Zeal and Activity" in which the conductor is supposed to place "sonic found objects" into the composition; Edo de Waart chose to add spliced and looped recording of a 1971 sermon. More found sounds mix with dreamlike, drifting, and dismembered voices in music from Peter Gordon & David Cunningham. Plus, music from the creative and quirky duo, the Books, and most likely something by O+A.
PROGRAM #3137 (First aired on 11/09/2010)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Peter Gordon and David Cunningham |
Yellow Box |
God [2:30] |
Piano UK |
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Steve Reich |
Eight Lines: City Life |
City Life IV, V [8:42] |
BMG Classics #66459 www.bmgclassics.de |
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The Books |
The Way Out |
Thirty Incoming [4:57] |
Temporary Residence Limitied TRR183 temporaryresidence.com |
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Jocelyn Pook |
Portraits In Absentia |
Messages [2:23] |
Private CD, but more info available soon at Pook's website, www.jocelynpook.co.uk |
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Victoire / Missy Mazzoli |
Cathedral |
I’m Coming For My Things [5:05] |
New Amsterdam 25 |
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John Adams |
The Chairman Dances |
Christian Zeal And Activity, excerpt [5:00] |
Nonesuch 79144 |
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Hosted by John Schaefer
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Piano Insides
Explore the sounds of a piano's insides on this New Sounds program. From the prepared piano to the bowed and/or plucked piano strings inside the body of the beast, there are sure to be unusual sounds galore. Listen to Ergo, an electro-acoustic trio - somehow both slinky and spacey - with trombone, prepared piano, drums, and special guests on guitar.
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