On Demand
WNYC's Coverage of the Democratic National Convention
Live performances in Soundcheck's studios
Studio 360: How Animals Communicate with Each Other
Selected Shorts featuring "The Trouble of Marcie Flint," by John Cheever
Radio Rookies: Brooklyn Broadcast Workshop
On the Media: Challenging Convention
Street Shots Challenge
New Sounds
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A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Live at Joe's Pub (brooklynvegan.com)
Two by Two II
There's a lot of music for unusual duos on this edition of New Sounds, including music from the gypsy-esque acoustic indie madness of A Hawk and a Hacksaw. With an arsenal of accordion, percussion, violin and viola, along with some singing, these two have enlisted the help of the speed-Balkan masters Fanfare Ciocarlia on their latest release, "The Way the Wind Blows." Also on the show, an instrument combination not-to-be-missed of church organ and slide guitar from Norway. Plus, we'll hear some brand-new music featuring beat-boxing and the serene Tibetan vocals of Yungchen Lhamo. And much more.
PROGRAM # 2624, Two by Two (First aired on 1/3/07)
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Vijay Iyer & Rudresh Mahanthappa |
Raw Materials |
The Shape of Things [3:30] |
Savoy Jazz 17603**
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Wayne Horvitz |
This New Generation |
Second Line [4:00] |
Elektra/ Nonesuch #60759
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Benevento Russo Duo |
Play, Pause, Stop |
Echo Park [3:30] |
Butter Problems / Reincarnate Music 2006 |
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Knut Reiersrud & Iver Kleive |
Nåde Over Nåde |
My Tired Eyes [3:30] |
Kirkelig Kulturwerksted #313
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Anne-Lise Berntsen & Nils-Henrik Asheim |
Engleskyts |
Nu Rinder Solen Op [5:00] |
Kirkelig Kulturwerksted #136 |
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Epiphany Project |
Epiphany Project |
Goth [3:30] |
Epiphany #0003
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Yungchen Lhamo & Reggie Watts |
Antibabel |
World In Transition [5:00] |
Pop Tech Music |
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A Hawk And A Hacksaw |
The Way The Wind Blows |
Oporto [1:30] |
The Leaf Label #51
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Dave Soldier |
Chamber Music |
Duo Sonata: electrica [5:00] |
Mulatta #014
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Sarah Hopkins & Alan Lamb |
Sky Song |
Sky Song, excerpt [7:30] |
ABC (Australia) #838503
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Twitchy Renaissance-Infused Minimalism
New Sounds
From the New Sounds Live concerts at Merkin Hall, Nico Muhly presents a series of new electroacoustic ensemble works, combining “twitchy Minimalism” and Renaissance polyphony. Hear brand-new works from "Mothertongue," along with other works, recorded live.
In Robert Moran's Kitchen
New Sounds
From October 30, 1989, the infamous "cooking show" with composer/raconteur Robert Moran. Recorded while cooking an Indian dinner in John Schaefer's kitchen, for reasons still not entirely clear. Along the way, we hear an "acoustic" version of Cage's 0:00 - for amplification of chopping vegetables and blender. And don't miss the teary conversation as onions are chopped. View the the recipes.
Michael Hedges and Michael Manring
New Sounds
The incredibly gifted and astonishingly original guitarist Michael Hedges left the planet much too soon in 1997. Avant-folk and ever-entertaining, Hedges made brilliant music with alternate tunings, harmonics and was known for striking the guitar’s body and strings with his fingers, palms and knuckles. His close friend and sometime collaborator, electric bass virtuoso Michael Manring, was a genre-bender, before music writers ever discovered that hyphenated term. He started out in the New Age bins, but moved all over with various projects, including the very first New Age-death-metal-jazz-funk-fusion record, among other things, with his “hyperbass”, (a fretless instrument which makes re-tuning mid-piece a little easier). On this October 10, 1987 edition of New Sounds, the two artists visited and played at the WNYC performance studios.
Caravan Variations
New Sounds
Like camels slogging through the sand, the exotic strains of “Caravan,” by Duke Ellington and his sometime trombonist Juan Tizol (with rarely heard lyrics by Irving Mills), have been played loose, fast, swinging, and/or slow by just about everyone. For this New Sounds program, it’s another of the occasional series of programs of Theme and Variations, where the premise is simple: take a single piece of music and explore what a number of musicians have done with it, through arrangements, deconstructions, and revisions of the original theme. This time around, it’s Duke Ellington’s “Caravan.” Listen to arrangements by Romania’s Fanfare Ciocarlia, Hungary’s Kalman Balogh & The Gipsy Cimbalom Band, the California Guitar Trio, the ska group Hepcat, banjoman Bela Fleck, Lebanese composer Rabih Abou-Khalil, and trumpeter/composer Jon Hassell, among others.
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