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Up north, electricity is important. Not just for light and heat during those long cold nights, but for making music, too. Host David Garland presents some musicians from Norway, Denmark, Canada and elsewhere, who are using electronics to color and shape their music. Trumpeter/singer Arve Henriksen, the band Efterklang, and others, are finding new ways to combine electric and acoustic instruments to create an unusual and new orchestral sound. We’ll also hear some older electronic music; in fact we’ll hear “the world’s first attempt to compose popular electronic music”: the “Song of the Second Moon,” a 1957 piece by Dick Raaijmakers, plus other works from the entertaining new box set “Popular Electronics: Early Dutch Electronic Music 1956-1963.
Links:
» www.efterklang.net
» images of an ice orchestra including Arve Henriksen
» Information on "Chiaroscuro" album
» More about “Popular Electronics”