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Arve Henriksen playing an ice trumpetElectric+Acoustic
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.
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All About WNYC's Music Host
David Garland, host of WNYC's Evening Music and Spinning on Air, is also a composer and a performer. He has performed his music extensively in the U.S. and Europe and several of his recordings and downloads are available on his Web site, DavidGarland.com.
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