#3921: World/Chamber Music

Hear chamber music that mixes influences from different parts of the world on this New Sounds. Where else can you hear instruments of the Indonesian court meeting a string quartet, western music for gamelan featuring an Irish dancer, and Ethiopian music for string quartet?

Hear a collaborative work featuring gamelan and contemporary string quartet from Bay Area Lightbulb Ensemble and the JACK Quartet. LBE performs on Indonesian-style metallophones, wooden marimbas, and other instruments designed, tuned, and built by American composer Brian Baumbusch, the group’s founder and director. New York-based JACK Quartet is an adventurous foursome of string players dubbed “superheroes of the new music world” by the Boston Globe.

The Lightbulb Ensemble Presents: “Hamsa – Five Tales” at Roulette in Brooklyn, on Sunday, 11/20.

Listen to the percussive, almost gamelan-like piano played by Vicky Chow, from her recent record Aorta. Hear “Bones” from Aorta by Daniel Wohl, along with music by Andy Akiho clearly written for Vicky Chow - "Vick(iy)." Then the Cork Gamelan Ensemble plays a work by Linda Buckley called “Telephones and Gongs,” featuring the sounds of and improvised Irish dancer. There’s also Ethiopian groove music with a warrior bent by sax player Getatchew Mekuria, arranged by Stephen Prutsman and played by the Kronos Quartet. 

PROGRAM #3921, World/Chamber Music (First Aired 11-16-2016)