#4183: Music For the Liberation of Household Items
Hear music that takes stuff out of the home and into the studio or concert stage: be it tea cups, rice bowls, flower pots, sewing bobbins, or wine glasses in works by Stephan Micus, and Paula Matthusen & Olivia Valentine.
Why should teacups only be for tea? Rice bowls only for rice? Wine glasses, though, are clearly made for Mozart. That said, listen to music for tea cups and flower pots in David Lang’s work, “the so-called laws of nature” as played by So Percussion. Then there’s music by German composer Stephan Micus for Japanese shakuhachi and graduated flower pots.
Also, there’s electronic music from a project by composer Paula Matthusen and visual and textile artist Olivia Valentine, featuring the highly-processed sounds of lace-making – specifically the bobbins around which the thread is wound. Then, listen to the Polish group Karbido (“free choice”) transform a table into an instrument using strings, bows, coins and wine glasses as well as fists and contact microphones. Plus, a work by Daniel Lentz for wine glasses, named after the famous Palaeolithic cave paintings in Lascaux, in France.
Program #4183: Music For the Liberation of Household Items (First aired 12/12/2018)
ARTIST: So Percussion
WORK: David Lang: The So Called Laws of Nature, Part III [1:00]
RECORDING: The So Called Laws of Nature, Part III
SOURCE/INFO: sopercussion.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Stephan Micus
WORK: Twilight Fields, Part 2 [8:09]
RECORDING: Twilight Fields
SOURCE: ECM #1358
INFO: ecmrecords.com
ARTIST: So Percussion
WORK: David Lang: The So Called Laws of Nature, Part III [9:45]
RECORDING: The So Called Laws of Nature, Part III
SOURCE/INFO: sopercussion.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio
WORK: Lou Harrison: Varied Trio II. Bowl Bells
RECORDING: La Koro Sutro
SOURCE: New Albion Records #015
INFO: Manufactured on demand from Amazon.com
ARTIST: John Lane, rice bowls
WORK: Peter Garland: sunset [5:27]
RECORDING: The Landscape Scrolls
SOURCE: Starkland Records
INFO: starkland.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: KARBIDO
WORK: SOUTH - PART I [3:02]
RECORDING: THE TABLE
SOURCE: HERMETIC GARAGE
INFO: karbido.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Paula Matthusen & Olivia Valentine
WORK: III 07_17_16, 1_40 pm, Rabun Gap, GA (real-time [insects, summer breeze, bobbins, feedback, distortion]) [5:30]
RECORDING: Between Systems and Grounds
SOURCE: paulamatthusenandoliviavalentine.bandcamp.com
INFO: betweensystemsandgrounds.com
ARTIST: Daniel Lentz
WORK: Lascaux [8:26]
RECORDING: On the leopard altar
SOURCE: Cold Blue CB0022
INFO: coldbluemusic.com
