New Sounds
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Music from the Armenian Diaspora
Hear the ?Master of the Duduk,? Djivan Gasparyan, with Canadian-American producer Michael Brook?s electric guitar, the cellist Maya Beiser. and Italian pianist/composer Ludovico Einaudi. Also, the recent release by violist Nicolas Cords (of Brooklyn Rider) playing a work by Alan Hovanhess.
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New Music Based on Gospel, Spirituals & Folk Hymns
An intense and shimmering setting by drummer Jaimeo Brown of the gospel hymn ?Everything is Moving by the Power of God," which incorporates samples from the rural Alabama gospel group the Gee's Bend Quilters from their 1941 and 2002 recordings.
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Visual Music
Philip Glass's opera "Kepler," about the German astronomer and mathematician was written expressly for Landestheater Linz and Linz09. Glass based his compelling and complex score on the astronomer's conviction that "without genuine knowledge life is dead."
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New Music for Solo Guitar
Featuring some solo works by Marc Ribot intended as music for films that explore, as Ribot says, "the strange area between language and spatiality that exists partly in between music and visual image, and partly as a common property of both."
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Chamber Folk Pop
Electronic chamber pop music by composer Son Lux (aka Ryan Lott) for yMusic, and post-rock from the Arcade Fire?s multi-instrumentalist, Richard Reed Parry, in the guise of the ensemble, Bell Orchestre.
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Link to the Old Style With Donnacha Dennehy
Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy presents some of his latest music including his multi-media musical theatre piece, "the Hunger." This opera-in-progress incorporates vocal music called Sean nos.
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With Ludovico Einaudi
The Italian keyboardist and composer Ludovico Einaudi?s latest effort is "In a Time Lapse." Listen to selections, as well as a liberal sampling of his music featuring violinist Daniel Hope, kora player Ballake Sissoko and duduk master Djivan Gasparian.?
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Evening Songs
Songs, both old and new - by Henry Purcell along with songs by Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake -? on a record called "If Grief Could Wait."? The project is a collaboration between baroque harpist Giovanna Pessi and the Swedish singer Susanna Wallumrod.
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Music from Central Asia
The overtone singing of Huun Huur Tu colliding with the New York folk/world group Hazmat Modine. Also music from the Mongolian group, Hanggai; Russian composer Anton Batagov and a Buddhist monk from Kalmykia; plus, voices from the Eurasian steppes.
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Robert Fripp's Soundscapes, Live 2010, Part 2
For this second installation of Robert Fripp's Soundscapes, we present performances recorded on Dec. 3 and Dec. 4, 2010. These might have been the last major public outings for the English guitarist, composer, and founder of King Crimson.
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Electronically Enhanced Acoustica
Combinations of piano and electronics, violin and electronics, or a small ensemble using no electronics at all. Listen to Open Graves with Stuart Dempster recorded in a water cistern, which sounds very processed, although it was all acoustic.
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Remembering Steve Martland
For this New Sounds, we revisit live performances by the Steve Martland Band from the annual Bang on a Can Music Marathon in 2000.There's also a performance of a short work, "Re-mix." Martland introduced each piece from the stage.
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Scoring Bill Morrison
Musical scores for Bill Morrison's silent films on this New Sounds program. Hear Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson's score to "The Miners' Hymns," a documentary that depicts an ill-fated mining community in England.
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World Music From Europe
Music from Caspian Hat Dance, along with music that is Sardinian in origin, and music sung in Frisian. Czech music from Marta Topferova along with hardcore folk from Poland. Plus, Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, and more.
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Gamelan-Inspired Music
Harpist Zeena Parkins and her new band-semble, the Adorables, combine a core of harp with percussion and electronics. Also, NYC-based Patrick Grant, Matthew Welch's Blarvuster and film music (not Tubular Bells) from Mike Oldfield, and more.
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A Musical Travelogue
Music for far-off places: Listen to a work written by Princeton professor Paul Lansky, called "Travel Diary." From a new recording by the Meehan/Perkins Duo, the work is a "kind of meditation on travel particularly for those who don't do it that much."
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Iceland via Lincoln Center
On November 15, 2010, John Schaefer was at the White Light Festival where Kjartan Sveinsson (Sigur Ros multi-instrumentalist) and Jonsi Birgisson (voice of Sigur Ros) presented new works. For this New Sounds, we?ll sample some of these live performances.
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Indie Rock Branches Out
Listen to indie artists straddle the divide between world music, ambient and electronica. We'll hear from the Tradi-Mods Vs Rockers record, the latest in the Congotronics series, where carefully chosen artists have recorded homages to the original source material.
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Bowed String Multiples
Hear a work from "Recursions," by violist Nicholas Cords, who is both a member of Brooklyn Rider and Yo Yo Ma?s Silk Road Ensemble. Also music for multiple violins from Todd Reynolds, for multiple cellos by Zoe Keating, and music performed by double-bass player Robert Black.
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World Music Tour
World music from Congo, in both Staff Benda Bilili and the Congolese-Belgian rapper Baloji. They'll serve up some rumba-rooted grooves, overlaid with vibrant vocals and tin-can guitar solos.
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Electro-Acoustic Ambient Works
Pulsing percussive ambient music by Berlin-based Nils Frahm, along with some stasis music by the Polish composer Jacaszek. Then, from Iceland, there's a score from composer, producer (and former metalhead) Olafur Arnalds, "Another Happy Day."
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New Releases, April 2013
John Schaefer carefully sorts through the stacks of new CDs, Soundcloud files, and the highly anticipated digital submissions which have come across his desk and into his inbox over the past month. He'll skim off the cream.
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Alone at My Wedding
Party music from the Balkans, Near East, and Central Asia. Music from the Albanian horn band Fanfara Tirana, Egyptian DJs of the Cairo Liberation Front, and Brooklyn-based Punjabi sweaty-making party band, Red Baraat. Plus, highly danceable Syrian electronic dabke music. And more.
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New Music from Finland
Finland is a musical hotbed of classical, folk, weirdly dressed heavy metal rock bands, and some less easily defined new music types. Hear accordion virtuoso Maria Kalaniemi along with something else for accordion (& electronics) by Kimmo Pohjonen.
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Indian Music Infusion
Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon set a six thousand-year old eight-syllable chant to music. For this New Sounds, we'll sample acoustic Indian classical, Indian folk instruments and Western instruments, together with her voice. Also, music from Najma, Sheila Chandra, and more.
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African Crossover Music
Musicians from Europe working together with musicians living in Kenya, Senegal, Mali, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. Hear American slide guitarist Bob Brozman with Djeli Moussa Diawara; music from Ry Cooder, with Ali Farka Toure; along with Saharan desert blues from Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara.
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Post-Minimalist Keyboard Works
Hear brand new music by Daniel Wohl, from the musicians of TRANSIT, and featuring vocals by Julia Holter. Also music from French composer Sylvain Chaveau, Irish composer Simon O'Connor and a multi-part work by Nico Muhly from his "Drones" release.
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Works of Nature
Music inspired by natural phenomena. From Bjork's innovative and collaborative project, "Biophilia," where there's a meeting of astrophysics, string theory, neurology, biology - and music. We'll sample from this latest concept project, and more.
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Qawwali and Qawwali-based Music
Hear an hour of Sufi devotional music, mostly Pakastani and usually sung by men, known as Qawwali. Listen to this ecstatic prayer music performed live by the late great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Party in the WNYC studio, from a November 1993 appearance.
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Global Acoustic Music
Hear works from the Tour?-Raichel Collective, a collaboration between Malian musician Vieux Farka Tour? and Israeli producer/keyboardist Idan Raichel. The songs are anchored by Israeli bassist Yossi Fine and Malian calabash player Souleymane Kane.
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Glassworks, Live
A quintessential Philip Glass piece, "Glassworks" (1981) from a live recording made in April of 2010 at the Manhattan venue Le Poisson Rouge.
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Robert Fripp's Soundscapes, Live 2010
Electric-guitar based ambient music created in the moment by Robert Fripp is what you'll hear on this New Sounds.
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The Apollo Project, Live
Brian Eno's Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks was something that Eno didn?t perform live. A talented cast visits our studio to bring to life a re-imagining of the nearly 30-year old Eno tribute to the Nasa moon landings.
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Remembering Dean Drummond
Composer, professor, instrument inventor, and multi-instrumentalist, Dean Drummond passed away on Saturday. He was the founder and conductor of Newband, an instrument inventor and a composer. Hear his arrangement of Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight", and more.
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Caucasus Mountain Music
We'll hear from the Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble, along with music from Andrew Cronshaw's latest cross-cultural collaboration (Armenian & British), "The Unbroken Surface of Snow," at times an unlikely combination of zither and duduk.
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The Guitar as an African Instrument
Listen to music from the late Cameroonian guitarist Francis Bebey, along with music from Gabonese guitarist singer and musician Pierre Akendengue. Also, from South Africa's Derek Gripper who does arrangements of music from other parts of Africa, especially Mali; and music from fellow South African Guy Buttery.
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Piano Grooves (Special Podcast - We're Back!)
Brand-new music from Jace Clayton (aka DJ Rupture) which looks back to Julius Eastman. Hear the conclusion of "Gay Guerrilla" along with the latest from Brandt Bauer Frick, an 11-musician strong Berlin-based ensemble who reproduce rhythms and sounds of electronic dance music (EDM) mostly acoustically.
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Big Sounds, Small Ensembles
Music by the Cinematic Orchestra, led by keyboardist/composer Jason Swinscoe, informed by jazz and electronica. Then, bass player Skuli Sverrisson & sax player Oskar Guojonsson, from a record that they did together, "Box Tree," which comes folded up in a map.
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Songs Without Words
Two Norwegian musicians, saxophonist Trygve Seim & pianist Andreas Utnem, have just released a new recording of similarly lyrical songs ? without voices or words ? called Purcur. We'll hear some of these folk-rootsy lyrical songs for saxophone and piano and more.
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World Music Singing Tour
Vocal group Trio Tzane, along with Huun Huur Tu, the throat singers of Tuva. Also, Norwegian sami singing, or joiking, from Jienat, with a whole lot of Brazilian, and West African percussion that renders the music utterly danceable.?
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Brass Around the World
An hour of works from the French band Bigre! and Darcy James Argue's Secret Society. The Albanian outfit Fanfara Tirana meets London's Trans-Global Underground; the Kocani Orkestar from Macedonia; plus, classic 1970's Ethio-groove from Mahmoud Ahmed and Orchestre Poly-Rythmo.
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Songs of Snow and Ice
Get all close and personal with the cold and the white, with the "Icy Sleeves of Green" by Todd Reynolds, and some songs from Kate Bush's most recent record, "50 Words for Snow." We'll hear songs about melting snowflakes and icicles.
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New Sound of Early Music
Selections from the Luce Trio, involving Indian Shruti box, saxophone, electric guitar and bass. Also, music from the Irish music production company, Ergodos; vocal group New York Polyphony; plus, music by Brian Eno, riffing on Pachelbel's Canon, and more.
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European Electroacoustic Music
Music from a compilation of rare instrumental works by Irish composers and electronica artists: "On the Nature of Electricity & Acoustics." Also, entire armies of electronic guitar drone from Enda Bates, along with a shimmery electronic piece, "Error Messages," by Linda Buckley. And more.
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Cinematic Sounds of Iceland
Iceland: a scene where rock music, orchestral music and electronics are blended freely. Hear music by composer/producer Valgeir Sigurdsson. Plus, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, whose frosty orchestral music is played using just acoustic instruments on her record, "Rhizoma."
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World-Jazz Guitar Music
Hear California Guitar Trio from their recent release, "Andromeda" and a guest musician ? Tony Levin of King Crimson.? We?ll hear their Reichian "Improv 8: Layered Circulation" and possibly some fingerstylin? middle-eastern influenced tunes as well.
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Traditional Blend
Listen to selections from bagpiper/composer Matthew Welch's band Blarvuster, an outfit that somehow pulls in Balinese/Indonesian gamelan, Celtic influences, minimalist licks, and a rock attitude.
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Music from Sub-Saharan Africa
Music from Niger, Mali, Senegal and Uganda. Hear acollection of songs by the Peace Kawomera ("Delicious Peace") interfaith fair trade coffee farmers from Uganda. The songs, each sung in the regional language, are about the economic benefits of growing coffee.
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Global Jewish Music
Arrangements of Jewish wordless songs of praise from around the world. Nigerian style Afrobeat, trancey jazz, Afro-cuban dance music, a DJ collaboration, and music from the Jewish people of Uganda.
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More Cool Stuff: Coffee Farmers in Uganda, Jewish...
Music by the sons and daughters of really fine musicians.?Shona music from Zimbabwe by Baba Maraire. His father, Dumisani (Dumi), an ethnomusicologist, was one of the first African musicians to build a grass roots movement of marimba.
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Virtuosic Works for Winds and Piano
Works for piano and/or saxophone, including a set of duets by saxophonist Charles Lloyd and pianist Jason Moran. Composed by Lloyd and dedicated to his great-great-grandmother, the suite of pieces is something of a meditation about her life.
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New Sounds Live at WFC, Mostly
New Sounds Live concert series featuring the Brooklyn Phil and their new music director, Alan Pierson, along with the final concert of the American Composers Orchestra's SONiC Festival. Also, the premiere of Bryce Dessner?s "St. Carolyn by the Sea."
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Requiem for Fossil Fuels Live
A site-specific memorial mass, combines human voices and ambient sound. It?s the result of more than twenty years of work and collaboration by Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger, two sound artists/composers and sonic thinkers. Recorded live at the World Financial Center.
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Hybrid Ensembles
Rock and/or classical hybrid ensembles. There's relatively older music from the 1980's by Mikel Rouse, and some from Bang on a Can folks along with brand new music from Bing & Ruth (David Moore) and Newspeak. That, and more.
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New Releases, March 2013
John Schaefer carefully selects from all of the exciting and terrible things that have come into the New Sounds office to present the best of the months' crop of new music releases. Music from the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet, Vinicius Cantuaria, and Brooklyn Rider.
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Live from Merkin Hall 2013
A world premiere by looping orchestrator Tyondai Braxton, with field recordings of slot machines titled "Casino Trem" and "Organ Trem". Also, a world premiere work by Fay Kueen Wang called Weltinseln, which means "Island Universe" in German. Also, music by Shara Worden.
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Catching up with Donna McKevitt
London-based composer and vocalist Donna McKevitt returns. McKevitt performs her settings of poetry by Maya Angelou for us in a trio setting, with trumpeter Lew Soloff and double bassist Francois Mouton.
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Cool Stuff Meant for John Schaefer
Here's a bit of what the staff has been listening to, rocking, and otherwise digging. We have every hope that someday Schaefer will get these things to air, and every realistic expectation that some of them will NEVER air.
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Choral Music Without Words
Hear choral works that make use of a choir for color and texture, rather than the delivery of a text. From violinist and composer Timba Harris, "neXus I: Cascadia". Also, a work without words written for vocal octet Roomful of Teeth, called ?AEIOU?. Plus, the vocal ensemble, New York Polyphony.
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World Music Dance Hits
Get blasted by music from the masters of the face-guitar and smack-smack drum, Caspian Hat Dance, who draw from Eastern European gypsy/klezmer music, strains of South American and Italian folk music.
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Acoustic World Music
Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal's "Chamber Music," for kora and cello. Also, a medieval Moorish song played by Chicago clarinetist James Falzone's trio, a sarod/guitar duo by Ranajit Sengupta & Miguel Guldimann, and more.
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New Music for Ancient Instruments
Chris Brown's new work for gangsa, one of the traditional instruments of the Philippines, related to Indonesian gamelan. There's also music from Raphael Mostel for Tibetan singing bowl and new music for traditional Japanese koto.
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New Sounds Live: Bang on a Can PCF Concert 2013
Hear multimedia composer Anna Clyne's "A Wonderful Day," incorporating the spoken and sung words of Chicago street musician Wooly from Mississippi. Plus, Dan Deacon's "Sago An Ya Rev," a textural morphing transcription of a NASA Voyager.
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Moody Works for Trumpet or Sax
Listen to an hour of moody nocturnal works that grow out of the jazz tradition. Hear ?Wind? by Ibrahim Maalouf, an American trumpeter who plays a quarter-tone trumpet. Also music fromAfro-Cuban pianist Omar Sosa and the Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu. And more.
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Piano Grooves
Groove-based pieces for piano and electronics,new music from Jace Clayton (aka DJ Rupture). Hear the latest from Brandt Bauer Frick, and 11-musician strong Berlin-based ensemble who reproduce rhythms and sounds of electronic dance music (EDM) mostly acoustically.
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New Music from Norway
Updated folksong arrangements, medieval songs, and music from Norway. The updated folk comes from a collection of ballads, hymns, lullabies, sung by Trio Medieval, and we'll also hear Norwegian medieval song by Jan Garbarek & Agnes Buen Garnas.
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New Piano-Based Music
New music from the Neil Cowley Trio and the Bad Plus, bands which on the surface resemble conventional piano trios, but pull liberally from the rock world and everywhere else. All that, and more...
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Electroacoustic Soundscapes
Hear Ana Milosavljevic's "Reflections," and more from Odland + Auinger site-specific work, "Requiem For Fossil Fuels." Plus, music by Steven Mackey, his "Measures of Turbulence." And more.
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Variations of Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert
Pianist Keith Jarrett's intimate encounter with a Bosendorfer in 1975, was the first ever jazz concert at the Koln Opera House. In 2006, a new interpretation by the Polish conductor, composer, arranger, and pianist Tomasz Trzcinsk was published. We'll hear Jarrett's original, and other transcriptions.
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With Brian Eno
John Schaefer welcomes Brian Eno back. Collaborating with a young British poet Rick Holland, for "Drums Between the Bells," (July 2011) and "Panic of Looking" (Nov. 2011), Brian Eno has made the jump into spoken word.
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Eurasian Folk
Hear Indian sitar and Basque marimba from Oreka Tx, as well as music from the throat singers of Tuva, Huun Huur Tu. Also, Sweden's Lena Willemark and Ale Moller, Irish music from the Bothy Band, and high-energy Romanian gypsy brass from Mahala Rai Banda.
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Electronic Places
Electronic works about Copenhagen, Milan, Borodino, the Okeefenokee Swamp, and a French zoo. Also, Johann Johannsson's score from a film by Max Kestner, ethereal music from Sigur Ros, Apparat, and pioneering electronic musicians Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin.
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Electroacoustic: Going for Baroque
Electroacoustic works featuring strings; viola, cello, and violin. Violist Nadia Sirota's latest, "Baroque," then music by Steve Reich for cellist Maya Beiser, chamber music by Anna Clyne and cello music for Jody Redhage by Paula Matthusen, and more.
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Music With ?Found Sound?
We'll hear Steve Reich's City Life which uses conversation, sirens, boat horns, traffic, and in the final movement, some of the emergency response from the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.
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With Michael Nyman
The eminent English composer, film maker and photographer Michael Nyman discusses his original soundtracks to silent films, his new video work, and his penchant for recycling music ? his own and others?.
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A Musical Babel
Listen to a musical portrayal of an imaginary Syria, "Syriana." There's also music by sax player Uri Gurvich from his forthcoming record, ?BabEl,? a mixture of oud and North African percussion with some saxophone, piano, bass and drums.
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Atmospheric Songs
Songs from Brian Eno, Antony & the Johnsons, and Eno's friend the poet and composer Ebe Oke. Also Susanna & the Magical Orchestra from Sweden, along with music from Bjork off of the record, "Medulla."
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Alleged Orchestras
Different ensembles play with our expectations of the "orchestra" including Alexander Berne & the Abandoned Orchestra. There's also the Asphalt Orchestra, whose brave arrangements invade streets via an exuberant new music parade.
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Musical Portraits of the English Landscape
Music from English sax player, clarinetist and composer John Surman, "Saltash Bells." Also, listen to an early work from Mike Oldfield, "Hergest Ridge," and music from Brian Eno and Jocelyn Pook. Plus music by Michael Nyman from "Drowning By Numbers."
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Alleged Jazz
Saxophone player Rudresh Mahanthappa, on his record, "Samdhi," merges electronica, Carnatic (south Indian) music, funk and jazz grooves. There's music from guitarist Rez Abbasi and pianist Matthew Shipp, and many others.
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Sound and Music
Works that play with sound and music, at the intersection where one leaves off and the other begins. Hear music from Brian Eno in collaboration with like-minded musicians Jon Hopkins and Leo Abraham, a record called ?Small Craft on a Milk Sea.?
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Postminimal Piano
Listen to some of the self-dubbed "ritual groove" of Pianist Nik Bartsch's Ronin, a chamber jazz outfit who mix minimalism and James Brown liberally. We'll hear from the latest album "Llyria," named after a luminous sea creature.
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It Was a Voice
From Alvin Lucier's wonder, "I am Sitting in a Room," to the Frances-Marie Uitti & Paul Griffiths collaboration "There is Still Time," we'll listen to composers who start with a voice or text and end up producing something radically different.
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New Releases, February 2013
John Schaefer carefully sorts through the stacks, bins, and towers of new CDs, records, and Bandcamp sites which have come across his desk or into his email over the past month to present some choice cuts.
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Ben Frost's "Solaris"
Listen to the symphonic suite by Ben Frost and Dani?el Bjarnason, "Solaris." Frost, (mentored by none other than Brian Eno) joins us in the studio to present the reimagined soundtrack for the 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky film.
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New Sounds Live with Clogs, Orchestra for the New Century
New works by the indie chamber band Clogs. Plus, music from Causing a Tiger, a song-based improvising trio consisting of Violinist/Vocalist Carla Kihlstedt, Bassist/Guitarist Shahzad Ismaily, and Drummer/Storyteller Matthias Bossi.
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Duos and Small Ensembles
Hear from the amplified, processed and looped duo itsnotyouitsme, who are violinist Caleb Burhans and guitarist Grey McMurray, and a piece called "The Ghosts Among Us."?Also trio music by keyboardist and composer Phillip Schroeder.
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Sufi Crossovers
Music that combines Sufi traditions with Western sounds. Sufi singers Abdul Ghani, Ajah Maideen and Saburmaideen Babha Sabeer from the Nagore Dargah, part of a musical collaboration featuring Sufi, Indian, Middle Eastern and Western elements called the Nagore Sessions.
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With Ben Neill and Mimi Goese
Mutant trumpter/composer Ben Neill joins John Schaefer in the studio.? He's working together with filmmaker Bill Morrison and singer Mimi Goese on a staging of the Persephone myth ? Demeter?s daughter taken by Hades to the underworld.?
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Minimalism Meets English/Irish Folk Music
Hear something from the Penguin Cafe and the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Also, music from Spiro, folk-sounding instruments in the service of systems music (a.k.a. minimalism.) Plus, music by Daniel Figgis, and Dave Flynn and the Dublin Guitar Quartet.
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New Music from Poland
Klezmer and Balkan-inflected jazz-ish strains of Kroke, along with "hardcore folk" from the Warsaw Village Band, whose driving fiddle and trumpets take Balkan Jazz and layer them with "white voice" singing (a lyrical screaming used by Polish shepherds).
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Atmospheric Percussion Works
Hear the looped hockety rhythms of the Portico Quartet. Also concert music from Joseph Byrd. Plus, pianist Benedikt Jahnel and his atmospheric wordless songs.
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Istanbul, not Constantinople
Journey through a thousand years of the music from the 14th/15th Century Greek chant to Crusader songs, Sufi Ceremonial music, Turkish folk music, Sephardic Jewish songs, and more.
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With Steven Mackey
Electric guitarist, composer and Princeton University professor Steven Mackey returns. His enormous and ambitious work, "Dreamhouse," for orchestra, electric guitars, and singers was released last year.
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A New Look at the Four Seasons, Pt. 2
Non-violin centered works that have used the Four Seasons as their launch pad, an electronic version by Wendy Carlos, a piece by Danish-born, Brooklyn-based saxophonist Rene Mogensen, plus Japanese flute improvisations, and more.
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A New Look at the Four Seasons, Pt. 1
A new look at the Four Seasons - not the Vivaldi work, but instead what it has inspired. Composers who have riffed off of that theme, say - Thomas Wilbrandt, Astor Piazzolla, Philip Glass, and Mark O'Connor, to name a few.
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Piano Impressions
A disquieting nocturne by Christopher Cerrone, called "Hoyt Schermerhorn," performed by pianist/composer Timo Andres. Also, Takashi Kako?s music and its echoes of Debussy, along with a work for piano and Peter Machajdik, and more.
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Frontiers of Flamenco
Collisions of Indian classical music and flamenco. Hear what happens when Hindustani and Spanish flamenco music are brought together. Also, Anoushka Shankar, daughter of late sitar master Ravi Shankar. Plus, flamenco fusion from Ketama, featuring Toumani Diabate, and more.
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Inspired by Cathedrals
English composer Joby Talbot's work, "Leon," from "Path of Miracles," written for the choir Tenebrae. Its namesake is the Leon Cathedral, a French-style Gothic cathedral built in the 13th century in northwest Spain.
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New Music for Brass
On this Mardi Gras day, some martial, some big band jazz, and music by David Byrne inspired by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Then, high-spirited music from Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy.
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With the Alwan Arab Music Ensemble
Listen to a live performance by the Alwan Arab Music Ensemble. It's a group of classical players, six members strong and based in New York. We'll be treated to Egyptian, Iraqi, and Syrian classical art music from Cairo, Baghdad, and the ancient city of Aleppo.
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Music from Australia
New music from Australia, including music by Peter Sculthorpe, his "Little Nourlangie," a portrait of a rock outcropping in Kakadu National Park in northern Australia. And more music from Australian ensembles and composers.
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Music from Bali: "A House in Bali"
Listen to excerpts from the new opera by Evan Ziporyn, "A House in Bali." The work is based on the memoirs of Canadian-American composer Colin McPhee who first brought the sounds of gamelan-influenced music to the west.
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With Bill Ryan & Billband Members
Composer and conductor Bill Ryan is the mastermind behind 2007's "story of the year in new music" where his student, volunteer band recorded Steve Reich's 1976 masterwork, "Music for 18 Musicians." Ryan has recently released a record of his own compositions, "Towards Daybreak."
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Near Eastern Jazz
Iraqi jazz from Amir Elsaffar's Two Rivers Ensemble and Turkish jazz from Okay Temiz & Saffet Gundeger. Plus, Ethiopian jazz from Mulatu Astatqe, and world jazz from Rabih Abou-Khalil. All that, and more.
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Hausmusik - Literally
Music made with stuff around the house. Two works for teapots, one by clarinetist Andy Statman and the other a Beatles' tune. Paul Lansky samples his sons beating pots and pans. Plus, music for onions.
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New Sounds Live: Carla Kihlstedt, ICE, Face the Music
Hear the concert recording of the world premiere of violinist vocalist Carla Kihlstedt's "At Night We Walk In Circles And Are Consumed by Fire." Comprised of nine song-parts, the topics range from meeting one's younger self, to having all of your teeth fall out, and a flying dream.
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Neither Pop Nor Art Song
At the junction of art and pop songs: Clogs, featuring guest vocalists Sufjan Stevens and Shara Worden; Sarah Kirkland Snider from "Penelope"; How To Destroy Angels; songstress Katie Mullins; David Sylvian; and more.
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Unconventional Piano Works
Amplified piano in a work by Charles Ives, "Serenity" as played by Jenny Q Chai from "New York Love Songs." Also, Taiwanese composer Ashley Wang - plus, Lou Harrison's Concerto for Piano and Javanese Gamelan. That and more.
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Narration in Music
Found sounds of narration from strange and wonderful recordings in music by the Books. We'll hear from their release, "The Way Out," a playful and surreal effort recorded in the Books' home studios.
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Music from Latin America
Music by Afro-Cuban composer/conductor Tania Leon from a recently composed dance score, "Inura" - a vibrant and colorful work for voices, strings and percussion created for DanceBrazil, inspired by Candomble.
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Soldier Songs - Special Podcast
Composer and founder of the new music group Newspeak, David T. Little, joins John Schaefer to present selections from his hour-long multimedia one-man opera, "Soldier Songs."
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New Releases, January 2013
Finger-style guitarist William Tyler along with "systems music" from the English quartet, Spiro. Also, pianist Matthew Shipp, composer/saxophone player Ken Field; plus, new music from Alexander Berne and the Abandoned Orchestra.
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Music for Viola
Hear new works for viola, some for viola & electronics, and viola d'amore. From a forthcoming record by new music champion Nadia Sirota, listen to a piece by Missy Mazzoli, "Tooth And Nail."
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New Works for Electric Guitar
Music by Bryce Dessner (of the National and Clogs) and Glenn Branca (the leader of many guitar armies.) Plus, listen to a piece by Nick Didkovsky from a private recording at a panel held in Philadelphia, and something from Steven Mackey as well.
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Multiple Motoric Guitars
Music from Robert Fripp and his League of Crafty Guitarists, along with something from the French guitar trio, Philharmonie. Also, Steve Reich?s entire three-movement ?Electric Counterpoint,? as performed by Pat Metheny on tape.
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Unusual Collaborations
Iraqi oud master Rahim AlHaj with accordion virtuoso Guy Klucevsek, from a double album of cross-cultural collaborations, called "Little Earth." AlHaj was joined by Cape Verde's Maria de Barros, Bill Frisell, Peter Buck, and Mali's Yacouba Sissoko.
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With Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto, the pianist, producer, film score composer, and electronic music pioneer captured sounds in disparate locations such as under the sea and on top of a glacier to create his double CD, "Playing the Piano/Out of Noise."
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Music with Strings
Music by Russian violist/composer Ljova performed by the string quartet Brooklyn Rider. Also, music by young composer and drummer David T Little, violinist/composer Todd Reynold, the Turtle Island Quartet and composer/mayor Phillip K Bimstein.
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Art Songs
Unusual art songs from the likes of Mikel Rouse, Clogs, and Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias Bossi. There's also a piece from Texas-born, Brooklyn based composer Corey Dargel, and his song cycle "Someone Will Take Care of Me."
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Songs featuring bells, or about bells. Listen to a song that reworks "Bicycle Built for Two" from Tin Hat. Also, hear music by Pantha du Prince involving a bell carillon, a three-ton instrument comprised of 50 bronze bells and operated using a keyboard.
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Dramatic Works
Music from Wires Under Tension, a NYC-based band. Their latest creation is called "Replicant, " and is, yes(!) inspired by Philip K Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", along with the film adaptation, "Blade Runner."
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Dramatic Accompaniment
Musical accompaniment for drama in the form of the Portico Quartet, a young instrumental band, who play mostly acoustic music using wind instruments, bass and percussion, including a 21st century instrument called the hang.
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Cinematic Audio
American sound-designer, film editor and composer, Matteo Marchisano-Adamo makes audio sculptures out of prepared piano and electronics. Also, electronic music based on the Indonesian gamelan, and some rooted in sounds from Jamaica and Zimbabwe.
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New Choral Music
Choral music of the British Isles, Armenia, and more, including the Medieval music group, Canty, dubbed "Scotland's Anonymous 4." They perform Irish composer Michael McGlynn's "Lorica," from a recent release, "Carmina Celtica."
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New Releases, Dec. 2012 Special Podcast
Listen to inventive voice-based music from Holly Herndon, some hypnotic plucked strings from Ljova, and some Zimbabwean music by way of Scandinavia in a collaborative project called Monoswezi.
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Electroacoustic Chamber Music
Listen to a preview of the forthcoming full-length record from Matmos - "The Marriage of True Minds," which has parapsychology as its theme. This techno chamber music from the now Baltimore-based duo builds grooves out of unusual and startling sound sources.
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New Sounds Live with Mos Def, Brooklyn Phil
Hear songs by Yasiin Bey, the former Mos Def, arranged by Derek Bermel and played by Yasiin Bey and members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Alan Pierson. Plus, the world premiere of David T. Little's "Am I Born," recorded live at the World Financial Center's Winter Garden in fall of 2011.
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Guy Klucevsek and Polka From the Fringe
Accordionist and composer Guy Klucevsek stops by on the occasion of the reissue of "Polka From the Fringe," 29 previously out-of-print tracks for accordion by Klucevsek and 27 other composers.
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"Indie Classical"
For this New Sounds, take a listen to some music from the chamber group yMusic, playing Son Lux and a work by Judd Greenstein. Also, music from Clogs, featuring Bryce Dessner and more in the vein of "indie classical."
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Electronic Components
Sample some music made with an electronic component. Hear chamber music with tape loops from New York-based composer Michael Montes. His works take cues from Renaissance composer Josquin DePrez, Pink Floyd and Brian Eno.
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American Tales
Hear the mesmerizing 11-minute reflection, "Another Day In America" as delivered through Fenway Bergamot, Laurie Anderson's wise and witty "Voice of Authority" alter-ego and more from her recent "Homeland."
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Electronic Dance Music
Listen to music written as dance music but played on acoustic instruments, including covers and also acoustic music that delivers an electronic feel. Listen for Alarm Will Sound, Nik Bartsch/Ronin, Francesco Tristano, and much, much more.
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The 2012 New Sounds Listener Poll Results
There were some unsurprising contenders, as well as a few shockers. The listeners also happened to agree with some of John Schaefer's picks, as aired on last night's show. Hear the full Listener Poll Top Ten Results tonight.
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John Schaefer's Completely Opinionated Top Ten of 2012
Brooklyn-based Afrobeat party band, a violinist in collaboration with an improvising pianist, and something from a cult American singer. Listen for a vocal octet and a composer who reworked a classical music "war horse" to great effect.
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Jozef van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch
The filmmaker/musician collaboration, "The Joy that Never Ends" combines palindromic trance / mystical lute pieces by Van Wissem, and Jarmusch's waves of subtle guitar feedback meandering from his amplifier.
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Soldier Songs
David T. Little joins John Schaefer to present selections from his hour-long multimedia one-man opera, "Soldier Songs." The work is in three acts, which explore the perceptions of war throughout the character's life: Child, Warrior, and Elder.
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Bang on a Can PCF Concert 2010, Part III
Highlights from the annual new music extravaganza, recorded June of 2010 at the World Financial Center. We'll hear the concert version of "Shelter" performed by the new music supergroup, Signal, led by Brad Lubman.
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The New Latin Tinge
The rhythms and sounds of Latin music can be heard in the long-awaited Malian-Cuban collaboration that was meant to take place when the Buena Vista Social Club was born - "AfroCubism."
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New Music for Chorus and Folk Singer
Hear the rich and unexpected combination of folk singer and ensemble. Listen to Swedish composer Bo Hannson's work for chorus & folk singer and voice magician, Lena Willemark, who is as at home with folk music as she is with avant jazz.
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100 x John (dedicated to John Cage)
Compositions and sounds from "100 x John, A Global Salute to John Cage," featuring field recordings by sound artists around the world. Hear a composition by Arsenije Jovanic, comprised of the sounds of stalactites 700m under the earth in Eastern Serbia.
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Delay Music
Music built around the sound of delay, digital and tape looping. Hear a recent offering by Phillip Schroeder, "A Passage Through A Dream." Also, otherworldly waves of drone by Terry Riley on "Poppy Nogood And The Phantom Band All Night Flight, Vol. 1."
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New Releases, December 2012
John Schaefer looks back at some of the things that came out during 2012 that might have gone unnoticed on the chaos that is his desk, and ahead to some of the things that 2013 holds.
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Women's Tales
Vocalist Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond together with the new-music supergroup Signal perform "Penelope" on this New Sounds. It's a haunting 60-minute song cycle for female voice, chamber orchestra, and electronics.
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Bang on a Can Marathon 2010 - Part II
We'll hear a work for percussion and 1-bit electronics from New York-based Tristan Perich, who combines math and physics with acoustic and electronic music for elegant and austere results. That, and more.
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New Sounds Live with Shara Worden and yMusic
Music from the New Sounds Live, March of 2011 on tonight's show. Shara Worden treats us to songs that were included o her Fall 2011 release, "All Things Will Unwind."
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Beat It
LA-based Ironworks Percussion Duo play a work for vibraphone and steel drum by Missy Mazzoli. Also, music by composer and steel pan virtuoso Andy Akiho and bagpiper/composer Matthew Welch's band Blarvuster.
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Goat Horns, & More
An array of instruments come together on "Ossicles," a new record by Norwegian tenor saxophonist, goat horn player, and composer Karl Seglem. Listen to African thumb piano, or mbira, steel pans and tabla, the hardanger fiddle and goat horns.
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Musical Cross-Pollination
Hear from singers who reach across musical traditions, including a new recording of a Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan piece "Mustt Mustt" - by Indo-Canadian singer Kiran Ahluwalia, featuring the Tuareg musical rebels from Mali, Tinariwen.
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A Very New Sounds Christmas (Eve)
Music for the season, in the vein of the strange and unusual. From the inventive Respect Sextet, hear arrangements from the record, "Respect in Yule." Also, hear Tavener's original, "The Lamb," along with twisted songs by The Real Tuesday Weld and Sufjan Stevens.
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A Crimson Grail
Paris-based musician and composer Rhys Chatham once played a central role in the development of New York's downtown music scene. Now he's best-known for high profile productions of his symphonies written for hundreds of softly played electric guitars (and basses.)
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Bang on a Can Marathon 2010 - Part I
Highlights from the annual new music extravaganza, the Bang on a Can Marathon. The French bass player, composer and laptop manipulator Florent Ghys writes witty minimalist pop music pieces. We'll hear some of these, recorded live at the World Financial Center.
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Winter Is Coming
From finger-style guitarist Sean Smith to the minimalist cool of the Geoff Smith Band, listen to songs about winter. Listen to Icelandic composer Valgeir Sigurosson's take on winter, as well as Ryuchi Sakamoto's music, "Ice." That, and more.
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The Australian-American Connection
Australia's surprising and flexible new music ensemble, Topology, comprised of saxophone, strings and piano, takes center stage. Plus, works by Americans living in Australia.
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Max Richter: Vivaldi
Composer Max Richter has taken apart Vivaldi's violin concertos, "The Four Seasons," and reconfigured the components while reclaiming the work. Max Richter presents his "Recomposed: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons."
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Where We Live
Music from the band itsnotyouitsme, where Grey McMurray is the guitar-playing half and Caleb Burhans is the violin-playing half. Hear a collaborative work between So Percussion and Grey McMurray called "Where (we) Live."
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Small Combos
Experience a father-son flamenco guitar and cello duo. Begun in France, and finished in Brooklyn, the focus for these works was on improvisation after deciding not to use the demos.
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Classical Rock Bands
Steve Reich - a piece of classical music for a rock band. Also, music for electric guitar in a chamber music setting by Canadian composer Tim Brady; plus, a hybrid electro-acoustic ensemble by Paola Prestini.
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Piano Solos and Ensembles
Hear from Nico Muhly's "I Drink The Air Before Me." There's also music from Jason Moran's "Ten," plus, Michael Formanek Quartet and Donnacha Dennehy's "Reservoir" for solo piano, played by Isabelle O'Connor, and more.
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Cross-Cultural Music Tour
Charming Hostess/Jewlia Eisenberg's strange & brilliant "The Bowls Project," based on inscriptions from earthernware bowls. "Demon bowls were inscribed with a householder's secrets and then buried under the doorway to protect her home."
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Strings and Drones
Listen to American composer Ellen Fullman, the South Indian-born double violinist known as Shankar, along with Maya Beiser and Kayhan Kalhor. Fullman is known for the long-string instrument (LSI), using physics and acoustics to make music.
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A Remembrance of Ravi Shankar
Excerpts from his first appearance in our New Sounds studios in the 1980's to when he brought his then 15-year old daughter, Anoushka Shankar in 1996. Also, hear a classic Deutsche Grammophon recording of Raga Gara, and more.
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Music for Multiple Keyboards
Music by Tim Seddon for 6 pianos, plus something from "Breathing In, Breathing Out" by Anton Batagov for two pianos and timpani. Also, music by David Borden and his Mother Mallard band - plus, a work by Canadian Patrick Godfrey.
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New Music for Trumpet
A collaboration by Volker Goetze & Ablaye Cissoko for trumpet and kora featuring their tribute to "Haiti". Also, Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen, and American trumpet manipulator Jon Hassell.
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New Works for Cello
This New Sounds brings us something from cellists Zoe Keating, Erik Friedlander, and Brent Arnold. The San Francisco-based Keating loops layers upon layers of cello to create her own one-woman orchestra. We'll hear from her latest, "Into the Trees."
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Sacred Music from Eastern Europe
Estonian composer Arvo Part's Te Deum; also, music from Ukranian composer Vladimir Marynov, plus music from Anton Batagov, based on the music of Buddhist chants.
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The Cajun Influence
Excerpts from Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin's score for the film "Beasts of the Southern Wild." Also, music by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra who drew from Cajun fiddling on pieces like "Swing the Cat" and "Bean Fields."
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David Lang's "love fail"
Pulitzer-Prize winning composer, David Lang, along with the women of vocal quartet Anonymous 4 join us to preview the work Lang has just written for the group, "love fail."
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New Acoustic Music
Listen to two generations of "New Acoustic Music" - a term "coined" by banjo player Jake Shepps. David Grisman, Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, and others were using that exact same term 30 years ago. We'll hear from all of them.
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Mostly Wordless Vocal Music
Listen to the Glass score to Koyanisqatsi, and an excerpt called "Vessels" featuring the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble. Then Roomful of Teeth sings a work by Judd Greenstein working in Tibetan-style.
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New Music from Saturn
Music by Sun Ra done up by other ensembles. We'll listen to the Heliocentrics & the Respect Sextet, along with Your Neighborhood Saxophone Quartet. Plus Sun Ra's music as rendered by the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, and others.
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I Mean To Live Here Still
David Karsten Daniels and Fight the Big Bull perform settings of texts by Henry David Thoreau for singer/guitarist and big band. This joyous bi-coastal collaboration features the swirling horns and swelling melodies anchored by Daniels' plaintive vocal lines.
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World Music Survey
An hour of world music, beginning in the concert hall with "La Pasion," the world music-tinged setting of the Passion according to St. Mark by Argentinian-American composer Osvaldo Golijov.
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New Releases, November 2012
New music by Turkish composer Erdem Helvacioglu & guitarist/composer Bill Walker that marries lap steel guitar and electronic to create wide open soundscapes. Also, selections from a compilation of guitar music, curated by Elliott Sharp, called "I Never Metaguitar Too."
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Drones
Hear music made with drones, including music by Jim Jarmusch in collaboration with the lute player Jozef van Wissem and new ambient music from Brian Eno. There's also music from a recent release simply called "Drones" by New York composer Nico Muhly.
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107 Reasons Why
We will listen to "107 Reasons Why" by Do Make Say Think, and more instrumental music, perhaps even some that could be called "post-rock." There's something from the ambient drone band Labradford, along with music from Angelo Badalamenti.
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John Cage: City Circus, Program XIII
A 1994 series of rare in-studio recordings and interviews with the composer - "John Cage: City Circus," what we thought to be thirteen programs. Here, after many years, and in this John Cage centennial year, is the missing 13th installment - a new show to complete the series.
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Traditional Folk Music Gone Global
Contemporary works that draw on the folk traditions of America, Albania, Armenia. From composer Eve Beglarian, "I'm Worried Now But I Won't Be Worried Long," which comes from the Mississippi Delta Blues, but its melody is a traditional Armenian folk song.
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Southeastern European Laments
Listen to Azerbaijani songs featuring the Alim Qasimov ensemble arranged for the Kronos Quartet, from the record, "Floodplain." Then PJ Harvey from "Let England Shake" with samples of what sounds like Turkish lamenting and kanun.
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A Private Reel - Still More Live on Soundcheck
Soundcheck has had some incredible performances in the studio recently. For this edition of New Sounds, we'll offer up some of these rare gems, such as Cuban singer Omara Portundo and Senegalese singer/guitarist Baaba Maal.
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Hybrid Ensembles
Music by composer, programmer, performer, theorist and mandolinist, Larry Polansky. Polansky's latest release involves the Dutch electric guitar quartet, Zwerm, together with additional percussion, harp and electronics!
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"Glory to Women"
Madina N'Diaye opened the way to a new phenomenon in Mali: women's access to musical instruments traditionally reserved for men. In "Moussow," the lyrics translate as: "I, Madina, play the Kora. Glory to women, glory to the women of Mali."
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New Sounds From Tibet
"Karma Shadub," for violin and chorus by violinist/composer Paul Giger. Plus, Minnesota-based composer/guitarist Steve Tibbetts, along with Philip Glass's Tibetan-inspired works.
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John Cage: City Circus, Program XII
The final concert performance by John Cage, recorded just two weeks before his death in July of 1992 - the world premiere of his work, Four6, featuring Cage, vocalist Joan La Barbara, Leonard Stein, and William Winant.
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A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra - and Other...
In "Heroic Weather," every instrument is identified as it enters, much in the same way as "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra." Plus, listen to some of Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" where Vivian Stanshall formally announces each instrument.
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Collaborative Producers
Collaborative music by producers, from an English composer to an Ethiopian aid worker. Hear a collaborative work from Deru, (Benjamin Wynn) an electronic music producer from Los Angeles and English composer Joby Talbot, called "Genus."
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Another Private Reel: Live on Soundcheck
Dip into the private stash of live recordings from John's other show, Soundcheck. Hear Kronos Quartet playing Terry Riley, and some electroacoustic music from the Whitetree ensemble.
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The Road to Ruin
Music by Ross Bolleter for ruined piano, which the World Association for Ruined Piano Studies defines as "A piano abandoned to all weathers with the result that few or none of its notes sound like that of an even-tempered uptight piano."
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"Music" of James Joyce
For this literary edition of New Sounds, hear the long-awaited setting of James Joyce's text from Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end of Ulysses. Kate Bush's "The Sensual World" re-emerges as "Flower of the Mountain."
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When Words Don't Matter
Hear a hypnotic work from the electronic duo Matmos, "Just Waves," based on their own telepathic experiments. Matmos (M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel) together with three other singers speak-sing the transcripts of the psychic session material.
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World Music
Listen to Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures, which is made up of jazzers and North African musicians. Also, hear world trance dance-fusion music by Christopher Stowens; plus, "Village Voices" from "Pulse: a Stomp Odyssey," and more.
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Orchestral Pop
Brand new music from the reclusive Scott Walker, from his forthcoming release "Bish Bosch," also music from American singer/songwriter Daniel James, under the name Canon Blue, from his "Rumspringa."
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"Full Fathom Five": The Tempest in Music
Music inspired by Shakespeare's "The Tempest". "Full Fathom Five," one of Ariel's songs, describes a death by shipwreck. It's also the title of one of the songs on the album, "Tempest" by the group The Young Scamels.
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Global Mediterranean Ensembles
Music from cellist Maya Beiser's new record, "Provenance" by Israeli composer Tamar Muskal is on tap for this New Sounds program.
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Members Only: So Percussion
Listen to some music featuring the members of So Percussion, including Jason Treuting's "Oblique music for 4 plus (blank)," recorded live by the Orchestra of the League of Composers at Miller Theater.
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Beethoven, Bruckner, and Mahler. Sort of.
Hear "ReWriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony" by Michael Gordon, along with music from Uri Caine where he takes on Mahler "Urlicht/Primal Light."Plus, hear Mary Jane Leach's "Bruckstuck," and more.
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New Releases October 2012
John Schaefer carefully sorts through the stacks, bins, and boatloads of new CDs which have come across his desk over the past month to present some of the finest new releases. He'll pick the lentils from the ashes to present the cream of this crop.
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John Cage: City Circus, Program X
Hear a live performance in our studio of a work by Wendy Mae Chambers for twelve percussionists, written in memory of John Cage. It's a voodoo tone poem called "Twelve Squared." There's also a choral work by Robert Moran, "Seven Sounds Unseen," along with music made by the city of Tokyo in Japan.
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Tuff Strum
"Cello Multitracks" is Gabriel Prokofiev's four-part suite scored for nine cellos, as realized by the technologically skilled cellist Peter Gregson, (yep, on all nine parts.)
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John Cage: City Circus, Program IX
The ninth program in a series celebrating the life and legacy of John Cage. For this show, hear a live studio performance by Margaret Leng Tan of Cage's prepared piano music for a 1950 film about the sculptor Alexander Calder. Plus, music by Eric Satie and more.
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