New Sounds (Eclectic)

New music made on old instruments, and older music in positively modern settings. Listen to the early music vocal group Orlando Consort in collaboration with jazz rock band Perfect Houseplants. Also, instruments from the Middle East, combining modern production techniques and medieval chant from German group Sarband.

Hear some music from violinist/composer Jenny Scheinman, along with something new from violinist Carla Kihlstedt & percussionist/keyboardist Matthias Bossi.? Also, indie chamber music from Clogs, and chamber folk from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

Hear works by Hungarian composers and musicians on this New Sounds, including Istvan Marta, Gy?rgy Ligeti, and the Amadinda Percussion Group.

An hour of music involving the thumb piano for this New Sounds program, from a gentle song by Arthur Russell, interpreted by Jens Lekman to the Kronos Quartet, to the psychedelic electronic music in the Congotronics series of records.

On this edition of New Sounds, hear some chamber music by composer Marc Mellits with a populist bent.? Also, the group Real Quiet - pianist Andrew Russo, cellist Felix Fan, and percussionist David Cossin - brings the perky and spiky cartoon-like energy to bear.

This New Sounds program explores the impact that the subgenre known as "glitch" music has had on the new music world.? Listen to Daniel Wohl's piece, "Glitch," as performed by the Calder Quartet interacting with electronics from a New Sounds Live in collaboration with the Ecstatic Music Festival.

Listen to new music for flute on this New Sounds program, ranging from Japanese shakuhachi to Native American flute, along with the Indian Bansuri flute and perhaps even the ocarina.

From the classical art songs of Schumann and Schubert that used as their text words by great poets of the day to brand-new Appalachian blues music just recorded by Martha Redbone set to works of William Blake, this New Sounds program explores poetry in song.

This New Sounds explores music that plays with ideas of texture, drone and space. Hear Norwegian composer/drummer Erland Dahlen conjure dark experimental soundscapes mostly based around his Slingerland Rolling Bomber drum kit from World War II.

The band name may say "Orchestra," but the groups' sounds are not what you'd expect. Hear Slavic folk, Latin jazz, African guitars and balafons come together in music by The Fake Orchestra.

One of this year's Grammy nominees is Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon, who sings world music fusion, mainly informed by Indian classical music. On her record, "Soul Call," she set a six thousand-year old eight-syllable chant to music, with each of the eight songs following a different raga.

For this New Sounds program, sample a globetrotting set of acoustic music with guitar as the starting point. There's music by Stephane Wrembel, who visits everything from blues to flamenco to rock on his record "Origins."

We hope to hear from Amadou & Miriam, BMOP and Evan Ziporyn, and the local Brooklyn outfit Choban Elektrik, as well as a host of other choice recordings.

Listen to some new music film scores by the likes of John Zorn, and keyboardist, composer and producer Wayne Horvitz. Plus, from Greece, there's music by Eleni Karaindrou, along with music from Michael Nyman and Philip Glass.

Hear works for acoustic instruments and electronics, with the combinations of piano and electronics, violin and electronics, or a small ensemble using no electronics at all on this New Sounds program. We'll listen to Open Graves with Stuart Dempster recorded way down in a water cistern, which sounds very processed, although it was all acoustic.