Episodes

  • We've Got Rhythms (Special Podcast of show #3960)
    Oct 19 2017

    Listen to rhythmic music, whether for percussion, string quartet or vocal duet for this New Sounds. Hear works from percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum, Kelly Moran, and the Jasper String Quartet, and a vocal duet from Meredith Monk and Robert Een. From the recent record, Unbound, by the Jasper String Quartet, hear a non-stop motoring work by Judd Greenstein, “Four on the Floor.” Usually the term applies to thumping dance-club bangers, but in this work, pairs of instruments work “with and against each other, until they settle their differences and combine into a shared groove,” according to the composer.

    Hear music with rhythmic intensity, for prepared piano, with and without electronics from Kelly Moran, and her record, Bloodroot, which is where minimalism and black metal collide. Then, listen to music from Hauschka, who layers player piano with prepared piano. Also, listen to Inuit-style breathing games from Meredith Monk and cellist/vocalist Robert Een, from her long-form work, "Facing North," inspired by the Canadian wilderness.

    Then, listen to increasingly tricky and complex rhythms in a work by David Crowell for percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum. Plus, hear a work –"Redwood"- involving saxophone and interlocking guitar parts from Empyrean Atlas, the band of composer/multi-instrumentalist David Crowell. And more.

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    1 hr
  • August & September 2017 New Releases (Special Podcast)
    Oct 4 2017

    Hear prog-marching band music from Chicago's Mucca Pazza, ambient-gothic Norwegian-Icelandic music from the duo Jo Berger Myhre & Ólafur Björn Ólafsson, jazz-tronic ambient minimalism from London's Portico Quartet, and new work from Danish experimental supergroup Girls in Airports.

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    56 mins
  • Classical Instruments, Contemporary Sounds (Special Podcast)
    Apr 3 2017

    Hear music that begins with classical instruments, like the string quartet, piano, or an orchestra, but which is then augmented, enhanced by electronics, percussion, or preparation. Listen to works by English violinist, pianist, and composer Poppy Ackroyd, Netherlands-based composer Peter Adriaansz, and cinematic music from the augmented string quartet amiina.

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    56 mins
  • #3928: With Guitarist Shane Parish (Special Podcast)
    Jan 11 2017

    Guitarist Shane Parish, of the instrumental prog-punk band Ahleuchatistas, plays music from his solo record of “weird old Americana” live in the studio on acoustic & prepared guitar.

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    56 mins
  • #3912: With Zakir Hussain & Niladri Kumar (Special Podcast)
    Nov 1 2016

    “Indian music does not stop and start with Ravi Shankar.” So says tabla master Zakir Hussain, who, along with young sitar virtuoso, Niladri Kumar, joins John in the studio for a live performance. Niladri Kumar and Zakir Hussain perform a radio-friendly (short) Raga Charukeshi, for Rupak Tal (a seven beat rhythmic cycle) and Raga Bhairavi in Teental (16 beats.)

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    52 mins
  • #3893: With Guitarist Guy Buttery (Special Podcast)
    Sep 15 2016

    South African guitarist Guy Buttery visits the studio to perform virtuosic feats of bending, tapping, picking, harmonics, and other techniques and textures yet to be named for guitar. Hear music from his latest record, his sixth, a self-titled wonder of collaborative tunes. Plus, music from the late Malian guitarist and griot Tiécoro Sissoko.

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    59 mins
  • New Music from Ireland Part 3 (Special Podcast)
    Jun 23 2015

    This episode continues the series exploring the new music of Ireland. John Schaefer sits down with Jonathan Nangle at the Contemporary Music Centre in Dublin. Nangle tells how Donnacha Dennehy influenced him to explore more experimental music, and then shares how electronics and silence factor into his compositions. Listen to how Nangle uses electronics to subtly augment conventional instrumentation on "Where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds". Hear Nangle explain how his piece "Then Falls by Shadow" takes the inspiration of Irish weather to combine shuffle mode with a choral performance. Later in the hour, John Schaefer talks to David Bremner about his own compositions and playing the pipe organ at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin. Hear Bremner's piercing organ compositions "Variations upon 'the usual reason'" and "Amhrán na Leabhar."

    PROGRAM #3715 New Music from Ireland: Part 3 (First aired on 4/17/2015)

    ARTIST(S)

    RECORDING

    CUT(S)

    SOURCE

    Kate Ellis

    Jump

    Donnacha Dennehy: Aisling Gheal [2:09]

    Diatribe Records

    Jonathan Nangle

    Self-released

    DIY Aeolian Harp [:39]

    Soundcloud

    Jonathan Nangle

    new music::new Ireland 2

    Where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds [excerpt 1] [2:14]

    CMC Ireland

    Jonathan Nangle

    new music::new Ireland 2

    Where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds [excerpt 2] [4:47]

    See Above

    Ergodos Musicians

    I Call To You

    Jonathan Nangle: Ich ruf' zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ [2:22]

    Ergodos Records

    Jonathan Nangle

    Commissioned for Dublin SoundLab

    untitled (after Dan Flavin) [1:42]

    Soundcloud

    Jonathan Nangle

    Commisioned by David Bremner and Elizabeth Hilliard

    Then Falls thy Shadow [:51]

    Soundcloud

    Jonathan Nangle

    Contermporaty Music from Ireland, Volume Nine

    Our headlights blew softly into the black illuminating very little [5:21]

    CMC Ireland – CMC CD09

    Contemporary Music Centre

    Jonathan Nangle & David Bremner

    Ergodos 2009 'Off-Grid' Festival

    Untitled improvisation [1:25]

    Soundcloud

    David Bremner

    Contemporary Music from Ireland, Volume 2

    Variations upon ‘the usual reason’ [4:40]

    CMC Ireland

    David Bremner

    L’Air Du Temps

    Amhrán na Leabhar [2:49]

    Soundcloud

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    57 mins
  • Various Electroacoustic Music (Special Podcast)
    May 26 2015

    Hear electroacoustic music by Dublin-based Seán Mac Erlaine and Australian-born, London-based Leah Kardos. Plus, music from NY-based GABI, cellist Julia Kent, and Bing & Ruth.

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    56 mins