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Elliott Sharp presents a world of sound including contemporary and archival composed and improvised musics, conceptual experiments, rare classics, and non-Western musics as well as salient interviews and discussions.
Playing the pedal-steel guitar, an instrument usually associated with country & western music, Texan Susan Alcorn creates a music that is simultaneously meditative and energizing.
Susan Alcorn's compositions make use of improvisation while her pedal-steel guitar, with its natural vocabulary of slides, whoops, glisses, and clouds of slowly-shifting sustains, completely lends itself to extended techniques.
Playlist
01 Mantra Pt. 1 14:49
02 Mantra Pt. 2 8:43
03 Mantra Pt. 3 5:07
04 Mantra Pt. 4 7:08
05 Mantra Pt. 5 9:55
06 Mantra Pt. 6 9:36
The Laura Andel Electric Percussive Orchestra performs In:Tension in a complete version by the Argentinian composer/bandleader as issued by the Spanish Rossbin label. (58 minutes)
A historic meeting in 1969 between electronic composer Jon Appleton and Don Cherry, harmolodic trumpeter extraordinaire and sonic gypsy. This record, originally released on Flying Dutchman has been long unavailable.
This program of essential Albert Ayler begins with live tracks recorded at La Cave in Cleveland in 1966, with a band made up of Don Ayler (trumpet), Frank Wright (tenor sax), Michael Samson (violin), Mutawef Shaheed (bass) and Ronald Shannon Jackson (drums). "New Grass," Ayler's last studio recording for Impulse, follows. Here he took a singular approach to R -n-B and gospel accompanied by vocalist Mary Maria Parks, drummer Bernard Pretty Purdie, and electric bassist Bill Folwell.
Playlist
01 Truth Is Marching In 15:40
02 Spirits 9:23
03 New Grass 3:53
04 New Generation 5:06
05 Sun Watcher 7:29
06 New Ghosts 4:10
07 Heart Love 5:32
08 Everybody's Movin' 3:43
09 Free At Last 3:08
The world lost another unique and visionary musical voice on December 25, 2005 with the passing of improvising guitarist
Derek Bailey. His output was prodigious with recordings on many labels. This is one of my favorites, first released on the Italian Cramps label in 1975. -E. Sharp (43 minutes)
A bicoastal project with Carla Bozulich on vocals and a variety of instruments and Ches Smith on percussion. Carla is well-known for her former band Geraldine Fibbers and her Willie Nelson tribute project Red Headed Stranger. (48 minutes)
Playlist
01 Jaunty Vibes 3:07
02 Run 2:26
03 Connected 4:05
04 In The Attic 4:31
05 The Hungry Story 5:40
06 Gravity 4:35
07 Elements Ascending 6:39
08 Let Loose Dogs 3:51
09 Stop Counting 5:30
10 Xjinging 3:12
11 Where Were We? 4:34
Directly influenced by the visual arts, particularly the works of Alexander Calder and Jackson Pollock, Earle Brown was the pioneer of open forms, graphic scores, and improvisation.
Playlist
01 Centering (1973)
02 Available Forms I (1961)
03 Cross Sections And Color Fields (1975)
04 Available forms II (1962)
05 December 1952 (1952)
Artist Organized Art releases BUMP. Documented for the first time on Compact Disc, BUMP performs live Dec 1, 2005 at CMS Studios NYC courtesy of Artist Organized Art. The release is a truth recording resulting in a 7-track album running over 40 minutes. BUMP is a prime example of a change sweeping the music scene. The band members do not speak one to the other. After over two years, they have only recently disclosed their names. There is little known about any of them. One described the band as "a collection of strangers." BUMP states their goal is to one day play a wedding. They seek to swap audition tapes with professional club date bands who would "help" them pass. (44 minutes)
Playlist
01 The Everyday Pleasures of Love - 3:29
02 Let Us Solve Your Music Problem - 9:40
03 Your Next Wedding or Anniversary - 5:03
04 We Out Price 1800-BAND-JOB - 4:50
05 Available for Banquets Receptions - 7:35
06 We Pay Cartage You Pay Meals - 7:30
07 Your Uncle's Next Birthday Party - 5:20
The mouth of a volcano, from which pours the hot lava.
The sound of Latin American soul - as selected by Buenos Aires native, composer Laura Andel, who plays traditional folk music to the latest computer music, and all shades in between. (Broadcast in Spanish in alternate weeks.)
New, from composer Laura Andel: Milongas from Argentina, Afro-rhythms from Surinam, traditional sounds from Bolivia, Afro-marimba sounds from Ecuador all mixed with music by contemporary composers from the same countries. Really really interesting.
The mouth of a volcano, from which pours the hot lava.
The sound of Latin American soul - as selected by Buenos Aires native, composer Laura Andel, who plays traditional folk music to the latest computer music, and all shades in between. (Broadcast in Spanish in alternate weeks.)
Laura Andel mixes music from her native Argentina by composers Alejandro Viñao, Guillermo Klein and José Halac and from Bahia, Brazil by Olodum, with Carlinhos Brown, Lenine and Tom Zé with traditional music from Venezuela by Simon Diaz, music recorded live at a party in Cuba and traditional music from the Bolivian Andes by Kala Chuyma. See complete playlist here.
The mouth of a volcano, from which pours the hot lava.
The sound of Latin American soul - as selected by Buenos Aires native, composer Laura Andel, who plays traditional folk music to the latest computer music, and all shades in between. (Broadcast in Spanish in alternate weeks.)
Laura Andel presents music from the Winti tradition of Suriname; new sounds from Argentinian composers Alejandro Iglesias-Rossi, Santiago Vazquez and Dino Saluzzi; music from composer Hermeto Pascoal and traditional music from the northeast of Brazil; music from the Afro-Peruvian coast by Nicomedes Santa Cruz, and music performed by Gregorio Mendoza and recorded live in Bolivia. See complete playlist here.
The mouth of a volcano, from which pours the hot lava.
The sound of Latin American soul - as selected by Buenos Aires native, composer Laura Andel, who plays traditional folk music to the latest computer music, and all shades in between. (Broadcast in Spanish in alternate weeks.)
New, from composer Laura Andel: Milongas from Argentina, Afro-rhythms from Surinam, traditional sounds from Bolivia, Afro-marimba sounds from Ecuador all mixed with music by contemporary composers from the same countries. Really, really interesting.
Attention composers:
Laura is always looking for music by composers with relations to, or inspired by Latin America, including traditional or ethnic music of the region. If you wish to submit music for this program, please, e-mail her at
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with a link to your sound file.
Host Elliott Sharp interviews Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, who create interdisciplinary art works that integrate physics, chemistry and computer science with esoteric philosophical practices. Camera Lucida is a continually evolving light sculpture that allows one to see sound moving through space - right at the delicate horizon where acoustics and optics meet. By means of a phenomenon called sonoluminescence, sound waves are directly converted into light inside a glass chamber filled with gas-infused liquid. After adapting to the absolute darkness surrounding the installation, the viewer/listener gradually perceives the highly detailed shapes and movements of multiple sound sources.
Current findings, particularly regarding waveform phenomena, are employed by the artists to investigate questions of perception and immortality. Such investigations are salient because the scientific picture of the world, which serves as the basis for contemporary thought, still cannot encompass the unrecordable workings of consciousness. "Camera Lucida: Sonochemical Observatory" is on view in New York at I20 Gallery until July 8, 2005.
The electric music of Miles Davis destroyed the accumulated weight of the jazz tradition in a bold move that invented a futuristic African space music. In the studio to make "On the Corner", he jettisoned the usual chords, harmony, and melodic clichés, and pared the music down to nothing and built it up again. In this extremely rare live recording from the Quaker Jazz Festival, Philadelphia, September 24, 1972, Miles' band includes Carlos Garnett (soprano sax), Cedric Lawson (keys), Reggie Lucas (guitar), Khalil Balakrishna (electric sitar), Michael Henderson (bass), Al Foster (drums), Mtume (percussion), and Badal Roy (tabla.)
Playlist
01 Black Satin 9:31
02 Rated X 15:12
03 Honky Tonk 9:34
04 Right Off 11:44
With his durational acoustic compositions for traditional musical instruments, this self-taught son of Glasgow challenges the best musical ensembles. Here, Music Projects London grandly rises to the occasion to perform Dillon'sEast 11th Street.
Playlist
01 East 11th St NY 10003 19:45
02 Windows And Canopies 20:05
03 La Femme Invisible 16:34
Elliott Sharp interviews John Duncan.
Sonic provocateur, performer, sculptor, installation artist, and expatriate, John Duncan pays a rare visit to New York for the November 5 opening of The Steelwater Message, an audio installation at
Diapason Gallery, 1026 Sixth Avenue.
In addition to the interview, we will hear the following tracks from John Duncan's CD, Incoming (Streamline 1005):
Psychedelic desert instrumentals from the "golden age" of Ethiopian pop music, dating from 1969-74. Most are performed by jazz legend Mulatu Astatque, a unique and innovative bandleader, composer, arranger, and melder of international influences including Arabic, Caribbean, jazz, and Spanish music with Ethiopia's own rich musical traditions.
An electroacoustic work in 36 parts by a sadly under-recognized, San Francisco-based artist, a co-founder (with Elliott Sharp) of zOaR Records. Fulton's travels have sometimes taken him far afield from music. His "Semi-Trilogy," for example, uses field recordings from an Alaskan fishing boat. A rare listening opportunity.
