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Host John Duncan introduces this grossly underrated audio pioneer from Stockholm, Sweden, with additional commentary via telephone from C.M. von Hausswolff and Leif Elggren.
Imagine the sound of a harp over 100 ft. long, with the musicians walking among the strings...or a live grand piano concert played with vibrating motor...or a solo electronic guitar performance ranging from grating to ethereal. A classic presentation by the most avant of musicologists, John Duncan.
Ellen Fullman is a composer known for her compositions on her self-made Long String Instruments (played by walking on the strings and rubbing them), her distinct tunings, and her involvement with extended harmonics - exemplified here by "Body Music." She says, "Playing the Long String Instrument feels to me like I'm walking in waist-high water, skimming the surface with my fingertips...The cascading overtone production glides over the rooted fundamental tone like a river moving past: always changing; yet remaining the same."
The Portuguese pianist, specialist in shimmering string-drones David Maranha plays "Piano Suspenso." With his brother André and Patricia Machiás, he curates Osso Exótico, a Portuguese music foundation.
Mysterious guitarist Keiji Haino, front man for the psychedelic power trio Fushitsusha, performs "Beginning and End, Interwoven," solo, with the usual sunglasses.
and Dael Orlandersmith's acclaimed play, Yellowman.
In 1975, Eliane Radigue became a disciple of Tibetan Buddhism and later composed a large-scale cycle of works based on the life of Milarepa, the 11th-century Tibetan master. Host John Duncan plays some of it here.
This episode is devoted to the electronic pioneer, Oskar Sala, developer of the Trautonium, one of the earliest audio synthesizers and a most fascinating musical instrument.
Heckert's behemoth machine orchestra - in concert - with all the attendant hums, clicks, creaks and other nonverbal communications you might expect from an orchestra that really moves.
On location in Italy, Duncan dedicates this show to the late Los Angeles iconoclast, John Schroeder, featuring Banks Bailey's daybreak performance at Saguaro National Park in Tucson, AZ.
Lie down. Genial (and knowledgeable) host John Duncan presents the music of Folke Rabe, an electronic composer and sound artist based in Stockholm. As Duncan says, "Get ready to put muscles in your ears."
