#5025, Electroacoustic Music

New Sounds | Aug 28

Hear acoustic sounds with electronic production from Irish violinist Darragh Morgan, the Vermont duo Platform8, Polish composer Stefan Wesolowski, and Amsterdam-based Wanderwelle. 

Listen to Irish violinist Darragh Morgan from his most recent album, For Violin and Electronics II, in electroacoustic work with an ebb and flow by Irish composer Irene Buckley. Later, listen to a shimmering playful work by Northern Irish composer Hannah Peel, also from Darragh Morgan’s most recent album. There’s a bit of ominous music by Polish composer, cellist, and violinist Stefan Wesolowski, turbo-charged with timpani attacks.

Hear music by Alex Somers and Aska Matsumiya from the sound installation for the French artist Claire Tabouret's exhibition If Only The Sea Could Sleep. The work features the harp playing of Mary Lattimore and the cello of Icelandic musician Gyða Valtýsdóttir, along with field recordings of maritime sounds: boats croaking and chimes swinging in the wind. Then, listen to music by Amsterdam-based collective Wanderwelle from their album of electro-acoustic threnodies for an environment at risk due to the effects caused by receding coastlines around the globe. Plus, hear music from composer and visual artist Amanda Berlind’s audiovisual solo album Green Cones; atmospheric music for an installation from films by the Klezmatics; and more. - Caryn Havlik

Program #5025,  Electroacoustic Music (First aired 7/8/25)

ARTIST: Platform8
WORK: Awakening [1:00]
RECORDING: Platform8
SOURCE: Yellow Leaves or None Records
INFO: https://platform8.bandcamp.com/album/platform8

ARTIST: Darragh Morgan
WORK: Irene Buckley: Liminalis for violin and fixed media [8:21]
RECORDING: For Violin and Electronics Volume II
SOURCE: Diatribe Records
INFO: https://diatriberecords.bandcamp.com/album/for-violin-and-electronics-volume-ii

ARTIST: Platform8
WORK: Awakening [4:15]
RECORDING: Platform8
SOURCE: Yellow Leaves or None Records
INFO: https://platform8.bandcamp.com/album/platform8

ARTIST: Stefan Wesolowski
WORK: Peak [8:49]
RECORDING: Song of the Night Mists
SOURCE: Unheard Of Hope
INFO: https://tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stefan-weso-owski-song-of-the-night-mists

ARTIST: Amanda Berlind
WORK: Goom [4:48]
RECORDING: Green Cone
SOURCE: Curious Music
INFO: curiousmusicia.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Wanderwelle
WORK: Shores, Bereaved [4:23]
RECORDING: All Hands Bury the Cliffs at Sea
SOURCE: Important Records
INFO: https://imprec.bandcamp.com/album/all-hands-bury-the-cliffs-at-sea-2

ARTIST: Alex Somers & Aska Matsumiya, Mary Lattimore, Gyða Valtýsdóttir
WORK: Light past blue Part 1 [3:52]
RECORDING: Light Past Blue
SOURCE/INFO: https://alexsomers.bandcamp.com/album/light-past-blue

ARTIST: Klezmatics
WORK: Blut [3:42]
RECORDING: Letters to Afar
SOURCE: Chant Records
INFO: klezmatics.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Darragh Morgan
WORK: Hannah Peel: Pformation [5:24]
RECORDING: For Violin and Electronics Volume II
SOURCE: Diatribe Records
INFO: https://diatriberecords.bandcamp.com/album/for-violin-and-electronics-volume-ii

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