#3749: Music With Found Voices
This episode, each track has something in common: the music is put to the sounds of voices taken out of one context and put into another. Start off with a beautiful cut from the Bang On A Can All-Stars’ Field Recordings, Anna Clyne’s “A Wonderful Day,” featuring the voice of a man heard walking through the streets of Chicago. Next hear Brian Irvine’s exciting piece “Just A Little Lighter Cut of the Same Girls,” with samples from a cattle auction accompanied by a string quartet. Speaking of cattle, the next cut features sounds of cows! Composed by former mayor Philip Bimstein, “Garland Hirschi’s Cows” features his neighbor Garland Hirschi talking about his cows, in a piece that somehow manages to be both silly and sentimentally sad (while still featuring cows moo-ing). Then hear “Reeling” by Julia Wolfe, one of the Bang On A Can founders. This piece samples Celtic-inspired Quebecan “mouth musicians.” Next, a Washington DC Go-Go inspired track, a tribute to Chuck Brown by Dick Connette. Hear the voice of legendary Chuck Brown and others, with saxophone and drums. And finally, back to the sounds of an auction in “Money Talk” by trumpeter and composer Ben Neill.
PROGRAM #3749– Music With Found Voices (First aired on 07/10/2015)
ARTIST: Chatham Saxaphone Quartet
WORK: Brian Irvine: Just A Little Lighter Cut of the Same Girls excerpt [1:20]
RECORDING: New Irish Music
SOURCE/INFO: shop.rte.ie
ARTIST: Anna Clyne
WORK: A Wonderful Day [5:00]
RECORDING: Bang on A Can Field Recordings
SOURCE/INFO: bangonacan.org
ARTIST: Chatham Saxaphone Quartet
WORK: Brian Irvine: Just A Little Lighter Cut of the Same Girls [3:06]
RECORDING: New Irish Music
SOURCE/INFO: shop.rte.ie
ARTIST: Philip K. Bimstein
WORK: Garland Hirschi’s Cows[11:45]
RECORDING: Garland Hirschi’s Cows
SOURCE/INFO: starkland.com
ARTIST: Julia Wolfe
WORK: Reeling [5:46]
RECORDING: Bang on A Can Field Recordings
SOURCE/INFO: bangonacan.org
ARTIST: Dick Connette
WORK: Go Go Going Gone [12:06]
RECORDING: Go Go Going Gone
SOURCE/INFO: This piece is not commercially available, but find other music at dickconnette.com
ARTIST: Ben Neill
WORK: Money Talk [6:41]
RECORDING: Torchtower
SOURCE/INFO: benneill.com
