Julianna Barwick (top) and Modern Medieval (bottom)

#4109: New Sounds Live: ModernMedieval and Julianna Barwick

New Sounds | May 2, 2018

From the New Sounds Live/Ecstatic Music Festival collaboration, hear a premiere of new works for the all-star vocal trio called ModernMedieval, and music by Julianna Barwick, separately and together, recorded at Merkin Concert Hall on April 19, 2018.

ModernMedieval are a three-member super-group of Anonymous 4 founder Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, Martha Cluver, and Eliza Bagg, both from the vocal octet Roomful of Teeth. Hear them perform work by the abbess and mystic Hildegard von Bingen, along with a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, vocalist, violinist, and producer Caroline Shaw (also of Roomful of Teeth.)

Then, composer, vocalist, and producer Julianna Barwick uses digital loops to create entire choirs out of her own voice and augments that sound with electronics and samples. Hear this totally modern but also kind of medieval soundscape. Hear Julianna Barwick's new collaboration with the all-star vocal trio called ModernMedieval, in a work called "Adder" - not like a snake, but in the sense of adding numbers.

PROGRAM #4109 New Releases, April 2018 (First aired 5/1/2018)

ARTIST: ModernMedieval
WORK: Hildegard von Bingen: Caritas Habundat [1:30]
RECORDING: NS Live: April 19, 2018, Merkin Hall
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: ModernMedieval

ARTIST: ModernMedieval
WORK: Caroline Shaw: Caritas Habundat [7:27]
RECORDING: NS Live: April 19, 2018, Merkin Hall
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: ModernMedieval | Caroline Shaw

ARTIST: Julianna Barwick
WORK: Wist [4:00]
RECORDING: NS Live: April 19, 2018, Merkin Hall
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: Julianna Barwick

ARTIST: Julianna Barwick
WORK: Nebula [7:19]
RECORDING: NS Live: April 19, 2018, Merkin Hall
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: Julianna Barwick

ARTIST: Julianna Barwick
WORK: St. Apolonia [7:32]
RECORDING: NS Live: April 19, 2018, Merkin Hall
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: Julianna Barwick

ARTIST: Julianna Barwick
WORK: Beached [5:22]
RECORDING: NS Live: April 19, 2018, Merkin Hall
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: Julianna Barwick

ARTIST: Julianna Barwick & ModernMedieval
WORK: Julianna Barwick: Adder [19:39]
RECORDING: NS Live: April 19, 2018, Merkin Hall
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: Julianna Barwick | ModernMedieval

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