#4131: Electronic Music for Spatial Contemplation

New Sounds | Dec 6, 2020

Listen to music by British-born US-based composer Jane Antonia Cornish and her work “Lux” from her latest record, Constellations. It’s a long-form spacious sound structure created from acoustic instruments like piano and strings, but stretched with electronics into a entire musical cosmos. Similarly, listen to a work - “Icefloe” for cello and electronics - by one-woman cello orchestra and independent musician Zoë Keating that also creates space. It’s from her four-song EP called Snowmelt.

Hear a work by Brian Eno from his most recent collection of new, rare and previously unreleased tracks, Music for Installations. From it, we’ll hear “Surbahar Sleeping Music” (a Surbahar is a bass version of the Indian sitar.) Plus, listen to the trance-like and bliss inducing electronically enhanced zither of NYC-based musician, mystic and laughter meditation practitioner Laraaji, from his recent release, Bring On The Sun.

PROGRAM #4131, Electronic Music  (First aired 7/11/2018)

ARTIST: Jane Antonia Cornish
WORK: Lux [1:00]
RECORDING: Constellations
SOURCE: Innova 1006 | Due out July 27, 2018 
INFO: innova.mu

ARTIST: Joanne Forman
WORK: The Twittering Machine [3:21]
RECORDING: Cave Vaults of the Moon
SOURCE: Séance Centre
INFO: seance-centre.com

ARTIST: Jane Antonia Cornish
WORK: Lux [8:34]
RECORDING: Constellations
SOURCE: Innova 1006 | Due out July 27, 2018 
INFO: innova.mu

ARTIST: Zoe Keating
WORK: Icefloe [3:53]
RECORDING: Snowmelt EP 
SOURCE/INFO: music.zoekeating.com

ARTIST: Brian Eno
WORK: Surbahar Sleeping Music [18:10]
RECORDING: Music for Installations
SOURCE: Opal Music Ltd
INFO: enoshop.co.uk

ARTIST: Laraaji
WORK: Introspection
RECORDING: Bring On The Sun
SOURCE: All Saints Records WAST054DL
INFO: laraajimusic.bandcamp.com

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