#4304: Music for the Anthropocene

New Sounds | Dec 3, 2019

For this New Sounds hear music for the Anthropocene, featuring works by composer and vocalist Shara Nova (My Brightest Diamond), composer and producer Pascal Le Boeuf for violist Jessica Meyer, along with works by composer and National Sawdust artistic director Paola Prestini and American minimalist Philip Glass. Plus, music from NYC-based composer Mike Sayre, an elegy for the windswept ice shelves of Antarctica, and music by violinist, looper, and composer Emily Wells that all respond to climate change and humanity’s effect on the planet and the other species we share it with. 

Program #4304: Music for the Anthropocene (First aired 12/03/2019)

ARTIST: Pascal Le Boeuf, ft. Jessica Meyer, viola
WORK: Pascal Le Boeuf: Into the Anthropocene - 02 II- Requiem for the Extinct [1:00]
RECORDING: Into the Anthropocene
SOURCE/INFO: pascalleboeuf.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Roomful of Teeth, Glenn Kotche, and Jeffrey Zeigler
WORK: Shara Nova: Welcome to the Anthropocene [4:37]
RECORDING: The Colorado
SOURCE: New Amsterdam Records, co-released with VisionIntoArt (VIA Records) 
INFO: newamrecords.com

ARTIST: Pascal Le Boeuf, ft. Gina Izzo, flute
WORK: Pascal Le Boeuf: Into the Anthropocene - I- Cognitive Awakening [5:05]
RECORDING: Into the Anthropocene
SOURCE/INFO: pascalleboeuf.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Pascal Le Boeuf, ft. Jessica Meyer, viola
WORK: Pascal Le Boeuf: Into the Anthropocene - II- Requiem for the Extinct [5:21]
RECORDING: Into the Anthropocene
SOURCE/INFO: pascalleboeuf.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Mike Sayre
WORK: Genesis [8:25]
RECORDING: Music for Icebergs
SOURCE: Teknofonic Recordings
INFO: mike-sayre.com

ARTIST: Philip Glass
WORK: Anima Mundi [7:09]
RECORDING: Anima Mundi : Original Soundtrack by Philip Glass
SOURCE: Nonesuch Records
INFO: philipglass.com

ARTIST: Golden Hornet featuring Jeffrey Zeigler
WORK: Paola Prestini:  From the Bones to the Fossils [9:32]
RECORDING: The Sound of Science
SOURCE: National Sawdust
INFO: nationalsawdust.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Emily Wells with Metropolis Ensemble 
WORK: Hymn For The New World [7:04]
RECORDING: This World is Too _____ For You
SOURCE: Thesis & Instinct
INFO: emilywellsmusic.com

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