#4483, Recent Electronic/Electroacoustic Music
Sample recent electronic and electroacoustic music by composer, sound artist, and Harvard music professor Yvette Janine Jackson along with a collaborative piece by drummer/producer Deantoni Parks and vocalist/composer Hanna Benn, commissioned by Liquid Music. Plus, hear new work by the London-based composer/singer/synth-er Hannah Peel, French Ondist (Ondes Martenot) and keyboardist Christine Ott, and something from the last album by experimental duo, Tomaga.
Yvette Janine Jackson writes electroacoustic, chamber, and orchestral musics for concert, theatre, and installation and is a Harvard music professor. Her radio opera* “Destination Freedom” is based on research into oral histories of those born into slavery, and in one movement, specifically how Africans were stored in cargo ships and transported to the Americas. (*“radio” as an homage to her passion for 20th Century dramas, and “opera” because her works are large-scale and episodic, as if they were intended to be played on the radio or television -Vanessa Ague, Bandcamp.) Her work combines music concrète, spoken word and field recordings, along with instrumental excerpts performed by Jackson’s chamber ensemble - and weaves them into a striking long-form storytelling soundscape, "like immersive non-visual films" (The Guardian.) Listen to an excerpt from “Destination Freedom,” from Yvette Janine Jackson's album, Freedom.
There’s also collaborative electro-chamber music by composer and vocalist Hanna Benn (Son Lux, Boots) and the drummer/producer Deantoni Parks (The Mars Volta, KUDU) that "explore[s] the spiritual and emotional core of ceremonial music in the form of a song cycle.” – (Liquid Music Blog)
Also, from the 2021 record, Fir Waves by London-based composer/singer/synth-er Hannah Peel, listen to a sort of collaboration over the decades, in a reinterpretation of the music of Delia Derbyshire and the Radiophonic Workshop. Peel re-sampled original music of the 1972 KPM 1000 series and created her own new electronics. She then shaped them into patterns that mirror the continuous environmental changes around us, as in the song, “Carbon Cycle.” Plus, from French composer and multi-instrumentalist Christine Ott, listen to spectral Satie-like spacious piano compositions and work for Ondes Martenot which ranges into theremin meets Radiohead exit music territory. And more. -Caryn Havlik
Program #4483, Electronic/Electroacoustic Music (First Aired 4/12/2021)
ARTIST: Ron Grainer/Arr Delia Derbyshire
WORK: Dr. Who original theme music (1963) [1:00]
RECORDING: Youtube
SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPJ6GMXM3E
ARTIST: Hannah Peel
WORK: Carbon Cycle [5:23]
RECORDING: Fir Wave
SOURCE: My Own Pleasure
INFO: hannahpeel.com/work/firwave
ARTIST: Tomaga
WORK: Idioma [4:13]
RECORDING: Intimate Immensity
SOURCE: Hands in the Dark Records
INFO: handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Christine Ott
WORK: Horizons Fauves [7:02]
RECORDING: Time To Die
SOURCE: Gizeh Records
INFO: christineott.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Deantoni Parks & Hanna Benn
WORK: Procession, Opening [11:50]
RECORDING: Procession, Opening
SOURCE: Humanimachine Records
INFO: https://deantoniparks.lnk.to/Procession
ARTIST: Yvette Janine Jackson
WORK: Destination Freedom, excerpt [10:22]
RECORDING: Freedom
SOURCE: Fridman Gallery
INFO: yvettejaninejackson.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Christine Ott
WORK: Comma Opening [7:00]
RECORDING: Time To Die
SOURCE: Gizeh Records
INFO: christineott.bandcamp.com
