Celebrate American composer Ingram Marshall with a few pieces that might give a range of his sound world. Since the mid-1970’s, when he developed “live electronic” pieces, he has been a pioneer in electronic music delay, found sound, tape collage, electronically altered sounds, and has also been under the influence of Indonesian gamelan music, which he studied, and sometimes incorporates in his work (IngramMarshall.net.) May 10 marks his birthday; he turned 80 years old in 2022.
Listen to a dark and evocative piece, from Marshall’s time in the San Francisco Bay area, which he says is NOT a portrait of San Francisco Bay, his "Fog Tropes" for brass sextet and ambient sounds on tape, which was also used in the film, Shutter Island. Then, hear music using electronically processed archival field recordings of professional mourners from Southeastern Europe, in “Hidden Voices,” featuring soprano Cheryl Bensman-Rowe.
Plus, hear the electronic work “Alcatraz,” based off of field recordings from both the San Francisco bay and from within the walls of the prison itself, and written to accompany a multimedia installation done with the photographer Jim Bengston. There’s also a work based on Beethoven’s “Waldstein” piano sonata, and composed for gamelan, and more. – Caryn Havlik
Program #4620, Ingram Marshall 80th Birthday Tribute (First aired 5/10/22)
ARTIST: Ingram Marshall
WORK: Introduction [1:21]
RECORDING: Alcatraz
SOURCE: New Albion 040
INFO: Out of print. Reissued on Starkland
ARTIST: Ingram Marshall
WORK: Fog Tropes [9:30]
RECORDING: Fog Tropes / Gradual Requiem
SOURCE: New Albion #002, reissued Arc Light Records
INFO: newalbion.com | arclighteditions.bigcartel.com
ARTIST: Ingram Marshall
WORK: Hidden Voices [5:10]
RECORDING: Marshall: Three Penitential Visions, Hidden Voices
SOURCE: Nonesuch 79227
INFO: nonesuch.com
ARTIST: Ingram Marshall, feat. Libby Van Cleve
WORK: Dark Waters [11:58]
RECORDING: Dark Waters
SOURCE: New Albion #112
INFO: newalbion.com
ARTIST: Paul Hillier, with live electronics by Ingram Marshall
WORK: Ingram Marshall: Sierran Songs, John Muir On Mt. Ritter (Gary Snyder) [6:42]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live, at the New School, 1995
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available
INFO: ingrammarshall.net/vocal
ARTIST: Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier
WORK: Ingram Marshall: Hymnodic Delays: Bright Hour Delayed [6:42]
RECORDING:Kingdom Come/Hymnodic Delays/Fog Tropes II
SOURCE: Nonesuch
INFO: nonesuch.com/artists/ingram-marshall
ARTIST: Ingram Marshall
WORK: Woodstone [2:54]
RECORDING: September Canons
SOURCE: New World Records
INFO: newworldrecords.org
ARTIST: Todd Reynolds
WORK: September Canons [1:16]
RECORDING: September Canons
SOURCE: New World Records
INFO: newworldrecords.org