#4694, Keyboard and "Percussion"
Hear music with piano and percussion of ALL kinds - from the inside of a piano with preparations, flower pots, ping pong balls, bowed vibraphone, and even echolocation by an endangered species of bat in works by Matt McBane and Sandbox Percussion, American composer Ellen Reid and the L.A. Percussion Quartet, and Andrew McIntosh for Yarn/Wire.
Listen to some of composer, producer, and violinist Matt McBane’s collaboration with Sandbox Percussion, Bathymetry -a “reference to how bass synthesizers affect percussive sounds, mimicking how the ocean floor shapes the waves above,” (National Sawdust event page.) McBane and Sandbox use monophonic Moog analog synthesizer, found instrument percussion (mixing bowls, ping pong balls, glass bottles), orchestral percussion and drum sets, drawing on minimalism and achieving something close to ambient music to evoke the mysterious underwater depths.
Matthew McBane and Sandbox Percussion perform 'Bathymetry' in its entirety at National Sawdust on Dec. 16.
Then, from the producer and musician Field Works (aka Stuart Hyatt), listen to a collaboration using the sounds of an endangered Indiana bat and Kelly Moran, a keyboardist and composer who works with prepared piano and other keyboards. There’s also a work for sextet of piano and percussion – tuned flower pots and prepared piano - by New York composer Christopher Cerrone, co-commissioned and performed by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, “Why Was I Born Between Mirrors?”
Listen to NY-based quartet Yarn/Wire performing Little Jimmy by violinist and composer Andrew McIntosh (of new music band Wild Up) as well as music by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer and sound artist Ellen Reid played by the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet. It’s her work, “Fear-Release” like a crystalline structure, exacting in its space- involving chimes, bells, crotales, and other metallic instruments. And more. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4694, keyboard and "percussion" (First aired 12/15/22)
ARTIST: Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
WORK: Why Was I Born Between Mirrors [1:00]
RECORDING: Christopher Cerrone: The Air Suspended
SOURCE: New Focus Recordings
INFO: cerrone.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Matt McBane and Sandbox Percussion
WORK: Matt McBane: Quiver [5:42]
RECORDING: Bathymetry
SOURCE: Cantaloupe Music
INFO: mattmcbane.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Field Works featuring Kelly Moran
WORK: Sodalis [3:39]
RECORDING: Ultrasonic
SOURCE: Temporary Residence Ltd.
INFO: fieldworks.bandcamp.com/album/ultrasonic
ARTIST: Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
WORK: Why Was I Born Between Mirrors [7:18]
RECORDING: Christopher Cerrone: The Air Suspended
SOURCE: New Focus Recordings
INFO: cerrone.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
WORK: Why Was I Born Between Mirrors [1:00]
RECORDING: Christopher Cerrone: The Air Suspended
SOURCE: New Focus Recordings
INFO: cerrone.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Matt McBane and Sandbox Percussion
WORK: Matt McBane: Groundswell [7:17]
RECORDING: Bathymetry
SOURCE: Cantaloupe Music
INFO: mattmcbane.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Yarn/Wire
WORK: Andrew McIntosh: Little Jimmy, Part 2 [5:45]
RECORDING: Little Jimmy
SOURCE: KAIROS 0022000
INFO: kairos-music.com | yarnwire.org/albums/littlejimmy
ARTIST: Los Angeles Percussion Quartet
WORK: Ellen Reid: Fear-Release [8:46]
RECORDING: Beyond
SOURCE: Sono Luminus DSL-92214
INFO: sonoluminus.com
ARTIST: Matt McBane and Sandbox Percussion
WORK: Matt McBane: Surface [1:41]
RECORDING: Bathymetry
SOURCE: Cantaloupe Music
INFO: mattmcbane.bandcamp.com
