Listen to the sounds of sculpture: glass, bronze, bicycle wheels, ice, stones - in work by Andy Akiho with the Omaha Symphony played on sculptures of Jun Kaneko, Aizuri Quartet playing music by Lembit Beecher involving bike wheels and wine glasses, and gamelan-influenced work by Zemi17.
From Andy Akiho and the Omaha Symphony, hear music from the Sculptures project - a collection of nine compositions involving full-orchestra, brass, and the room-sized sculptures of Japanese-born artist Jun Kaneko used as percussion – listen to “Kintsugi” and “Bronze II”. Then, hear music from the Aizuri Quartet along with electronically-controlled sound sculptures that generate sound from bike wheels and wine glasses. The work is by Lembit Beecher's and is a suite from his chamber opera Sophia's Forest.
Listen to gamelan-influenced work from Zemi17 (Aaron Taylor Kuffner) from his “sound producing kinetic sculptures” called Gamelatron. “Zemi” in Japanese means cicada, and Zemi17 spent years studying in Indonesia before conceptualizing, designing and fabricating Gamelatron Bidadari (“forest nymph”), one of his seventy-plus musical sculptures. Also, the EcoSono Ensemble makes ecoacoustic music from an installation of glacier ice in work by Alaska composer Matthew Burtner. There's music where the sculpture “plays” the work from a release by Berlin-based Dorit Chrysler, in response to the artist Alexander Calder’s slowly-moving, ever-changing mobiles, and more.
Program #4801, The Sounds of Sculpture (First aired 10/11/2023)
ARTIST: Zemi17
WORK: Contours [8:59]
RECORDING: Gamelatron Bidadari
SOURCE: The Bunker
INFO: thebunkerny.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Andy Akiho
WORK: Kintsugi [4:06]
RECORDING: Sculptures
SOURCE: Aki Rhythm Productions
INFO: andyakiho.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Andy Akiho
WORK: Bronze II [4:02]
RECORDING: Sculptures
SOURCE: Aki Rhythm Productions
INFO: andyakiho.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: EcoSono Ensemble
WORK: Threnody (Sikuigvik) [5:31]
RECORDING: Icefield
SOURCE: Ravello Records
INFO: ravellorecords.com
ARTIST: Aizuri Quartet
WORK: Lembit Beecher: Sophia's Wide Awake Dreams - Dream Nr. 2 [6:44]
RECORDING: Blueprinting
SOURCE: New Amsterdam
INFO: aizuriquartet.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Glauco Venier
WORK: Ritual [3:08]
RECORDING: Miniatures
SOURCE: ECM Records
INFO: ecmrecords.com
ARTIST: Dorit Chrysler
WORK: Calder Plays Theremin, Side A [8:50]
RECORDING: Calder Plays Theremin
SOURCE: Kinship
INFO: kin-ship.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Stephan Micus
WORK: Music of Stones, part 6 [4:15]
RECORDING: The Music of Stones
SOURCE: ECM 1384
INFO: ecmrecords.com