Hear (mostly) acoustic arrangements of electronic music, including a reworking of sound artist’s Taylor Deupree’s 2002 ambient electronic album Stil., Alarm Will Sound plays Aphex Twin, and Barcelona pianist Francesco Tristano plays Jeff Mills. Plus, Brian Eno’s Music for Airports performed by The Bang on a Can All-Stars.
Listen to some of sound artist, engineer, and producer Taylor Dupree’s 2002 album Stil. inspired by the work of photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, and based on the complex repetition of looping passages. Deupree is also the founder of the experimental ambient music record label 12k. Then hear a portion of the acoustic re-imagining of Taylor Deupree’s album Stil. by New York composer Joseph Branciforte using clarinet, flute, vibraphone, cello, lap harp, and percussion deployed in the service of preserving the textures of the digital loops and granular processing of Deupree’s original. Meticulously transcribed and arranged by Greyfade’s Joseph Branciforte and performed by an ensemble of notable New York creative musicians — Madison Greenstone, Ben Monder, Laura Cocks, Christopher Gross, and Sam Minaie, alongside Branciforte and Deupree themselves, listen to the movement “Recur”, (Bandcamp liner notes.) The concert for the album release of Sti.ll is on May 22 at Public Records in Brooklyn.
There’s also music originally by Aphex Twin, re-imagined and arranged for the acoustic instruments of the 20-piece chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound. Plus, listen to an arrangement by Barcelona pianist Francesco Tristano of Detroit techno futurist Jeff Mills’ dance floor classic, “The Bells”. Rounding out the show is a reworking of Brian Eno’s Music for Airports performed by The Bang on a Can All-Stars. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4885, Acoustic Versions of Electronic Music (First aired 5/21/2024)
ARTIST: Taylor Deupree
WORK: Recur [2:20]
RECORDING: Stil.
SOURCE: 12K
INFO: https://taylordeupree.bandcamp.com/album/stil
ARTIST: Jeff Mills
WORK: The Bells [1:00]
RECORDING: The Bells 12"
SOURCE: Purpose Maker
INFO: https://www.discogs.com/master/449968-Jeff-Mills-The-Bells-10th-Anniversary
ARTIST: Francesco Tristano
WORK: The Bells/ Hymn [8:40]
RECORDING: Not For Piano
SOURCE: inFine/Sunnyside Records
INFO: https://infine-rec.bandcamp.com/album/not-for-piano
ARTIST: Aphex Twin
WORK: #13 Blue Calx [1:25]
RECORDING: Selected Ambient Works Volume II
SOURCE: Warp Records
INFO: https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/selected-ambient-works-volume-ii
ARTIST: Alarm Will Sound
WORK: Blue Calx (arr. Caleb Burhans) [7:12]
RECORDING: Acoustica – Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin
SOURCE: Cantaloupe
INFO: https://cantaloupemusic.com
ARTIST: Taylor Deupree
WORK: Recur [1:10]
RECORDING: Stil.
SOURCE: 12K
INFO: https://taylordeupree.bandcamp.com/album/stil
ARTIST: Taylor Deupree, Joseph Branciforte, Ben Monder (acoustic guitar), Laura Cocks (flute), Christopher Gross (cello), and Sam Minaie (double bass),
WORK: Taylor Deupree: Recur (Arr. Joseph Branciforte) [10:15]
RECORDING: Sti.ll
SOURCE: Nettwerk, Greyfade, 12K
INFO: https://taylordeupree.bandcamp.com/album/sti-ll-2
5/21/2024 23:33:0010:15Music for Airports: 2/2Brian EnoAmbient 1EEG 175/21/2024 23:49:121:05 5/21/2024 23:50:428:22
ARTIST: Brian Eno
WORK: Music for Airports 2/2, excerpt [1:05]
RECORDING: Ambient 1
SOURCE: EEG 17
INFO: Available at AppleMusic, Amazon.com, Spotify, YouTube
ARTIST: Bang on a Can All-Stars
WORK: Brian Eno/arr.Ziporyn - "Music for Airports": 2/2 [1:05]
RECORDING: Music For Airports (Live)
SOURCE: Cantaloupe
INFO: https://bangonacan.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-airports-live