#2084: Program #2084

New Sounds | May 24, 2010

Forget "oompah-pah"... Tonight's New Sounds features the beautifully organic, ambient music of tuba stylist Tom Heasley. The California Bay Area-based composer and brass virtuoso processes and amplifies his instrument through a variety of electronic transformations--long delays, reverb and loops--to achieve an otherworldly sound. The single "Monterey Bay" from his 2001 CD, Where the Earth Meets the Sky, is balanced by two performances from the WNYC studio: "Wright's Loop" and "Roulette," both featuring some utterly sublime low drones.

PROGRAM # 2084, with Tom Heasley (First aired on Thursday, October 17, 2002)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Tom Heasley	Where The Earth Meets The Sky	Monterey Bay [2:00]	Hypnos #2135 www.hypnos.com
Tom Heasley	Live in the WNYC Studio	Wright's Loop [9:00] Roulette [16:00]	These performances not commercially available, but Heasley's new CD, "On the Sensations of Tone" is on Innova records. www.innovarecordings.com
Clogs	Thom's Night Out	I'm Very Sad [6:00]	Brassland #HWY-002 www.brassland.org
Pierre-Yves Macé	Faux-Jumeaux	Le Sentiment de la Nature [3:30]	Tzadik #7078 www.tzadik.com

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