#2109: Program #2109

New Sounds | May 24, 2010

Inventive string sounds take center stage on this edition of New Sounds, including cuts from David Pritchard's CD Velocity (pictured), which is scored for multiple acoustic guitars along with harpsichord, flute, marimba, electric guitar, and acoustic bass guitar. The results are uniquely hypnotic and often mesmerizing. We also feature Gloria Coates's String Quartet No. 6, a work fashioned completely out of glissandos, by turns long, short, sustained, slowly modulated, abrupt, creaky, dissonant, and consonant. Also, selections by the California Guitar Trio.

PROGRAM #2109, Acoustic Works (First aired on January 2, 2003)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
David Pritchard	Velocity	Pattern 6 [5:30]	Molecular Music#10014 Info at sdragon.home.cyberverse.com or sdragon@cyberverse.com Available for purchase at www.lacg.net*
California Guitar Trio	New Sounds Live Merkin Hall 9/21/00	Eve [4:00]	Not yet available. A version of this song is due in mid 2003 on the Guitar Harvest CD -info at newyorkguitarfestival.org Also see www.cgtrio.com*
The Acoustic Folk Box	4 Decades of the very best acoustic folk music from the British Isles	Bert Jansch: Angi [3:30] Martin Simpson: The First Cut Is the Deepest [4:00] Blowzabella:Shave the Monkey/Boys of the Mill [3:30] Shooglenifty: Venus In Tweeds [4:00]	Topic #4001 (4 CDs) Available at Amazon.com*
Turtle Island String Quartet	Turtle Island String Quartet	Variations on My Fathers Footsteps [7:30]	Windham Hill # 0110 Out of print
Gloria Coates	String Quartets 1,5, 6	Still [6:00]	Naxos #559091* Available at Amazon.com*
Turtle Island String Quartet	Turtle Island String Quartet	Eurasian Hoedown [4:00]	See above.
Raw Materials	Live in Europe	Excerpt [5:00]	Private tape. For info go to www.rawmaterialsduo.com

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