#2417: Splintered "Totalist" Music
New Sounds | May 24, 2010
Special guest Mikel Rouse visits the studio for this New Sounds program to present his new music/film/counterpoetry project, “Music for Minorities.” The work was commissioned by UCLA Live, and made while Rouse spent time in the Louisiana Delta as a composer-in-residence. In it, Rouse plays guitar and sings with a soundscape of percussion and guitars under him as he weaves stories and interacts with a kind of fractured video memoir of life. The video clips range from an introduction to a Japanese cowboy to stuttering CNN tapes complete with a scroll announcing that God has called it quits. There’s even a video clip of his wife, a dancer in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, prancing while Rouse, amusingly, sings of "rubber feet."
PROGRAM #2417, with composer Mikel Rouse (First aired 5/24/05)
| ARTIST(S) | RECORDING | CUT(S) | SOURCE |
| Mikel Rouse | Failing Kansas | Persons Unknown [5:00] |
New Tone #6740
Try www.felmay.it |
| Music for Minorities |
That’s My Universe [3:00] Where Are Those Girls [3:30] |
Exit #1007 Available from i-Tunes. Info : www.mikelrouse.com | |
| Love At Twenty |
Trio [5:00] Our Weight [3:00] (Tell God That) I Saved You [6:30] |
Available in 2006 on i-Tunes. | |
| Music for Minorities |
I Know Something’s Wrong [3:30] Change For My baby [3:30] |
See above |
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