#3024: Daniel Figgis' Snakes & Ladders

New Sounds | May 24, 2010

For this New Sounds, composer and curator Daniel Figgis visits the studio to present megamixes from the Irish showcase for original music and video commissions called Snakes & Ladders: An Entertainment. This multi-media live "happening" has toured Ireland and now makes its way to New York’s Symphony Space. Listen to works by composer Roger Doyle, along with a recording of the cleaning of the Belvedere Theatre, and Uileann pipes with pedals. The music performances run the gamut of disciplines, encompassing musique concrete, piano recital, free-improvisation, avant folk, metal, arena rock, and electronica, all accompanied by new video works.

PROGRAM # 3024 With Daniel Figgis (First aired on Fri. 1/8/10)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Daniel Figgis	Skipper	My Poor Little House Without Me In It, excerpt [1:00] The Please Front [3:30]	Black Burst #005, out of print. But download from Emusic.com
Various Artists	Snakes & Ladders - Private CD	Figgis: PhotoFinish edit Auditorium excerpt Almost Old Batterie 1 The Jablonski Suite excerpt The Bringer Of War [5:30] Toirse –hibernation, Paranoid Visions featuring The Master Switch –Coal, Roger Doyle -the staircase looked familiar, BrianOhUiginn -from: Left-Handed March, Ktho Zoid –ether, Conor Brady -Play [15:00] SoundArt Megamix: RossKelly -Audicity The Jimmy Cake -at the end of the day of the dead, Neil Bailey with Fint Nusp -Brakes On, Spectac -Land Of Yew, TWINKRANES –Nougat, Richard G Evans –Perish, Mark O'Leary –opVex, Vincent Doherty -Termonfeckin [20:00]	These performances not commercially available. Info at www.danielfiggis.com, and myspace.com/snakesladdersfestival

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