#3074: Acoustic Music with Computers

New Sounds | May 24, 2010

Listen to selections from Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson’s soundtrack to the beautiful animated short film Varmints. Hear a WNYC commission by composer Osvaldo Golijov, called "Radio," for hyper-accordion, string quartet and laptop, featuring samples from the WNYC archives, and ETHEL. There’s also a work by Ben Neill, who plays the "Mutant trumpet," an instrument with two bells welded to it, and enhanced by computer. Rounding out the show is music by Madelyn Byrne, from her suite for piano and computer, “The Elements.”

PROGRAM # 3074, Acoustic Music with Computers (First aired on 5/11/2010)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

Ben Neill

Mainspring

Mainspring [8:29]

Ear-Rational ECD 1002 i
Info at www.benneill.com
Out of print, but try auction sites

Jeremy Flower, laptop; Michael Ward-Bergeman, hyperaccordian; ETHEL, WNYC Archives

Live, April 2009 in WNYC’s Jerome L. Greene Space

Osvaldo Golijov: RADIO [7:32]

This recording not commercially available.

Patrick Summers/Houston Grand Opera Orchestra Tod Machover

Tod Machover : Resurrection

March from Act II [4:34 Interlude [1:52]

Albany 495/6 www.albanyrecords.com

Jóhann Jóhannsson

And in the endless pause there came the sound of bees

The Flat [3:32]
Rainwater [2:00]
Siren Song [1:49]
Pods [3:25]

TYPE 064 typerecords.com

Peter Gach

Fresh Piano

Madelyn Byrne: Suite for Piano and Computer: The Elements [10:06]

Innova 730 www.innova.mu

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