
#3074: Acoustic Music with Computers
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)
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RECORDING |
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Ben Neill |
Mainspring |
Mainspring [8:29] |
Ear-Rational ECD 1002 i |
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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. |
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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 |
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Jóhann Jóhannsson |
And in the endless pause there came the sound of bees |
The Flat [3:32] |
TYPE 064 typerecords.com |
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Peter Gach |
Fresh Piano |
Madelyn Byrne: Suite for Piano and Computer: The Elements [10:06] |
Innova 730 www.innova.mu |


