#2937: Ambient Electroacoustic Music

New Sounds | Jul 23, 2010

Hear some ambient electro-acoustic music by composer, pianist, and self-taught studio manipulator Jon Hopkins on this edition of New Sounds. Hopkins' music toes the lines between many genres, merging digital dance-trance coldness with shimmering deep textures.

Also, listen to some ambient electronica from the Alaska-based John Luther Adams. Adams has recently moved away from electronics and into more acoustic chamber music but on "The Place We Began," he goes back to his own beginnings with tape music. Plus, there's some barely-there stasis music from Alva Noto/Ryuichi Sakamoto, and more.

PROGRAM # 2937 Ambient Electro-Acoustica (First aired on Fri. 5/15/09)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ensemble Modern	utp_	H,J broken line 1, excerpt [1:30]	Raster-Noton R-N 096 available via Forced Exposure www.forcedexposure.com
John Luther Adams	The Place We Began	At a still place [12:30]	Cold Blue 0032 www.coldbluemusic.com
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ensemble Modern	utp_	Transition, broken line 1 [6:30]	See above.
Jon Hopkins	Insides	The Low Places [6:30]	Domino DNO227CD www.dominorecordco.us OR Download from emusic.com Info at www.jonhopkins.co.uk
Chas Smith	Nakadai	Ghosts on the Windows [12:00]	Cold Blue 0029 www.coldbluemusic.com
Daniel Lanois	Belladonna	Todos Santos [5:30]	Anti 86767** www.daniellanois.com *

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