#2831: “Electric” Music

New Sounds | Aug 22, 2010

For this New Sounds, hear some works that make use of the actual sounds of electricity, whether man-made or naturally occurring. Christine Southworth uses the sounds of a Van Der Graaf Generator and two Tesla Coils in her collection called “Zap!” Also, Annie Gosfield and Terry Riley look at the charged sounds made beyond the earth’s atmosphere. And Johanna Beyer, an overlooked figure from the 1930s, is represented by a celestial work for early electric instruments.

PROGRAM # 2831, “Electric Music” (First aired on Tuesday, August 12, 2008)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Christine Southworth	Zap!	Power Off [8:00] Attraction [5:30]	www.christinesouthworth.com
Terry Riley/Kronos Quartet	Live, Zankel Hall, 11-16-03	Sun Rings, excerpt [5:00]	Not yet commercially recorded.
Annie Gosfield	Lost Signals & Drifting Satellites	Lost Signals & Drifting Satellites, excerpt [5:00]	Tzadik #8007** www.tzadik.com
Various Artists: Johanna M Beyer	Women In Electronic Music -1977	Music of the Spheres [6:00]	CRI #728 Now reissued by New World Records #80653 www.newworldrecords.org
Guy Klucevsek	Free-Range Accordion	Lois V. Vierk: Blue Jets Red Sprites, excerpt [6:00]	Starkland #209 www.starkland.com
David First	Dave’s Waves	Closet Earth, excerpt [3:00]	Ants #ant09 Available at www.cdemusic.org. Info at: www.myspace.com/ daveswavessonicrest

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