#3134: With Steven Mackey

Electric guitarist, composer and Princeton University professor Steven Mackey returns to New Sounds for this program.  His enormous and ambitious work, “Dreamhouse,” a collaboration with singer/producer/writer Rinde Eckert and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, for orchestra, electric guitars, and singers has just been released.

The work takes the metaphor of house-building and gives a framework to issues like inside versus outside, security versus vulnerability, and the issues of house versus home, while also using texts that contain technical architectural words – crowns, turrets, mansard, etc. Mackey introduces excerpts from “Dreamhouse” and talks us through how 9/11 affected its development.

PROGRAM #3134, with Steven Mackey (First aired on 10/27/2010)