#3717: Celebrating Earth Day
New Sounds celebrates Earth Day with music recorded about, around, and with the Earth. Listen to music by British art-rocker Kate Bush along with music from Meredith Monk's travelogue opera, "Atlas". There's also a work by environmentalist Utah mayor and former MTV rocker, Phillip K. Bimstein, "Dark Winds Rising," for string quartet - in this case the Turtle Island String Quartet.
Also, composers use the sounds of the natural world to make music that belongs to the whole planet. John Luther Adams brings an ensemble of 34 percussionists to the middle of a forest in Vermont, and the Paul Winter Consort records a duet with whales. Then, Terry Riley’s “Sun Rings,” uses found sound from the audio archives at the jet propulsion laboratory in Iowa collected by NASA, like the crackling of solar winds, the whistling of deep-space lightning, and other cosmic phenomena and incorporates that material into a piece for the Kronos Quartet, called “Sun Rings.”
Program #3717 Celebrating Earth Day (First aired 4/22/2015)
ARTIST: One Ring Zero
WORK: Earth [2:10]
RECORDING: Planets
SOURCE: Urban Geek Records
INFO: Available at Amazon.com or on Spotify
ARTIST: Vangelis
WORK: Albedo 0.39 [4:22]
RECORDING: Albedo 0.39
SOURCE: Windham Hill Records, Reissued BMG
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ARTIST: Kate Bush
WORK: Hello Earth [6:10]
RECORDING: Hounds of Love
SOURCE: Capitol Records
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ARTIST: Meredith Monk
WORK: Earth Seen From Above [7:34]
RECORDING: Atlas
SOURCE: ECM Records ECM #1491 / 1492
INFO: ecmrecords.com
ARTIST: A Winged Victory for the Sullen
WORK: We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year [6:17]
RECORDING: A Winged Victory for the Sullen
SOURCE: Erased Tapes ERATP032
INFO: erasedtapes.com
ARTIST: Phillip K. Bimstein feat. Turtle Island String Quartet
WORK: Phillip K. Bimstein: Dark Winds Rising: With the Earth [3:18]
RECORDING: Garland Hirschi’s Cows
SOURCE: Starkland ST 205
INFO: starkland.com
ARTIST: Kronos Quartet
WORK: Terry Riley: One Earth, One People, One Love (from Sun Rings) [4:37]
RECORDING: Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector: Music of Terry Riley
SOURCE: Nonesuch 549523
INFO: nonesuch.com
ARTIST: Inuksuit Ensemble
WORK: John Luther Adams: Inuksuit [7:22]
RECORDING: Inuksuit
SOURCE: Cantaloupe – CA #21096
INFO: cantaloupemusic.com
ARTIST: Paul Winter Consort
WORK: Belly of the Whale [5:29]
RECORDING: Earth Music
SOURCE: paulwinter.com/recordings
INFO: paulwinter.bandcamp.com
