#3346: Glass-y Music

Hear fragile and glassy music on this New Sounds program, including low-fi, 1-bit electronic music by New York-based composer Tristan Perich.  Listen to the collision of math, physics, and code, in Perich’s “Observations,” for two crotales.  (Incidentally, 1-bit is the lowest possible digital representation of audio.)  Then there’s also music by Michael Hearst (he of One Ring Zero), from his latest, “Songs for Unusual Creatures.

The record is something of a warped take on “Carnival of the Animals” or perhaps a deluxe, unreleased version of the children’s toy Super “See and Say.”  In any case, look forward to Hearst's tunes like “Glass Frog,” “Dugong” and a collaboration with the Kronos Quartet, “Aye Aye.”

PROGRAM #3346, Fragile Music (First aired on 6/5/2012)