#3503: Inspired by Sci-Fi
There’s music inspired by Sci-Fi books & film for this New Sounds program. Listen to the internet opera and sonic book by Mendi & Keith Obadike, “The Sour Thunder,” which consists of two simultaneous stories; Mendi traveling with a friend to study Afro-Dominican culture and tracing the slave trade through the Dominican Repulic, and that of a state called Solaika Dast, where scent is the method of communication. There’s also recent music by Londoner Pete M. Wyer, his “Planet 49,” a response to the Danny Boyle film, “Sunshine” about a mission in 2057 to set off a nuclear bomb to reignite our dying sun.
Then, listen to an alternate score for the classic 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky sci-fi film, “Solaris” by Australian-born Ben Frost & Icelandic conductor/arranger/composer Daníel Bjarnason. Plus, music from MIT-based composer Tod Machover, who wrote an opera inspired by the novel “Valis” by Philip K. Dick. And more.
PROGRAM #3503 – Inspired by Sci-Fi (First aired on 8/27/2013)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Pete M. Wyer |
Planet 49 |
You Can't Talk To Her When She's Like This [8:06] |
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Ben Frost / Daníel Bjarnason |
Solaris |
Saccades [6:01] |
Bedroom Community HVALUR 012
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Mendi + Keith Obadike |
The Sour Thunder |
Even the Magnolia/The Scent of Sugar Cane [6:08] |
Bridge Records 9158 |
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Tangerine Dream |
Phaedra |
Mysterious Semblance At The Strand of Nightmares [10:45] |
Virgin - #TAND 5 |
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Tod Machover |
Valis |
Overture & |
Bridge Records 9007 |
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Air |
Le Voyage Dans La Lune |
Moon Fever [3:34] |
Astralwerks |
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Pete M. Wyer |
Planet 49 |
Flying Or Falling, excerpt [7:28] |
