#3593: Voice & Electronics

New Sounds | May 1, 2014

On this edition of New Sounds, listen to music for voice and electronics, including the latest recording from Brooklyn-based composer Jacob Cooper, “Silver Threads.” It’s a song cycle written for soprano Mellissa Hughes, in which he employs laptop like a folk instrument. The text of the first movement comes from a haiku by Basho, and the following five movements came from asking five contemporary poets to write their own poems in response to the Basho haiku. Listen to Cooper’s setting of the original haiku, and one with text by Tarfia Faizullah. SEE Silver Threads release show at Le Poisson Rouge on May 7.

There’s also music from Korean-American composer Bora Yoon and her album, “Sunken Cathedral.” Then listen to music from veteran electro-acoustic composer Ingram Marshall, and a work from the Brooklyn-based singer and electronic musician, Julianna Barwick. Plus, hear a modern medieval creation by Ambrose Field, building out from Guillaume Dufay, featuring tenor John Potter, and more.

PROGRAM #3593 voice + electronics (First aired on 5/1/2014)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Ambrose Field	Being Dufay	Being Dufay, excerpt [1:00]	ECM 2071 www.ecmrecords.com
Jacob Cooper, feat. Mellissa Hughes, soprano	Silver Threads	Silver Threads I Silver Threads [6:52]	Nonesuch 540989 www.nonesuch.com
Bora Yoon feat. New York Polyphony	Sunken Cathedral	Semaphore Conductus [7:19]	Innova 880 www.innova.mu
Jacob Cooper, feat. Mellissa Hughes, soprano	Silver Threads	Silver Threads IV: Wefted History [6:56]	Nonesuch 540989 www.nonesuch.com
Ingram Marshall	Ikon and other early works	Rop Pa Fjellet (Cries Upon The Mountains) [7:02]	New World Records 80577 www.newworldrecords.org
Ambrose Field / John Potter	Being Dufay	Je me complains [6:30]	ECM 2071 www.ecmrecords.com
Julianna Barwick	Nepenthe	Crystal Lake [4:16]	Dead Oceans www.scdistribution.com
John McGuire (w/Beth Griffith)	Pulse Music III	A Cappella, excerpt [7:50]	Sargasso SCD28043 www.sargasso.com

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