This episode, each track has something in common: the music is put to the sounds of voices taken out of one context and put into another. Start off with Brian Irvine’s exciting piece “Just A Little Lighter Cut of the Same Girls,” with samples from a cattle auction accompanied by a string quartet. Speaking of cattle, the next cut features sounds of cows! Composed by former mayor Philip Bimstein, “Garland Hirschi’s Cows” features his neighbor Garland Hirschi talking about his cows, in a piece that somehow manages to be both silly and sentimentally sad (while still featuring cows moo-ing). Then hear “Reeling” by Julia Wolfe, one of the Bang On A Can founders. This piece samples Celtic-inspired Quebecan “mouth musicians.” Next, a Washington DC Go-Go inspired track, a tribute to Chuck Brown by Dick Connette. Hear the voice of legendary Chuck Brown and others, with saxophone and drums. And finally, back to the sounds of an auction in “Money Talk” by trumpeter and composer Ben Neill.
PROGRAM #3749– Music With Found Voices (First aired on 07/10/2015)
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RECORDING
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SOURCE
Chatham Saxaphone Quartet
New Irish Music
Brian Irvine: Just A Little Lighter Cut of the Same Girls excerpt [1:20]
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Chatham Saxaphone Quartet
New Irish Music
Brian Irvine: Just A Little Lighter Cut of the Same Girls [3:06]
See above.
Philip K. Bimstein
Garland Hirschi’s Cows
Garland Hirschi’s Cows[11:45]
http://www.starkland.com/
Julia Wolfe
Bang On A Can Field Recordings
Reeling [5:46]
http://bangonacan.org/store/music/fieldrecordings
Dick Connette
Go Go Going Gone
Go Go Going Gone [12:06]
This piece is not commercially available, but find other music at http://www.dickconnette.com/.
Ben Neill
Torchtower
Money Talk [6:41]
http://www.benneill.com/