Cycling Music (Special Podcast)

WNYC Studios

New Sounds is unlike any radio show you've ever heard: a whirlwind tour of new and unusual music from all corners of the globe. New Sounds combs recent recordings for one of the most informative and compelling hours on radio, and aims to make the world smaller. For over 25 years, host John Schaefer has been finding the melody in the rainforest and the rhythm in an orchestra of tin cans. Defying rigid categorization and genre pigeonholing, New Sounds offers new ways to hear the ancient language of song. With guest musicians from David Byrne to Meredith Monk to Ravi Shankar to Philip Glass to Christopher O'Riley to Bang On A Can, Schaefer presents performances (both in-studio and from the New Sounds Live concert series) and premieres new works from the classic and operatic to folk and jazz, and anything else in between. Each show has a theme, ranging from post-rock to klezmer to African blues to minimalism. The variety of cultures and styles explored is boundless. Music you may not have known existed and now can't live without.

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Hear music created by a cyclical approach to composition: some of it driven by technology, whereby layering, looping, or overdubbing are used to fit patterns against one another. Listen to works from Icelandic composer and violinist of amiina Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, commissioned by the group Nordic Affect, who play modern music on baroque instruments. Hear Sigfúsdóttir’s “Clockworking,” which is about musical patterns set in motion, all built of recorded sounds of harpsichord, and period violin, viola & cello, which then stack up in cyclical hypnotic fashion.

There’s also music from the second half of Arvo Pärt’s “Tabula Rasa,” an exercise in cycles being lengthened. The glacial pace of the work is a gradually unfolding musical process, where strings are extended and augmented each time through the pattern, then punctuated by prepared piano. Plus, hear a work by young English composer Jon Opstad inspired by "Tabula Rasa," and music from the late Michael Galasso’s “Scenes.”

PROGRAM #3754– Cycling music (First aired on 07/23/2015)

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Michael Galasso

Scenes

Scene 6 [6:00]

ECM Records #1245ecmrecords.com

Nordic Affect

Clockworking

Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir: Clockworking [7:32]