"Indie Classical": Indie Chamber Music (Special Podcast)
New Sounds from WNYC
English - October 06, 2015 09:00 - 56 minutes - ★★★★★ - 102 ratingsMusic Arts Performing Arts Technology wnyc john schaefer melody radio new sounds jazz classic operatic Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
For this New Sounds, hear new indie chamber works from the NYC-based group, NOW Ensemble and the Australian chamber band Nonsemble. Plus, music by composer/bandleader/singer Becca Stevens, from her daring and captivating record, “Perfect Animal.”
From the NOW Ensemble, hear “City Boy,” by NYC-based composer Judd Greenstein, who is also a co-founder of New Amsterdam Records, and the founder of the annual Ecstatic Music Festival. Greenstein’s “City Boy” is full of lifting, pulsing musical patterns changing over time, allowing one instrument after another in the NOW Ensemble’s arsenal - of flute, clarinet, electric guitar, double bass, and piano -to shine brilliantly. Then there’s a work by composer, singer/songwriter and bandleader Becca Stevens which recruits folk-associated instruments in the service of chamber-jazz art songs.
Also, listen to music by Australian composer Chris Perren for his septet, Nonsemble. His large 30-minute work “Go Seigen vs. Fujisawa Kuranosuke,”is based on the surrounding patterns from a 1950’s championship game of go. (Go Seigen was a Chinese-born Japanese 20th century master of the game; Fujisawa Kuranosuke was his opponent.) Go is an ancient Chinese strategy game, of great complexity, where one must surround and capture a greater territory on a playing board than one’s opponent. That, and more.
PROGRAM #3734– Postminimalist Music (First aired on 06/04/2015)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
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SOURCE
NOW Ensemble
Dreamfall
Greenstein: City Boy, excerpt [1:30]
New Amsterdam 64
newamrecords.com
Nonsemble
Go Seigen vs. Fujisawa Kuranosuke
Chris Perren:Go Seigen vs. Fujisawa Kuranosuke, Part III [9:46]
NOW Ensemble
Dreamfall
Judd Greenstein: City Boy [11:15]
New Amsterdam 64
newamrecords.com
NOW Ensemble
Dreamfall
Sarah Kirkland Snider: Pale as Centuries [6:09]
New Amsterdam 64
newamrecords.com
Becca Stevens Band
Perfect Animal
Be Still [5:05]
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Arizal
Booster Pack: Jellowstone Sampler by Jellowstone Records
Under Water [4:32]
Nonsemble
Go Seigen vs. Fujisawa Kuranosuke
Chris Perren:Go Seigen vs. Fujisawa Kuranosuke, Part II [8:52]
For this New Sounds, hear new indie chamber works from the NYC-based group, NOW Ensemble from their recent, "Dreamfall," and the Australian chamber band Nonsemble. Plus, music by composer/bandleader/singer Becca Stevens, from her daring and captivating record, “Perfect Animal.”