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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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.
This episode continues the series exploring the new music of Ireland. John Schaefer sits down with Jonathan Nangle at the Contemporary Music Centre in Dublin. Nangle tells how Donnacha Dennehy influenced him to explore more experimental music, and then shares how electronics and silence factor into his compositions. Listen to how Nangle uses electronics to subtly augment conventional instrumentation on "Where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds". Hear Nangle explain how his piece "Then Falls by Shadow" takes the inspiration of Irish weather to combine shuffle mode with a choral performance. Later in the hour, John Schaefer talks to David Bremner about his own compositions and playing the pipe organ at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin. Hear Bremner's piercing organ compositions "Variations upon 'the usual reason'" and "Amhrán na Leabhar."
PROGRAM #3715 New Music from Ireland: Part 3 (First aired on 4/17/2015)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
CUT(S)
SOURCE
Kate Ellis
Jump
Donnacha Dennehy: Aisling Gheal [2:09]
Diatribe Records
Jonathan Nangle
Self-released
DIY Aeolian Harp [:39]
Soundcloud
Jonathan Nangle
new music::new Ireland 2
Where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds [excerpt 1] [2:14]
CMC Ireland
Jonathan Nangle
new music::new Ireland 2
Where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds [excerpt 2] [4:47]
See Above
Ergodos Musicians
I Call To You
Jonathan Nangle: Ich ruf' zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ [2:22]
Ergodos Records
Jonathan Nangle
Commissioned for Dublin SoundLab
untitled (after Dan Flavin) [1:42]
Soundcloud
Jonathan Nangle
Commisioned by David Bremner and Elizabeth Hilliard
Then Falls thy Shadow [:51]
Soundcloud
Jonathan Nangle
Contermporaty Music from Ireland, Volume Nine
Our headlights blew softly into the black illuminating very little [5:21]
CMC Ireland – CMC CD09
Contemporary Music Centre
Jonathan Nangle & David Bremner
Ergodos 2009 'Off-Grid' Festival
Untitled improvisation [1:25]
Soundcloud
David Bremner
Contemporary Music from Ireland, Volume 2
Variations upon ‘the usual reason’ [4:40]
CMC Ireland
David Bremner
L’Air Du Temps
Amhrán na Leabhar [2:49]
Soundcloud
New Sounds from WNYC
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.
