Hear music that takes its cues from the beating of one’s heart, the rhythm of one’s breath, or the activity of brain waves, by cellist Dom la Nena, California-based composer Julie Herndon, and experimental composer-performer David Rosenboom. Listen to music from California-based composer, performer, and sound artist Julie Herndon, which explores the body’s relationship to sound using tools like musical instruments and personal technologies. Listen to her work, When the Machine Rhymes with my Body, as played by the 4 pianists on 4 pianos of the Swiss-based Kukuruz Quartet, from her 2023 record, Breathing – Remembering – Dissolving. Then, hear music by French-based Brazilian cellist/singer Dom La Nena, which uses the heartbeat of her child in the womb. There’s music by Richard Reed Parry (of Arcade Fire) from his Music for Heart and Breath series, as performed by yMusic and the twin guitarists Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National. This music reflects the body, in that musicians play composed music determined by their breathing or heart-rate, while keeping pace via stethoscope. Also, hear some of American multimedia composer-performer David Rosenboom’s work involving an extended musical interface with the human nervous system; it’s his trio with two active imaginative listening brainwave performers and computer-electronics with five-string electric violin, Portable Gold and Philosophers’ Stones (Deviant Resonances). Plus, listen to a combination of strings, choral voices, drones, and found sound - including human blood flow - in a work by Canadian composer Matthew Patton, under the name Those Who Walk Away. And more. - Caryn Havlik Program #4710, Body Music (First aired 2/1/23) ARTIST: yMusicWORK: Richard Reed Parry: Quartet for Heart and Breath [2:16]RECORDING: Richard Reed Parry: Music for Heart and BreathSOURCE: Deutsche GrammophonINFO: deutschegrammophon.com ARTIST: Dom La NenaWORK: Teu Coração (Your Heart) [4:10]RECORDING: TempoSOURCE: Six Degrees RecordsINFO: domlanenamusic.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Julie Herndon / Kukuruz QuartetWORK: Julie Herndon: When the Machine Rhymes with my Body [12:24]RECORDING: Breathing – Remembering – Dissolving SOURCE: Innova #1 077INFO: www.innova.mu | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_HuDSKnXqU ARTIST: yMusic + Son Lux (Ryan Lott), piano + Richard Reed Parry, double-bass, + Bryce & Aaron Dessner, guitars; plus stethoscopesWORK: Richard Reed Parry: Interruptions (Heart And Breath Nonet), excerpt [9:18]RECORDING: New Sounds Live, Merkin HallSOURCE: This performance not commercially available.INFO: The Music for Heart and Breath series is available via prestomusic.com ARTIST: Steve Reich Ensemble, Brad LubmanWORK: Steve Reich: City Life -Heartbeats, Boats and Buoys [3:59]RECORDING: Works 1965-1995 SOURCE: Nonesuch RecordsINFO: Available at Amazon.com ARTIST: David RosenboomWORK: Portable Gold and Philosophers' Stones (Deviant Resonances), excerpt [7:44]RECORDING: live ateliers clausSOURCE/INFO: https://davidrosenboom.bandcamp.com/album/live-ateliers-claus ARTIST: Those Who Walk Away (Matthew Patton)WORK: First Degraded Hymn [4:28]RECORDING: The Infected MassSOURCE: Constellation Records CST 122INFO: cstrecords.com
Hear music that takes its cues from the beating of one’s heart, the rhythm of one’s breath, or the activity of brain waves, by cellist Dom la Nena, California-based composer Julie Herndon, and experimental composer-performer David Rosenboom.
Listen to music from California-based composer, performer, and sound artist Julie Herndon, which explores the body’s relationship to sound using tools like musical instruments and personal technologies. Listen to her work, When the Machine Rhymes with my Body, as played by the 4 pianists on 4 pianos of the Swiss-based Kukuruz Quartet, from her 2023 record, Breathing – Remembering – Dissolving. Then, hear music by French-based Brazilian cellist/singer Dom La Nena, which uses the heartbeat of her child in the womb.
There’s music by Richard Reed Parry (of Arcade Fire) from his Music for Heart and Breath series, as performed by yMusic and the twin guitarists Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National. This music reflects the body, in that musicians play composed music determined by their breathing or heart-rate, while keeping pace via stethoscope. Also, hear some of American multimedia composer-performer David Rosenboom’s work involving an extended musical interface with the human nervous system; it’s his trio with two active imaginative listening brainwave performers and computer-electronics with five-string electric violin, Portable Gold and Philosophers’ Stones (Deviant Resonances).
Plus, listen to a combination of strings, choral voices, drones, and found sound - including human blood flow - in a work by Canadian composer Matthew Patton, under the name Those Who Walk Away. And more. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4710, Body Music (First aired 2/1/23)
ARTIST: yMusicWORK: Richard Reed Parry: Quartet for Heart and Breath [2:16]RECORDING: Richard Reed Parry: Music for Heart and BreathSOURCE: Deutsche GrammophonINFO: deutschegrammophon.com
ARTIST: Dom La NenaWORK: Teu Coração (Your Heart) [4:10]RECORDING: TempoSOURCE: Six Degrees RecordsINFO: domlanenamusic.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Julie Herndon / Kukuruz QuartetWORK: Julie Herndon: When the Machine Rhymes with my Body [12:24]RECORDING: Breathing – Remembering – Dissolving SOURCE: Innova #1 077INFO: www.innova.mu | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_HuDSKnXqU
ARTIST: yMusic + Son Lux (Ryan Lott), piano + Richard Reed Parry, double-bass, + Bryce & Aaron Dessner, guitars; plus stethoscopesWORK: Richard Reed Parry: Interruptions (Heart And Breath Nonet), excerpt [9:18]RECORDING: New Sounds Live, Merkin HallSOURCE: This performance not commercially available.INFO: The Music for Heart and Breath series is available via prestomusic.com
ARTIST: Steve Reich Ensemble, Brad LubmanWORK: Steve Reich: City Life -Heartbeats, Boats and Buoys [3:59]RECORDING: Works 1965-1995 SOURCE: Nonesuch RecordsINFO: Available at Amazon.com
ARTIST: David RosenboomWORK: Portable Gold and Philosophers' Stones (Deviant Resonances), excerpt [7:44]RECORDING: live ateliers clausSOURCE/INFO: https://davidrosenboom.bandcamp.com/album/live-ateliers-claus
ARTIST: Those Who Walk Away (Matthew Patton)WORK: First Degraded Hymn [4:28]RECORDING: The Infected MassSOURCE: Constellation Records CST 122INFO: cstrecords.com