New Sounds
Produced by WQXR. Every night at 11pm on 93.9 FM WNYC.
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#4935, Based On Folk Songs
Hear many ways of interpreting American folk songs from musician/scholar Jake Blount and bassist/bandleader Mali Obomsawin, pianist Lara Downes, and American composer Peter Gena. Oct 10, 2024
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#3863: With Singer/Composer Alev Lenz
Hear electroacoustic works by London-based Alev Lenz, and more music that limns the European classical & Western pop music divide. Plus, music by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Anna Meredith. Dec 1, 2018
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#4178: New Releases, November 2018
Hear new music from November by Shara Nova (My Brightest Diamond) for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and ICE, Toronto sax player Joseph Shabason, and new music from Dead Can Dance. Nov 30, 2018
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#4177: Jazz Without Borders
Hear works by musicians rooted in “jazz” but not bound by it. There's music by drummer Andrew Cyrille, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, and guitarist Bill Frisell, Dinosaur, and Omar Sosa. Nov 29, 2018
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#4048: Voices, Accompanied, and Not
Listen to music with multiple voices - accompanied in works by Andrew McKenne Lee or Frances White, & not, as in music by Danish composer Bo Holten or Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Nov 28, 2018
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#4176: With Sarah Davachi
Composer Sarah Davachi visits the studio to present sacred-seeming works from her latest record, 'Gave In Rest', inspired by cathedral-like spaces of European churches she has known. Nov 27, 2018
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#4044: Non-Western Chamber Music
Hear the trio of Yacine Boularès, Vincent Segal, & Nasheet Waits. Plus, chamber music by John Zorn's Masada Project, West African kora, the Indian slide guitar, & the Chinese erhu. Nov 26, 2018
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#3862: Onze Danses and Beyond
Hear selections from the newly-reissued Onze danses pour combattre la migraine, from Aksak Maboul. Plus, musical projects by Aksak band members Mark Hollander & Vincent Kenis, & more. Nov 25, 2018
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#3861: Music Inspired by the Colorado River and Grand Canyon
Hear music inspired by or written in the Grand Canyon or on the Colorado River for this New Sounds, including selections from the eco-documentary, "The Colorado," and other works. Nov 24, 2018
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#4042: From New Sounds Live, A Tribute to Pauline Oliveros
From the New Sounds Live concerts at Brookfield Place, Darmstadt Ensemble performs works in tribute to the late composer, accordionist, sound experimenter, & pioneer Pauline Oliveros. Nov 23, 2018
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#4043: Ever More Electronic Music
Hear classic electronic music from pioneering composer Morton Subnotnick, along with very recent music by Laurel Halo, Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society, & new music from Coupler. Nov 22, 2018