Sound Lounge for Friday 3 March 2017

9:00

NZSOs 70th birthday!

This week we begin celebrating the 70^th birthday year of the NZSO with their historic series of concerto commissions for principal players: and focusing on one of the many contemporary composers in the NZSO’s programme this year, Thomas Adès, whose music Edo de Waart calls the core repertoire of the future.

LILBURN: A Birthday Offering
New Zealand SO/John Hopkins
Kiwi CD SLD 100

NORRIS: Heavy Traffic
Hamish McKeich (contrabsn), New Zealand SO/ James Judd
RNZ

Motte - Strange Dreams

We take a listen to some tracks from the new album by Christchurch experimental violinist and singer Anita Clark who describes her music like this: "sounds like what you would imagine it would feel like to be stuck inside a hothouse in the dead of night... full of tropical plants, flying insects, and a suffocatingly humid atmosphere."

MOTTE: Strange Dreams; Opal Eye
Anita Clark (voice, vln), Indira Force (synth)
Private Recording

Wasabi tapes - Utsukushii

This new massive double compilation album from Japanese label Wasabi Tapes contains music by experimental electronic musicians from all over the world, including Melbourne-based New Zealand musician Tlaotlon.

TLAOTLON: B-Lock; JU CA: Passings; TOIRET STATUS: #14; DVIANCE: Seve
Various artists
Wasabi Tapes

10:00 Thomas Adès

THOMAS ADÈS: Darknesse Visible
Andreas Haefliger (pno)
Avie AV 0041

THOMAS ADÈS: Polaris - Voyage for Orchestra
Melbourne SO/Markus Stenz
ABC Classics 481 0862

THOMAS ADÈS: The Four Quarters: I. Nightfalls
Calder Quartet
Signum SIGCD 413

THOMAS ADÈS: Asyla
CBSO/Simon Rattle
EMI 5 56818

11:00 New Music Dreams

The California-based minimalist composer's latest album contains two extended works: a richly layered composition for the archaic Voyetra 8 synthesizer that was a year in the making; and a eulogy for David Bowie, an off-the-cuff tape loop piece commissioned by LA’s Volume gallery in the weeks after Bowie's death and created with re-purposed tape fragments that had been chewed up by a cat.

WILLIAM BASINSKI: For David Robert Jones; A Shadow In Time
William Basinski (tape loops. electronics, synthesizers)
2062 1701

WILLIAM BASINSKI: Melancholia (excerpts)
William Basinski (tape loops. electronics)
Temporary Residence Limited TRR 236