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Beauty in the Bleak: Thomas Bloch, Kemper Norton, Requiem for Water

Anne Hilde Neset presents a session featuring Cristal Bachet player Thomas Bloch, electronic artist Kemper Norton and a disused silo in California turned into an Aeolian harp.

The first collaboration session of 2015 is a sonic inspiration on midwinter with Art Assembly's Saisonscape project Beauty in the Bleak involving Cristal Baschet player Thomas Bloch, electronic artist Kemper Norton and a disused silo in southern California that's been turned into an Aeolian harp. The brainchild of artist Lauren Bon, the silo-cum-Aeolian harp is a work entitled "Requiem for Water", a reminder of the once grand Owens Lake (dry now for 100 years) that used to supply LA with water. Thomas, Kemper and members of Lauren's Sonic Division in London at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Maida Vale studios will interact remotely with the Aeolian harp, creating new sounds and responding to musicians a vocalist and Owen's Valley Murmuring Chorus inside the silo. Also, Vintage Arab tunes, electronic sonatas and unearthly tones presented by Anne Hilde Neset.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Harry Warren

    Chattanoooga Choo Choo

    Performer: Hiroshi Sato. Performer: Haruomi Hosono. Performer: Motoya Hamaguchi. Performer: Shigeru Suzuki. Performer: Masataka Matsutoya. Performer: Tatsuya Hayashi. Performer: Masayuki Kuniyoshi. Performer: Teruyuki Fukushima. Performer: Ginji Ito. Lyricist: Mack Gordon. Music Arranger: Haruomi Hosono.
    • Tropical Dandy.
    • Panam.
    • 1.
  • Terre Thaemlitz

    A-Program

    • A-Musik Presents A Program Of... A-Muzak.
    • A-Musik.
    • 1.
  • Jack Rose

    Moon in the Gutter

    Performer: Jack Rose. Performer: Glenn Jones. Performer: Nathan Bowles.
    • Luck In The Valley.
    • Thrill Jockey.
    • 5.
  • John Parish & PJ Harvey

    Leaving California

    • A Woman A Man Walked By.
    • Island Records.
    • 3.
  • Almon Memela

    The Things We Do In Soweto

    • Next Stop Soweto Volume 4 - Zulu Rock Afro-Disco and Mbaquanga 1975-1985.
    • Strut Records.
    • 4.
  • Kemper Norton, Lauren Bon, Aaron Ebensberger, Owen's Valley Murmuring Chorus, Thomas Bloch, Members of the Metabolic Studio & Douglas Lee

    Untitled Piece 1

    • Late Junction Session: January 2015.
  • Kemper Norton, Lauren Bon, Aaron Ebensberger, Owen's Valley Murmuring Chorus, Thomas Bloch, Members of the Metabolic Studio & Douglas Lee

    Untitled Piece 2

    • Late Junction Session: January 2015.
  • Kemper Norton, Lauren Bon, Aaron Ebensberger, Owen's Valley Murmuring Chorus, Thomas Bloch, Members of the Metabolic Studio & Douglas Lee

    Untitled Piece 3

    • Late Junction Session: January 2015.
  • Sylvester Stewart

    Life & Death In G & A (Parts 1 & 2)

    Performer: Joe Hicks.
    • I'm Just Like You: Sly's Stone Flower 1969-70.
    • Light In The Attic.
    • 6.
  • Pierrequin de ThΓ©rache

    Verbum bonum et suave

    Choir: Alamire. Conductor: David Skinner.
    • The Spy’s Choirbook.
    • Obsidian Records.
    • 18.
  • Aphex Twin

    diskhat1

    • Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Pt2 (EP).
    • Warp Records.
    • 3.
  • Eric Chenaux

    Poor Time

    • Skullsplitter.
    • Constellation Records.
    • 7.
  • John Stevens, Frode Gjerstad & Eivin One Pedersen

    Of Detail

    • Detail: First Detail.
    • Rune Grammofon.
    • 3.
  • Luke Fowler & Richard Youngs

    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ County High

    • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ County High.
    • Mie Music.
  • Carmen Villain

    Let Go

    • Quietly / Let Go.
    • Smalltown Supersound.
    • 1.
  • Foster Reed & Ingram Marshall

    Gradual Requiem: Part 2 Piano, Mandolin, Gambuh (Flute), Voice

    • Fog Tropes / Gradual Requiem.
    • Arc Light Editions.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Thu 29 Jan 2015 23:00

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