WNYC's New Sounds
By WNYC
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Podcast Description
WNYC 93.9FM is proud to bring you the New Sounds podcast. What is New Sounds? The program, broadcast nightly on WNYC 93.9 FM, and online at www.wnyc.org, 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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Chamber Music with a Groove (special podcast) | On this edition of New Sounds, hear some chamber music by composer Marc Mellits with a populist bent. We’ll sample his work, “Tight Sweater," which contains traces of funk, echoes of rock, and minimalism's rapidly shifting patterns of notes and int | 5/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Musical Travelogue (special podcast) | There’s an hour of music for far-off places on this New Sounds program. Listen to a work written by Princeton professor Paul Lansky, called “Travel Diary.” From a new recording by the Meehan/Perkins Duo, the work is a "kind of meditation on tra | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Releases, January 2012 (special podcast) | John Schaefer carefully sorts through the stacks, bins, and boatloads of new CDs, downloads, LPs, cassettes (!), which came across his desk this past January 2012. Hear some music by Guy Klucevsek, from his "the Multiple Personality Reunion tour," along | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Downtown Collaborations (Special Podcast) | Jason Treuting, the percussionist/composer -his mallets, sticks, and music - certainly get around. Treuting has made music with and for So Percussion, the Swedish folk-instrument wielding QQQ, the electronica duo Matmos, the Zappa-jazzy band Kneebody | 4/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Electro-Acoustic Ambient Works(Special Podcast) | This New Sounds program samples a world of ambient works, with music from composers based in Iceland, Germany, Scotland, Poland, Sweden, and a work from a Brooklyn-based metal guitarist. Listen to pulsing percussive ambient music by Berlin-based Nils F | 3/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Global Acoustic Music (Special Podcast) | For this New Sounds, we’ll hear some global acoustic works from the Touré-Raichel Collective. It’s a collaboration between Malian musician Vieux Farka Touré and Israeli producer/keyboardist Idan Raichel which came about following a concert in Tel | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cinematic Sounds of Iceland (Special Podcast) | On this New Sounds program, we’ll hear a sampling of works from a concentrated new music hotspot: Iceland. It’s a scene where rock music, orchestral music and electronics are blended freely and without regard for genre lines. To get an idea, we | 1/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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With the Alwan Arab Music Ensemble | For this New Sounds podcast, listen to a live performance by the Alwan Arab Music Ensemble. It's a group of classical players, six members strong and based in New York, all of whom sing and play a wide range of Arab musical styles on traditional instrum | 11/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Downtown, Then and Now | Take a dip into minimal hypnotic music with something from composer/professor (theory and history of sound!) Anthony Moore and composer/artist Alexis Georgopoulos, who goes by “Arp.” Moore was formerly a member of weird pop band Slapp Happy, and ha | 10/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Releases, June 2011 (special podcast) | It's that time of the month again for the new releases show on New Sounds. John Schaefer carefully sorts through the stacks, bins, and boatloads of new CDs which have come across his desk over the past month to present some of the finest new releases. PR | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Responsorium 9/11 | Listen to Pulitzer-prize winning John Adams’ - “On the Transmigration of Souls,” written for the first anniversary of the attacks. Then there's Michael Gordon’s “The Sad Park,” made from the electronically manipulated voices of children who | 9/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Unintended Elegy | For this podcast edition of the program, listen to some of William Basinski's "Disintegration Loops." Finished in September of 2001, the whole series has now become an unintended elegy of sorts. PROGRAM #3243 Unintended Elegies(First aired on 9/10/11) | 9/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Releases, May 2011 (Special Podcast) | It's that time of the month already! John Schaefer once again picks through the spring flood of CDs that have been sent to his office to find new releases worthy of showcasing in tonight's program. Among these outstanding piles is a new work from Ros | 8/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Music for Electric Violin (Special Podcast) | Listen to compositions for electric violin on this New Sounds program. We'll hear Nico Muhly's Seeing Is Believing, a concerto for electric violin, which features the Aurora Orchestra and Thomas Gould on electric six-string violin, Also, we'll hear mus | 8/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mystics and the Mediterranean (Podcast Edition) | For this New Sounds, we’ll sample liberally from the latest recording from Moroccan-born singer Amina Alaoui, called “Arco Iris.” It’s a pan-Mediterranean blend of flamenco music from Spain, fado music from Portugal, Arab-Andalusian music and B | 8/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Low Can You Go? (Special Podcast) | We'll explore the deep tones of bands like Gato Loco whose lead instruments are the bass clarinet and the tuba on this New Sounds program. There's even more from the tuba with music by Tom Heasley and some bass clarinet work by Marty Erlich. We'll al | 7/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Releases, April 2011 (Special Podcast) | It's that time of the month again for the new releases show on New Sounds. John Schaefer carefully sorts through the stacks, bins, and towers of new CDs, records, and bandcamp sites which have come across his desk or into his email over the past month to | 7/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Post-Minimalist Music (Special Podcast) | Philip Glass’s piano works have had a longstanding and widespread influence – on the so-called Post-minimalist composers, but also on musicians working in the electronic dance world. One of them is Francesco Tristano, who brings electronica’s rep | 6/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Alternate Score for Friday Night Lights | To mark the last season of Friday Night Lights, the New Sounds All-Purpose Assistant has wheedled a way to have some of the music that should have scored the TV show- into a podcast! Hear here this New Sounds go at scoring an episode (or three.) Sur | 5/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Music with Voices | For this New Sounds, try on some layered voices in music by Julianna Barwick. A superchoir of many Juliannas combines with warm drones and hypnotic piano to bring to mind Sigur Rós in a glacial cathedral. Plus, there's also music from Toby Twining's | 5/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Music from New Zealand (Weekly Podcast) | New Zealand-based Jack Body has written electroacoustic compositions using field recordings from Indonesia (and has also written for the Kronos Quartet.) We’ll hear his collage of street sounds and toys that ends with pigeons taking off, each with di | 4/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Musical Tributes (Weekly Podcast) | We’ll hear musical tributes aplenty on this New Sounds program, many of them by guitarists heaping their thanks to other artists. We’ll hear notes of appreciation from Bill Frisell to Boubacar Traoré and from trumpeter Dave Douglas to Bill Frisell | 4/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Newspeak & Alt-Classical Bands (Weekly Podcast) | For this New Sounds, listen to some "alt-classical" or "indie classical" bands, like Newspeak or the Paul Bailey Ensemble. Newspeak is an eight-piece amplified ensemble working under the direction of composer David T. Little and clarinetist Eileen Mack | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Releases, February 2011 (Weekly Podcast) | It's that time again for the monthly program of new releases. John Schaefer picks through the boatloads of CDs that have flooded his inbox to find new releases worthy of showcasing in tonight's program. We'll hear from the new double-release by Todd Reyn | 3/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Collaborative Efforts (Weekly Podcast) | For this New Sounds, we'll take a sneak peak at the forthcoming "Tirtha," a collaboration between the South Indian guitarist Prasanna and pianist/composer Vijay Iyer. Also, the venerable sax titan Charles Lloyd together with MacArthur “genius gra | 3/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lost Music (Weekly Podcast) | For this New Sounds Program, we’ll listen to intriguing music about being lost, both physically, and in the sense of just having no direction, and not knowing where you’re headed. From duoJalal -violist Kathryn Lockwood and percussionist Yousif She | 3/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Modern Oratorios & Sacred Texts (Weekly Podcast) | For this New Sounds, hear some modern oratorios and other sacred texts set to music, including Kitty Brazelton's "Ecclesiastes: A Modern Oratorio," Phil Kline's "John the Revelator," and Douglas J. Cuomo's "Arjuna's Dilemma." Composer, professor, singer, | 3/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Music for Solo Guitar (Weekly Podcast) | For this New Sounds, we’ll have at least a double-helping of guitar music, featuring some solo works by Marc Ribot intended as music for films: some are adaptations of music he has actually written for films, others for classic silent movies that he sc | 2/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Indie Rock Branches Out (Weekly Podcast) | For this New Sounds, listen to indie artists straddle the divide between world music, ambient and electronica as they incorporate or approximate traditional instruments, traditional sounds, and take the results well out of indie rock-land. We'll hear f | 2/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Electronically Enhanced Acoustica (Weekly Podcast) | Hear works for acoustic instruments and electronics, with the combinations of piano and electronics, violin and electronics, or a small ensemble using no electronics at all on this New Sounds program. We'll listen to Open Graves with Stuart Dempster re | 2/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Releases, December 2010 (Weekly Podcast) | It's the most wonderful time of the month! John Schaefer sifts through the steady stream of CDs that have flooded his office to find a sampling of new releases worthy of showcasing in tonight's New Sounds program. From here we can see some acoustic A | 1/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Buddhist Influence (Weekly Podcast) | For this New Sounds program, listen to Buddhist-inspired music, including new music from the elusive composer Anton Batagov who has put out a recording of his music featuring chants by the leading Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader of the Kalmykia peopl | 1/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Piano-Based Music (Weekly Podcast) | New music from the Neil Cowley Trio and the Bad Plus are on this New Sounds program, bands which on the surface resemble conventional piano trios, but pull liberally from the rock world and everywhere else. We'll listen to both of their most recent rel | 12/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Requiem for Fossil Fuels Live (Weekly Podcast) | “Requiem for Fossil Fuels,” a site-specific memorial mass, combines human voices and ambient sound. It’s the result of more than twenty years of work and collaboration by Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger, two sound artists/composers and sonic thinker | 12/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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American Tales (Weekly Podcast) | Listen to some American tales on this New Sounds program. We’ll hear the mesmerizing 11-minute reflection, “Another Day In America” as delivered through Fenway Bergamot, Laurie Anderson's wise and witty “Voice of Authority” alter-ego and more | 12/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cinematic Audio (Weekly Podcast) | American sound-designer, film editor and composer, Matteo Marchisano-Adamo makes cinematic audio sculptures out of prepared piano and electronics from a collection of “Inventions.” We'll also hear electronic music based on the sounds of Indonesian ga | 11/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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With Ben Neill and Mimi Goese (Weekly Podcast) | For this New Sounds, mutant trumpter/composer Ben Neill joins John Schaefer in the studio. Lately, he’s been working together with filmmaker Bill Morrison and singer Mimi Goese on a staging of the Persephone myth – Demeter’s daughter taken by Had | 11/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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With Steven Mackey (Weekly Podcast) | Electric guitarist, composer and Princeton University professor Steven Mackey returns to New Sounds for this program. His enormous and ambitious work, “Dreamhouse,” a collaboration with singer/producer/writer Rinde Eckert and the Boston Modern Orch | 11/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Sounds Special Podcast: O+A -Requiem for Fossil Fuels (Mini-Preview) | "Requiem for Fossil Fuels," is a new setting by Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger of the traditional mass. Performed by a quartet of vocal virtuosi with the composers at the helm of an 8-channel “Orchestra of Cities,” this piece is driven by the clamoro | 11/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Narration in Music (Weekly Podcast) | For this New Sounds, listen to the found sounds of narration from strange and wonderful recordings in music by the Books. We'll hear from their latest, "The Way Out," a playful and surreal effort recorded in the Books' home studios. Also on the show, l | 10/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Music From the North (Weekly Podcast) | Hear some Icelandic electronic chamber music with a delicate undercurrent of minimalism from the young Olafur Arnalds on this New Sounds. We’ll listen to the Arnalds record, "And they have escaped the weight of darkness." The rest of this Northern | 10/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Unusual Collaborations (Weekly Podcast) | On this New Sounds program, hear music from Iraqi oud master Rahim AlHaj, in collaboration with accordion virtuoso Guy Klucevsek, from a fascinating double album of cross-cultural collaborations, called “Little Earth.” AlHaj studied with Munir Bash | 10/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The New Latin Tinge (Weekly Podcast) | Jelly Roll Morton identified “the Latin tinge” as a major component in the development of jazz. Now, the rhythms and sounds of Latin music can be heard in the long-awaited Malian-Cuban collaboration that was meant to take place when the Buena Vista | 10/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Music Smorgasbord (Weekly Podcast) | It's that time again for the monthly program of new releases. John Schaefer picks through the bucketloads of CDs that have flooded his inbox to find new releases worthy of showcasing in this program from May 2010. Listen to music from Joel Harrison, Davi | 10/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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More New Songs (Weekly Podcast) | Listen to songs by the multi-talented singer-songwriter/pianist/composers Gabriel Kahane and Ed Pastorini for this New Sounds. We'll also hear from Lee Feldman along with music by Elizabeth Ziman of Elizabeth & the Catapult. Plus, music from Amy X Ne | 9/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Small Ensembles (Special Podcast) | For this New Sounds, listen to some works for small ensembles, played by both "real" and "virtual" small ensembles. We’ll hear music from the Turkish-American composer Kamran Ince from the album “In White,” along with ambient chamber music by Phi | 9/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Music from Montreal (Special Podcast) | Hear new music from Montreal on this edition of New Sounds, featuring works by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Bell Orchestre, and Mains de Givre, among others. Montreal guitarist/composer Tim Brady makes dark sounds with bowed electric guitar, guitar with | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Private Reel: Live on Soundcheck (Special Podcast) | For this New Sounds Special Podcast, we raid the exclusive live performance archive from that "other" show John Schaefer hosts, the afternoon program, Soundcheck. We'll listen for tunes from pipa player Wu Man , Cuban singer Omara Portuondo , and the I | 6/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 48 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
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This is easily the best show in WNYC's line-up and is the source for half of the best loved pieces in my collection. From Sade to Gorecki to Steve Reich to gamelan and Gavin Bryars, I heard it here first. Thank you John Schaffer, thank you WNYC, thank you iTunes, but give me more, give me more! I want every night's show!
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Music lovers take note. This is simply one of the best podcasts around. I'm not sure where else I would have the chance to hear a lot of the great music John shares. Highly recommended.
