Program 740: Plants, Animals, Music
KALW Broadcast Date: May 7, 2023 | Host: Ed Herrmann
Music played by animals, for animals, with animals, and music inspired by plants. Pianist Sarah Cahill plays Mamoru Fujieda’s Patterns of Plants. Jim Nollman plays guitar along with dolphins and whales. Doug Carroll plays cello to accompany shore birds. The Thai Elephant Orchestra displays an uncanny sense of rhythm while playing percussion and strings. Plus a bird song inspired excerpt from Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie, music made from insect sounds by David Dunn, Ivan Tcherepnin’s Flores Musicales for oboe, violin, and psaltery; and a tribute to Serge Tcherepnin for the 50th anniversary of the invention of his “people’s synthesizer.”
Program Audio
30-Second Spot
Track Info & Links
Title: Thung Kwian Sunrise
Composer: n/a
Performer: Thai Elephant Orchestra
Recording Title: Thai Elephant Orchestra
Record Label: Mulatta Records
Catalog Number: mul 004
Title: Beluga Tells a Joke
Composer: Jim Nollman
Performer: Jim Nollman
Recording Title: Music for Swimming and Flying
Record Label: Other Minds Records
Catalog Number: OM 2033
Title: Cretaceous Chorus (excerpt)
Composer: Ed Herrmann
Performer: Ed Herrmann
Recording Title: Cretaceous Chorus
Record Label: Garuda Records
Title: Phrygian at Point Reyes
Composer: Doug Carroll
Performer: Doug Carroll
Recording Title: Music for Cello and Wild Animals
Record Label: Doug Carroll Music
Title: Turangalîla-Symphonie (VI – Jardin du sommeil d’amour)
Composer: Olivier Messiaen
Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Recording Title: Messiaen – Turangalîla – Salonen
Record Label: CBS Masterworks
Catalog Number: M2K 42271
Title: Heavy Logs
Composer: n/a
Performer: Thai Elephant Orchestra
Recording Title: Thai Elephant Orchestra
Record Label: Mulatta Records
Catalog Number: mul 004
Title: Cretaceous Songbook
Composer: Jim Nollman
Performer: Jim Nollman
Recording Title: Music for Swimming and Flying
Record Label: Other Minds Records
Catalog Number: OM 2033
Title: Percussion Trio
Composer: n/a
Performer: Thai Elephant Orchestra
Recording Title: Thai Elephant Orchestra
Record Label: Mulatta Records
Catalog Number: mul 004
Title: Chaos & the Emergent Mind of the Pond
Composer: David Dunn
Performer: n/a
Recording Title: Angels and Insects
Record Label: ¿What Next? Recordings
Catalog Number: WN009
Title: Patterns of Plants (various selections)
Composer: Mamoru Fujieda
Performer: Sarah Cahill
Recording Title: Patterns of Plants
Record Label: Pinna Records
Catalog Number: PINNA 2
Title: Flores Musicales
Composer: Ivan Tcherepnin
Performer: Peggy Pearson, Wilma Smith, Ivan Tcherepnin
Recording Title: Ivan Tcherepnin
Record Label: CRI
Catalog Number: CD 684
Title: Santur Live! (excerpts)
Composer: Ivan Tcherepnin
Performer: Ivan Tcherepnin
Recording Title: Ivan Tcherepnin
Record Label: CRI
Catalog Number: CD 684
