WNYC; New Sounds Live; Gordon, Slepian, Wyman
- Collection
- WNYC
- Series
- New Sounds Live
- Episode
- Gordon, Slepian, Wyman
- Contributing Organization
- WNYC (New York, New York)
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- cpb-aacip/80-54xgz0q4
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- New Sounds Live Sunday, April 17, 1988 at 2:00 P.M. The Hebrew Arts School in cooperation with WNYC, New York Public Radio presents New Sounds John Schaefer, host Peter Gordon, saxophone and ensemble Don Slepian & Chris Wyman, synthesizers The Manhattan Marimba Quartet Peter Gordon Leningrad Xpress Kindertotentanz Others to be announced Peter Gordon, saxophone; Peter Zummo, trombone; Ned Sublette, guitar & banjo; Lenny Pickett, saxophone; "Blue" Gene Tyranny, piano; Eric Liljestrand, guitar; Mustapha Ahmed, percussion; Jim mussen, bass Improvisations Don Slepian Sailing/The Lake Chris Wyman Don Slepian & Chris Wyman, synthesizer Raging Bell Bill Ruyle Suite Norte, SuI, Leste, Oeste Hermeto Pascoal Arr. J. Arrucci Sao Jorge Hermeto Pascoal Arr. J. Arrucci Manhattan Marimba Quartet: William Trigg, Kory Grossman, Billy Ruyle, James Preiss Guest Artist: John Arrucci, percussion About the artists: PETER GORDON, the art-rock composer/musician/arranger, writes and performs a unique, eclectic brand of music that combines polish with flagrant funk. In 1977, wjth David Tieghem, he formed the Love of Life Orchestra, one of the earliest and best known new music/rock fusion big bands. His stage collaborations include: Otello, a collaboration with the Italian theater company Falso Movimento, for which he won a 1985 Obie and 1984-85 Bessie Award (Otello received its American Premiere at La Mama and was then performed throughout the U.S. and internationally); his opera The Birth of A Poet (in collaboration with Richard Foreman, Kathy Acker, and David Salle), premiered in Rotterdam (1983) and was restaged at BAM in 1985; and Secret Pastures, a musical dance/theater collaboration at BAM with choreographers Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane, visual artist Keith Haring, and designer Willi Smith, for which he won a 1984-85 Bessie Award. His album, Innocent, released in 1986, included a pastiche of musical styles from jazzy rock, to funk, to dance music. His new album Brooklyn has just been released on CBS Records. DON SLEPIAN combines skills in music and electronics in a career of per- forming electronic classical music. An exciting performer in a conservative style, he embodies the present-day trend of mingling high technology with high art. Born into a scientific family, Slepian showed both musical and technical talent early in life. By 1969 he was already programming computers, building electronic music circuitry, and sampling, looping and crossfading sounds with classic electronic music studio tape techniques. In 1971 he worked as a: wiring technician in the computer sound output room in the Acoustics and Behavorial Research Department of Bell Telephone Labora- tories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. In the Fall of that year, Slepian moved to Hawaii and entered an experimental program at the University of Hawaii that allowed him to major in electronic music. He first learned and then taught classes in all the early analog synthesizers, and worked in commercial soundtracks, before becoming a full-time theater musician. In 1979 he began his video art work, starting with the Chromaton 14 analog synthesizer. By the end of 1979, Slepian returned to Bell Labs, where he spent two years working with their most advanced digital synthesizer and he finished a col- lege degree in music. Twice sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture to perform electronic music and computer graphics in Paris and La Rochelle, Slepian presently divides his time between a busy concert schedule and consulting work for Bell Communications Research. CHRIS WYMAN began studies on classical keyboard instruments in 1957. In the early 1970's he began working in jazz on piano and organ, and since 1980 has been performing and composing on Synthesizers. Mr. Wyman's philosophy of music is based on the concept that music is all around us, especially in natural sounds. His work combines sounds from nature with conventional instruments to produce total atmospheres and environments. In 1986 Wyman was commissioned to provide music for the opening of a show entitled Electrt.city, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by John L. Merlino. In August of 1988 his music will be featured in the show The Art and Science of Sound at the Bergen Museum of Arts and Sciences. On his own label (Sonic Voyager Recordings, Ltd.), W}ll""! has released four recordings, including Duets for Two Synthesists and Select,'; Atlitospheres with Don Slepian. His next album 1988 - Music for Light and Dark Meditation, with Ellen Crystall and Don Slepian, will also be released on the Sonic Voyager label. About New Sounds: John Schaefer has been the host and producer of New Sounds since its inception in 1982. Originally the program was a weekend-only, late-night experiment. Mter a year and a half, however, the response to the program prompted its expansion, to the point where it is now heard seven times each week on WNYC FM/94 New York Public Radio and as a weekly national show via satellite on National Public Radio. The current Merkin Concert Hall series is the second season of monthly live concert broadcasts of New Sounds. Schaefer is the author of the book New Sounds: A Listener's Guide to New Music, published by Harper & Row, New York. He has written articles on music for EAR Magazine, Spin, In Fashion, Vtdeo Review, and has contributed liner notes to several recordings of new music. In addition, he has been a regular commentator on the Future Forward series, broadcast over 100 public radio stations, and has acted as musical consultant to a number of choreographers and filmmakers. 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- Description
- Leningrad Xpress Kindertotentanz, by Peter Gordon. Improvisations, by Don Slepian Sailing/The Lake, by Chris Wyman. Raging Bell, by Bill Ruyle Suite Norte, SuI, Leste, Oeste Sao Jorge, by Hermeto Pascoal (Arr. J. Arrucci).
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- Performance
- Media type
- Sound
- Credits
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Performer: Gordon, Peter
Performer: Slepian, Don
Performer: Wyman, Chris
Performer: Manhattan Marimba Quartet
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 50988.1 (WNYC Media Archive MDB)
Format: Data CD
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:00:00
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 50988.2 (WNYC Media Archive MDB)
Format: Data CD
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “WNYC; New Sounds Live; Gordon, Slepian, Wyman,” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 17, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-54xgz0q4.
- MLA: “WNYC; New Sounds Live; Gordon, Slepian, Wyman.” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 17, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-54xgz0q4>.
- APA: WNYC; New Sounds Live; Gordon, Slepian, Wyman. Boston, MA: WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-54xgz0q4