Name: -worm- by -charlesross-
Duration: 20 min 32 s
Description: Soundtrack to Asa Hlín Benediktsdóttir´s new epic poem "Hallormsstaðaskógur" now published in a wonderfully illustrated book.

רדיו חלאס
 הרמוניה פרהיסטורית פרק 2: חרקים אמיתיים
Prehistoric harmony episode 2: True Bugs 
Maayan Tsadka 

Prehistoric Harmony_02_trueBugs_Tracks_HALASRADIO_MaayanTsadka

Cyphoderris Monstrosa (Orthoptera: prophalangopsidae), male singing on lodgepole pine tree trunk. Recorded by John Acorn. Slowed down by 80% 
La Cucaracha. Popurrí revolucionario
5 short bugs recordings made by Richard Mankin. From the site “bug bytes” https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/3559/soundlibrary.html 
a. Cotesia marginiventris (Braconid parasitoid callinging song)
b. Bactrocera tyroni (Queensland fruit fly calling song)
c. Aedes albopictus (Asian tiger mosquito)
d. Solenopsis invicta (Fire ant stridulation)
e. Drepanotermes (Australian termites, headbanging)
Didjeridu puller with rhythm sticks. From the album Tribal Music of Australia. 1949 folkways records. 
Nyindi-Yindi Corroboree Group of Wadjiginy. From the album Tribal Music of Australia. 1949 folkways records. 
John Acorn, an entomologist at the University of Alberta. These recordings accompany an article by Dr. Acorn called "Insects and the Soundscape," which appears in the Winter 2015 issue of American Entomologist. The recordings: 
Wood-boring beetle larva chewing in black spruce trunk
Various orthopterans singing in dry inter-dune grasses and shrubs
Cyphoderris monstrosa (Orthoptera: prophalangopsidae), male singing on lodgepole pine tree trunk
Circotettix Carlinianus (Orthoptera: Acrididae), male crepitating in flight, over badlands 
Calliphorid flies on lamb’s quarter
    Béla Bartók. Mikrokosmos - No. 142, From the Diary of a Fly . Piano: Kiyotsugu Arai
Double Flute, 2 x 2 Orifices (Colima) by Johre Daher. From the album Pre-Columbian Instruments of Mexico. 1972 smithsonian records

Periodical Cicadas Overrun the Forest | Planet Earth | BBC Earth (youtube conversion)
 Same recording as 9, slowed down by 80% 
Cicada in Malaysian rainforest.  recorded in 1981-87 by Marina Roseman. From the album Dream Songs and Healing Sounds in the Rainforests of Malaysia, Smithsonian records 1995
 György Ligeti. Continuum. Harpsichord – Antoinette Vischer
Dong Song - Song of Cicadas. The Dong ethnic group at Chinese New Year Eve's CCTV Gala in 1994. YouTube conversion. 
 The Dimen Dong Folk Chorus Performs the Cicada Song. youtube conversion. Catalog No. CFV10568; Copyright 2013 Smithsonian Institution.
Josquin des Prez. El Grillo (The Cricket). Performed by Prophets of the perfect fifth.
Ann Mcmillan. Amber ‘75. from the album Gateway Summer Sound:Abstracted Animal and Other Sounds. folkways records, 1979
David Dunn. excerpt from the album The Sound of Light in Trees. Earth Ear – ee0513, 2006. 
 A sago beetle mouth harp from 1960s Papua New Guinea. Recorded by robert Mcmillan. Wam tribesman, Sepik area, New Guinea. From BBC  LP REC 68M,   1970  "John Peel's Archive Things" 
Call of the cicada (Utom kuleng helef) by Lendungen Simfal, Ihan Sibanay. From the album Utom: Summoning the Spirit. (music of the T’boli, a group of approximately 80,000 people living in small, scattered villages in the mountains and valleys of Southwestern Mindanao, Philippines). Mickey Hart Collection 1997.

True Bugs - Maayan Tsadka  - Prehistoric Harmony 02

Alphorn  Birthday (Verbier 2013)

Soundtrack to Asa Hlín Benediktsdóttir´s new epic poem "Hallormsstaðaskógur" now published in a wonderfully illustrated book.

-worm-

Hyperion/Nova - Aesop's Fables | Charles Ross

The Israeli Hyperion Ensemble and Musica Nova Ensemble

Seconds before he is pushed from the cliff to his death, all the wildlife of Aesop´s fables gather randomly in threes escaping into stories and fables never thought of by Aesop during his life-time. Two ensembles play the work. One plays a collection of minitures with shifting archaic notation, barely understood by the performers. The other ensemble is engaged in a more subconcious interplay of shadowy ideas composed and improvised in Real-time, using the „sandbox“ comprov array.

Musica Nova Ensemble:
Maayan Tsadka(recorder and objects)
Yoni Niv(percussion and objects)
Shaul Kohn(acoustic guitar)
Shira Legman(melodica,voice)
Tom Soloveitzik(soprano saxophone)

The Israeli Hyperion Ensemble:
Maayan Franco(flute)
Yoni Silver(bass clarinet)
Rotem Nir(bassoon)
Adam Scheflan(electric guitar)
Shmil Frankel(doublebass)
Zach Rowden(doublebass)
Alex Drool Yunovich(percussion)
Haggai Fersthman(percussion)
Ilan Volkov(conductor)

Hyperion/Nova - Aesop's Fables | Charles Ross - Tectonics 2018

Playlist:

Olivier Adam
"Madagascar Whale Two"
from New Songs of the Humpback Whale
(Important Records)

Unknown
"Gala and Love Song"
from Chant et Danses des Montagnards du Viet-Nam
(Bravo)

Unknown
"Burial Air"
from Chant et Danses des Montagnards du Viet-Nam
(Bravo)

Manatosa
"Tse Zorina"
from Outlier:Recordings from Madagascar
(Sublime Frequencies)

Eduardo Bértola
"Pexoa"
from Grandes Trópicos
(Tacuabé)

Hildegard Westerkamp
"Fantasie for Horns II"
from Transformations
(empreintes DIGITALes)

Ismo Laakso
"Ofelia"
from Ofelia
(Sähko Recordings)

Franco Battiato
"L'Egitto-Prima-Delle-Sabbie"
from L'Egitto Prima Delle Sabbie
(BMG)

Ilan Volkov - At Home  04

Egisto Macchi
"Valvole Cardiache"
from Bioritmi
(The Omni Recording Corporation)

Unknown
"Utahiko Kimigayo"
from  Meijin,Meikyoku,Mei Enso Koten Geino best selection Gagaku
(Victor Japan)

Unknown
"Bandiia dzehun(type ancien)"
from Maldives vol.1
(Ocora)

Unknown
"Bandiia dzehun(type moderne)"
from Maldives vol.1
(Ocora)

Jessika Kenney
"Ingsun"
from Atria
(Sige Records)

Krzysztof Penderecki
"Sicut locutus est"
from Per Coro
(Wergo)

Jo Kondo
"Summer Days"
from Summer Days
(ALM Records)

Toru Takemitsu
"The Ceremony"
from Film Music by Toru Takemitsu vol.3
(Victor)

Katerina Dorokh,Khadossya Kanapchuk, Maria Kuzmich
"Let us sing a song to our wonderful master"
from Belarussian Music
(Melodiya)

Katerina Dorokh, Khadossya Kanapchuk,Maria Kuzmich
"The silken thread hits against the wall"
from Belarussian Music
(Melodiya)

Limpe Fuchs
"Tone...langvergangener Abend"
from Muusiccia(Metal/Stones)
(Streamline)

Ilan Volkov - At Home  05

Blevin Blectum
"the way the cookie crumbles straight from"
from Talon Slalom
(Deluxe)

Johanna Beyer
"Music of the Spheres"
from An Anthology of Noise&Electronic Music Volume 2
(Sub Rosa)

Susan Alcorn
"Broken Obelisk"
from Curandera
(Uma Sounds)

Chris Watson
"Starling Song"
from Outside the circle of fire
(Touch)

Chris Watson
"Vultures"
from Outside the circle of fire
(Touch)

Else Marie Pade
"Lyd og lys"
from Et Glasperlespil
(Dacapo)

David Dunn
Mimus Polyglott
from Music, Language and Environment
(Innova)

Moussa Sondé
"Bopal Solo"
from from The photographs of Charles Duvelle
(Sublime Frequencies)

Orapi
"Pili Pe(Huli)"
from The photographs of Charles Duvelle
(Sublime Frequencies)

Maayan Tsadka
"genus_psittacula-krameri/feather/long"
from Amplification Naturalis
(Weekend EP Project on Bandcamp)

Maayan Tsadka
"No.1" for n o e y e s
from amplifikǎːtsija naː​.​tuːˈraː​.​lis
(unreleased)

Ilan Volkov - At Home  16 with Maayan Tsadka

Rokklag

These stunning vocal polyphonies sung by indigenous people of Taiwan, including fertility songs, healing songs, songs for the ancestors, recorded in 1966 and 1988, are available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2020/06/taiwan-polyphonies-vocales-des.html

Polyphonies Vocales des Aborigènes de Taiwan – Ami / Bunun / Paiwan / Rukai – Inédit W 460011 (Cassette)

Taiwan indigenous vocal polyphony - Germination Song

Zach Rowden is a singular young voice in the American experimental music scene, dealing with the acoustic and performative possibilities of the upright/electric bass, violin and other instrumentation. Whether embracing microtonal fiddle music in his duo Tongue Depressor, contributing as a member and soloist in Iancu Dumitrescu and the late Ana-Maria Avram’s Hyperion Ensemble, collaborating with Tyshawn Sorey, Leila Bordreuil, Michael Foster and many others, Zach lends a distinct focus and sense of adventure to everything he touches.

For this release on Takuroku, Zach uses loops, bass drones and a caustic field recording, letting each element mesh together in a circling broth, like a Tony Conrad jam slowly digging itself a hole in the muck and mud. There's a distinct US tape jam flavour to this, caking the layers of folkloric laments and eerie distant signals in a foggy murk and hiss. At once a sacred dirge and zoned DIY junk experiment, 'We Were Listening to Music' feels like a dimmed apparition - a recurring anomalous vibration from a bubbling underworld.

-worm-

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