This is an archive of six themed radio shows, recorded for Raidio Na Life between June and July of 2015.
Healing MusicTracklist / DownloadA selection of music exploring the idea of healing - physical, mental and spiritual - through sound. From healing rituals in Morocco or Venezuela through to deeply personal grieving in New York or Lancashire, whether trance states, ambient floats or noise blow-outs; these are tracks which open up a space where healing can begin.
James Tenney & Maelstrom Percussion Ensemble - ‘Three Pieces for Drum Quartet (1974/75) 1 - Wake for Charles Ives’
Nass el Ghiwane - ‘Ell Mekkaoui (Le Mecquois)’
Laraaji - ‘The Dance No. 1’
Charles Cohen - ‘Slow, Blue and Horizontal’
Brian Eno & Harold Budd - ‘Against The Sky’
Morton Feldman - ‘Rothko Chapel’
Haitian Bamboo Trumpet Players - ‘Vaccines (Bamboo Trumpets and Sticks)’
Ewe Musicians and Dancers - ‘Funeral Dirge (The Warrior’s House Has Become Empty)’
David Toop, Yanomami Shamen - ‘Tayari-Teri: Shamans Healing, Pt. 1’
Sara Gongez & Margaret Vincente - ‘Shaman’s Song’
Somei Satoh - ‘Mandara’
Francis Harris - ‘Minutes of Sleep’
Richard Skelton - ‘Remaindered’
Grouper - ‘Sang Their Way’
Loren Connors - ‘Sorrow In The House’
Étude de BruitsTracklist / DownloadThe pioneering work of Le Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris has had a lasting effect on the sound of modern music. This mix begins with some foundational pieces from the group's original members and their peers, before tracking a small sample of GRM's echoes and resoundings in contemporary times.
Edgard Varese - ‘Ionisation’
Pierre Schaeffer - ‘Etude Noire’
Iannis Xenakis & Luc Ferrari - ‘Diamorphosis’
John Cage - ‘Cartridge Music’
Luc Ferrari - ‘Petit Symponie Pour un Paysage du Printemps’
Bee Mask - ‘Vaporware (Donato Dozzy Remix)’
Keith Fullerton Whitman - ‘Issue Generator (for Eliane Radigue)’
Yasunao Tone - ‘MP3 Deviations #6, 7’
Mark Fell - ‘Abjection’
Mark Fell - ‘Multistability’
Vladislav Delay - ‘I Saw A Polysexual’
Florian Hecker - ‘Ten’
Rashad Becker - ‘Dances IV’
Ikue Mori, Kim Gordon & DJ Olive - ‘Olive’s Horn’
C. Spencer Yeh - ‘Solo Voice VII’
Jeremy Bible - ‘Collisions’
Eli Keszler - ‘Cold Pin 1’
Free IrelandTracklist / DownloadTo celebrate the launch of the Free Ireland website, this is a selection of contemporary Irish tracks that incorporate identifiably Irish musical traditions, while also pushing back against the boundaries and expectations that so often limit those same traditions.
Judith Ring - ‘Within An Egg of Space’
Cathal Coughlan - ‘Second City Bicycle Bounce’
Roger Doyle - ‘Pagoda Charm’
Linda Buckley - ‘Error Messages’
Operating Theatre - ‘Eighties Rampwalk’
Aine O’Dwyer - ‘The Little Lord of Misrule’
Katie Kim - ‘Dimmer’
Katie Kim - ‘Wires’
Zaftig Giolla - ‘Prismatic Sounds’
Niamh Corcoran - ‘Time Flies’
Gavin Prior - ‘An Piano agus an Citeal Dubh’
Sean Mac Erlaine - ‘Nun’s Island’
Be Honest - ‘Inaction’
Ellll - ‘Runnel [Barbra]’
Lumigraph - ‘Lost In Manhattan’
Mvestle - ‘Poultice’
Amanda Feery & This Is How We Fly - ‘The Red Shoes’
Beneath The Sounding SurfaceTracklist / DownloadA selection of field recordings, ranging from uncorrupted documents of particular places to impressionistic constructs of fantastic soundscapes and sounds that could only be heard through the wonders of recording. All the artists here have taken singular approaches in understanding and upating what can be meant by the term "field recording".
Chris Watson - ‘Ol-lool-o’
Peter Cusack - ‘Radiometer, Kopachi’
Douglas Quin - ‘Weddell Seals’
Ludwig Koch - ‘Starlings’
Luc Ferrari - ‘Presque Rien’
Toshiya Tsunoda - ‘Small Sand-Stream On The Beach’
Lawrence English - ’Shore Bribie Island’
Jana Winderden - ‘Isolation Measurement’
Ernst Karel - ‘Oberterzan-Unterterzan’
Be Honest - ‘The Humans Are Coming’
The Sunken Hum - ‘Kegs Running Down The Streets of Ballinamore’
Hildegard Westerkamp - ‘Gently Penetrating Beneath the Sounding Surface’
Thomas Koner - ‘Dalmatinska, Beograd’
Deep ListeningTracklist / DownloadA meditative ninety minutes of music designed for deep, focused listening. Drones, buzzes, hums and an homage to the sine wave.
Pauline Oliveros - ‘Ione’
Akira Rabelais - ‘With the Gift of Your Small Breath’
Tony Conrad, John Cale, Angus MacLise - ‘Trance #2’
Phil Niblock - ‘Held Tones’
Rolf Julius - ‘Music On Two High Poles’
David Toop & Max Eastley - ‘Life Without Movement’
Annea Lockwood - ‘Thousand Year Dreaming; Breathing & Dreaming’
Duane Pitre - ‘Feel Free (Section V)’
Eliane Radigue - ‘Kyema (Intermediate States)’
Eleh - ‘Together We Are One’
MoebiusTracklist / DownloadOn the occasion of the passing of Dieter Mobius, ninety minutes of music from the esteemed musician's extensive back-catalogue. Cluster, Harmonia, the solo albums and some of his many collaborations - including those with Conny Plank, Brian Eno and Neumeier & Engler - are featured.
Cluster - ‘Im Süden’
Moebius & Plank - ‘Muffler A’
Moebius - ‘Rattenwiesel’
Cluster - ‘Oh Odessa’
Dieter Moebius - ‘Bliefuss 1 & 2’
Moebius, Neumeier, Engler - ‘Verrirt’
Cluster & Eno - ‘Wehrmut’
Cluster - ‘Georgel’
Cluster - ‘Untitled #1’
Cluster - ‘Avanti’
Harmonia & Eno - ‘By The Riverside’
Cluster - ‘Es War Einmal’
Dieter Moebius - ‘Fink’
Cluster - ‘Fotschti Tong’
Cluster - ‘Caramel’
Harmonia - ‘Watussi’
Error Messages || This is an archive of six themed radio shows, recorded for Raidio Na Life between June and July of 2015.