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Episode: Leaving The 20th Century With No Regrets with Scott Shapleigh (fill-in for Ray Terlaga)
Composer (Performer) - Title of Composition - Album Title [or source] (year released)
Olivier Messiaen (Ensemble D'Ondes De Montréal) - Fête Des Belles Eaux (Pour Sextuor D'Ondes Martenot):IV. L'eau [Oraison](1937) - Electronic Music Sources Volume 3: 1921-1959 (2010)
Maurice Martenot a Cellist and radio Telegraphist, met the
Russian electronic engineer Leon Theremin in 1923, this
meeting lead him to design an instrument based on Termens
ideas, the first model, the “Ondes-Martenot” was patented on
the 2nd of April 1928. The first versions bore little
resemblance to the later production models: consisting of two
table mounted units controlled by a performer who
manipulated a string attached to a finger ring (using the
bodies capacitance to control the sound characteristics in a
manner very similar to the Theremin) this device was later
incorporated as a fingerboard strip above the keyboard. Later
versions used a standard keyboard. The Ondes Martenot is
made up of two units. The main section is made up of a
keyboard and pull-wire operated by a ribbon controller for the
index finger. The keys are capable of slightly shifting, which
has the effect of moving the pitch. Sliding the ribbon with the
index finger creates glissando sweeps and expressive
portamentos. The left-hand uses the other unit of the
instrument, which has controls accessed from a pull-out
drawer. These are able to adapt and modify the articulation,
dynamics and tone produced.
Karen Tanaka (Christine Ott, Ondes Martenot) - The Song of Songs (for Ondes Martenot & Electronics) - Live at Ondes Martenot Recital @ TAPS Scala Strasbourg, 2016
Olivier Messiaen (Christine Ott, Ondes Martenot & Anne-Catherine Kaiser, Piano) - Inédit pour Ondes Martenot & Piano, IV - Live at Ondes Martenot Recital @ TAPS Scala Strasbourg, 2016
Franz Liszt (Jeno Jandó, piano ) - No. 2. Il penseroso (The Thinker) - Liszt: Annees De Pelerinage, Vol. 2 (1992)
Christine Ott - Pensées sauvages (feat. Yann Tiersen, violin) - Solitude Nomade (2009)
Station ID
Harry Towell - Decrumbling - Infinite Light (2023)
Kory Reeder (Apartment House) - Codex Vivere: I.'Intermezzo' - Kory Reeder/Codex Vivere/Apartment House (2022)
Matt Sargent - Fourth Illumination (excerpt) - Illuminations (2018)
Brett Austin Eastman (Yarn/Wire) - Glimmer/Glow - Yarn/Wire Live at 2021 Walden Composers Forum
Leonardo Barbadoro - Vibi - Musica Automata (2023)
Harry Towell - Second Summer - Infinite Light (2023)
Adrián Demo? - A Luca Marenzio (excerpt) - Sen (2021)
John Cage (Apartment House) - Six Melodies for Violin and Piano: No. I (1950) - Apartment House: John Cage 'Chamber Works 1943-1951'(2025)
Philip Glass (Manchester Collective) - Company: I - Manchester Collective: The Centre is Everywhere (2021)
György Ligeti (Gloria Cheng, piano) - Hungarian Rock (Chaconne) [Arr. G. Cheng for Piano & Synthesized Piano] - Gloria Cheng: Piano Dance: A 20th-Century Portrait (2000)
Bryn Harrison (Mark Knoop and Roderick Chadwick) - Towards a slowing of the past (2023,extract) - Bryn Harrison/Mark Knoop and Roderick Chadwick/Towards a slowing of the past (2025)
John Adams (Gloria Cheng, piano) - China Gates - Gloria Cheng: Piano Dance: A 20th-Century Portrait (2000)
Steve Reich (Claire Chase) - Vermont Counterpoint: for 11 flutes [piccolos, flutes, alto flutes](1982) - Claire Chase:Density (2013)
Christine Ott - Tropismes - Solitude Nomade(2009)
Station ID
Harry Towell - Dreamcatcher - Infinite Light (2023)
Eno, Moebius, Roedelius - The Belldog - After The Heat (1978)
Most of the day
We were at the machinery
In the dark sheds
That the seasons ignore
I held the levers
That guided the signals to the radio
But the words I receive
Random code, broken fragments from before
Out in the trees
My reason deserting me
All the dark stars
Cluster over the bay
Then in a certain moment I lose control
And at last I am part of the machinery
(Where are you?)
And the light disappears
As the world makes its circle through the sky
Snowdrops - Lights in the Deep - Manta Ray (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Jolanda Moletta - Spell III: In the Great City Solitude - Nine Spells (2022)
Zibuokle Martinaityte (Synaesthesis) - Hadal Zone: Epipelagic:Part 1 [featuring samples of choral group Volti/Robert Geary] - Hadal Zone: Zibuokle Martinaityte / Synaesthesis (2023)
Jolanda Moletta - Hearth - Night Caves (2025)
Zibuokle Martinaityte (Synaethesis) - Hadal Zone: Mesopelagic: Part 3 [Volti] - Hadal Zone: Zibuokle Martinaityte / Synaesthesis (2023)
Episode Hosts
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