Program 744: Invented Instruments by Tom Nunn & Sarah Kenchington
KALW Broadcast Date: June 4, 2023 | Host: Ed Herrmann
Sarah Kenchington’s mechanically assisted acoustic instruments are often uncontrollable, making surprising and delirious music. For more than 40 years, Tom Nunn was an essential force in San Francisco music, working at the intersection of invented instruments and free improvisation. He designed and built hundreds of original instruments and performed with dozens of musicians locally and internationally. A survey of Tom’s solo and collaborative music. Folded Landscapes, a new work by Scottish composer Erland Cooper, combines the words of poet Simon Armitage and activist Greta Thunberg with a chamber ensemble recorded in increasingly hot conditions for an immersive meditation on climate change.
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Title: The Mine Shaft, The Ice House, Chopper, Tapered Things
Composer: Sarah Kenchington & Daniel Padden
Performer: Sarah Kenchington & Daniel Padden
Recording Title: The Bellow Switch
Record Label: Shadazz
Catalog Number: SHA08
Title: Streaming, Fricticious Critters, Khee Say Khong
Composer: Tom Nunn
Performer: Tom Nunn
Recording Title: Burning Palms
Record Label: Garuda Records
Title: Skatchmot, Nailstrum, Mothic Folk
Composer: Tom Nunn
Performer: Tom Nunn
Recording Title: Identity
Record Label: Edgetone Records
Catalog Number: EDT4047
Title: ninetwentyeighteenone (excerpt)
Composer: N/A
Performer: Music for Hard Times (Tom Nunn & Paul Winstanley)
Recording Title: Music for Hard Times 9.20.28
Record Label: Docking Station
Title: R136a1 (excerpt)
Composer: N/A
Performer: Music for Hard Times (Tom Nunn & Paul Winstanley)
Recording Title: Moving Plates
Record Label: Docking Station
Title: Zip Sonik
Composer: N/A
Performer: Music for Hard Times (Tom Nunn & Paul Winstanley)
Recording Title: Giant Powder Dangerous
Record Label: Docking Station
Title: Ghost Train (to nowhere)
Composer: David Michalak
Performer: Ghost in the House (Kyle Bruckman, Karen Stackpole, Tom Nunn, David Michalak)
Recording Title: Second Sight
Record Label: Public Eyesore
Catalog Number: PE136
Title: Surrounded by Eagles
Composer: N/A
Performer: T.D. Skatchit (Tom Nunn, David Michalak) & Polly Moller
Recording Title: Ear of the Storm
Record Label: Edgetone Records
Catalog Number: EDT4132
Title: Platter Matter
Composer: N/A
Performer: T.D. Skatchit (Tom Nunn, David Michalak) & Thomas Dimuzio
Recording Title: Fantasy Session
Record Label: Private recording
Title: Duo for Clarinet and Crustacean
Composer: N/A
Performer: Blake McGee & Tom Nunn
Recording Title: Plastic Critters
Record Label: Edgetone
Catalog Number: EDT4131
Title: Folded Landscapes
Composer: Erland Cooper
Performer: Scottish Ensemble & Josephine Stevenson
Recording Title: Folded Landscapes
Record Label: Mercury KX
