One of the most seductive musical combinations is the soft cry of a wind instrument — in this case, a soprano saxophone — floating high and free above a cushion of electronic sound. It's a combination that brings out the best of its parts: the melodic, emotional expression of the horn; the spacious sonic architecture of an ambient electronic soundfield.
Winds with electronics are relatively new, but the sound of a primitive flute or horn resonating in acoustic space goes back to the cave homes of our earliest ancestors.
It's a formative sound experience in the evolution of the ambient sensibility, revived
in the 1960s by clarinetist TONY SCOTT in MUSIC FOR ZEN MEDITATION, and by flutist PAUL HORN in his classic recording INSIDE THE TAJ MAHAL.
On this transmission of Hearts of Space, we explore the happy combination of acoustic winds and ambient electronics, on a program called FLOATING WINDS. Music is by KEVIN BRAHENY FORTUNE, MATT BORGHI & MICHAEL TEAGER, KLAUS SCHULZE (with TOBIAS BECKER), and KIT WATKINS.
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Nice show. Great follow-on to program 1035 "SAXOPHONIC". Thanks!
Got me thinking about other world-class sax players who have been featured on HoS over the years: Surman and Garabrek, to mention just two. Maybe it's time to create a new "Saxophone" genre? ;)
-- EstherD
Posted by: EstherDavid Steffens | 05 May 2018 at 03:44 PM
Great suggestion, Esther—thanks. We’ll need more shows to make it a new genre;-)
Posted by: Stephen Hill | 06 May 2018 at 10:21 AM