Radio Concrete #21

Radio Concrete by Hagai Izenberg is a monthly experimental radio show focusing on live mixing and processing of field recordings together with contemporary music and soundscapes.

This episode features the first side of the album National History by Alvin Curran.

Curran, who was a member of the vital Musica Elettronica Viva group, constructed Natural History out of his archive of field recordings, layering sounds on top of each other to completely change how they feel and what they mean.

The list of the sounds used:

• Mowing the Lawn, Providence RI, ca.1980

• Starlings en masse, Lungotevere, Rome, ca. 1980

• "Electric Iron" electronic music from a Serge synthesiser, ca. 1980

• Cicadas in olive groves, La Serra di Lerici, Italy, early 1970

• Maritime Rites ship horn mix, Port of Amsterdam, Bay of La Spezia, 1982 • Fireworks Little Italy NYC, Fourth of July 1983

• "Jump Rope" children toys - Found by Melissa Gould on Canal St. NYC.

• "Tunnel Loops" in Lerici with children calling, 1969

• Loon, Burckhardt House, Searsmont Maine, late 1970's

• "Open Mix" for Monumenti, Alte Oper Frankfurt, with jump rope toys, 1980 • Pile Drivers, World Trade Center, NYC, 1968-69, with children in tunnel

• Via St. Elisabetta, Florence - woman singing, Bells of the Duomo, 1968

• Rome footsteps at night , dripping toilet and water inside moving train

• For Horns at Battery Park NYC, 1982