KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Morning Concert: The Music of David Jaffe

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

MC.1990.05.10

Program Series

Morning Concert

Program Length

76 min

Dates

1990-05-10 | broadcast
| 1990-05-10 | created

Description

Composer-performer David Jaffe has bridged the gap between acoustic folk music and the world of cerebral computer music with a multi-stylistic approach. A lecturer at Stanford University, where much of his work is produced at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Jaffe also worked with neXt Computers on creating new types of music software. His composition “Impossible Animals” contains human vocal timbres in the shape of carefully analyzed bird songs. He is interviewed by Charles Amirkhanian about his career. Also heard in this program is a recording by a 19th century equivalent of Jaffe, the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. (from KPFA Folio)

Genres

20th century classical

Musical Selections

Telegram to the President, for string quartet and tape (1984) / David Jaffe -- [sample of winter wrens] -[sample of choral music with tape] -- Impossible Animals, for chorus and computer (1986) / David Jaffe -- Bird Seasons (1984) / David Jaffe -- Ellis Island Sonata: Ghosts from the Old Country [2nd movement of the sonata] (1986) / David Jaffe -- Grass Valley Fire, for mandolin quartet (1989) / David Jaffe -- Slåtter: Norwegian Peasant Dances, Op. 72 [excerpts] (1902-03) / Edvard Grieg

Performers

Jefferson Quartet (Telegram to the President)
Hamilton College Chorus (Impossible Animals)
Alea II (Bird Seasons)
David Jaffe, mandolin (Ellis Island Quartet)
The Modern Mandolin Quartet (Grass Valley Fire)
Knut Buen, Hardanger fiddle (Slåtter)
Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, piano (Slåtter)

Subjects

20th century classical
Electronic music
String quartets
Birdsongs
Computer composition
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with electronic music
Vocal quartets, Unaccompanied
Sonatas (Mandolin)
Quartets (Mandolins (4))
Folk music -- Norway
Fiddle tunes -- Norway
Hardanger fiddle music
Piano music

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by Save America’s Treasures, a program of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Jefferson String Quartet
Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.). Chorus
Alea II (Musical group)
Modern Mandolin Quartet
Amirkhanian, Charles
Jaffe, David A. (David Aaron), 1955-
Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907
Buen, Knut
Steen-Nøkleberg, Einar, 1944-