Martin Ødegaard / David Q. Nguyen

Episode 16: Fiddles and Loudspeaker Orchestras

Josh teaches Jon what a Hardanger fiddle is using a piece that draws on English Renaissance, Norwegian, Sámi, and American folk traditions and Jon brings the electronic heat with a work on all levels, including recording fidelity, production quality, processing, moving sound, narrative, and syntactical development of materials.

Featuring performances of Martin Ødegaard’s Love Me by Ensemble 96 and David Q. Nguyen’s Textures Arc The Points by the composer himself.

Check out the those works—as well as the incredible art installation with birds and guitars, From Here to Ear, by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot—below!

Below are the three Ødegaard pieces Josh mentions—Love Me, Komm (based on Bach’s motet, Komm, Jesu, komm), and the incredible Trachea—as well as David Q. Nguyen’s Textures Arc The Points.

And here’s the wild art installation by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot Josh talks about seeing in Lisbon.