Programme 2: Mix It

Programme Outline

00.20 Mix It presenter link – a world of many sounds
01.00 Talvin Singh and the dance duo Angika ‘The Pulse of Tala’ - part 1
01.30 dance,
· interpreting the music,
· Bharatanatyam Indian dance
02.00 musical influences: traditional Indian music and acid house
02.45 sampling, digital orchestra, recording live drums
04.05 processing:
· the synth bass in ‘The Pulse of Tala’ - part 2, delay and filter
· tabla drums, flanging
07.42 ‘The Pulse of Tala’ - part 3
· change in texture – ethereal lots of delay not so much repetitive
· individual parts– how the texture changes and evolves, multilayered
10.25 Mix It presenter link – finding new sounds
10.44 Jocelyn Pook 'Arsenal - Trevor's Conversion'
· found sounds
· answer machine messages
· recording the crowd chants
· whole piece built around football chants, dictating keys, mood and rhythm
· building rhythm and pitch shapes out of the samples, no use of pitched change
· how the texture develops
12.55 Veira section, harmonising the chant
13.25 exuberant section
14.03 rhythmic section, cross rhythms in the chant, heavy chugging of string quartet
15.00 reflective section, anticipation - excitement – disappointment,
15.47 rhythmic section, energised, cello rhythmic pattern
16.42 reflective section
17.10 final section, hymn like, religious experience