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HV016- Bugs and Birds

From: Hearing Voices
Series: Hearing Voices
Length: 54:00

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Host: Jeff Rice of the Western Soundscape Archive hosts an hour of creeping, crawling, flying critter sounds for the start of Summer:

Sound artist Nina Katchadourian makes car alarms from bird calls.

Ken Nordine argues "For the Birds" on his 2001 CD A Transparent Mask, with music by Paul Wertico and Jim Hines.

Virginia Belmont's Famous Singing and Talking Birds tweet the "William Tell Overture (Canary Sextet)."

Recordist Lang Elliot's CD Prairie Spring captures a "soundscape of prairie meadows and potholes in spring and early summer."

An extinct woodpecker revives an Arkansas town; it's "The Lord God Bird" by Long Haul Productions, with an original song composed for ther story by Sufjan Stevens.

Brian Eno's music mimics some "Flies," from the 2006 compilation Plague Songs.

Folk are buggin', gettin bittin, swatting and swearing at "Mosquitos," by M'Iou Zahner Ollswang (from the 1985 collection
Tellus #11: The Sound of Radio.)

Scott Carrier takes a morning walk with poet Jim Harrison.

Lang Elliot soaks up the sounds of "Sora Dawn" -- "a pothole marsh at dawn with bittern, wrens, rails, and more (Prairie Spring).

Dr. Rex Cocroft, of the University of Missouri, attaches a phonograph needle to a blade of grass, plugged it into a tape recorder, to go "acoustic prospecting" for little-known suburban lawn sounds like "Leafhoppers," rarely hard by humans.

Host Jeff Rice breeds bugs to make "Moth Music."

Ken Nordine declares this "A Good Year for Spiders" (A Transparent Mask).

Entomologist Ian Robertson,, of Boise State University, does the "Gnat Dance" with host Jeff Rice and an outdoor chorale performance for insects.

And special thanks to Dr. Hayward Spangler of the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Tucson for braving bugs between his teeth while "Listening to Ants."

This hour produced with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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Piece Description

Host: Jeff Rice of the Western Soundscape Archive hosts an hour of creeping, crawling, flying critter sounds for the start of Summer:

Sound artist Nina Katchadourian makes car alarms from bird calls.

Ken Nordine argues "For the Birds" on his 2001 CD A Transparent Mask, with music by Paul Wertico and Jim Hines.

Virginia Belmont's Famous Singing and Talking Birds tweet the "William Tell Overture (Canary Sextet)."

Recordist Lang Elliot's CD Prairie Spring captures a "soundscape of prairie meadows and potholes in spring and early summer."

An extinct woodpecker revives an Arkansas town; it's "The Lord God Bird" by Long Haul Productions, with an original song composed for ther story by Sufjan Stevens.

Brian Eno's music mimics some "Flies," from the 2006 compilation Plague Songs.

Folk are buggin', gettin bittin, swatting and swearing at "Mosquitos," by M'Iou Zahner Ollswang (from the 1985 collection
Tellus #11: The Sound of Radio.)

Scott Carrier takes a morning walk with poet Jim Harrison.

Lang Elliot soaks up the sounds of "Sora Dawn" -- "a pothole marsh at dawn with bittern, wrens, rails, and more (Prairie Spring).

Dr. Rex Cocroft, of the University of Missouri, attaches a phonograph needle to a blade of grass, plugged it into a tape recorder, to go "acoustic prospecting" for little-known suburban lawn sounds like "Leafhoppers," rarely hard by humans.

Host Jeff Rice breeds bugs to make "Moth Music."

Ken Nordine declares this "A Good Year for Spiders" (A Transparent Mask).

Entomologist Ian Robertson,, of Boise State University, does the "Gnat Dance" with host Jeff Rice and an outdoor chorale performance for insects.

And special thanks to Dr. Hayward Spangler of the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Tucson for braving bugs between his teeth while "Listening to Ants."

This hour produced with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Timing and Cues

Billboard 1:00
Segment A 23:00
Break 1:00
Segment B 29:00
Promo 0:30

Promo Copy (0:15):
[This week] [Coming up] on Hearing Voices, For the Fallen: For Memorial Day. Green Beret and poet, Major Robert Schaefer, US Army, hosts the voices of veterans remembering their comrades. That's Hearing Voices, [time], here on [station].

Intro and Outro

INTRO:

Jeff Rice of the Western Soundscape Archive hosts an hour of sounds for the start of Summer: an extinct woodpecker revives an Arkansas town, car alarms made from bird calls, breeding moths for their music, a morning walk with poet Jim Harrison, dancing with gnats, the seismic underground sounds of spiders, and the perspective of a pest controller. Stories by Long Haul Productions, M'Iou Zahner Ollswang, host Jeff Rice, and Scott Carrier; and recordings by Nina Katchadourian, Lang Elliot, and Dr. Rex Cocroft.

OUTRO:

Musical Works

Title Artist Album Label Year Length
Flies Brian Eno Plague Songs. 4AD 2006 02:00

Additional Credits

Funder: CPB, NEA
http://hearingvoices.com/series/

Related Website

http://hearingvoices.com/news/2008/05/hv012-for-the-fallen/