Wed 12 Aug 2009
desert air
Posted by benadair under links, radio
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I recently hosted an episode of the wonderfully sublime Hearing Voices radio show. (But if you’re going to nitpick, it’s actually the rebroadcast of a special I did for Hearing Voices (pre-weekly show) back in the summer of 2007.)
Besides featuring my own favorite piece that I’ve ever done, there’s some great desert field recordings and what may be my favorite radio piece of all time, by Scott Carrier.
If you got a spare hour, I highly recommend it. You can download it by clicking here.
From the Hearing Voices website:
Hearing Voices from NPR®
066 Desert Air: Audio from the Arid Regions
Host: Ben Adair of American Public Media
Airs week of: 2009-08-05“Desert Air” (52:00 mp3):
Hot & dry Summer stories and soundscapes (see Dave’s Deserts for photos from the American West):
Coyotes, owls, frogs and songbirds are part of Desert Solitudes, recorded by Bernie Krause and Ruth Happel in the Sonoran and Chihuauan deserts, part of New Mexico’s panhandle.
Host Ben Adair heads down to the ghost towns, Opera Houses, century-old abandoned mines, and billion-year old boulders along Death Valley’s “Mojave Road.”
Kraut-rockers Faust dial in “Long Distance Calls in the Desert,” from their album Rien.
The Quiet American (Aaron Ximm) sound-captures the forbidding warning signs rattling in a harsh wind and “Desert Sun” outside the nuclear Nevada Test Site north of Las Vegas.
Back in the early 1990s, SLC producer Scott Carrier found the Basin & Range, near Nevada”s “Battle Mountain,” beautiful, lonely, dreary, and full of sagebrush, solace and stories. And more Desert Solitudes.
