Interviews & Reviews
TV
Nova (PBS) (2011)
EEG music show on WHYY (2009) (1 hour long)
Australian TV (2004)
Full file or Part 1 (Mulatta Records)
Part 2 (Thai Elephant Orchestra)
Part 3 (Tangerine Awkestra)
BBC interview on the Thai Elephant Orchestra
Interview on EEG music at Brooklyn Academy of Music (2008)
Swedish TV clips of Thai Elephant Orchestra
Profile on Italian TV (RAI, 2008) by Sandro Petrone.
more TV clips, including MTV and ABC, are on this page
Radio
All Things Considered on Da Hiphop Raskalz
NPR radio Music and Nature on the Thai Elephant Orchestra
Link to the Human Chorus by Jonathan Heuer (2004). In two hour sections, Part 1 and Part 2, with many musical excerpts
Timeless Music
(Septermber 2011) for Vicki Bennet at WFMU radio, 40 minute mp3,
explains the mathematical and physical dimensions of music,
illustrations of how to make deliberate musical fractals, Fourier
transforms and even a straightfoward explanation of white noise. Not
hard, and with minimal jargon.
Interview on the Thai Elephant Orchestra on Canadian Public Radio by Ken Rockburn
Interview on the Thai Elephant Orchestra on WNYC with Leonard Lopate (2005)
Interview on the Thai Elephant Orchestra on WNYC with John Schaefer (2011)
Radio interview with Komar & Melamid with Dave Soldier on the People's Choice: Music on This American Life by Ira Glass. The music starts around 14 minutes.
Interview on Elephonic Rhapsodies with a music written by songbirds by John Schaefer on WNYC show New Sounds (2004).
BBC radio interview on the Thai Elephant Orchestra
German radio on Yol K'u, Mayan Mountain Music (2008)
Italian radio (RAI) with Nicola Catalano (2009)
WFMU interview with Dorian Devins (2009) on Kurt Vonnegut collaborations (Speakeasy show)
WFMU: Dave and Brad Garton have the dj's Ken Freedman and Andy perform brainwave music
Magazines
Article for New Music Box by WFMU radio's Kenny Goldsmith (2000) or with links
A cool article in Naked Eye by Chris Pare on a new musical movement inspired by Da Hiphop Raskalz (2008)
A profile by Alan Kozinn in the New York Times (.pdf file) (1999)
Profile in Praxis Post by David Berreby (2001)
BBC article on elephants
The Scientist
review of EEG brainwave music
review of Thai Elephant Orchestra etc.
Reuters interview on Thai Elephant Orchestra, 2007
Wired Magazine on People's Choice Music
Mother Jones on the Thai Elephant Orchestra, 2011
Blogs
Metafilter discussion on whether or not the Tangerine Awkestra rocks!
Metafilter on the Thai Elephant Orchestra
Montreal Mirror and WFMU on Da Hiphop Raskalz
Boingboing on The People's Choice Music
Ubuweb on People's Choice and Soldier's Story
Reviews
New York Times
Chamber Music CD named one of the best classical releases of 2007
review of Chamber Music CD
review of A Soldier's Story at Merkin Hall
review of Soldier String Quartet at Lincoln Center
review of Soldier String Quartet at Lincoln Center Out of Doors
review of Soldier String Quartet at Roulette
review of Soldier String Quartet and Elliott Sharp at CBGBs
review of John Cale with Soldier String Quartet at Bottom Line
article on Thai Elephant Orchestra
assorted Thai Elephant Orchestra
Read an article about the orchestra from the NY Times Reuters interview on Thai Elephant Orchestra
Read an article in Time Magazine by Jennifer Gampell
Read an article from the Economist
Read an article in National Geographic (on Thai elephants, features the orchestra)
Watch a video shot by SBS in Australia with lots of playing
Watch video from ABC news
Hear a BBC radio interview
Hear a long Canadian Radio interview
See a Swedish TV story with nice film clips of the performances
A review of Elephonic Rhapsodies in Seattle Weekly
assorted Kropotkins
Village Voice from Joe's Pub concert
San Francisco East Bay Express CD review
TimeOut New York review of Soldier's Story
Jazz Times on Robert Dick projects
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