Weekend, Nov 23-24, 2024 – Programs 2447A & 2447B

The Continuing Story of David Borden-An Electronic Pioneer: The Echoes Interview

On the next Echoes, a pioneer of electronic music, David Borden, the founding member of Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company. Borden is one of the true pioneers of electronic music.  In 1969 he founded the group, Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company. They were one of the first performing synthesizer bands, managing multiple modular Moogs and Mini-Moog synthesizers. Borden was actually a test pilot for Moog.

David Borden: I was patching patch cords and I ruined one of his modules. So at first, I called one of the engineers down saying nothing works anymore and it smells like something’s burning.

They released their eponymous debut in 1973, a work that stands alongside the best of both Tangerine Dream and Steve Reich. A new album, Make Way for Mother Mallard, 50 Years of Music has just been released that contains never-before released archival works of live and studio performances from the very beginning to his last concert. Hear this epic story on Echoes.

Monday, November 18, 2024 – Echoes Program 2447A As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases
Start Time	Group Name	Song Name	Album Name
First Half Hour
0:01:00	The Smile	Bodies Laughing	Cutouts
0:06:00	Moya Brennan	River of Songs	Canvas
0:10:46	Wouter Kellerman/Eru Matsumoto/Chandrika Tandon	Pathway to Light	Pathway to Light
0:15:48	Paul Speer	Graceful Mother Ship	Adventures in Space
0:22:19	Tripliciti	Blue Liquid	Tripliciti
Second Half Hour
0:30:00	Interview: David Borden/Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company
0:47:55	Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co. / David Borden	C-A-G-E I	Make Way for Mother Mallard: 50 Years of Music
Third Half Hour
1:01:00	Symbion Project	Arcadian	Arcadian
1:06:00	Colin Vallon	Mars	Samares
1:12:40	ARC	Fracture	Fracture
1:20:42	Mountains of Jura	Standard Candle	Mountains of Jura
Fourth Half Hour
1:30:00	Anoushka Shankar	Pacifica	Chapter II: How Dark it is Before Dawn
1:33:36	Ladytron	The Dreamers (Lee K’s Sunsrise Dub)	Time’s Arrow Remixes
1:38:40	Emma Anderson	For a Moment (deary Dub Remix)	Spiralee: Pearlies Rearranged
1:42:47	break
1:43:44	Jess Lamb and the Factory	Explosions in the Sky (Reworked)	Explosions in the Sky (Reworked) (Single)
1:47:45	Rena Jones & KiloWatts	Time Will Heal (featuring Sophie Barker)	Caesura
1:53:38	Mundi	My House is the Sky	My House is the Sky

On the next Echoes, the celestial sounds of Trio Mediaeval. This extraordinary group of singers channel sounds from the Middle ages up through contemporary composers. We talk to them about their 23-year journey into the past. It’s Trio Mediaeval on Echoes with John Diliberto from PRX.

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