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EPISODES

YOUR HOST:
JOURNALIST AND MUSICIAN
LAWRENCE LANAHAN

episode 4

"Mere Mechanics"

Copyright law is supposed to incentivize creative expression, but court rulings on arrangements have had the opposite effect. In Episode 4, we learn why the courts have called arrangers "mere mechanics," stifling creativity from the 19th century right up through songwriter Ed Sheeran's recent trial.

REARRANGED considers the meaning we take from songs by examining an underappreciated aspect of their creation: the arrangement.

Produced and distributed by Osiris Media.

episode 5

Listen to What's Not There

A music arranger’s job, at heart, is adding sounds to a song. Today we’ll discover the power of removing sounds—making space for listeners to dwell inside the song.

episode 3

The Sound and the Song

Studio technology has evolved from Edison's massive and unwieldy acoustic horn to an infinite array of possibilities that fit on the smartphone in your hand. In Episode 3 of Rearranged, we explore the revolutions in the sound of the popular song that accompanied revolutions in how we record sound.

episode 2

"So Much for Originality"

In Episode 2 of Rearranged, a classical music scholar and a pianist look under the hood of Franz Liszt’s solo piano transcriptions of Beethoven’s nine symphonies to discover the vast originality possible in derivative music.

episode 1

GIL EVANS

"Listen to what's there"

Arranger Gil Evans helped Miles Davis create new sonic worlds. With the help of Evans biographer Larry Hickok, Lawrence searches Evans's life and music for the source of his mesmerizing arrangements and tries to answer the question, "What is a song?"

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