Heinali-Ave Moog (2009)
notes via the composer:
“Ave Moog is a sort of ode to the legendary rich and powerful sound of analog synthesizers. It could remind of Vavilov’s or Bach’s “Ave Maria” but the chord progression isn’t actually based on any of them, though it was inspired by Vavilov’s (Caccini) version. Dedicated to Robert Moog”
curated by paul bailey
Lloyd Rodgers – Draw Me A Sheep (1986)
Lloyd Rodgers: Draw Me A Sheep (1968)
from the “the little prince” (a ballet in two acts)
performed by the Cartesian Reunion Memorial Orchestra
curated by Jim Perkins
Mark Harris: Still Frame (2009)
Mark Harris: Still Frame (2009)
“an experiment in granular synthesis. created from two notes (a piano and violin tone)“
website
curated by: Paul Muller
Terry Riley: In C (1964)
performed by PBE and LANME Live at Columbia College
“In C is a semi-aleatoric musical piece composed by Terry Riley in 1964 for any number of people, although he suggests “a group of about 35 is desired if possible but smaller or larger groups will work”[1]. It is a response to the abstract academic serialist techniques used by composers in the mid-twentieth century and is often cited as the first minimalist composition.”
Edgar Curtis – Cloud Horse
Cloud Horse fuses the dramatic music of Ennio Morricone style wild-western soundtracks with various electronic methods. All sounds were created using a beaten up acoustic guitar processed with Max/Msp. The result is a dramatic stuttering wash of jarring chords and granulated steampunk themes straight out of a space western.
curated via Jim Perkins from his twigetticast (itunes podcast)
Paul Greenhaw: Use the Bridge Between the Trees to Avoid Blindness (2005)
“Use the Bridge Between the Trees to Avoid Blindness (2005) is a four movement work for two organs and drums. Because the music is written specifically to accompany a video, the performers perform the piece using a click-track, thus giving rise to stringently synchronized visuals and music. The work is designed within a just intonation schema which uses, exclusively, the prime integers 3 and 11. The recording you hear here has Sean Ferguson on organ and Paul Greenhaw on organ and drums — it was recorded by Wharton Tiers at his New York, NY studio. The piece should be heard at a relatively high volume.”
Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together (1970)
Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together (1970)
performed by Group 180 (Hungary)
“The design of “Coming Together” is simple, even minimal: Steve ben Israel reads and rereads one of Sam Melville’s letters from Attica over a jazzy, repetitious vamp. Yet the result is political art as expressive and accessible as Guernica. In ben Israel’s interpretation, Melville’s prison years have made him both visionary and mad, and the torment of his incarceration is rendered more vivid by the nagging intensity of the music. The other side features a less inspiring political piece and a percussion composition, each likable but not compelling, but that’s a cavil. “Coming Together” is amazing. A-”
curated via Paul Bailey (via ubuweb)
Jeremy Keenan (Upside Down Umbrella): All Out Valhalla
caption id=”attachment_689″ align=”alignright” width=”150″ caption=”upside down umbrella”]
[/caption]
‘All Out Valhalla was created entirely from four 8 bar electric guitar recordings. The rhythmic and percussive elements were extracted from transient sonic moments within the recordings and processed into discrete sounds. The piece contrasts the original recordings with transformed versions, creating an interplay between the abstract and the concrete.’
curated via Jim Perkins from his twigetticast (itunes podcast)
Adam Kondor: Ildikó Vékony (2009)
Adam Kondor: Ildikó Vékony (2009)
Adam Kondor’s memorial to his ex-wife who died in a fall while rock climbing. The performance is a mashup of found sounds/field recordings and his wife performing his Six Sonate for Cimbalom Solo
“Ildikó was one of the world’s premiere cimbalom players (in Adam’s own words “She was the best cimbalom player in Hungary, and for classical music probably the best all over the world – not many people play Bach on cimbalom”), and a composer in her own right. She’s featured on all kinds of major recordings, and had worked with everyone from Kurtag to Ligeti to Eötvös (in fact she was soloist just last January in NYC at Zankel Hall, in a concert led by Eötvös)” http://bit.ly/6rMCcq
you can read more about the memorial here
Joanne Gabriel: Daybreak (2009)
[Joanne Gabriel: Daybreak (2009)
Listen to more tracks.
‘Daybreak is the first track from the “Landscapes” opus, recorded for the ‘50 songs in 90 days challenge of Summer 2008‘. Like all the other tracks in this opus, it is a soundscape inspired by contemplation and describing a scene in the form of sound-art.’
curated via Jim Perkins from his twigetticast (itunes podcast)
.
