James Ross-Undifferentiated Light (2010)
James Ross-Undifferentiated Light (2010)
Solo electric guitar and Boss RC-50 looper. Inspired by Aldous Huxley’s 1961 MIT lecture, “Visionary Experience.”
Undifferentiated Light by jrossmusic
James Ross at Goodbye Blue Monday, on Fri., August 20.
also performed (on video) were Alex Carpenter and Michael Waller with help technical help from Richard Lainhart, Jim Goodin and the folks at ImprovFriday for helping to make it a great night.
Matt Marks-I Don’t Have Any Fun (2010)
Matt Marks-I Don’t Have Any Fun (2010)
from the opera “The Little Death Volume 1″
“The Little Death: Vol. 1, Matt Marks’ post-Christian nihilist pop opera, is an ambitious new work that fuses bombastic electro-pop hooks, frenetically chopped break beats, hypnotic lyrics, and apocalyptic Christian imagery. Holding these disparate elements together is a unconventional narrative that follows two characters, Boy (Matt Marks) and Girl (Mellissa Hughes), on a journey through the world of Fundamentalist Evangelism, as they cope with repressed sexuality in a modern world.
The sample-heavy work draws on musical references that echo the character’s sexual-religious confusion, including pop songs and gospel standards with evocative titles (“He Touched Me” and “When God Dips His Love In My Heart”). Marks took most of the sampled material from his own collection of 1970s gospel albums and classic hip-hop and soul recordings. Using a DIY approach, he produced the album using only a couple of microphones and a laptop running Ableton Live.
The stage show as directed by Rafael Gallegos takes inspiration from a number of sources, including The Brady Bunch Variety Hour and church lock-ins”
Alan Morse Davies-Night Falls Fast IV (2010)
Alan Morse Davies-Night Falls Fast (2005)
“Night Falls Fast was composed for the contemporary dance work of the same name by John Utans. The original performance was with the Milwaukee Ballet at the Pabst Theatre, Milwaukee, U.S.A. in February 2005.
Sections of the work were also used for the stage play “Through Wyeth’s Window” by the Aperture Tectonics Theatre Company at the Prince Music Theater, Philadelphia, U.S.A. in 2006.
In 2009 the earlier parts were remastered and a new 6th part added. The 1st, 2nd and 6th parts were then used in a new interpretation of the dance piece by John Utans for HKAPA dancers at the Monaco Dance Forum on 1st, 2nd and 3rd of April 2010 in Monte Carlo”
Night Falls Fast (archive.org)
Landscaping for Privacy-Eve Beglarian (1995)
Landscaping for Privacy-Eve Beglarian (1995) “was written in August-September 1995 for twisted tutu (Kathleen Supové, keyboards and Eve Beglarian, vocals) while we were in residence at the Bellagio Center in Italy under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation. The poem is by Linda Norton. The keyboard part was written to be played using the arpeggiator [...]
Copralalia, la la la- Mary Jane Leach (2002)
Copralalia, la la la- Mary Jane Leach (2002)
“is for two sopranos and taped voices. “Copralalia” is the term for the vocal outbursts of Tourette’s Syndrome sufferers. It derives from the Greek word “copros,” meaning “shit.” I wrote this piece when I was working on a project about witches, trying to find explanations for why some people were/are called witches. I thought that the vocal outbursts of Turette’s Syndrome would be frightening and perhaps sufferers from it could be called witches. The lyrics are by the medieval French poet Castelloza”
Download Copralalia, la la la- Mary Jane Leach (2002)
Libretto
From Honey to Ashes – Baby Bats
Baby bats is an improvised performance from Jeremy Keenan, Matt Lewis and Edgar Curtis, otherwise known as From Honey to Ashes.The sound world is created through a combination of foley, granulation, comb filtering and audio pops and clicks. Real-time rhythmic synchronicity is achieved between players by using a central network through which patterns are passed around and instruments are interconnected.
the sea, the sea- My Fun/Justin Hardison (2009)
the sea, the sea- My Fun/Justin Hardison (2009)
My Fun is the slightly eccentric nom de guerre of Justin Hardison, a musician, who uses field recordings, lush electronics and samples to make quite lovely, if also quite bittersweet music. – Rare Frequency
He also runs The Land Of label
Simeon- Diex/Marcello Dirks (2009)
“Originally a pure piano-piece, this is breaking in Garritan’s Personal Orchestra on Kontakt 4 with a tribute-work-in-progress to one of my favorite Dutch composers; Simeon ten Holt.”
marcello dirks website (via synopsis decay @soundcloud)
Simeon by Diex
when someone loves you no more: Derrick Hart (2010)
when someone loves you no more: Derrick Hart (2010)
fall asleep to this EP via archive.org“when someone loves you no more” begins with a profound wailing on behalf of anyone who has ever suffered before blooming into some incomprehensible sonic victory. it is performed only with his voice, captured with a contact-mic, processed and converted.
With his “fall asleep to this” EP he goes a more experimental and meditative way. The five tracks are mainly based on vocals, even though there are no actual lyrics. “To follow Derrick’s advice: The EP serves as a meditation tool to listen to before sleeping. So plug your earphones in and fall asleep.
Anton Baibakov: Music for Stop Motion Camera (2010)
Anton Baibakov: Music for Stop Motion Camera (2010)
“this track, the dream of fixing time in the conditional space.”
Music for stop motion camera by Anton Baibakov
curated by Heinali
Oliver Blank – We Were Walking in the Rain (2009)
“The album, Karhu ja Tiikerini, tells the story of two animals who come together. We Were Walking In The Rain takes a moment away from the narrative to set a scene and let the listener just be. Unlike the rest of the album, where I tried to move away from electronics, the track’s foundation lies in software processing. A piece of source music was run through the iRedux software (www.iredux.net) to create a noisy melodic bed. The noise was then recut to bring a progression to the piece and Maiju Lempinen’s beautiful violin playing was layered with vocal harmonies and whispered words. Listen carefully and you’ll hear that the piece also incorporates melodic themes that appear earlier and later in the album.”
Play We Were Walking in the Rain
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via jim perkins twigetticast #2
Jeremy Keenan (Upside Down Umbrella): 4 am Hong Kong Sun (2010)
am Hong Kong Sun: delirious + delicious = deliricious? A recording unit, a stereo pair of microphones, and an excellent Chinese dinner at a particularly strange juncture. Later that night, an MS20 analog synth recording, some editing and a basic structure. The next day, a guitar and bass guitar overdub by Alex Abalos, and some additive synthesis atmosphere. Finally, some live granular overdubs by Edgar Curtis, and a lot of mixing. Enjoy your meal.
Download 4am Hong Kong Sun (clip)
curated by Jim Perkins from his twigetticast #2
Corey Dargel: The Opposite of Love (2010)
Corey Dargel: The Opposite of Love (2010)
“The songs on Corey Dargel’s Every Day Is the Same Day — scored for voice, violin, and digital looping — present worst-case scenarios as possible solutions for boredom and loneliness. They are part of a larger work in development with Cornelius Dufallo, violinist of the string quartet ETHEL. New Amsterdam Records is pleased to present this free EP as a companion to Corey’s Someone Will Take Care of Me, due out May 25.”
Joanne Gabriel: Life (2010)
Almighty is a concept album (soon to be released). It was inspired by a long and detailed dream I had in my teens and consists in 10 soundscapes, each one being completed by a short text describing the main scenes in the dream. Chapter 5 “Life”,describes the moment when the Planet has been transformed and when life emerges everywhere.
Play Life
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Douglas Hein: Orlando, He Dead (1985)
Douglas Hein: Orlando, He Dead (1985)
Orlando, Orlando, he dead, he dead, Orlando, he dead.Josquin, Johann, Amadeus, Ludwig, they dead, they dead, all them guys they dead.Buddy H., Brian J., Mama C. Karen C., they dead, they dead, all them guys, the dead.La, la, la …And when your dead your dead forever,forever, forever, foreverYou don’t go live no more,no more, no more, no more.You be dead more long than live‘Cuz when your dead your dead forever,Forever, forever, forever.Some day me be dead,Some day you be dead,Some day me be dead,Some day you be dead,All us guysWe deadLa, la, la ….
performed by the Cartesian Reunion Memorial Orchestra
this groundbreaking group featured compositions by Michael Bayer, Chuck Estes, Douglas Hein, William Houston, Steve Moshier, Frank Riddick, and Lloyd Rodgers. at various times, the orchestra featured musicians Jannine Livingston, harpsichord; John Glenn, bass; Lloyd Rodgers, clarinet and keyboard; Douglas Hein, acoustic guitar; Diana Halpern, violin; Joeseph Goodman, violin; and Michael Baer, violincello
DJ Wolf at renewable music (June 2005)
“Sometimes the internet is a wonderful place. Composer Paul Bailey has just put up an mp3 of Doug Hein’s Orlando he dead, one of my favorite pieces from the repertoire of the legendary Cartesian Memorial Reunion Orchestra (a semi-situationist, semi-electric chamber ensemble in the grand style of LA in the 80’s). Hein’s piece is one of the few vocal works in the Cartesian ’s repertoire, with the only lyric I know of that meaningfully includes both Orlando di Lasso and Mama Cass. It’s also one of the very few genuinely funny works of recent modern music. But more importantly, it’s an example of exquisite counterpoint and near-counterpoint and fake renaissancery.”
text and music by Douglas M. Hein
curated by Paul Bailey
Shane Cadman: Music for Insomniacs #3 (2009)
Shane Cadman: Music for Insomniacs #3 (2009)
from his website…
“This page is dedicated to a collection of acoustic ambient compositions I am writing called “Music for Insomniacs.” These pieces are composed on no more than three staves and have no specific instrumentation, so that they can later be orchestrated as needed/desired by the performers. They will each be slow in nature (otherwise how could someone fall asleep to them), and generally five to ten minutes long. These also fit nicely into a concept I have called “realistic music.” “Realistic music” is music that can be performed live at an acceptable level by competent musicians with no more than three hours of rehearsal time.The scores on this page are free to print and perform. All I ask is that you report any and all performances to ASCAP, as well as to Illustrious Music. Also, while performance tempos are marked on the scores, they are there as reference points – the pieces may be played faster or slower as desired by the performers…”
Paul Bailey: Obsessive Love (2002)
Obsessive Love (Music for Summerland EP, 2002) explores the juxtaposition of pop song forms and harmonies through post-minimalism. Summerland refers to a mythical-emotional place where we escape daily routine by making music; composing, rehearsing and performing. This music lies somewhere between art music (music meant to be contemplated) and pop music (music meant for mass consumption).’
curated via Jim Perkins from his twigetticast (itunes podcast)
Walls and Whispers: Steve Moyes (2009)
Walls and Whispers: Steve Moyes (2009)
looped guitar improvisation originally posted at ImprovFriday Event: October 23rd 2009
Oliver Blank: Lumi Karhu (2009)
Oliver Blank: Lumi Karhu (2009)
‘Oliver Blank is a composer living in Helsinki, Finland. His first album, Karhu ja Tiikerini, features husky dogs, whispering, very small guitars, string quartets, mechanical pianos and the sound of Lapland on a cold Winter’s night. Karhu ja Tiikerini, tells the story of a bear and tiger. The title, translated from Finnish, means, “Bear and My Tiger.” The two animals meet in the wild and, despite their cultural differences, become close friends.
Lumi Karhu can be translated from Finnish literally as ‘Snow Bear’. The piece follows Bear’s journey through the seasons. From tumultuous weather hunting for food in the dark to long Summer days eating berries. The forest changes around Bear and he learns to survive on his own. The piece was originally recorded in Jyväskylä, 2009, and features violinist Maiju Lempinen.’
Jon Brenner: Sonata (2006)
“sonata was written for violinist emily packard at mills college. like most of my pieces, the instrumentation is flexible and the violin may be substituted by vibraphone, clarinet, or flute. the marimba tape may be substituted by piano, two marimbas.”
duration: 9:45
curated by Paul Muller
Michael Nyman: An Eye for Optical Theory (1982)
Michael Nyman: An Eye for Optical Theory (1982)
Originally composed for the Peter Greenaway film The Draughtsman’s Contract based on a round attributed by William Croft. performed and arranged by the PBE (Paul Bailey Ensemble)
curated by paul bailey
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
