Art Jarvinen: Breaking the Chink (1993)
Art Jarvinen: Breaking the Chink (1993)
performed by Icebreaker (soprano saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, trombone, violin, viola, electric bass, 2 electric guitars, synthesizer (or piano), 2 percussion)
Arthur Jarvinen 1956-2010 (via David Ocker/Mixed Meters)
An Art Jarvinen Portrait (via Kyle Gann/Postclassic)
Art Jarvinen website/music compositions
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
Alan Morse Davies: The Sontaran Experiment in the Style of Jóhann Jóhannsson (2009)
The Sontaran Experiment in the Style of Jóhann Jóhannsson
notes via alan:
“Just a bit of fun… I was playing around with how Jóhann Jóhannsson uses little splashes of a melodic motif bound together with big tracts of connective tissue, and I had the idea of linking it with one of my favourite Dr. Who epsiodes where the Sontarans travel back in time to made DaVinci paint multiple copies of the Mona Lisa in order to make themselves rich in the future. The explanation probably over-hypes the result by some order of magnitude.”
alan morse davies (wordpress.com)
curated by paul bailey
thanks also to marc weidenbaum’s excellent site disquiet.com for introducing me to the music of alan morse davies (and many others)
Charles Turner: Secret Flower (2009)
Charles Turner: Secret Flower (2009)
Featuring flutes and marimbas. Charles Turner lives north of Boston and also composes church music, opera and musical theatre. This piece was written in April 2009.
Peter Thoegersen: Solo Clarinet in Bb (2005)
“The Bb clarinet piece was written in 2002 while I was working on my MM in composition. It was written in one swoop and I wanted it to represent some extended techniques. That version was recorded at U of I in Urbana in 2005, but I can’t remember the performer’s name.”
