WKCR New Music Playlists

Transfigured Night 9/22

2007-11-22T15:33:00.000-05:00

1)Noah Creshevsky
Hyperrealism
on Mutable Music

2)Brian Glick
Solo/Serge Modular Synthesizer
on Parallactic

3)Alwin Nikolais
Electronic Dance Music
on Composers Recordings Inc.

4)Steve Reich
-the Four Sections
-Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ
on Elektra

5)Alan Licht
A New York Minute
Track: Freaky Friday
on XI Records

Host: Young

Transfigured Night 9/18

2007-09-23T12:58:00.000-04:00

The program featured an extended presentation of the singular Globe Unity Orchestra, the large improvising ensemble spearheaded by pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach. The program prepared us for the 9/20 appearance of Globe Unity in Upper Manhattan as the opening concert in the Columbia-Harlem Festival of Global Jazz.

I don't quite remember which records were played and in which order, but email us and we can do some digging if you need. I promise to take better notes next time.

Nibs Plastic

Transfigured Night 9/8/07

2007-09-08T05:49:00.000-04:00

1)Tony Conrad
Early Minimalism: June 1965
Label: Arsenic

2)Tony Conrad
Four Violins
Early Minimalism
Label: Arsenic

3)Neglige-electronic underwear
Pranatal Inferno

4)Judy Dunaway
Balloon Music

5) Defunkt
Live At The Knitting Factory NYC

Host: Young

Afternoon New Music 9/3/07

2007-09-03T18:00:00.000-04:00

John Cage would have been celebrating his ninety-fifth birthday on September 5th. We began to celebrate a bit early by playing lots of his earliest compositions. We got inspired, dug through the library, and played things ranging from etudes and excercises written in Los Angeles in the '30s, and ended somewhere in the middle of a prepared piano!

The playlist is lost to radio's ephemerality and the host's poor memory.

Host: Brian Kane

Transfigured Night 8/25/07

2007-08-27T21:44:00.000-04:00

After extended broadcasts in memory of a great drummer and a great trombonist, I may only hope to be forgiven by their respective memories for my desire to devote the four-hour sound walk we call Transfigured Night to some of the finest examples of pianism. And few, I think, would long dispute Cecil Taylor's position as a fortuitous starting point in considering modern interpretations of this specific instrumental nexus of compositional arrangement of sound and performative, mechanical production of sound (improvisation = instant composition), which is to what I refer with such a (possibly nonetheless unforgivable) -ism. The first selection, a Cecil Taylor-led performance of, in order, "Bemsha Swing" - one of Thelonious Monk's standards, his own composition, "Charge 'em Blues," and Duke Ellington's haunting "Azure" provide an even more traditional-jazz-oriented beginning for the program than the 1950's date would imply. But we are not dealing with tradition for long, and by the fourth, most recent, and final C.T. piece, the music, jazzmusic even still, has undoubtedly attained that state of almost disturbing aural freeness that some dealers in "Jazz" like to hold at arm's length. Here, it don't mean a thing if it do got that swing, and the presence of such musicians as Tomasz Stánko and Frank Wright, in addition to Taylor's irrepressible sound, on "Winged Serpent" render the lexicon of jazz performance and composition less productive of new understandings in my opinion than a treatment of the music within the context of New Music. To this end, I devoted over an hour to certain solo piano compositions of Iannis Xénakis, whose methods of structuring sound have a lot to say to Mr. Taylor's music, which in turn adds new dimensions to the exhilaration of listening to Xénakis. A guest on a recent on-air interview as part of our Afternoon New Music felt content to reply to a detailed question with one word - Cage - and I am tempted to do the same. The late, sparse, solo piano pieces of the figurehead of American new music force one to revisit anew the complicated sound densities of Taylor and Xénakis. Our program, now nearing six o'clock a.m., closed with selections from a recent release from the perpetually interesting Emanem record label, featuring overdubbings of the piano of Howard Riley, an uncertain sound classified absurdly on the back of the CD as "Mostly Free Improvisation." M.D.

1)Cecil Taylor, Steve Lacy, Buell Neidlinger, Dennis Charles
Title: Bemsha Swing, Charge 'em Blues, Azure (recorded 9/14/1956)
Album: In Transition (1975)
Label: Blue Note

2)Cecil Taylor, Jimmy Lyons, Kurt Lindgren, Sunny Murray
Title: Spontaneous Improvisation (recorded 10/1962)
Album: The Early Unit 1962
Label: Ingo Sixteen

3)Cecil Taylor, Sam Rivers, Jimmy Lyons, Andrew Cyrille
Title: Second Act of A (selections) (recorded 7/29/1969)
Album: The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor
Label: Prestige

4)Cecil Taylor Segments II (Orchestra of Two Continents)
Title: Winged Serpent (recorded 10/1984)
Album: Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants)
Label: Soul Note

5)Composer: Iannis Xénakis
Title: Mists (1980), Herma (1961), à r. (1987), Akea (1986), Evryali (1973)
All Solo Piano pieces performed by Claude Helffer. Arditti string quartet also on "Akea."
Album: Chamber Music 1955-1990
Label: Auvidis Montaigne

6)Composer: John Cage
Title: Music for Two (1985), One (1987), One5 (1991)
Performed by Stephen Drury
Album: The Piano Works I
Label: Mode

7)Howard Riley
Music for two pianos overdubbed
Album: Two is One (2005)
Label: Emanem

Host: Marlow Davis

Transfigured Night 8/16/07: Paul Rutherford Memorial

2007-08-16T01:13:00.000-04:00

1)Iskra 1903: Paul Rutherford, Derek Bailey, Barry Guy
Title: Improvisations and Offcuts (9/2/1970 and 5/3/1972)
Album: Chapter One (2000)
Label: Emanem 4301 CD

2)Iskra 1903: Paul Rutherford, Philipp Wachsmann, Barry Guy
Title: Frankfurt (8/1/1991)
Album: Frankfurt 1991 (2001)
Label: Emanem 4051 CD

3)Iskra 1903: Paul Rutherford, Philipp Wachsmann, Barry Guy
Title: 903/1-4 (8/5/1992)
Album: ISKRA 1903 (1995)
Label: Maya Records MCD9502

Host: Marlow Davis

Afternoon New Music 8/15/07: Paul Rutherford Memorial

2007-08-15T15:34:00.000-04:00

1)Free Jazz Quartet: Paul Rutherford, trombone; Harrison Smith, reeds; Tony Moore, cello; Eddie Prevost, drums
Title: Roman Geese (7/6/1989)
Album: Premonitions
Label: Matchless MR 18 CD

2)Composer: Tony Oxley
Title: Amass, Megaera
Album: 4 Compositions For Sextet (1999 reissue of material recorded 2/7/1970)
Performers: Tony Oxley, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Kenny Wheeler, Jeff Clyne, Paul Rutherford
Label: Columbia 494437 2 CD

3)Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker, Paul Rutherford
Title: The honker, Arkanther (5/22/1993)
Album: Trio (London) 1993
Label: Leo Records 197 CD

4)Paul Rutherford, solo trombone
Title: Bottling Up (4/26/2002)
Album: Chicago 2002
Label: Emanem 4082 CD

5)Quintet Moderne: Paul Rutherford, Paul Lovens, Teppo Hauta-Àho, Harri Sjöström, Phil Wachsmann
Title: The Strange and the Commonplace (11/4/1989)
Label: Po Torch Records PTR/JWD 19 S LP (1991)

6)The Siger Band: Paul Rutherford, Pete McPhail, George Haslam, Tony Moore, Paul Hession
Title: The Healing, The Three (1/12/1986)
Album: The Healing
Label: Spotlite SPJ533 LP

7)M.L.A. 'Blek': Mark Charig, Radu Malfatti, Paul Rutherford, Fred van Hove
Title: Blek 4-5 (5/12/1980)
Label: Free Music Production SAJ-32 LP

8)Peter Brötzmann Group: Willem Breuker, Peter Brötzmann, Evan Parker, Malcolm Griffiths, Willem van Manen, Buschi Niebergall, Paul Rutherford, Derek Bailey, Fred van Hove, Han Bennink
Title: Fuck de Boere (3/22/1970)
Label: ALP 211 CD

Host: Marlow Davie

Afternoon New Music 8/14/07: Paul Rutherford Memorial

2007-08-14T16:51:00.001-04:00

1)Paul Rutherford, improvised trombone solos
Title: Red Rose Afternoon 1 & 2 (9/3/1995); 5-7 China Pig 4/15/1992 London concert
Album: Trombolenium (2002)
Label: Emanem CD 4072

2)Paul Rutherford, trombone; Paul Rogers, double bass
Title: Rogues 1 (11/11/1988)
Album: Rogues (1996)
Label: Emanem CD 4007

3)Günter Christmann, Gerd Dudek, Albert Mangelsdorff, Paul Rutherford, Manfred Schoof, Kenny Wheeler
Title: Horns (3/24/1978)
Only side two, with P.R.'s euphonium solo, was played from this 1979 FMP LP 0660

4)Paul Rutherford, solo, trombone and voice
Live at V. International New Jazz Festival, open air, at Moers, Schloßpark, W-Germany, 6/7/1976.
Album: "Old Moers Almanac" Ring Records LP 0 10 14

5)Paul Rutherford, trombone and euphonium; Tony Rusconi, percussion
Recorded July 1979 live at "Chiostro del Teatro Comunale S. Chiara" during "Estate Aperta 79."
Album: "To Fall A Victim to Ice-Cream's Charm" L'orchestra OLPS LP 55011

Host: Marlow Davis

Transfigured Night 8/14/07: Paul Rutherford Memorial

2007-08-14T03:18:00.001-04:00

1)Artist: Iskra3
Title: Act I (of II, tracks 1-4)
Album: Iskra3
Label: psi (2004)

2)Artist : Iskra1903
Titles: Improvisation 5020, Improvisation 5021
Album: Free Improvisation (compilation)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon (1974)

3)Artist: Paul Rutherford and Iskra 1912
Titles: Non-Sequence (PR improvisation), Sequence 73 (Iskra 1912)
Album: Sequences
Label: Emanem (1997)

4)Artist: Paul Rutherford
Titles: [All tracks]
Album: The Gentle Harm of the Bourgeoisie
Label: Emanem (1974)

5)Artist: Spontaneous Music Ensemble
Titles: 2.B.Ornette, After Listening (PR compositions)
Album: Challenge (1966-67)
Label: Emanem

6) Artist/Album: Paul Rutherford & Paul Lovens
Titles: Armand Schulthess, As Deafness Increases
Label: PO Torch records (1977)

7) Artist: Paul Rutherford
Titles: Yep 321, Realign 4, Paunch & Judies (all from 1978)
Album: Neuph
Label: Emanem

Host: Jordan "Nibs Plastic" Paul

Afternoon New Music 8/13/07

2007-08-13T18:00:00.000-04:00

Composer Profile: Vinko Globokar

We began with a quick traversal of the Discours series. These pieces demonstrate Globokar's manner of integrating speech and instrumental technqiue. Playing is speaking, speaking is playing...

1. Discours II (1968), for five trombones, performed by Globokar et al.

2. Discours III (1969), for five oboes, performed by Heinz Holliger

3. Discours IV (1985), for three clarinets, performed by Alain Damien et al.

4. Discours VI (1983), for string quartet, performed by the Domus Quartet

Then we jumped back and started working chronologically:

1. Accord (1966), for soprano and five soloists.

2. Aird de voyages vers l'interieur (1971-2), for mixed voices with clarinet and trombone.

3. Toucher (1973), for solo percussion.

4. Échanges (1973), for solo horn, but we listened to a version for solo trombone performed by Globokar.

5. Voix instrumentalisee (1973), for bass clarinet .

6. ?Corporel (1979), for percussionist, performing only with his body.

...and there's more coming next week, including perfomances by Globokar of Stockhausen, Kagel and Berio.

These recordings came from a variety of CDs:

Globokar by Globokar (Harmonia Mundi)
Alain Damien, Clarinette (Adda)
Atelier schola cantorum 4, Schola Cantorum Stuttgart (Cadenza)
Vinko Globokar (Koch)
Toucher, Matthias Kaul, percussion (Wergo)

Host: Brian Kane

Live Constructions 8/12/07

2007-08-12T22:17:00.000-04:00

During this program, selections of William Parker's "In Order to Survive" (Black Saint CD 120159-2, 1995) were played. The music, composed by Parker, was performed at Roulette in NYC on April 11, 1993 by a sextet led by Parker on bass, composed of Lewis Barnes, Grachan Moncur III, Rob Brown, Cooper-Moore, and Denis Charles. The pieces were entitled:

1)Testimony of NO FUTURE
2)ANAST IN CRISIS Mouth Full Of Fresh Cut Flowers
3)Testimony of THE STIR POT (only the beginning of this last selection was heard, due to time constraints of the program)

Host: Marlow Davis

Transfigured Night 8/11/07

2007-08-12T15:01:00.001-04:00

(2:00am)

1)Composer: Mayumi Tsuda
Title: Tadpole (1997), F-line (1998)
Album: Microtonal Works (1990-2000) (2001)

2)Performer: Paul Rutherford
Title: Lonescario, Osirac Senol, Er Player Blues Now (1974)
Album: The Gentle Harm of the Bourgeoisie (1976)
Label: Emanem LP 3403

3)Performer: Fritz Hauser (drums) duos with Lauren Newton, Pauline Oliveros, Christy Doran, Stephan Grieder, Rob Cloet, and René Krebs
Album: Zwei (1988) tracks 2-8
Label: hat ART CD 6010

(3:10am)

4)Composer: Andreas Willers
Title: The Private Ear
Album: sound aspects SAS CD 034

5)Composer: Willem Breuker
Title: Ouverture Kleine Amsterdam Rhapsodie (1980)
Performed by Willem Breuker Kollektief
Originally on: BVHAAST 041/2
Played from: BVHAAST CD 9601

6)Composer: Sun Ra
Title: Of Heavenly Things, Nebulae, Dancing in the Sun, The Sun Myth (1965)
Played by Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra
Label: ESP-DISK' 1014

7)Composer: Sofia Gubaidulina
Title: Zehn Präludien für Violoncello solo (1974)
Performed by Julius Berger
Label: Wergo CD WER 6288-2

(4:25am)

8)Composer: Morton Feldman
Title: Four Instruments (1965)
Performed by the Ensemble Avantgarde in 1995
Label: Wergo CD WER 6273-2

9)Composer: Toshio Hosokawa
Title: Landscape I (1992), Vertical Time Study III (1994)
The former performed by the Arditti String Quartet, the latter by Irvine Arditti (violin) and Ichiro Nodaira (piano)
Label: Auvidis; Montaigne Records MO CD 782078

10)Composer: Mauricio Kagel
Title: Zwei Akte (1989), rrrrrrr...: 5 jazzstücke (1982), Blue's Blue (1979).
Label: Disques Montaigne CD 782003

11)Composer: Paul Rutherford
Title: Sequence 72 (1972)
Performed by ISKRA 1912, conducted by Paul Rutherford
Label: Emanem CD 4018

(6:00am)

Host: Marlow Davis

Afternoon New Music 8/7/07

2007-08-07T15:15:00.002-04:00

1)Composer: Anthony Braxton
Title: P-JOS●●4K-D-
Performed by Frederic Rzewski, solo piano
and
2)Composer: Frederic Rzewski
Title: Variations on "No Place to Go But Around"
Performed by Frederic Rzewski, solo piano
Album: First Recordings (1976)
Label: Finnadar SR 9011 0698 LP

3)Performer: Cecil Taylor Unit (C.T. + Jimmy Lyons, alto saxophone & Andrew Cyrille, drums)
Title: Bulu Akisakila Kutala
Album: Akisakila (5/22/73)
Label: Trio Records 2-LP PA-3004-5

4)Perfomer: The Music Improvisation Company
Title: Third Stream Boogaloo, Dragon Path, Packaged Eel, Untitled No. 1 & 2 (all 1970)
Album: ECM LP 1005

5)Performer: Spontaneous Music Ensemble
Title: 1.2. Albert Ayler (1971)
Album: Affinity Records LP AFF 81

6)Performers: Paul Rutherford (trombone, euphonium), Paul Lovens (percussion)
Title: And When I Say Slowly, I Mean As Soon As Possible (11/1976)
Album: Po Torch Records LP PTR/JWD 3

7)Performer: Paul Rutherford, solo trombone
Title: Elaquest
Album: The Gentle Harm of the Bourgeoisie (1976)
Label: Emanem CD 4019

Host: Marlow Davis

Transfigured Night 8/7/07

2007-08-07T15:15:00.001-04:00

1)Performer: Jon Balke with Oslo 13
Title: Stealing Space I/II, Stop, Blic (all 1992)
Album: Nonsentration
Label: ECM CD 1445 (1992)

2)Performer: Fantastic Merlins
Title: Look Around
Album: Look Around (2007)
Label: innova CD 670

3)Composer: Luciano Berio
Performer: Randall Hall, saxophone
Title: Sequenza VIIb
Album: Neither Proud Nor Ashamed (2006)
Label: innova CD 660

4)Composer: Bernard Parmegiani
Title: Rouge-Mort: Thanatos (1987)
Label: INA.GRM 2-CD C 1012-3

5)Composer: Wolfgang Fortner
Title: New Delhi Music (1960)

6)Composer: Klaus Heinrich Stahmer
Title: Aristofaniada (1979)

7)Composer: György Ligeti
Title: Passacaglia Ungherese (1971)

8)Composer: Henri Pousseur
Title: Madrigal II (1961)

(5-8 performed by Prima Vista on "Pro Musica Da Camera" - Thorofon LP MTH 224)

9)Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos
Performer: Konrad Ragossnig, guitar
Title: Chôro No. 1 "Típico brasileiro" (1928), Prélude No. 4 (1940)
Label: Wergo LP 60105

10)Composer: Folke Rabe and Bo Anders Persson
Title: Was??
Label: Wergo LP 60047

11)Composer and Performer: Anthony Braxton
Title: Composition 113 (1983)
Label: Sound Aspects LP 003

12)Composer and Performer: P16.D4
Album: Tionchor (all 1987)
Label: Selektion LP 013

13)Composer: Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
Title: Vermutungen Über Ein Dunkles Haus, Tableau I (1967)
Performed by the Symphony Orchestra of Südwestfunks, Baden-Baden
Label: Wergo LP 60049

Host: Marlow Davis

Transfigured Night 8/2/07

2007-08-02T04:24:00.000-04:00

1)Composer: Maryanne Amacher
Album: Sound Characters: Making The Third Ear
Label: Tzadik

2)Composer: Namanax
Title: Cascading Waves Of Electronic Turbulence
Album: Cascading Waves Of Electronic Turbulence
Label: Relapse Records

3)Composer: P16.D4
Tracks 1-9
Album: Acrid Acme (of) P16.D4
Label: Selektion

4)Composer: Jason Kahn, Norbert Moslang, Gunter Muller, Keiichiro Shibuya, Maria
Album: Signal To Noise Vol. 1
Label: For 4 Ears

5)Composer: Tomas Korber, Christian Weber, Katsura Yamauchi
Album: Signal To Noise Vol. 2
Label: For 4 Ears

Host: Young

Afternoon New Music 8/1/07

2007-08-01T15:37:00.000-04:00

1)Composer: Luciano Berio
Title: Cinque Variazioni (1953); Rounds (1967)
Performed by David Arden, solo piano
Label: New Albion CD 089

2)Composer: Luciano Berio
Title: Sequenza IV for Piano (1966), Sequenza VI for viola (1967), Sequenza X for trumpet in C and piano resonance (1984), Sequenza IX b for alto saxophone (1981)
Album: Sequenzas performed by the Ensemble InterContemporain
Label: Deutsche Grammophon 3-CD 457 038-2

3)Composer: İlhan Mimaroğlu
Title: Piano Music for Performer and Composer; Six Preludes for Magnetic Tape (1966-67)
Album: Electronic Music III
Label: Turnabout Vox LP TV 34177

4)Composer: Bernard Parmegiani
Title: Dedans-Dehors (1977)
Label: INA.GRM 2-CD C 1012-3

5)Composer: John Cage
Title: Imaginary Landscape No. 1 (1939), Imaginary Landscape No. 3 (1942), Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951).
Performed by the Maelström Percussion Ensemble directed by Jan Williams
Label: hat ART CD 6179 (1995)

6)Composer: John Cage
Title: Music for Six (1984)
Performed by the Barton Workshop
Label: ETCETERA records 3-CD KTC 3002

7)Composer: Krzysztof Penderecki
Title: Sonata for violin and piano (1953)
Label: Sony SK CD 66 284

Host: Marlow Davis

Afternoon New Music 7/31/07

2007-07-31T22:31:00.000-04:00

We began Tuesday's ANM program with the entirety of a March 1993 recording for Radio Studio Zürich of «PORTRAITS» composed by Barry Guy and performed by the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra, directed by the composer. This music can be found on INTAKT records 2-CD 35 (1994).

Following that, we heard a significantly earlier incarnation of the LJCO performing a significantly earlier composition by BG, the leader and co-ordinator of the orchestra. «ODE» was performed at Oxford Town Hall, England, April 22, 1972. Due to time constraints, only parts VI "Presence of Mind" and IV "Infinite Divisibility" were played from INCUS records LP 07 (sides 3 and 4).

Besides Guy, five musicians out of the large ensembles performed in both pieces: Paul Rutherford (tb), Evan Parker and Trevor Watts (reeds), Howard Riley (p), and Paul Lytton (d).

To close the program, we heard a Barry Guy chamber bass solo entitled «TOUJOURS ROUGE» from the 1993 MAYA records release "Fizzles" (MCD 9301).

Host: Marlow Davis

Afternoon New Music 7/30/07

2007-07-30T00:38:00.000-04:00

Three hours of François-Bernard Mâche (and a few works in a similar vein)...can you restrain yourself? I began with compositions by Mâche in chronological order:

1. Korwar, for harpsichord, 2-track tape, Op. 25, 1972
2. Kassandra, for 2 oboes (2nd + English horn), clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, trumpet, 2 trombones, 2 pianos, 3 percussion, tape, Op. 33, 1977
3. ; Amorgos, for 2 bassoons, 2 trombones, string quartet, double bass, piano, 2 percussion (any one + electronic organ), tape, Op. 38, 1979
4. Sopiana, for flute, piano, tape ad libitum, Op. 41, 1980
5. Éridan, for string quartet, Op. 57, 1986
6. Moires, forstring quartet, tape, Op. 73, 1994
7. Manuel de résurrection, for mezzo-soprano, 2 samplers, Op. 75, 1998

Many of these recordings came from this INA-GRM disc:

We followed this up with some mp3s of Nicolas Hodges playing selections from Peter Ablinginer's cycle, Voices and Piano.

1. Schygulla
2. Feldman
3. Mao-Tse Tung
4. Apollinaire
5. Brecht

Scores and mp3s are available on-line at the IEM website. Get 'em while they're hot!

Host: Brian Kane

Transfigured Night 7/28/07

2007-07-29T14:59:00.001-04:00

1)Composer: Iannis Xenakis
Title: La Légende d'Eer (diatope) (1978)
Realized at Wesdeutscher Rundfunk Köln
Label: MO CD 782058

2)Composer: Marc Tremblay
Title: Vroum (1997), Conte sous la lune (1991)
Album: Bruit-graffiti (1999)
Label: empreintes DIGITALes IMED 9949

3)Composer: Pauline Oliveros
Title: Lion's Eye (1985)
Performed by the Berkeley Gamelan Ensemble
Label: Deep Listening CD 28 (2006)

4)Composer: Howard Riley
Howard Riley Trio: Riley (piano), Barry Guy (bass), Tony Oxley (percussion, live electronics)
Title: Loops (1974); Recognition (1975)
Album: Overground (2001)
Label: Emanem CD 4054

5)Performer: Blue Universe Quartet
Title: space angel voice, roll then stroll
Label: Cosmic Mechanic CD 01

6)Composer: Pierre Schaeffer
Title: Cinq études de bruits (1948)

7)Composer: Pierre Henry
Title: Écho d'Orphée, pour P. Schaeffer (1988)

8)Composer: Pierre Schaeffer
Title: Masquerage (1952)

(6-8 from L'Œuvre Musicale; Musidisc 292572 (1998))

9)Performers: Cecil Taylor (piano) and Louis Moholo (drums)
Title: The Great Bear (1988)
Album: Remembrance
Label: FMP CD 4

10)Performer: Spontaneous Music Orchestra directed by John Stevens
Title: Sustained Piece (instrumental), One-Two (1973)
Album: Mouthpiece (2000)
Label: Emanem CD 4039

Host: Marlow Davis

Afternoon New Music 7/24/07: Irwin Parness Day

2007-07-24T15:24:00.000-04:00

(selections 1, 2, and 4 from "The New Music 2" VICS LP 1312 (1968))

1)Composer: Pierre Boulez
Title: Sonatine for flute and piano (1946)
Performed by Severino Gazzelloni (flute) and Frederick Rzewski (piano)

2)Composer: Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
Title: Interpolation (mobile for flute 1, 2, & 3)
Performed by Severino Gazzelloni

3)Composer: Arnold Schönberg
Title: Drei Klavierstücken (1909), Funf Klavierstücken (1923)
Performed by Marie-François Bucquet
Album: The Complete Works for Solo Piano
Label: Phillips LP 6500 510

4)Composer: Bruno Maderna
Title: Concerto for oboe and chamber orchestra (1962)
Performed by Lothar Faber (oboe) and the Soloists of the Rome Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bruno Maderna

5)Composer: Egard Varèse
Title: Ionisation (1931), Density 21.5 (1936), Intégrales (1926), Déserts (1954)
Performed by the Columbia Symphony Orchestra Woodwinds, Brass, and Percussion, conducted by Robert Craft
Album: The Varèse Album
Label: Columbia 2-LP MG 31078

6)Composer: John Cage
Title: Variations IV (1963)
Performed by John Cage, assisted by David Tudor
Album: From a live performance at the Feigen-Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles
Label: Everest LP 3132

7)Composer: Olivier Messiaen
Title: Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum (1964)
Groupe Instrumental a Percussion de Strasbourg, Orchestre du Domaine Musical (conducted by Pierre Boulez)
Label: CBS LP 32 11 0048

8)Composer: Morton Feldman
Title: Vertical Thoughts IV (1963)
Doris Hays, solo piano
Album: The Adoration of the Clash
Label: Finnadar LP SR 2-720

Host: Marlow Davis

Afternoon New Music 7/23/07

2007-07-23T11:12:00.000-04:00

Chamber music, for a muggy day in New York City.

We began with this album of Enno Poppe, listened to in its entirety.

1)Composer: Enno Poppe
Album: Chamber Music
Label: Col Legno

Then we moved on to Richard Barrett. After playing so much Furt over the past couple of weeks, it was just about time to hear some of his chamber music. We heard almost the entire disc, excepting the final track for electric guitar and live electronics.

2)Composer: Richard Barrett
Album: Transmission
Label:

Finally, some Elliott Carter. The theme was chamber music -- need I say more?

3)Composer:Elliott Carter
Album: Quintets and Voices
Label: Mode

We heard the Quintet for Piano and String Qt., Tempo e Tempi, and a few solo pieces.

Host: Brian Kane

Transfigured Night 7/21/07

2007-07-21T14:35:00.000-04:00

1)Composer: Edison Denisov
Title: Symphonie (1987)
Performed by the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Daniel Barenboim
Label: Erato CD 2922 - 45600 - 2

2)Composer: Luigi Nono
Title: guai ai gelidi mostri (1983)
Performed by the Ensemble Recherche conducted by André Richard
Label: Montaigne CD 782047

3)Composer: Luigi Nono
Title: A Pierre. Dell'azzurro Silenzio, Inquietum (1985)
Performers: Roberto Fabbriciani (flute), Ciro Scarponi (clarinet)
Label: Dischi Ricordi CRMCD 1003

4)Composer: Luigi Nono
Title: Post-Prae-Ludium Per Donau (1987)
Performed by Giancarlo Schiaffini (tuba), Alvise Vidolin (live electronics)
Label: Dischi Ricordi CRMCD 1003

5)Composer: Iannis Xénakis
Title: Pléïades (1978)
Performed by Les Percussions de Strasbourg in 1987
Label: Harmonia Mundi CD 1905185

6)Composer: Iannis Xénakis
Title: Kraanerg (1968)
Performed by the ST-X Ensemble in 1996
Label: Asphodel/Sombient CD 0975

Host: Marlow Davis

Transfigured Night 7/19

2007-07-19T13:22:00.000-04:00

1) Human Noise Congress #4
Hybrid Music Productions

2) Composer: K2
Album: Metal Dysplasia
Label: 1996 Cheeses International

3) Composer: Hiroshi-Ultra
Album: Sonic Vocalizer
Label: YJ

4) Composer: Pneumershonic
Tracks: Hippy Freakout, The Mark Of The Beast
Album: Frequencies Of The Beast
Label: In Poly Sons

5) Timbre

6) Composer: Repeat
Album: Temporary Contemporary
Label: For 4 Ears

Host: Young

Afternoon New Music 7/18/07

2007-07-18T15:10:00.000-04:00

1)Composer: Mario Davidovsky
Title: Synchronism 3 for cello and electronic sounds (1965)

2)Composer: Max Schubel
Title: Omphaloskepsis for unaccompanied cello (1964)

3)Composer: Robert Dennis
Title: Improvisation and Variations for cello and piano (1962)

(selections 1-3 performed by David Moore, cello. Andrew Thomas, piano, accompanies on 3. Played from Opus One, number 6 LP)

4)Performers: David Holland (cello) and Derek Bailey (guitar)
Title: Improvised Piece III
Album: Improvisations for cello and guitar
Label: ECM 1013 ST (1971)

5)Performer: The Globe Unity Orchestra
Title: Quasar, Phase A, Phase B (free improvisations rec. 1982)
Label: Japo LP 60039

6)Composer: Iannis Xenakis
Title: Nomos Gamma (1968)
Performed by the Orchestre Philharmonique de l'O.R.T.F. conducted by Charles Bruck

7)Composer: Iannis Xenakis
Title: Jonchais (1977)
Performed by the Orchestre National de France conducted by Michel Tabachnik

(6 & 7 from Erato Records LP STU 71513)

8)Composer: Harry Partch
Title: Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales (1946)

9)Composer: Dean Drummond
Title: Then or Never (1984)

10)Composer: John Cage
Title: Haikai for flute and zoomoozophone (1984)

11)Composer: Joan La Barbara
Title: Silent Scroll (1982)

(8-11 performed by Newband. Mode CD 18; 1990)

12)Composer: John Cage
Title: First Construction (in metal) (1939), Second Construction (1940), Imaginary Landscape No. 2 (1942), Amores (1943), Third Construction (1941)
Performed by Quatuor Hêlios in 1989
Label: Wergo CD 6203-2

Host: Marlow Davis

Afternoon New Music 7/17/07

2007-07-17T15:35:00.000-04:00

Composer: Karl-Birger Blomdahl
1)Title: Five Italian Songs (1954)
Performed by AnnSofi Rosenberg (mezzo-soprano) and Hans Leygraf (piano)

2)Title: Prelude and Allegro for strings (1949)
Performed by the Stockholm Philharmonic conducted by Ulf Björlin

3)Title: Game for 8 (choreographic suite) (1962)
Performed by the Stockholm Philharmonic conducted by Ulf Björlin

(1-3 played from Angel Records LP 36576)

4)Composer: Roberto Gerhard
Title: Collages (Symphony No. 3 for electronic tape and orchestra) (1960)
Performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra cond. Frederik Prausnitz

5)Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies
Title: Revelation and Fall (for soprano and 16 instrumentalists) (1966)
Performed by the Pierrot Players conducted by the composer; Mary Thomas - soprano

(4 & 5 played from Angel Records LP 36558)

6)Composer: Milton Babbitt
Title: Arie da Capo (1974)
Performed by the Group for Contemporary Music conducted by Harvey Sollberger

7)Composer: Donald Martino
Title: Triple Concerto (1977)
Performed by the Group for Contemporary Music conducted by Harvey Sollberger

(6 & 7 played from Nonesuch LP H-71372)

8)Composer: Michel Decoust
Title: Relevé d'Esquisse (1965-1981)
Performers: Irène Jarsky (voice), Jean Koerner (piano), David Simpson (cello), Jérôme Naulais (trombone), Jean-Noël Crocq (clarinets); conducted by Guy Reibel
Label: Harmonia Mundi LP HMC 5152 (1985)

9)Composer: Dieter Schnebel
Title: AMN from «für stimmen (...missa est)»
Performed by the Schola Cantorum Stuttgart conducted by Clytus Gottwald
Label: Deutsche Grammophon LP 137010

Host: Marlow Davis
with thanks to Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 7/16/07

2007-07-16T18:00:00.000-04:00

The theme is improvising collectives from the late 60s. Of course the AMM album is far more recent, not to mention that AMM and MEV are still active, but -- what the heck -- it's a theme for a show.

1) Gruppe Nuova Consonanza

I played this one from beginning to end -- and it was most enjoyable.

Album: Improvisationen
Label: Deutshce Grammophon - Avantgarde

2)AMM
Tracks: Generative Themes i-v
Album: Generative Themes
Label: Matchless

3) MEV (Musica Elettronica Viva)

A live set recorded in London, 1968. This comes from a very strange homemade CD MEV member, Alan Bryant. According to his liner notes the recording was originally in Cornelius Cardew's hands.

4)MEV
A brief excerpt from
Album: Leave the City
Label: Get Back

Host: Brian Kane

Transfigured Night 7/14/07

2007-07-14T02:05:00.000-04:00

1)Composer: Albert Ayler
Title: A Y
Album: New York Eye and Ear Control (1964)
Label: ESP CD 1016-2

2)Composer: Fred Van Hove
Title: Florence Nightingale
Performers: Peter Brötzmann, Albert Mangelsdorff, Fred Van Hove, Han Bennink
Album: Elements (1971)
Label: FMP LP 0030

3)Composer: Peter Brötzmann
Title: twee(D)dldum, eine kleine marschmusik
Album: Brötzmann Solo (1976)
Label: FMP LP 0360

4)Performers: Katrin Scholl, Daniel Erismann, Hans Koch, Fred Frith, Peter Kowald, Lucas Niggli
Title: Khartum, Hippopotamus, Nil
Album: Nil (1995)
Label: Unit CD 4083

5)Performer: The Misha Lobko Sextet
Title: Ritual I - Tamanika Sonya
Album: Rituals (1985)
Label: Leo Records LP 141

6)Performers: Toshinori Kondo & Paul Lovens
Title: The Last Supper (1980)
Label: Po Torch Records PTR/JWD 9 (LP)

7)Performers: Evan Parker, Paul Rutherford, Dave Holland, Paul Lovens
Title: to meet (1976)
Album: the ericle of Dolphi
Label: Po Torch Records PTR/JWD 13

8)Performer: Spontaneous Music Orchestra (dir. John Stevens)
Title: Plus Equals (1975), SMO at LTC (1974)
Album: Plus Equals
Label: Emanem CD 4062

Host: Marlow Davis

Transfigured Night / Audio Gumbo 7/12/07, 1-5am

2007-07-12T02:43:00.000-04:00

1)Composer: Graham Haynes
Title: Standing Before Time/ 2nd Quadrant
Album: Full Circle
Label: RKM

2)Composer: Sean Noonan/ Brewed By Noon
Title: [#5]
Album: Stories to Tell
Label: Songlines

3)Composer: TomChess & the LoveDogs
Title: 19 Times in 17 Years
Album: In the Beautiful Future
Label: Foot Jumbo

3)Composer: On Ka'a Davis
Title: Yea Yea / I Ain't Scared
Album: This is Djuke Music!
Label: On Mu Music

3)Composer: Suite Crude
Title: Ethio-Plutonia Strut
Album: Space-Age JazzPloitation
Label: Cosmo Elliptic

3)Composer: Sun Ra & the Omniverse Jet Set Arkestra
Title: Fate in a Pleasant Mood / Strange World-Black Myth / Out of This World
Album: God's Private Eye (12/31/80 Detroit)
Label: His Story

3)Composer: Miles Davis
Title: Go Ahead John / Konda
Album: Complete Jack Johnson Sessions
Label: Columbia Legacy

3)Composer: Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
Title: There is a Place (excerpt)
Album: Hot N Heavy
Label: Delmark

3)Composer: Robin Eubanks & EB3
Title: Blues for Jimi Hendrix
Album: Live Vol.1
Label: RKM

3)Composer: Jean-Paul Bourelly
Title: Muddy Waters (blues for muddy)
Album: Saints and Sinners
Label: DIW

3)Composer: Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention
Title: Little House I Used to Live In
Album: Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Label: Bizarre / Ryko

3)Composer: Mushroom with Eddie Gale
Title: Peace / I Don't Need to Fight, to Prove I'm Right - I Don't Need to be Forgiven
Album: Joint Happening
Label: Hyena

3)Composer: Graham Haynes
Title: 1st Quadrant / Quarter Circle
Album: Full Circle
Label: RKM

3)Composer: Robert Wyatt
Title: Gharbzadegi
Album: Old Rottenhat
Label: Gramavision

3)Composer: Nick Russo + 11
Title: Mitzvah
Album: Ro
Label: nickrusso.org

3)Composer: TomChess & the LoveDogs
Title: Fish and Paper Messages
Album: In the Beautiful Future
Label: Foot Jumbo

3)Composer: On Ka'a Davis / X-Ray Search Light Project
Title: Djuke Wonderland
Album: Djuke Wonderland
Label: On Mu Music

3)Composer: M'Lumbo
Title: Invisible Empire
Album: Jaz
Label: MLumbo

3)Composer: [various/ Harriet Tubman thru Ikue Mori
Title: [various from disc 2]
Album: State of the Union 2.001
Label: EMF

Artist: Momo Wandel Soumah
Album: Afro Swing
Title: Felenko Yefe

Host: Charles Blass

Afternoon New Music 7/10/07

2007-07-10T16:29:00.001-04:00

1)Performers: Lol Coxhill (soprano saxophone) and Steve Miller (piano)
Title: Chocolate Field (Miller)

2)Performers: Lol Coxhill ('Messy phones' & Wurlitzer percussion with Steve Miller) and Richard Sinclair (bass)
Title: Maggots (Coxhill)

3)Performer: Lol Coxhill (soprano sax, with children, tapes, and motors)
Title: Bath 72 (Coxhill)

4)Performer: Lol Coxhill (soprano sax)
Title: Wimbledon Baths (Coxhill)

(Selections 1-4 from Cuneiform Rune CD 253 (2007); recordings made 1971/72)

5)Composers and Performers: Gebhard Ullmann, Chris Dahlgren, Art Lande
Title: Blaue Nixe (Teil 1 - Teil 7) (2003-4)
Album: Die Blaue Nixe
Label: Between the Lines 71216 (2006)

6)Composer: Sergio Barroso
Title: Tablao (1990)
Album: Délirantes
Label: empreintes DIGITALes 9629 (1996)

7)Composer: Robert Normandeau
Title: Éclats de Voix (1991)
Album: Tangram
Label: empreintes DIGITALes 9419 (1994)

8)Composer: Négligé - electronic underwear
Title: Trio Invernale, Das Fraktal Trio, Waldorfsalat, Pränatal Inferno, Im Tal der Gakki
Album: Pränatal Inferno (1991)
Label: Archegon CD 1001

9)Composer: P16.D4
Title: 10 up / 3 down; Sabine mit Helmut...; ... their coffin-shaped clock; Das Lamm, der Dolch; Acrid addled adze; Half cut cows; Interfaces
Album: Acrid Acme (of) P16.D4 (1989)
Label: Selektion CD 002

10)Composer: P16.D4 & Merzbow
Title: Zur Genese der Halbbildung
Album: Acrid Acme (of) P16.D4 (1989)
Label: Selektion CD 002

11)Performers: Peter Brötzmann, Fred Van Hove, Han Bennink
Title: For Donaueschingen ever, Konzert für 2 klarinetten, Nr. 7, Wir haben uns folgendes überlegt, Paukenhändschen im blaubeerenwald
Album: FMP LP 0130

Host: Marlow Davis

Afternoon New Music 7/09/07

2007-07-10T09:01:00.000-04:00

1)Composers/Perfomers: George Lewis, Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell
Tracks: Scrape, Bound, Dramaturns
Album: Streaming
Label: Pi Recordings

2)Composer: FURT (Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer)
Tracks: Mice, Sad Fantasy
Album: Dead or Alive
Label: Psi

3)Composer: Kenneth Gaburo
Tracks: Fat Millie's Lament, The Wasting of Lucrecetzia, For Harry, Lemon Drops, Dante's Joynte, Re-run, Hiss
Album: Tape Play
Label: Pogus

Host: Brian Kane

7.7.7 Gumbo (Transfigured Night)

2007-07-07T03:47:00.000-04:00

1)Performer/ Producer: Material (Composer: Zawinul/Johnson)
Title: Cucumber Slumber (Fluxus Mix)
Album: Hallucination Engine
Label: Axiom

2)Composer: Joseph Jarman/ Don Moye
Title: Zulu Village
Album: Earth Passage-Density
Label: Black Saint

3)Composer: Sun Ra
Title: The Beginning
Album: We Are in the Future
Label: Savoy

4)Composer: Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber
Title: Jeremiah the Gallic/ Held in Faith/ All Fall Down
Album: Not April in Paris
Label: Trugroid

5)Composer: Jon Hassell
Title: Darbari II
Album: Magic Realism
Label: EG

6)Composer: Fred Frith
Title: Ahead in the Sand
Album: Speechless
Label: Ralph

7)Composer: Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser
Title: Everyday Objects/ The Kirghiz Light
Album: Who Needs Enemies?
Label: Metalanguage

8)Composer: Billy Martin & Socket
Title: Purification of Wounds II/ Magic Baths
Album: January 14 & 15 2005
Label: AMT

9)Composer: Nam June Paik
Title: Duett Paik/ Takis (excerpt)
Album: Works 1958.1979
Label: Sub Rosa

10)Composer: Fredy Studer & Robyn Schulkowsky
Title: Duo1 (excerpt)
Album: Duos
Label: For 4 Ears

11)Composer: Fred Frith/ Bob Ostertag/ Phil Minton
Title: Voice of America (excerpt)
Album: Voice of America
Label: Rift

12)Composer: P. Schaeffer
Title: Objets lies
Album: Musique Concrete
Label: Candide

13)Composer: F.B.Mache
Title: Terre de Feu, 2nd version
Album: Musique Concrete
Label: Candide

14)Composer: M. Philippot
Title: Etude III
Album: Musique Concrete
Label: Candide

15)Composer: Eliane Radigue
Title: Mila's Journey Inspired By A Dream (excerpt)
Album: Mila's Journey Inspired By A Dream
Label: Lovely

16)Composer: Henry Kaiser
Title: It's A Wonderful Life (excerpt)
Album: It's A Wonderful Life
Label: Metalanguage

17)Composer: Dariush Dolat-Shahi
Title: Zahab
Album: Electronic music, tar and sehtar
Label: Folkways

18)Composer: James Blood Ulmer
Title: After Dark
Album: After Dark
Label: DIW

19)Composer: James Blood Ulmer
Title: Opening/ Arena (excerpt)
Album: Harmolodic Guitar with Strings
Label: DIW

20)Composer: McCoy Tyner (w/ Alice Coltrane)
Title: His Blessings
Album: Extensions
Label: Blue Note

21)Composer: Sun Ra Quartet
Title: Moon People
Album: New Steps
Label: Horo

22)Composer: Sun Ra Arkestra
Title: Love On a Faraway Planet
Album: Hours After
Label: Black Saint

Host: Charles Blass

Afternoon New Music 7/3/07

2007-07-03T16:44:00.000-04:00

Composer: John Cage
1)Two Pieces (1935)

2)Bacchanale (1940)

3)The Perilous Night (1944)

4)Prelude for Meditation (1944)

5)Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947)

Composer: Morton Feldman
6)Intersection 3 for Piano (1953)

7)Extensions 4 for Three Pianos (1952-4)

8)Two Pieces for Two Pianos (1954)

9)Structures for String Quartet (1951)

10)Three Pieces for String Quartet (1954-6)

(Selections 1-10 taken from NWR 2-CD 80664-2 (2007) . 1-5 by Cage; 6-10 by Feldman)

11)Composer: Christian Wolff
Title: Duo for Violinist and Pianist (1961)
Performer: The Barton Workshop
Album: Mode CD 69 (1998)

Composer: Stefan Wolpe
12)Form for Piano (1959)

13)Seven Pieces for Three Pianos (1951)

14)Form IV: Broken Sequences for Piano (1969)

15)Piece for Two Instrumental Units (1963)

(Selections 12-15 from Montaigne CD 782048 "for Stefan Wolpe"; James Avery solo piano on 12, 14; + Eun Ju Kim and Robert Levin on 13; Ensemble Recherche performs 15)

Composer: Christian Wolff
16)Title: Piano Trio (1985)
and
17)Title: Piano Song (I am a Dangerous Woman) (1983)
on
Performer: The Barton Workshop
Album: Mode CD 69 (1998)

18)Composer: David Tudor
Title: Rainforest version 1 (1968)
Performer: David Tudor and Takehisa Kosugi
Album: Mode CD 64 (1998)

19)Composer: John Cage
Title: Ryoanji (1984)
Performer: Joëlle Léandre
Album: Montaigne CD 782076 (1996)

Host: Marlow Davis

Afternoon New Music 7/02/07

2007-07-02T06:00:00.000-04:00

1)Performers: Evan Parker, George Lewis, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton
Titles: Drift and Shuffle
Album: Hook, Drift and Shuffle
Label: Psi

We spent part of the show talking to Ha-Yang Kim about composing, improvising and her new album coming out at the end of the month.

2)Composer: Ha-Yang Kim
Title: Various Tracks
Album: Ama
Label: Tzadik

3)Composer: Furt (Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer)
Title: about 70% of the album
Album: OMNIVM
Label: psi

Host: Brian Kane

Transfigured Night 6/30/07: Aspects of Cecil Taylor in Berlin 1988

2007-06-30T02:14:00.000-04:00

1)Performer: Cecil Taylor Solo
Title: Reinforced Concrete (1988)
Album: In East-Berlin
Label: FMP CD 13

2)Performer: Cecil Taylor European Orchestra
Title: Involution / Evolution (1988)
Album: Alms / Tiergarten (Spree)
Label: FMP CD 8

3)Performer: Cecil Taylor European Orchestra
Title: Weight - Breath - Sounding Trees (1988)
Album: Alms / Tiergarten (Spree)
Label: FMP CD 9

4)Performer: Cecil Taylor and Günter Sommer
Title: PUUC (1988)
Album: In East-Berlin
Label: FMP CD 14

Host: Marlow Davis

Afternoon New Music 6/25/07

2007-06-25T18:00:00.000-04:00

A show dedicated to sampling some new releases from the Psi label.

1)Composer: LAWRENCE CASSERLEY / SIMON DESORGHER
Album: "Music from ColourDome"
Label: Psi

2)Composer: FRANÇOIS HOULE / EVAN PARKER / BENOîT DELBECQ
Album: "La Lumière de Pierres"
Label: Psi

3)Composer: BARK!
Album: "Contraption" (2004)
Label: Psi

4)Composer: Various
Album: "Free Zone Appleby 2006"
Label: Psi

5)Composer: fORCH
Album: "spin networks"
Label: Psi

Host: Brian Kane

Live Constructions - An Hour With Brian Kane

2007-06-24T22:00:00.000-04:00

An hour of electronic music, improvised live in the studio. Visit Brian's website for more info.

Host: Marlow Davis

Transfigured Night 6/21/07

2007-06-21T01:21:00.000-04:00

1)Composer: Morton Feldman
Title: Piano and String Quartet (1985)
Performer: Kronos Quartet and Aki Takahashi (p)
Label: Elektra/nonesuch CD 9 79320-2

2)Composer: Luigi Nono
Title: Fragmente-Stille, An Diotima (1979-80)
Performer: Arditti String Quartet
Label: Montaigne CD 789005

3)Performer: Paul Giger
Title: Seven Scenes from Labyrinthos
Album: Schattenwelt (1993)
Label: ECM New Series 1487

4)Composer: Mauricio Kagel
Title: Variété (1976-7)
Performer: Ensemble Modern (cond. Mauricio Kagel)
Label: Montaigne CD 782013

5)Composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Title: Klavierstück XIII
Performer: Bernhard Wambach
Label: Koch CD 310 015 H1 (1989)

6)Composer: Yves Daoust
Title: Bruits
Album: Bruits (2001)
Label: empreintes DIGITALes CD 0156

Host: Marlow Davis

Afternoon New Music 6/20/07

2007-06-20T15:08:00.000-04:00

1)Performer: Marilyn Crispell
Title: Still Womb of Light, You Don't Know What Love Is, Labyrinths
Album: Labyrinths (1987)
Label: Victo LP 06

2)Performer: Alexander von Schlippenbach
Title: Prelude to a Magic Afternoon of Miss Yellow Sunshine, Niminy - Piminy, Payan
Album: Payan (1972)
Label: enja LP 2012

3)Performer: Iskra 1903
Title: 6 Improvisations
Album: Free Improvisation
Label: Deutsche Grammophon 2740 105

4)Composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Title: Es und Aufwärts
Album: Aus den Sieben Tagen (1968)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon LP 2530 255

5)Composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Title: Intensität
Album: Aus den Sieben Tagen (1968)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon LP 2530 256

Host: Marlow Davis

Afternoon New Music 6/19/07

2007-06-19T14:50:00.000-04:00

1)Composer: Pierre Henry
Title: L'homme à la caméra (selections)
Label: Mantra CD 092 (1994)

2)Composer: Pierre Henry
Title: Variations for a Door and a Sigh (selections)
Label: Limelight LP 86059

3)Composer: Gilles Gobeil
Title: Derrière la porte le plus éloignée
Album: ...dans le silence de la nuit...
Label: empreintes DIGITALes CD 0155

4)Composer: Jack Schrage
Title: Spring Sounds, Subsounds
Album: Songs you've never heard before
Label: Musik Werks LP 1 (1979)

5)Composer: Bernard Fort
Title: L'impatience des limites (1992-3)
Album: Lumière dans la nuit
Label: empreintes DIGITALes CD 0371

6)Composer/Performer: The Black Field
Title: Knots, Latitude, Code, Spherics
Album: PGR/Thessalonians (1986)
Label: Silent Records LP 8905

7)Performers: Peter Brötzmann (reeds) & Han Bennink (drums)
Title: No. 4-6
Album: Still Quite Popular After All Those Years (2004)
Label: eremite

8)Performers: Bernhard Arndt (piano) & Manfred Kussatz (drums)
Title: Pianodrumano, Landscape with Errors
Album: Working (1980)
Label: FMP LP 0750

9)Performers: John Stevens (percussion/cornet) & Evan Parker (soprano saxophone)
Title: 19.11, 19.44
Album: The Longest Night (Vol. 1)
Label: Ogun LP 120 (1977)

10)Performers: Peter Kowald (bass), Leo Smith (trumpet, etc.), Günter Sommer (drums)
Title: Unlost Time
Album: Break the Shells (1981)
Label: FMP LP 0920

Host: Marlow Davis

Transfigured Night 6/16/07 - Tony Oxley Focus

2007-06-16T02:18:00.000-04:00

1)Performers: Tony Oxley Sextet
Title: Never Before or Again (1972)
Label: Incus LP 8

2)Performer: Tony Oxley Solo
Title: East of Sheffield, Southeast of Sheffield, P.P.1 (1971, 1973, 1975)
Label: Incus LP 8

3)Performer: Tony Oxley Quintet
Album: The Baptised traveller (1969)
Label: Sony/Columbia 494438 2 (1999)

4)Performer: Tony Oxley Sextet
Album: Four Compostions for Sextet (1970)
Label: Sony/Columbia 494437 2 (1999)

5)Performer: Tony Oxley Celebration Orchestra feat. Bill Dixon
Album: The Enchanted Messenger (1994)
Label: Soul Note (1996)

6)Performers: Evan Parker (saxophone), Han Bennink (percussion)
Album: The Grass is Greener (2000)
Label: Psi CD 02.02

7)Performer: Derek Bailey
Title: Six Fairly Early Pieces (1971)
Album: Fairly Early with Postscripts
Label: Emanem CD 4027

Host: Marlow Davis

Transfigured Night, 6/12/07

2007-06-12T12:45:00.000-04:00

1)Composer: Oliver Lake
Titles: Electric Freedom, Eriee
Album: Ntu: Point from which Creation Begins (1971)
Label: Arista/Freedom LP

2)Composer: John Eaton
Title: Mass (1970), Concert for Solo Clarinet (1961)
Album: John Eaton: Mass, Blind Man's Cry, Concert for Solo Clarinet
Label: CRI LP 296 (1972)

3)Composer: Anthony Braxton
Title: 73 Degrees Kelvin
Album: Wildflowers: The NY Loft Jazz Sessions (5/1976), Disc 1
Label: Knit CD

4)Composer: Michael Jackson (gtr)
Title: Clarity 2
Album: Wildflowers: The NY Loft Jazz Sessions (May 1976), Disc 2
Label: Knit CD
Host:

5)Composer: Ahmed Abdullah
Title: Blue Phase
Album: Wildflowers: The NY Loft Jazz Sessions (May 1976), Disc 2
Label: Knit CD

6)Composer: Hamiet Bluiett
Title: Tranquil Beauty
Album: Wildflowers: The NY Loft Jazz Sessions (May 1976), Disc 2
Label: Knit CD

7)Composer: Julius Hemphill
Title: Pensive
Album: Wildflowers: The NY Loft Jazz Sessions (May 1976), Disc 2
Label: Knit CD

8)Composer: William Russell
Title: Three Dance Movements (1933)
Album: Concert Percussion for Orchestra
Label: Time LP S8000

9)Composer: Henry Cowell
Title: Ostinato Pianissimo (1934)
Album: Concert Percussion for Orchestra
Label: Time LP S8000

10)Composer: William Russell
Title: Three Cuban Pieces (1939)
Album: Concert Percussion for Orchestra
Label: Time LP S8000

11)Composer: William Russell
Title: Three Dance Movements (1933)
Album: Concert Percussion for Orchestra
Label: Time LP S8000

12)Composer: John Cage and Lou Harrison
Title: Double Music (1941)
Album: Concert Percussion for Orchestra
Label: Time LP S8000

13)Composer: Joelle Leandre and Mark Nauseef
Title: Evident (Sections 1, 5, 8, 9)
Album: Evident (2002)
Label: 482 Music CD

14)Composer: Otomo Yoshihide and Voice Crack
Title: Sections 3-5
Album: Bits, Bots, and Signs (2000)
Label: 482 Music CD

15)Composer: Akira Miyoshi
Title: Sonata (1958)
Album: Japanese Piano Music (Masa K. Fukui, pno)
Label: Spectrum LP

16)Composer: Steve Lacy
Title: Quirks, Bud's Brother, Capers
Album: NY Capers and Quirks (1979)
Label: Hat Hut CD

Host: Jordan Paul

Afternoon New Music 6/11/07

2007-06-11T22:29:00.001-04:00

1)Composer: Peter Brötzmann
Performer: Peter Brötzmann Octet
Title: Machine Gun (2nd & 3rd takes)
Album: Machine Gun (1968)
Label: Free Music Production CD 24 (1990)

2)Performers: Evan Parker (saxes) & Agustí Fernández (piano)
Title: Part (III, V, VII)
Album: Tempranillo (1995)
Label: NCM CD 4

3)Performers: Cecil Taylor (piano) & Tony Oxley (drums)
Title: Leaf Palm Hand
Album: Leaf Palm Hand (1988)
Label: FMP CD 6

4)Composer: Mauricio Kagel
Title: Transición II (1958-9)
Album: Kagel
Label: Mode CD 127 (2003)

5)Composer: Luciano Berio
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra (cond. Luciano Berio) (Bruno Canino & Antonio Ballista - pianos)
Title: Concerto for Two Pianos

6)Composer: György Ligeti
Title: Atmosphéres
Performer: New York Philharmonic (cond. Leonard Bernstein)

7)Composer: Morton Feldman
Title: Out of "Last Pieces"
Performer: New York Philharmonic (cond. Leonard Bernstein)

Host: Marlow Davis

Afternoon New Music 6/5/07

2007-06-05T16:55:00.000-04:00

1)Composer: Julio Estrada
Title: Canto Mnémico (1973), Canto Alterno (1978), Yuunohui’se (1989)
Performer: Arditti String Quartet
Album: Chamber Music for Strings (1995)
Label: Montaigne CD 782056

2)Performers: Raymond Strid (drums), Ken Vandermark (reeds)
Title: Tuting, Rackarbajsare
and
3)Performers: Sten Sandell (piano), Ken Vandermark (reeds)
Title: Reeds and Hammers (I-III)
on
Album: Two Days in December (2002)
Label: Wobblyrail CD 012

4)Performers: Joëlle Léandre (bass & vocal), Mark Nauseef (percussion)
Title: Evident (5-6)
Album: Evident (2002)
Label: 482 Music CD 1024

5)Performers: John Edwards (bass), Mark Sanders (percussion)
Title: “Peering,” “Pouring,” “Parting”
Album: Nisus Duets (2002)
Label: Emanem CD 4094

6)Performers: Agustí Fernández (piano), Mats Gustafsson (tenor & baritone saxophones)
Title: Critical Mass
Album: Critical Mass (2004)
Label: Psi CD 05.06

7)Performers: Veryan Weston (piano), Lol Coxhill (soprano saxophone)
(Tracks 3-7)
Album: Boundless (1998)
Label: Emanem CD 4021

8)Performers: Marilyn Crispell & Irène Schweitzer
Title: Segment (2-4)
Album: Overlapping Hands: Eight Segments (1991)
Label: Free Music Production CD 30

9)Performers: Bill Dixon (trumpet & piano) & Tony Oxley (drums & percussion)
Title: Papyrus # 2
Album: Papyrus vol. 2 (1999)
Label: Soul Note CD 121338-2

Host: Marlow Davis

Afternoon New Music 6/4/07

2007-06-04T15:07:00.000-04:00

1)Composer: Milton Babbitt
Title: Tableaux (1973), Reflections (1974), Canonical Form (1983)
Performer: Robert Taub, Piano
Album: Piano Works
Label: harmonia mundi (1986)

2)Composer: Luigi Nono
Title: A Carlo Scarpa (1984), A Pierre (1985)
Album: Luigi Nono
Label: Edition RZ

3)Composer: György Ligeti
Title: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1985-8)
Album: Boulez Conducts Ligeti
Label: Deutsche Grammophon (1994)

4)Composer: Elliott Carter
Title: Duo (1974)
Performer: Rolf Schulte, Violin; Martin Goldray, Piano
Album: Eight Compositions (1948-1993)
Label: Bridge (1994)

5)Composer: Earle Brown
Title: Event: Synergy II (1967/8)
Performer: Ensemble Avantgarde (cond. by Earle Brown)
Album: Synergy
Label: hatART CD 6177 (1995)

6)Composer: Earle Brown
Title: Available Forms I (1961)
and
7)Composer: Henri Pousseur
Title: Rimes pour différentes sources sonores (1958-9)
on
Performer: Rome Symphony Orchestra (cond. by Bruno Maderna)
Album: The New Music
Label: RCA Victrola LP 1239

8)Composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Title: Sonatine (1951)
Performer: Saschko Gawriloff, Violin; Aloys Kontarsky, Piano
Album: Deutsche Grammophon LP 2530-827 (1977)

9)Composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Title: Kontra-Punkte (1953)
Performer: Rome Symphony Orchestra (cond. by Bruno Maderna)
Album: The New Music
Label: RCA Victrola LP 1239

10)Composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Title: Spiel (1951)
Performer: Sinfonie-Orchester des Südwestfunks, Baden-Baden (cond. by Karlheinz Stockhausen) (1973 perf.)
Album: Deutsche Grammophon LP 2530-827 (1977)

Host: Marlow Davis

Transfigured Night 6/2/07

2007-06-02T02:44:00.000-04:00

1)Artist: Yuji Takahashi
Title: Yubi-Tomyo
Album: Finger Light
Label: Tzadik (1995)

2)Artist: Marilyn Crispell
Title: Archaic Visions Pt.1, Love, Rhythms Hung in Undrawn Sky
Album: Rhythms Hung in Undrawn Sky
Label: Leo (1983)

3)Artist: Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, Tony Oxley
Title: B + T + C
Album: Live at "Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville"
Label: Victo (2002)

4)Artist: Anthony Braxton
Title: 5 Compositions; 'Round 'Bout Midnight, Giant Steps
Album: Solo (Pisa) 1982
Label: Golden Years of New Jazz (2007)

5)Artist: Henry Grimes and Rashied Ali
Title: Going to the Ritual
Album: Going to the Ritual
Label: (Recorded at WCKR 3/20/07)

6)Artist: Peter Brotzmann
Album: Die Like A Dog
Label: Free Music Production (1994)

Host: Marlow Davis

Afternoon New Music 5/29/07: Iannis Xenakis (5/29/22-2/4/01)

2007-05-31T14:29:00.000-04:00

All Compositions by Iannis Xenakis

Title: Metastasis
Date: 1953-4
Performer: French National Radio Orchestra (directed by Maurice Le Roux)

Title: Pithoprakta
Date: 1955-6
Performer: French National Radio Orchestra (directed by Maurice Le Roux)

Title: Achorripsis
Date: 1956-7
Performer: Paris Instrumental Ensemble for Contemporary Music (conducted by Konstantin Simonovitch)

Title: Concret PH
Date: 1958
Performer: Xenakis on 4-channel tape

Title: Herma
Date: 1960
Performer: Claude Helffer - Solo Piano

Title: Eonta
Date: 1963
Performer: Paris Instrumental Ensemble for Contemporary Music (conducted by Konstantin Simonovitch; Yuji Takahashi - Solo Piano)

Title: ST/4
Date: 1962
Performer: Arditti String Quartet

Title: Nomos Alpha
Date: 1966
Performer: Rohan de Saram - Solo Cello

Title: Synaphai
Date: 1969
Performer: New Philharmonia Orchestra (conducted by Elgar Howarth; Geoffrey Douglas Madge - Solo Piano)

Title: Aurora
Date: 1971
Performer: New Philharmonia Orchestra (conducted by Elgar Howarth)

Title: Mists
Date: 1980
Performer: Claude Helffer - Solo Piano

Title: Tetras
Date: 1983
Performer: Arditti String Quartet

Title: Akea
Date: 1986
Performer: Claude Helffet + Arditti String Quartet

Title: Rebonds "B" & "A"
Date: 1987-9
Performer: Robert McEwan - Percussion Solo

Title: Bohor
Date: 1962
Performer: Xenakis Tape Piece

Host: Marlow Davis

Afternoon New Music

2007-05-16T15:39:00.000-04:00

1)Artist: Helena Gough
Album: with what remain
Label: entr'acte

2)Artist: Martin Clarke
Album: Slides
Label: oem records

3)Artist: Pierre Alexander Tremblay
Album: Alter Ego
Label: empreinte DIGITales

4) [iks]
Album: inner whatever
Label: ORA

Host: Sam Pluta

Afternoon New Music 5/14/07

2007-05-14T18:00:00.000-04:00

We featured a long conversation with Petr Kotik, director of the S.E.M. Ensemble, about new music, modernist composers, large-scale form, John Cage at Darmstadt and an upcoming concert at Carnegie Hall,

Between interview segments we heard a variety of pieces:

1)Artist: Tristan Murail
Title: Mémoire/Erosion
Performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble
Label: not commercially available

2)Artist: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Title: Gruppen for 3 orchestras
Album: Gruppen/Carre,
conducted by Stockhausen, Maderna and Gielen
Label: Deutsche Grammophon LP (now available on a CD from Stockhausen Verlag)

3)Artist: Richard Strauss
Title: Metamorphosen
Album: Death and Transfiguration and Metamorphosen,
performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, cond. Ormandy
Label: EMI

4) Artist: Iannis Xenakis
Title: Palimpsest
performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble
Label: not commercially available

5) Artist: John Cage
Title: Atlas Eclipticalis & Winter Music
performed by the Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra
with David Tudor, piano and cond. Petr Kotik
Label: Asphodel Records

6) Artist: Petr Kotik
Title: Many Many Women (excerpt)
performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble
Label: Mode LP

Host: Brian Kane

Live Constructions - An Hour With Michael Ibrahim

2007-05-13T15:52:00.000-04:00

1)Artist: Michael Ibrahim
Live performances of: Scelsi, Neti, Burhans, Bach, and Berio

Host: Sam Pluta

Afternoon New Music 5/7/07

2007-05-07T18:00:00.000-04:00

First, we began by listening to an entire CDs worth of Chaya Czernowin.

1)Artist: Chaya Czernowin
Album: Shu Hai Practices Javelin
Label: Mode Records

Tracks:
Six miniatures and a simultaneous song (1998)
Shu Hai mitamen behatalat kidon (1996-7)
Shu Hai in an orchestral setting (2000-1)

Then, we heard about two-thirds of Stephen Vitiello making sounds from photocells.

2)Artist: Stephen Vitiello
Album: Bright and Dusty Things
Label: New Albion

For the big finish, one of my absolute favorite David Tudor recordings.

3)Artist: David Tudor
Title: Neural Synthesis #6
Album: Neural Synthesis
Label: Lovely Music

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 4/30/07

2007-04-30T18:00:00.000-04:00

Three hours dedicated to the music of Luciano Berio

We played a variety of things:

Nones, Allelujah II, Visage, Thema - ommaggio a Joyce, Sincronie, Passaggio, A-Ronne, and a sprinkling of Sequenzas.

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 4/25/07

2007-04-25T21:00:00.000-04:00

A program featuring recodings and an interview with members of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).Their upcoming festival, ICE ALL OVER, features nine concerts of new music, with numerous premieres (and plenty of composers that you've never heard before!), happens from April 25th to May 5th. For all the details visit ICE's website.

Host: Brian Kane

Transfigured Night / Audio Gumbo

2007-04-19T02:08:00.000-04:00

1)Artist: Jorge Amorim
Title: Ritual/Oba Bae De
Album: Ritual of Music
Label: Freedom Zone

2)Artist: On Davis/X-Ray Search Light Project
Title: No! No, Go Fot It! / Na, Na Not Me! / Counterfeit Presidents
Album: No! No, Go Fot It!
Label: On Mu Music

3)Artist: Tomchess & the LoveDogs
Title: Fish and Paper Messages / Two Paths
Album: In the Beautiful Future
Label: Foot Jumbo

4)Artist: Solipsist
Title: Nebula / Listen Up
Album: Solipsist
Label: Metonic

5)Artist: Skerik
Title: [trk #5]
Album:
Label: Hyena

6)Artist: Sylvain Luc
Title: [#10]
Album:
Label: Dreyfus

7)Artist: Johnny Dyani / Okay Temiz/ Mongezi Feza
Title: Feelings
Album: Music For Xaba
Label: Antilles

8)Artist: Harry Partch
Title: Verses 1-10
Album: And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma
Label: CRI

9)Artist: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Title: Ceylon (excerpt)
Album: Ceylon/Bird of Passage
Label: Chrysalis

10)Artist: Sun Ra
Title: The Beginning
Album: We Are in the Future
Label: Savoy

11)Artist: Sun Ra
Title: Exotic Forest
Album: Nothing Is...
Label: ESP

12)Artist: Sun Ra
Title: There are Other Worlds (They Have Not Told You Of)
Album: Lanquidity
Label: Philly Jazz

13)Artist: Morton Subotnick
Title: excerpt, part II
Album: Silver Apples of the Moon
Label: Nonesuch

14)Artist: Amadeo Roldan
Title: Two Ritmicas (1930) /
Album: Concert Percussion for Orchestra / Manhattan Percussion Ensemble
Label: Time

15)Artist: Lou Harrison
Title: Canticle No.1 (1939)
Album: Concert Percussion for Orchestra / Manhattan Percussion Ensemble
Label: Time

16)Artist: Richard Bennett's Quarkestra
Title:
Album: Drunken Garden
Label:

17)Artist: Jon Hassell / Brian Eno
Title: Charm (over 'Burundi Cloud')
Album: Fourth World Vol.1 Possible Musics
Label: EG

18)Artist: [Various Artists]
Title: Carino
Album:
Label:

19)Artist: Skerik
Title: [#9]
Album:
Label: Hyena

20)MIX (outerspace tribute to Bernie Worrell & Eddie Hazel, birthdays this week):
Artists: Pierre Henry/ Funkadelic (live, Denver 1976)/ JJ Barnes/ MagicTones/ P-Funk All-Stars
Title: Peaceful Deities/Wrathful Deities/ Let's Take it to the Stage/ So-Called Friends/ I'll Make it Up to You/ Sloppy Seconds
Album: Le Voyage
Label: Limelight/ private tape/ Revilot/ Sony 550

21)Artist: Suite Crude
Title: Ethio-Plutonia Strut
Album: Space-Age JazzPloitation
Label:

22)Artist: Uri Caine performs John Zorn
Title: Rimmon / Lomiel
Album: Moloch: Book of Angels Vol.6
Label: Tzadik

23)Artist: NRBQ feat. Tyrone Hill
Title: Fate in a Pleasant Mood
Album:
Label:

24)Artist: Sun Ra & Arkestra
Title: Egyptian Fantasy
Album:
Label:

Host: Charles Blass

Afternoon New Music 4/16/07

2007-04-16T21:00:00.000-04:00

A show featuring percussionist John Stevens, founding member of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. We began with a famous concert featuring a slightly larger band which included Evan Parker and Derek Bailey.

1)Artist: Spontaneous Music Ensemble
Title: Eighty-Five Minute Concert
Album: Quintessence
Label: Emanem 4217

This was followed with some duo work of John Stevens and Evan Parker from 1967 and 1976.

2)Artist: Spontaneous Music Ensemble
Title: Listening Together 1 and 3
Album: Summer 1967
Label: Emanem 4005

3)Artist: John Stevens and Evan Parker
Title: The Longest Night, vol. 1
Album: The Longest Night, vol. 1.
Label: Ogun (OG 120)

I ran out of time for volume 2. You'll just have to stay tuned...

Host: Brian Kane

Transfigured Night - 2-6am

2007-04-14T09:00:00.000-04:00

1)Artist: The Locust
Album: Plague Soundscapes
Label: Epitaph

2)Artist: The Ruins
Album: Live at Guangzhou
Label: NOISE ASIA

3)Artist: Merzbow
Album: Pinkream
Label: Dirtier Productions

4)Artist: Paul Dolden
Album: L’ivresse de la vitesse
Track: L’ivresse de la vitesse and Beyond the Walls of Jericho
Label: empreintes digitale

5)Artist: Jack Stamps
Track: Dispatches from Unnoted Station, Book 1: MICROCHIP-ECLAIR

6)Artist: Nurse with Wound
Album: Soliloquy For Lilith
Label: Idle Hole MIRROR ONE

6)Artist: The Locust
Album: Plague Soundscapes
Label: Epitaph

Host: Sam Pluta

Afternoon New Music 4/9/07

2007-04-10T21:00:00.000-04:00

First, we listened to some tracks on a CD entitled Irony performed by Percussion Group The Hague.

1) Composer: John Cage
Title: First Construction in Metal (1939)
Album: Irony
Label: Globe

2) Composer: Franco Donatoni
Title: Omar. Due Pezzi per vibrafono (1985)
Album: Irony
Label: Globe

3)Artist: Jo Kondo
Title: Under the Umbrella (1976)
Album: Irony
Label: Globe

4) Composer: Nicolaus A. Huber
Title: Clash Music (from Herbstfestival), 1988)
Album: Irony
Label: Globe

This last track helped to kick off a long set of music by Nicolaus A. Huber

5) Composer: Nicolaus A. Huber
Title: La force du vertige (1986),
performed by ensemble avance
Album: Nicolaus A. Huber
Label: telos music

6) Composer: Nicolaus A. Huber
Title: Der Ausrufer steigt ins Innere (1984),
performed by Michael Bach, cello
Album: Nicolaus A. Huber
Label: telos music

7) Composer: Nicolaus A. Huber
Title: Eröffnung und Zertrümmerung (1992),
performed by MusikFabrik, cond. Jürg Wyttenbach
Album: Nicolaus A. Huber
Label: telos music

8) Composer: Nicolalus A. Huber
Title: Trio mit Stabpandeira (1983),
performed by the Trio Basso
Album: Trio Basso, vol. 1
Label: Schwann/Koch

We stuck with the Trio Basso and listened to the rest of the CD -- and it was good!

9) Composer: Maurizio Kagel
Title: Aus dem Nachlaß (1981-83/1986)
Album: Trio Basso, vol. 1
Label: Schwann/Koch

10) Composer: Wolfgang Rihm
Title: Verzeichnung-Studie
Album: Trio Basso, vol. 1
Label: Schwann/Koch

11) Composer: Johannes Kalitzke
Title: Trio Infernal (1985)
Album: Trio Basso, vol. 1
Label: Schwann/Koch

Host: Brian Kane

Live Constructions - An Hour With Jim Altieri

2007-04-09T01:00:00.000-04:00

1)Artist: Jim Altieri
Titles: Lullaby for Bodhi, Fanfare, Untitled, and Various Improvisations

Check out more of Jim's music:
www.tweeg.net

Host: Sam Pluta

Transfigured Night 'Audio Gumbo' Tribute to Tyrone Hill (Sun Ra Arkestra)

2007-04-05T01:41:00.000-04:00

1)Artist: Sun Ra Omniverse Jet Set Arkestra
Title: Fate in a Pleasant Mood
Album: (n/a) Lush Life, NYC 10.31.84
Label: (n/a)

2)Artist: Sun Ra & Arkestra
Title: Mr. Mystery
Album: (n/a) Manheim, Germany 6.24.82
Label: (n/a)

3)Artist: Sun Ra Arkestra Under the Direction of Marshall Allen
Title: In B-Tween / Mr. Mystery
Album: Music for the 21st Century
Label: El Ra

4)Artist: Sun Ra Arkestra
Title: If You Came from Nowhere Here
Album: Live at Pitt-Inn, Tokyo
Label: DIW

5)Artist: Sun Ra Arkestra Under the Direction of Marshall Allen
Title: Watch the Sunrise/Galactic Voyage
Album: A Song For the Sun
Label: El Ra

6)Artist: Interview w/ Tyrone Hill, Marshall Allen, Knoell Scott by Charles Blass 6.30.99 WKCR

7)Artist: Sun Ra
Title: Hole in the Sky [w/ featured soloist Don Cherry]
Album: Somewhere Else
Label: Rounder

8)Artist: Sun Ra & his Cosmo-Discipline Arkestra
Title: [side A, excerpt]
Album: A Night in East Berlin
Label: Leo

9)Artist: Sun Ra Arkestra Under the Direction of Marshall Allen
Title: This World is Not My Home
Album: Hidden Fire
Label: Saturn

10)Artist: Sun Ra Arkestra
Title: Introduction/Cosmo-Approach Prelude/Agel Race - I'll Wait For You/Astro Black
Album: Live at Pitt-Inn, Tokyo
Label: DIW

11)Artist: Sun Ra Arkestra
Title: Dance of the Extra-Terrestrians/Love on a Faraway Planet
Album: Hours After
Label: Black Saint

12)Artist: Sun Ra Arkestra Under the Direction of Marshall Allen
Title: Reflex Motion/Pulsar
Album: Music for the 21st Century
Label: El Ra

13) James Jacson Interview by Charles Blass 5.23.95, WKCR

14) Sun Ra Arkestra - (excerpt) Neptune - Hunter College, 1974 (Out Beyond the Kingdom Of, Saturn Records)

15) Artist: Sun Ra Arkestra
Title: Intro-Percussion/ Prelude to a Kiss
Album: Friendly Galaxy
Label: Leo Records

16) Artist: Sun Ra
Title: Somewhere Else, Part One
Album: Somewhere Else
Label: Rounder Records

17) Artist: Sun Ra Arkestra
Title: Shadow World
Album: What Planet Is This? -
Label: Leo

18) excerpt, Interview with Sun Ra by Charles Blass, 10.24.91

19)Artist: Sun Ra
Title: Discpline/ Tall trees in the Sun
Album: Somewhere Else
Label: Rounder

LINKS:
http://www.the-temple.net/sunradisco/disco.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra
http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~moudry/

Host: Charles Blass

Afternoon New Music 4/2/07

2007-04-02T21:00:00.000-04:00

A program featuring the string music of Helmut Lachenmann.

1)Artist: Helmut Lachenmann
Title: Streichtrio,
performed by the trio recherche
Album: Hemut Lachenmann 2
Label: Montaigne

2)Artist: Helmut Lachenmann
Title: Notturno (Musik für Julia),
performed by Klangforum Wien, cond. Hans Zender
Album: NUN/Notturno (Musik für Julia)
Label: Kairos

3)Artist: Helmut Lachenmann
Title: Pression
performed by Michael Bach, cello
Album: Chamber Music
Label: CPO

4)Artist: Helmut Lachenmann
Title: Gran Torso
performed by the Berner Quartet
Album: Gran Torso/Salüt for Caudwell
Label: Col Legno

5)Artist: Helmut Lachenmann
Title: II. Streichquartett, "Reigen seliger Geister"
performed by the Arditti String Quartet
Album: Helmut Lachenmann 1
Label: Montaigne

6)Artist: Helmut Lachenmann
Title: III. Streichquartett, "Grido"
performed by the Arditti String Quartet
Not commercially distributed but available on-line from Jacob Sudol's blog.

For the last half an hour we spoke with Sam Pluta, composer and sound artist, and highlighted a new CD of electroacoustic music:

7)Artist: Various
Album: Resonance: Steel Pan in the 21st Century
Label: Alas Seis Music
Tracks: Various!

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 3/26/07

2007-03-26T21:00:00.000-04:00

A whole show dedicated to electroacoustic compositions.

1)Artist: Trevor Wishart
Title: Vox-5
Album: Computer Music Currents 4
Label: Wergo

2)Artist: Iannis Xenakis
Title: La Légende d'Eer
Album: La Légende d'Eer
Label: Disques Montaigne

3)Artist: Michel Chion
Title: Requiem
Album: Requiem
Label: empreintes DIGITALes

4)Artist: Bernard Parmegiani
Title: La création du monde
Album: La création du monde
Label: INA-GRM

Hosts: Brian Kane and Sam Pluta

Afternoon New Music 3/19/2007

2007-03-19T21:00:00.000-04:00

Hours one and two featured two collaborations between Samuel Beckett and composer Morton Feldman.

1) Author/Composer: Samuel Beckett/Morton Feldman
performed by the Ensemble Recherche
Album: Morton Feldman 2
Track: Words and Music
Label: Disques Montaigne MO 78208

2) Composer/Librettist: Morton Feldman/Samuel Beckett
performed by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchesta, cond. Kwame Ryan
Album: Neither
Track: Neither
Label: Col Legno

To acknowledge the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the third hour of the show was dedicated to playing Tom Caygill-Jones' Shock and Awe. It is an hour-long collage of material recorded from British television on the day of the invasion.

3) Composer: Tom Caygill-Jones
Title: Shock and Awe
Label: not commercially available

Hosts: Brian Kane and Sam Pluta

Afternoon New Music 2/26/07

2007-02-26T21:00:00.000-05:00

The first hour and a half of the program were dedicated to the memory of the great violinist Leroy Jenkins (March 11, 1932 – February 24, 2007)

1) Composer/Performer: Leroy Jenkins
Album: Solo
Label: Lovely Music
Tracks: Um Cha Chi Chum
Hipnosis
Folk Song
Off the Top of My Head
Dive for the Oyster, Dip for the Pearl
Keep on Trucking Brother
Wouldn't You (aka Woody'n You)

Two Early Anthony Braxton albums featuring Leroy Jenkins:

2) Artist: Anthony Braxton
Album: Three Compositions of the New Jazz
Label: Delmark
Tracks: Composition 6E
Composition 6D

3) Artist: Anthony Braxton
Album: B-Xo/ N-O-1-47A
Label: Actuel
Tracks: Simple Like

The rest of the show featured the music of electronic pioneer Morton Subotnick.

4) Artist: Morton Subotnick
Album: The Sidewinder
Label: Nonesuch

5) Artist: Morton Subotnick
Title: A Fluttering of Wings
performed by the Juliard String Quartet
Album: Echoes from the Silent Call of Girona; A Fluttering Of Wings
Label: Cambria Records

6) Artist: Morton Subotnick
Album: Silver Apples of the Moon
Label: Nonesuch

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 2/19/07

2007-02-19T21:00:00.000-05:00

A set of Morton Feldman pieces, all from the very early 1960s

1) Performer: Ensemble Avantgarde
Album: Morton Feldman: Chamber Music
Label: Wergo
Tracks: For Franz Kline; O'Hara Song; De Kooning

2) Composer: Morton Feldman
Title: Durations I-IV
Album: Duration I-IV
Label: Time Records
Note: this comes from a rare LP in the WKCR collection performed by an ensemble that features David Tudor.

3) Composer: Morton Feldman
Title: Out of Last Pieces
Album: Music of Our Time
perfomed by the New York Philharmonic, cond. Leonard Bernstein
Label: CBS

An amusing track off the same album:

4) Title: Four Improvisations
performed by the New York Philharmonic, cond. Leonard Bernstein
Album: Music of Our Time
Label: CBS

A long set of improvised electronic pieces with electronics from the late 60s:

5) Artist: David Tudor
Title: Rainforest Version I (1968)
Album: Rainforest
Label: Mode

6) Artist: Musica Electronica Viva
Title: Spaceship
Album: MEV/AMM
Label: Time Records

7) Composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Title: Kommunion
Album: Kommunion and Intensität from aus den Sieben Tagen
Label: Deutsche Grammaphon

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 2/12/07

2007-02-12T21:00:00.000-05:00

The first set featured a belated celebration of Alban Berg's Birthday (born Feb. 9th, 1885):

1)Composer: Alban Berg
Title: Three Pieces for Orchestra
Album: Berg: 7 Early Songs, 3 Orchestral Pieces, etc
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Claudio Abbado
Label: Deutsche Grammophon

2) Composer: Alban Berg
Title: Lyric Suite
Album: Alban Berg
performed by the Arditti String Quartet
Label: Disques Montaigne

The rest of the program focused on works composed for solo instrument with Luciano Berio's Sequenzas as the starting point. First, the trombone:

3) Composer: Luciano Berio
Title: Sequenza V for Trombone
Album: Berio: Sequenzas
performed by the Ensemble InterContemporain
Label: Deutsche Grammophon

4) Composer: Nicolaus A. Huber
Title: Presente
Album: Huber: La Force du Vertige; Eröffnung und Zertrümmerung
performed by Michael Svoboda, trombone
Label: Telos Records

5) Composer: Richard Barrett
Title: Basalt
Album: Transmission
Label: Nmc Records

6) Composer: Vinko Globokar
Title: Échanges
Album: Globokar by Globokar
Label: Harmonia Mundi

7) Composer: George Lewis
Title: Phenomenology
Album: The George Lewis Solo Trombone Album
Label: Sackville Records

Then, the accordion:

8) Composer: Luciano Berio
Title: Sequenza XII for Accordion
Album: Berio: Sequenzas
performed by the Teodoro Anzelloti
Label: Deutsche Grammophon

9) Composer: Cornelius Schwehr
Title: aus dem Kamalatdanischen Leiden
performed by Teodoro Anzelloti
Album and Label unknown (played from a private recording)

Finally, the guitar:

10) Composer: Luciano Berio
Title: Sequenza XI for Guitar
Album: Berio: Sequenzas
performed by the Ensemble InterContemporain
Label: Deutsche Grammophon

11) Composer: Elliott Carter
Title: Shard
Album: The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 4
performed by David Starobin
Label: Bridge Records

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 2/05/07

2007-02-05T11:25:00.000-05:00

Harry Partch -- Cloud-Chamber Music

Early and Microtonal Music of Ben Johnston

Three Chinese Lyrics (1955)
Gambit (1959)
Five Fragments (1960)
Sonata for Piano (1962)
Duo for Flute and Contrabass (1963)
String Quartet #2 (1964)
String Quartet #3 (1966)
Casta Bertram (1969)
String Quartet #4 (1973)
Suite for Microtonal Piano (1978)
String Quartet #6 (1980)
Trio (1981)

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 1/29/07

2007-01-29T11:26:00.000-05:00

Derek Bailey -- Eight Domestic Pieces
Luigi Nono -- "Hay que caminar" soñando

Classic electro-acoustic music on vinyl from the WKCR library
Pierre Henry -- Le Voyage
Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Telemusik
Bernard Parmegiani -- Violostries

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 1/22/07

2007-01-22T11:27:00.000-05:00

Special Guest in the Studio: Michel Galante of the Argento Chamber Ensemble

Wolfgang Rihm: Chiffre IV

Tristan Murail:
Feuilles à travers les cloches
Ethers
Winter Fragments

Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony No. 1
Wolfgang Rihm: Chiffre VI

Christian Wolff:
selections from the CD Ten Exercises: Exercises 8, 14b, 3, 16
For 1, 2 or 3 players
For Prepared Piano

Larry Polansky:
selections from the CD Four-voice Canons: #5, #6, #18 (Trio Canon for Christian Wolff)

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 1/15/07

2007-01-15T11:29:00.000-05:00

Luciano Berio's pieces for Martin Luther King
O King
Sinfonia

Jean Barraqué -- Concerto

Composer Profile: Piano Works of Bill Hopkins
Sous-structures
Etudes en séries

Elliott Carter -- Clarinet Concerto

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 1/08/07

2007-01-08T11:30:00.000-05:00

Morton Feldman as a conductor and performer:
The Viola in My Life
False Relationships and the Extended Ending
Why Patterns?

Composer Profile: Mathias Spahlinger
128 erfüllte augenblicke
extension

Earle Brown -- Four Systems

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 1/01/07

2007-01-01T11:31:00.000-05:00

Iannis Xenakis -- Eonta
Anthony Braxton and George Lewis -- Donaueschingen Duo (1976)

Charles Ives -- Marches and Parades:
Calcium Light Night
The Gong on the Hook and Ladder
All the Way Around and Back
Over the Pavements
Fourth of July (from the Holidays Symphony)

Michael Finnissy -- Un-characteristic March
Brian Ferneyhough -- Superscriptio

Charles Ives -- Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for Two Pianos
Elliott Carter -- Figment II - Remembering Mr. Ives

Remembering Nam Jun Paik (July 20, 1932 - January 29, 2006):
Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Plus-Minus (realization by Paik for Charlotte Moorman)
Waiting For Commercial
Hommage à John Cage

Remembering James Tenney (August 10, 1934 - August 24, 2006):
Collage #1 ("Blue Suede")
Analog #1 (Noise Study)
Dialogue
Phases (for Edgard Varèse)
Music for Player Piano

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 12/18/06

2006-12-18T11:32:00.000-05:00

Guest in the Studio: Composer Philipp Blume

Henry Threadgill -- Spotted Dick is Pudding
Robin Hoffmann -- Finte
Philipp Blume -- Separated at Birth
Johannes Schüllhorn -- Rondo
Stefano Scodanibbio -- Escondido
Philipp Blume -- Rosy Derivative

3 tracks from the album "Anarchic Harmonies":
John Cage -- Harmony #35
Frescobaldi -- Canzon seconda
John Cage -- Harmony #11

Georg Graewe -- Track 4 from the album "Traces of Memory"
Henry Threadgill -- Let Me Look Down Your Throat, or Say Ah
Philipp Blume -- collaboraxiom
Martin Schüttler -- Venus_5
Cornelius Schwehr -- Wer Ihnene Ihres Nicht Tanzt Spottet Der Verabredeten Bewegung
Gordon Kampe: SPAX

Visit Philipp Blume's website: www.pgblu.com

Host:

Afternoon New Music 12/04/06

2006-12-04T11:35:00.000-05:00

Works for Solo Violin

Mel Powell - Setting
Richard Barrett - Air
Salvatore Sciarrino - Sei Capricci
Enno Poppe -17 Etüden, Heft 2
Iannis Xenakis -- Mikka and Mikka "S"
Morton Feldman - For Aaron Copland
Elliot Carter - Four Lauds
Brian Kane - Measure is the Heaven of Desire
Brian Ferneyhough - Intermedio alla ciaccona
Luigi Nono - La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 11/27/06

2006-11-27T11:36:00.000-05:00

Composer Profile: Brian Ferneyhough
2nd String Quartet
Sonatas for String Quartet
Kurze Schatten II
Terrain

Finnissy plays Finnissy:
Autumnall
Kemp's Morris
Stanley Stokes, East Street 1836
Folklore
Reels
Short but...
Freightrain Bruise

Stockhausen's Piano Miniatures:
Klavierstücke I-IV

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 11/22/06

2006-11-22T11:38:00.000-05:00

Composer Profile: Mathias Spahlinger
passage/paysage
Apo Do

Composer Profile: Luigi Nono
Varianti
...sofferte onde serene...
Incontri
A Carlo Scarpa
Fragmente-Stille, An Diotima
Da un diario italiano
A Pierre. Dell' azzuro silenzio, inquietum

Host: Brian Kane

Afternoon New Music 11/20/06

2006-11-20T11:39:00.000-05:00

Contemporary String Quartets
F.-B. Mache - Eridan
Michael Finnissy - String Quartet (1984)
Anthony Braxton - String Quartet (Robert Schumann Quartet Performance)
Jonathan Harvey - String Quartet #2

Classic Musique Concrète
Pierre Henry - Variations pour une porte et une soupir
Pierre Schaeffer - Études aux objets
Luc Ferrari - Presque Rien No. 1

Solo Instruments with Live Electronics
Luigi Nono - Post-prae-ludium
Karllheinz Stockhausen - Mikrophonie I

Host: Brian Kane