Afternoon New Music 4/30/07

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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