WKCR New Music Playlists: Transfigured Night / Audio Gumbo 7/12/07, 1-5am

Thursday, July 12, 2007

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

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

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WKCR's New Music Programs

Afternoon New Music
Monday-Wednesday, 3-6pm

Acting upon the wisdom of composer and educator Bill Dixon, our daytime new music programming presents "a constant examination of the best examples". Seminal new music works are featured as part of a focused thematic program, or of an eclectic mix of sounds.

Transfigured Night
Tuesday and Thursday, 1-5am, and Saturday, 2-6am

Our infamous overnight explorations into the world of new music, Transfigured Night rewards our late night listeners with a wide range of sounds. The department's longest show (4 hours), it also provides an opportunity to hear extended pieces in their entirety.

Live Constructions
Sunday, 10-11pm

This weekly program features a live in-studio performance or a performance pre-recorded specially for the show. Past guests / featured artists include: Merzbow, Solmania, Terry Riley, Flux Information Sciences, Farmer's Manual, Pita, William Hooker, John Zorn, Lois V Vierk.

Visit the Live Constructions archive.

About WKCR's New Music Department

The term 'new music' dates back at least to 1925, when The New Music Society of California, organized by Henry Cowell, held its first concert. The announcement bill for this concert contained a statement of the society's aim: "To present musical works embodying the most progressive tendencies of this age, and disseminate the new musical ideas". Although situated over seventy five years in the future and on the other side of the continent, WKCR's New Music department is, nonetheless, aptly served by this statement of purpose. The New Music department presents alternative approaches to music, with or without reference to a familiar tradition (such as jazz or classical music).

Over the years, the New Music department has presented several groundbreaking festivals, radio marathons of considerable duration which pay tribute to and carefully examine specific artists, movements, or schools. We hope that by listing these festivals we will aid your understanding of our concept of new music.

Fred Frith - 1983

Karlheinz Stockhausen - 1984

Harry Partch - 1985

John Cage - 1992 (N.B. In 1987, Cage used WKCR's studio as his extended musical instrument. Station DJs passed him opera records from which he played random excerpts while manipulating all the other sound variables controllable from the studio.)

Evan Parker - 1994

Noise - 1997

Electronic Music - 1998

Peter Kowald - 2002

Luciano Berio - 2003

Harry Partch / Terry Riley - 2003

Derek Bailey - 2006

Even as far back as the 1950's and 60's, WKCR had links to the world new music, through the pioneering electroacoustic composers of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center -- men such as Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Leuning. It was not until the 70's, however, that WKCR's commitment to new music crystallized. The efforts of the late Taylor Storer in creating the New Music Distribution Service helped to create a synergistic relationship between avant-garde performance and recorded artifact. The scene had been created, and WKCR's New Music Department was part of the back bone of its distribution channel to the listening public.

The New Music department also played a role in the establishment of what is known today as the New York Downtown Scene consisting of such composers/performers as John Zorn and Zeena Parkins. Many of Zorn's early compositions, indeed the majority of his Games works, which exhaustively explored the possibilities of improvised music, were recorded in the studios of WKCR. To this day, an interdependence exists between the new music scene and the radio station. Through live performances and interviews, artists are able to share their latest work with the listening community. Through special broadcasts and focus programs, the history of the new music as well as its most current incarnations are constantly on display for the curious and the connoisseur alike. In essence, the New Music department is a lifeline for the community.

Inspiring artists - Philip Glass used to tune in during his stint as a taxi driver - as well as exposing them, informing listeners as well as challenging them, WKCR remains a unique source for the consistent and focused examination of musical innovation in and beyond New York City.

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Thursday, July 12, 2007

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

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