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String Quartet No. 2 (1982). Fred Lerdahl /now on q2/

As I listen to the music of Fred Lerdahl on WQXR, er, Q2, I see that I can embed a Q2 player on my blog:

Update: Unfortunately, it doesn't show the title of the currently streaming piece.

Update #2: Ok, there's a version with playlist.

aworks music diary 2012 :: #7 to whom keeps a record

It's Mother's Day so I'm finishing this list early so we can celebrate...

Philip Glass	Einstein on the Beach		Trial 1 Entrance, Trial 1 "Mr. Bojangles", Dance 1, Dance 2, Bed Prelude, Building
Philip Glass	String Quartet No. 4	Smith Quartet - Complete String Quartets	Part 1, Part 3
Philip Glass	Music in Similar Motion	Signal, Brad Lubman - Live at (le) Poisson Rouge
Philip Glass	Music in Twelve Parts		Part 2, Part 4
David Murray	It Hurts So Much To See	Windward Passages
David Crowell	Eucaplyptus, Point Reyes	eucalyptus
Bob Dylan	From a Buick 6	Highway 61 Revisted
Charles Ives	Slugging a Vampire	Nathan Gunn - American Anthem
Lana Del Rey	Smims & Bell, Gesaffelstein, RAC, Kris Menace, Penguin Prison	Blue Jeans Remixes
Ornette Coleman	Music Always, Brings Goodness, To Us, All, Blues Connotation, Some Other, Motive for Its Use	To Whom Keeps a Record
Weather Report	Night Passage, Dream Clock, Port of Entry (Live), Forlorn	Night Passage
Ole Schmidt	Symfonisk fantasi and Allergo	Danish National Chamber Orch. - Accordion Concertos (via Joshua Kosman)
Georg Philipp Telemann	6 Trio a Violini e Basso	Danubius Ensemble - Baroque Trio Sonatas
Antonio Vivaldi	Trio Sonata in B flat major	Danubius Ensemble - Baroque Trio Sonatas
Steve Lehman Trio	Allocentric, Moment's Notice, Foster Brothers	Dialect Flourescent
Anders Koppel	Piccolo Concerto	Danish National Chamber Orch. - Accordion Concertos
Amadou & Mariam	Mojo (Feat. Bertrand Cantat)	Folila

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aworks music diary 2012 :: #6 formatted king tubby edition

King Tubby

One more diary day to inflict to go. I've cleaned up the formatting of the music log. See below.

Still, this has been an interesting listening exercise so kudos to Sick Mouthy for the inspiration again. Because of this, I've refined how I listen and maintain playlists on rdio. No change for legacy media i.e. MP3s, though.

Einstein on the Beach	Philip Glass	aworks' current jam	Trial 1	repeat!
A Tribute to James Tenney	Alvin Lucier	Barton Workship - Wind Shadow	Part II	repeat!
Music in Twelve Parts	Philip Glass		Part 2, Part 3, Part 4	repeat!
Good Vibrations	Beach Boys	Good Vibrations 40th Anniversary	Alternate Take - 2006 Digital Remaster	repeat!
Eucalyptus, Point Reyes, Kaleidoscope	David Crowell	eucalyptus		new repeat
One7 [from One13]	John Cage	The Anonymous - Cage, J.: One7 [From One13] / One8		jew repeat
Exordium: The Beginning of the Web	Harry Partch		Enclosure VI	on repeat
Seven Kinds of Wonderful	The Brian Jonestown Massacre	Aufheben		on repeat
Bann, Nachtschwarmerei	Wolfgang Rihm	Dominik Susteck - Orgelwerke		on repeat
String Quartet No. 4	Philip Glass	The Smith Quartet - Philip Glass: Complete String Quartets	Part 2	on repeat
Mysterious Mountain	Alan Hovhaness	John Williams - Pacific Coast Highway [Drive Time]	1. Andante con moto	off repeat
Good Vibrations	Beach Boys	Good Vibrations 40th Anniversary	2001 - Remastered	off repeat
Vegetable Kingdom	Pell Mell	Interstate		off repeat
Viholliseni Maala	The Brian Jonestown Massacre	Aufheben		off repeat
One Step Beyond Roots Dub	King Tubby	King Tubby's Rastafari Dub Platinum Edition		off repeat
Fever Pitch, South Street Strut, Who Me Worry?, Sneakin', Caribbean Leprechaun, Pictures of Emily, Mine All Mine	David Rimelis	String Fever,Marin Alsop - Fever Pitch
Abiding Passions	William Albright	University of Iowa Center for New Music - 20th Century American Music
Flashbacks	Mario Davidovsky	University of Iowa Center for New Music - 20th Century American Music
Oboe Concertino	Bernard Rands	University of Iowa Center for New Music - 20th Century American Music
Agartha	Noel Zahler	University of Iowa Center for New Music - 20th Century American Music
Sinatra Shag	Michael Daugherty	University of Iowa Center for New Music - 20th Century American Music
Don't Go There	David Gomper	University of Iowa Center for New Music - 20th Century American Music
Finnegan's Wake	David Gompper	University of Iowa Center for New Music - 20th Century American Music
Songs for Lada, To the New World	Alla Borzova	Leonard Slatkin, Valentina Fleer - Borzova: Songs for Lada
Throw Down Your Heart	David Crowell	eucalyptus
Electronic Music, Analog Heaven, Fred & Me	Don Preston	Filters, Oscillators & Envelopes 1967-75
The Maltest Falcon, George Washington Slept Here, The Mask of Dmitrios, High Sierra, Northern Pursuit	Adolph Deutsch	Deutsch: The Maltese Falcon & Other Classic Film Scores
Icons	James Primosch	Jean Kopperud - James Primosch: Icons
AEDM in mem, If I Told Him, Musing and Reminiscence, Concert Piece II	Ezra Sims	Various - Ezra Sims: Musing and Reminiscence
Recitative/Tracing (On Guns and Cock-fighting)	Warren Burt	Gary Verkade - Winded
First Piano Sonata [To Bela Bartok]	Morton Feldman	Debora Petrina - Feldman, M.: Piano Works (Early and Unknown)
Fly Me to the Moon (Live)	Bart Howard	Matthew Shipp - Art of the Improvisor

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aworks music diary 2012 :: #5 /replacing music journalism?/

Wikipedia

Quote of the day from stdout.be (via TightWind who correctly says that if you only read one thing this week, this is the one):

...people still find new music through Pitchfork or Rolling Stone, but services like Spotify and Rdio actually replace music journalism for many...People who like to read about music, not just find good music, are a niche audience. Reading about music just happened to be one of the few ways to explore new music before the web, together with mixtapes or radio, so reading is what you did...We’re living through a much more radical shift from narrative and stories and reporting to entirely different and entirely unrelated ways of sharing knowledge...Amp up storytelling and personality, because those things are irreplaceable.

I'm approaching 50% of my music coming from rdio rather than my locally owned and operated MP3s. Somehow, it feels like a different experience, more so than did CDs vs. MP3s (or CDs vs. LPs). The most recent symptom is that I have stopped going to the local record store (Rasputin in Mountain View) as a matter of habit. Still can't live without Amoeba, though.

A prior indication is when I quit buying Fanfare (or the occasional Gramophone or American Record Guide). I still read as many (free) niche music blogs as I can, though. The question is how much would I miss reading blog posts by professional music critics. Dunno.

Note that for the most part, it's not the social features of streaming that are causing this disruption. Right now, I can see on rdio exactly what the people I follow are currently listening to. Except for the guy gal who is listening to Cedar Walton and the musical sophisticate who for some reason is listening to Vanilla Fudge, it's not particularly interesting. 

And as the local spouse would say, if I follow this to its logical conclusion, I'm only blogging for myself. Partly true.

Disclaimer: I still pay money for criticism via newsprint -- SF Chronicle (Joshua Kosman! Mick LaSalle!) and Wall Street Journal (Terry Teachout! Heidi Waleson!).

<aworks operational note: as i grind through my "on repeat" playlist, due to other activity, tonight's diary is not up to the usual discographic standards>

Philip Glass

• Building. Knee 5. Scene 2 - Bed: Either the Tomato/Sony recording or the later one or both
• Music in Similar Motion
• String Quartet No. 4

Weather Report

• Mysterious Traveler

Yet another baroque composer

• Sonata XI

John Fahey

• Sunflower River Blues: Pelt

The English Beat

• Mirror in the Bathroom

Radiohead

• Dollars & Cents
• Pyramid Song: Matt Haimovitz, Christopher O'Riley

Eric Dolphy

• Iron Man

Caribou

• Melody Day (Four Tet Remix)

Lou Harrison

• Marriage at the Eiffel Tower - March for the Marriage of Frank and Anne Wigglesworth
• Philemon and Baukis
• Largo Ostinao
• Homage to Milhaud

Beatie Boys

• Sabotage

Carl Stone

• Banteay Srey 1991

Aaron Copland

• Episode

Steve Reich

• Different Trains

Charles Mingus

• Hora Decubitus

Bob Dylan

• Million Miles

Thelonious Monk et al

• Abide with Me

Martin Bresnick

• Wir Weben

John Cage

• The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs. Joan LaBarbara

Boards of Canada

• Sixtyniner

Bernard Herrmann

• Man in the Gray Flannel Suite

Duke Ellington

• Mood Indigo. Charles Mingus

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aworks music diary 2012 :: #4 /music in repetitive motion/

(ianhun2009)

Working through my on repeat playlists today.

Philip Glass

• Act 4/Scene 2 - Bed. Trial 1, Entrance. Trial 1, "Mr. Bojangles". Bed Prelude. Dance 1. Dance 2. Trial 2/Prison, Ensemble: Michael Reisman, Philip Glass Ensemble - Einstein on the Beach
• Music in Similar Motion: Signal, Brad Lubman - Live at (le) Poisson
• String Quartet No. 4 "Buczak": The Smith Quartet - Philip Glass: Complete String Quartets
• How Now. Jeroen Van Veen. Minimal Piano Collection

Lou Harrison

• Homage to Milhaud. Largo Ostinato: Anthony De Mare - Wizards & Wildmen
• 2 March For The Marriage Of Frank And Anne Wigglesworth. Slow: Brooklyn Philharmonic - Music for Orchestra
• Music for Bill and Me. Sonata in Ishartum. Serenado for Guitar. Round. Sonata. John Schneider - Lou Harrison: Music of Guitar

John Cage

• A Room: Vol. 37- Complete Short Works For Prepared Piano- Philipp Vandre
• Mysterious Adventure, The Unavailable Memory Of: Boris Berman - Cage: Music for Prepared Piano
• Act I, Scene IV: Joan LaBarbara - Four Walls

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

• Seven Kinds of Wonderful. Viholliseni Maalla. Stairway to the Best Party in the Universe: Aufheben

Amadou & Mariam

• Mogo (feat. Bertrand Cantat). Dougou Badia (feat. Santigold): Amadou & Mariam - Folila

Bob Dylan

• From a Buick 6: Highway 61 Revisited

Meredith Monk

• Astronaut Anthem: Ryuichi Sakamot - MONK MIX

John Fahey

• Sunflower River Blues: Pelt - I Am The Resurrection: A Tribute To John Fahey

James Hemmenway

• Philadelphia Hop Waltz: Chesnut Brass Company - Music of America in the 1900s

Alan Hovhaness

• The Holy City: Celestial Fantasy

Coleman Hawkins

• Voodte: Coleman Hawkins - The Bebop Years

Radiohead

• Pyramid Song: Christopher O’Riley; Matt Haimovitz - Shuffle.Play.Listen

Pell Mell

• Vegetable Kingdom: Pell Mell - Interstate

David Murray

• It Hurts So Much to See: Windward Passages

Charles Ives

• Slugging a Vampire: Nathan Gunn - American Anthem

Laurie Spiegel

• Sediment: An anthology of noise and electronic music vol. 4 (i.e. not actually on The Hunger Games soundtrack)

Erik Satie

• Vexations: Jeroen Van Veen - Minimal Piano Collection

Iing Tubby

• One Step Beyond Roots Dub: King Tubby's Rastafari Dub Platinum Edition

Eric Dolphy

• Iron Man

Edgard Varèse

• Ionisation:  Paul Price - The View from the Edge

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Einstein on the Beach (1976). Philip Glass /fresh links/

Wikipedia

• Bianca Jagger caught taking flash photos at Einstein on the Beach. Opera Fresh
• Production staff were obnoxious. overyourhead
• It's "postmodern at its inception" and "overwhelming and unforgettable." The Eastside View
• Get lost in the work rather than trying to understand it. CEASEFIRE
• It's really a "retro revival." The Stage
• It's extra special and repetition increases the impact. Ham Life
• "Anyway, it was shite. No, I jest. It was astounding, far beyond my expectations" Two men and their poosies 

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aworks music diary 2012 :: #3 go giants

Hypothesized meter of "Pyramid Song" (Wikipedia)

Less music tonight as I was listening to the Giants baseball game...

Radiohead

• Pyramid Song: Matt Haimovitz, Christopher O'Riley - Shuffle.Play.Listen. My favorite Radiohead track is now this new cover version.
• Dollar and Cents: Radiohead - Amnesiac. My favorite historically-informed performance of Radiohead is this track.

Philip Glass

• Music in Twelve Parts: Part 2. Part 4. Part 3. Part 5.

Caribou

• Melody Day - Four Tet Remix Featuring Luke Lalonde, Adem & One Little Plane: Caribou - Melody Day. My favorite Caribou track is now this remix version.

Thelonious Monk/William Henry Monk

• Abide with Me: The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings
• Trinkle Tinkle: Larry Coryell - Music of the Sphere

Skip James

• I'm So Glad. Vanguard Visionaries. Weird blues voice from the 60s.
• My Gal. Hard Time

Boards of Canada

• Sixtyniner: Twoism

Four Tet

• Jupiters: Via the Hairpin

Weather Report

• Mysterious Traveler: Weather Report Recordings of Wayne Shorter Compositions 1
• Medley [10:54]: Live in Tokyo

Wooden Shjips

• Crossing. Black Smoke Rise. Lazy Bones. Home. Flight. Looking Out. Rising: Wooden Shjips - West. My favorite Wooden Shjips track used to be Crossing.

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The Palmian Chord Ryddle (2012). Terry Riley /dreaming of trees, not hands/

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aworks music diary 2012 :: #2 alternatively good vibrations

Mom's

Charles Ives

• Ensemble Modern - A Portrait of Charles Ives: Mists. "Gyp the Blood" or Hearst - Which Is Worst?. Gyp is a long-time favorite; such insistent music.
• Marni Nixon, John McCabe - American Classics: Charles Ives. Ann Street 
• John Adams, Orchestra of St. Luke's - American Elegies: The Unanswered Question
• ASMF - American Music for Chamber Orchestra: Symphony No. 3
• Hillary Hight Daw, Barbara Efird: Americans in Paris: Qu'il m'irait bien. De la Drama Rosamunde. Chanson de Florian
  
• James Sykes - Charles Ives: The Short Piano Pieces: Three Page Sonata. 22. 

Philip Glass

• Signal, Brad Lubman - Live at (le) Poisson Rouge: Music in Similar Motion. Long and swirly (swirley?).
• Bruce Brubaker - Hope Street Tunnel Blues: Wichita Vortex Sutra
• The Smith Quartet - Philip Glass: Complete String Quartets. String Quartet No. 4. String Quartet No. 1. String Quartet No. 5 

Duke Ellington and others

• Charles Mingus - Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus: Mood Indigo. Hora Decubitus.

The Beach Boys

• Good Vibrations 40th Anniversary: Good Vibrations. Good Vibrations (Alternate Take). The alternate take is more instrumentally interesting, even if the vocals aren't as compelling.

Lou Harrison

• Gamelan Music: Philemon and Baukis

Carl Stone

• Mom's: Banteay Srey 1991

Ornette Coleman/Pat Metheny

• Song X. Pat Metheny's finest moment, in service of the crazily delightful creativity of Ornette Coleman?

Aaron Copland

• Arturo Sacchetti - Organ Music in America: Episode. Not obviously Copland-like, this was written in 1940, after his earlier modernist period.

Chas Smith

• Aluminum Overcast: Uncovered the Nest. Gate 5. A Wasp on Her Abdomen. Rubric of Green. A Wasp was used in The Hunger Games.

Carl Davis

• Ben-Hur. Long and noisy.

Charles Wakefield Cadman

• William Parker - Music of American in the 1900s. From the Land of the Sky Blue Water

Charles Thomlinson Griffes

• William Parker - Music of American in the 1900s. An Old Song Resung

Arthur Foote

• Raam - Music of American in the 1900s. Andrantino Grazioso; Alla Siciliano

The October Trio

• New Dream: 1983. Wide. Do Your Thing. 

 

aworks music diary 2012 :: #1 the vast canvas from end to end

Cover via Amazon

It's again time for the week of music diary logging. Repeat-worthy tracks are in bold.

Bernard Herrmann

• Bernard Herrmann at Fox Vol 1: Tender Is the Night. Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. I don't know the film Tender Is the Night but the soundtrack reminds me of a pre-Hitchcock score by Herrmann without the life-threatening drama but also without too much schmaltz.

Lou Harrison

• Scenes from Cavafy: Soedjatmoko Set. Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan. Scenes from Cavafy. I think the popularity of Harrison's music is on the rise as we learn to value his gentle take on this new Asian/American world. These are not favorite tracks, though.

Steve Roach

• WXPN 88.5 Star's End 30th Anniversary Anthology: Star Offerings

Newcleus

• Machine Soul: An Odyssey Into Electronic Dance Music: Jam on Revenge. My least favorite track of the day; kiddie voices on top of less than exciting electric instruments.

Matthew Shipp

• Art of the Improviser: Module (Live). Wholetone (Live). These mildly remind me of McCoy Tyner.

Harry Partch

• Bitter Music. Bitter, a bit crazy, and interesting. "Bitter Music is basically a sort of road movie, way before On the Road, but with many similarities. Only a very small portion of this set is music. Partch’s self-portrait is not always complimentary, but is brutally honest, including references to his homoerotic character." Audiophile Audition

Eric Dolphy

• Iron Man: Ode to C.P. C.P. is presumably Charlie Parker.

Ezra Sims

• Musing and Reminiscence - Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Concert Piece.

Sonny Sharrock

• Monkey-Pockie-Boo: Monkey-Pockie-Boo

Robert Sirota

• Tryptych: Chiara String Quartet. 

William Carlos Williams

• White Women: The Vast Canvas from End to End. 

Elinor Warren

• Good Morning, America!: The Crystal Lake

Peter Garland

• Waves Breaking - John Duykers: Roque Dalton Songs.

Wolfgang Rihm

• Orgelwerke: Bann, Nachtschwarmerei. Fantasie. Drei Fantasien Fur Orgel. Avant-garde organ is good.

Earle Brown

• Abstract Sound Objects - Sabine Liebner. Home Burial. Folio. Hopefully it is evident by now that today anyway, I'm not listeing to albums from to start to finish although on rdio at least, I've listened to about 200 total albums. For the record, yesterday I listened to 30 second clips of Cage: Complete Piano Music Vol. 1 by Steffen Schleiermacher on rdio. That was too fragmented, even for me. And Folio is by far the most sparse music on this list.

Keith Fullerton Whitman

• Occlusion (Rue de Bitche). Via Total Vibration.

Ferruccio Busoni

• Marc-André Hamelin. Piano Concerto. Via The Rest Is Noise. Note that I had to look up Busoni's first name for the precise spelling.

Jorge Grundman

• Brodsky Quartet. God's Sketches. rdio. I don't yet have the courage to listen to the second work on this album - Surviving a Son's Suicide.

Karl Mallden

• World of Vice. It's new releases night on rdio and not many classical recordings of note so I'm checking out other recordings. This is a new release of dance music and bears no relation to the actor Karl Malden, as far as I can tell.

Silversun Pickups

• Neck of the Woods: Out of Breath. 

The Gaslight Anthem

• "45"

Damon Albarn 

• Dr Dee: The Dancing KIng. Includes birds at the end. WTF.

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