aworks :: "new" american classical music

For Philip Glass (2006). David Toub /metadata courtesy aworks/

An ex-del.icio.us developer has created streampad, a web searcher/player/audio YouTube thingie. Using it to find music of this month's aworks composer, I get maybe 15 streamed Philip Glass tracks. In the middle of this, an old friend -- "For Philip Glass." Streampad link here.

Metadata is a problem as there's no indication that this is David Toub's For Philip Glass. But it's good to again hear this work even if metadata has to be supplied via aworks.

And while I'm not yet ready to abandon "collection management," I find Mike at Avant Music News' idea of only listening to Internet-accessible music provocative, in these post-Tower Records times.

for philip glass (2006). david toub

My link the other day to David Toub's intriguing yet minimal for philip glass was broken. Here's David's blog, description of the work, the actual MP3 and the del.icio.us contemporary classical feed from which it came (along with music by Steve Layton, Jeff Harrington, Celeste Hutchins, Dave Seidel, the Rambler, Evan Ziporyn, and others).

From the for philip glass description:

There are a few sections where I thought it would be interesting to write a percussion section for strings, since we generally think of stringed instruments melodically, rather than percussively.