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Alvin Lucier

1. Jon Nakamatsu - Gershwin: 3 Preludes (harmonia mundi) #yes
2. Alvin Lucier - Still Lives (Lovely Music, Ltd) #humm
3. Kenneth Fuchs - String Quartet No. 5, 'American' - Falling Canons - Falling Trio (Naxos) #christopheroriley #delraystringquartet
4. Arditti Quartet - Lucier: Small Waves; Navigations For Strings (Mode) #stringy
5. Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe - Shelter (Cantaloupe Records) #dunno
6. Michael Daughterty - Mount Rushmore - Radio City - The Gospel According to Sister Aimee (Naxos) #americana
7. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Food for Clouds ('a' Records) #preview
8. Christine McVie - Christine McVie (Warner Bros.) #disappointing

Baby Einstein on the Beach (2013). Philip Glass & Brooklyn Academy of Music

Via Tyler Cowen, I'd pay to see this:

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Alvin Lucier

****

Still Lives. Alvin Lucier - Still Lives (Lovely Music, Ltd)

Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators. Alvin Lucier - Still Lives (Lovely Music, Ltd)

In Memoriam Jon Higgins. Jürg Frey - Lucier • Wolff • Schlothauer • Frey (Edition Wandelweiser Records)

***

Small Waves. Arditti Quartet - Lucier: Small Waves; Navigations For Strings (Mode)

**

Navigation for Strings. Arditti Quartet - Lucier: Small Waves; Navigations For Strings (Mode)

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Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (1972). Alvin Lucier /listen not to sounds/

Coming Together (1971). Fredric Rzweski /repeated text trinity/

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Psycho

*****

Psycho: A Suite for Strings. Esa-Pekka Salonen: Los Angeles - Bernard Herrmann - The Film Scores (Sony)

****

On Remembering a Naiad. La Monte Young. Arditti String Quartet - U.S.A (Montaigne)

An American Elegy. Frank Ticheli. University of Kansas Wind Ensemble - Landscapes (Naxos)

Voices Within: A Requiem. Laurie Spiegel - Obsolete Systems (Emf Media)

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Scherzo. Charles Ives. Arditti String Quartet - U.S.A (Montaigne)

Sisters: Separation Nightmare. Bernard Herrmann. At the Movies (Label X)

Simple Gifts: Four Shaker Songs. Frank Ticheli. University of Kansas Wind Ensemble - Landscapes (Naxos)

The Red Pony Suite. Aaron Copland. JoAnn Falletta - COPLAND: Prairie Journal / The Red Pony Suite / Letter from Home (Naxos)

Twenty-Six. Christina Fong - Cage, J.: Three 2 / Twenty-Three / Six / Twenty-Six (OgreOgress Productions)

Music in Fifths (1969). Philip Glass #nottorture

Tim Munro of eighth blackbird on his early attempts at playing Music in Fifths:

 I complain to friends, exasperated. “But it’s just so bloody impossible. If I think about a post-rehearsal beer, I’m lost; If a drop of sweat drips into my eye, I’m lost; if I breathe for too long, I’m lost. My embouchure trembles, my body is soaked in sweat. This is musical torture!”

Some would argue this music is torture for the listener as well, but they would be wrong.

Music in Fifths (1969). Philip Glass #nottorture

Tim Munro of eighth blackbird on his early attempts at playing Music in Fifths:

 I complain to friends, exasperated. “But it’s just so bloody impossible. If I think about a post-rehearsal beer, I’m lost; If a drop of sweat drips into my eye, I’m lost; if I breathe for too long, I’m lost. My embouchure trembles, my body is soaked in sweat. This is musical torture!”

Some would argue this music is torture for the listener as well, but they would be wrong.

Visitations I & II (1973). Jon Gibson #album #rdio #environment

I've been listening to quite a bit of electronic music so this is a more naturalistic departure from that:

Essays for the Piano (1976). Gordon Binkerd

Bridge Records has a new album out by Martin Perry with piano music by Gordon Binkerd and Charles Ives. I wasn't familiar with the late Mr. Binkerd.