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aworks listening log :: december 30, 2013 #shadowing #johnfahey

• Luke Gullickson. Back Porch Requiem for John Fahey (2012). Nicholas Phillips - American Vernacular [New Focus Recordings]
• HyeKyung Lee. Shadowing (2011). Thelema Trio - Neither From Nor Towards… [Innova]
• Duane Pitre. Origin (2009). Origin [Root Strata]
• David Lang. Depart (2002). Elizabeth Farnum - Lang: Death Speaks [Cantaloupe Music]
• David Lang. Sweet Air (1999). Child [Cantaloupe Music]
• Phill Niblock. Five More String Quartets (1993). Music by Phill Niblock [Experimental Intermedia Foundation ?]
• Phill Niblock. P K (1990), P K & S L S (1990). Phill Niblock - Four Full Flutes [Experimental Intermedia Foundation]
  Stephen Scott. Minerva's Web (1985). Colorado New Music Ensemble - Minerva's Web [New Albion]
• Joan Tower. Petroushkates (1980). Joel Lester, Patricia Spence, Joan Tower, Laura Flax, André Emelianoff, Da Capo Chamber Players - Joan Tower: Chamber And Solo Works [Composer Recordings, Inc.], The Composer-Performer [Composer Recordings, Inc.]
• Phill Niblock. Four Arthurs Superimposed With Two Octaves & A Fifth (1979). From the Kitchen Archives - New Music, New York 1979 [Orange Mountain Music]
• Terry Riley. Shri Camel (1978). Shri Camel [CBS]
• Charlemagne Palestine. electronic and flute (1967). Charlemagne Palestine & Robert Feldman - Sharing a Sonority [Alga Marghen]
• Terry Riley. In C (1964). Ars Nova - In C [Dacapo]
• Terry Riley. In C (1964). Shanghai Film Orchestra - In C [Celestial Harmonies]
• Terry Jennings. Terry's G Dorian Blues (1962). Jon Gibson, Terry Jennings, Michael Riesman, Bill Ruyle, LaMonte Young - In Good Company [Point Music]
• Gene Tyranny. Intuition (). "Blue" Gene Tyranny - Detours [Unseen Worlds]

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• Zeena Parkins. s:c:a:t:t:e:r:i:n:g (2012). The Eclipse Quartet, William Winant - Parkins, Rzewski & Tenney: Music for String Quartet & Percussion [New World Records]
• Bryce Dessner. Tenebre (2010). Kronos Quartet - Aheym [ANTI Records]
• Gyan Riley, Terry Riley/traditional. Balama (2002). Food For The Bearded [New Albion]
• Pauline Oliveros, Philip Gelb. Spacia (2002). The Space Between [482 Music]
• Lou Harrison. Ariadne (1990). Dennis Russell Davies - Harrison: Solstice/Canticle #3 [Music Masters]
• Gloria Coates. Lunar Loops (1987). Ruth Fischer, Stephen Stiens - Gloria Coates: At Midnight [Tzadik]
• Daniel Godfrey. Music For Marimba And Vibraphone (1983). Steven Schick - Music For Strings And Mallet Percussion [Gm Recordings]
• Moondog. Here's to John Wesley Harding (1978),  I'm Just a Hop Head (1978). Moondog - H'art Songs [Roof Music]
• Terry Riley. piece 1 (1975). Terry Riley, Don Cherry - Koln Concert 1975 [KOLN 1]
• Terry Jennings. For Christine Jennings (1960). John Tilbury, Sebastian Lexer - Lost Daylight [Another Timbre]
• Philip Glass. Black Beach (). The Raybeats featuring Michael Riesman & Philip Glass - The Lost Philip Glass Sessions [Orange Mountain Music]

aworks listening log :: december 29, 2013

• John Cage/Lou Harrison. Double Music (1941). Amadinda Percussion Group - Varèse, Chavez, Cage And Harrison [Hungaraton] 
• Scott Joplin. Augustan Club Waltz (1901). William Appling Plays Scott Joplin and J.S. Bach [Albany Records] 

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• Bryce Dessner. Little Blue Something (2013). Kronos Quartet - Aheym [ANTI Records]
• Bryce Dessner. Tour Eiffel (2010). 
• Bryce Dessner. Aheym (2009). 
• Gloria Coates. The Silver Eyed Soul (2008). Christine Hoock, Alessandro Taverna - Gloria Coates: At Midnight [Tzadik]
• "Blue" Gene Tyranny. The Intermediary (1981). The Intermediary [Lovely Music]
• Moondog. Choo Choo Lullaby (1978). H'art Songs [Roof Music]
• Moondog. High on a Rocky Ledge (1978).
  
• Moondog. Pigmy Pig (1978).
  
• Edgard Varèse. Ionisation (1929-31). Zoltán Kocsis & Amadinda Percussion Group - Varèse, Chavez, Cage And Harrison [Hungaraton]
• Scott Joplin. Magnetic Rag (1914). William Appling Plays Scott Joplin and J.S. Bach [Albany Records]
• Daniel Carney. Sextet (?). Allan Ware, Wolfgang Mechsner & Kontras Quartet - Daniel Carney: Nos. 27, 54 & 60 [Daniel Carney]

Steppe Music (1997). Meredith Monk #subtle #somber

• I was slow to recognize the music of Meredith Monk, but the more I hear...
• This year's Sarah Cahill recording, A Sweeter Music, has an excerpt from Monk's Steppe Music. Other Minds
• "It is subtle and dirge-like, but with an optimistic ending." Molly Yeh/Q2
• "somber repetitive" Brett Campbell/OregonArtsWatch
• "a stark and, so far, static solo piano work that Ms. Monk said would eventually run at least 25 minutes" Allan Kozinn/New York Times (1993)
• "reworking existing material, such as the excerpts from Meredith Monk’s Steppe Music" Stephen Smoliar/examiner.com
• "lyric, haunting and quasi-Medieval" Joseph Dalton/timesunion.com

 

The Ensemble Chord in Eb with a Minor 7th and a Pump Organ Base (2007). Duane Pitre #tonegenerator

• This album is probably my current favorite; I've been listening to it all year, although it was a 2007 release.
• Is "Pitre" pronounced "Peet-ry," "Pie-ter," or "Pee-treh"?
• "Instruments include guitar, cello, viola, tone generator, and saxophone, but ultimately the individual voicings are less important than their choral impact." Split Foster
• mixing "the buoyantly repetitive sounds of Terry Riley’s pieces with the meditative tones of La Monte Young’s work along a linear musical path of varied instrumental drones" Jerry Pratt
• " a gorgeously elaborated, extended chord performed by a small ensemble consisting of Pitre (guitar), Casey Block (tone generator), Craig Colorusso (guitar), Julianne Carney (violin), Lathan Hardy (alto saxophone), John DeRosa (pump organ), Tianna Kennedy (cello) and Jon Elterman (viola)" Brian Olewnick
• Extech 40180 Tone Generator and Amplifier Probe Circuit Finder Kit on Amazon. I assume this is not the equipment used on the recording.