aworks :: "new" american classical music

american (classical) listening log - Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States

2013	Smoke and Mirrors	Christopher Chandler	Switch~ Ensemble, Chrisiopher Chandler	SEAMUS Records	2020	"melding timbres together into gestures that wash over the texture"
2013	Three Etudes for Piano and Electronics	Jeffrey Haas	Kati Gleiser, Jeffrey Hass	SEAMUS Records	2020	"an occasional beep of a smoke detector"
2012	MR-HSC	Elliot Patros	Elliot Patros	SEAMUS Records	2020	"excessive DSP tends to disconnect the acts of recording and composing"
2012	Bright Lines	Halim Beere	Halim Beere	SEAMUS Records	2020	"dramatic gestures that sweep from left to right across the stereo field"
2012	Desire with Digressions	Butch Rovan	Keith Kirchoff, Butch Rovan	SEAMUS Records	2020	"the main character is attempting to flee from his former life"
2011-12	Steel Golem	Chester Udell	Chester Udell	SEAMUS Records	2020	Formerly known as Concertino for Twisted Metal
2011	Duo for Cajón and Computer	Cort Lippe	Patti Cudd, Cort Lippe	SEAMUS Records	2020	Afro-Peruvian percussion instrument
2008	Train Song	David Gedosh	David Gedosh	SEAMUS Records	2020	With sounds from Denton, Texas

american (classical) listening log - more contemporary organ music

2019	✓ Closing (from the Tao of Glass)	Phillip Glass	Philip Glass	Orange Mountain Music	2020
2012	✓ An Evangelist Drowns	Michael Daugherty	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020	More contemporary organ music
2012	The Revd Mustard his Installation Prelude	Nico Muhly	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
2002	✓ On a Day of Bells	Libby Larsen	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
2001	Ceremonies: II. Meditation	Jennifer Higdon	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
2000	Fantasia Cromática	Roberto Sierra	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
1990	✓ Diapason Fall	Matt Darriau	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
1998	Wished and Candles	Stephen Paulus	Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, The Ebor Singers, Paul Gameson, Rachel Jerome	Resonus Limited	2020
1949	To a Yellow Rose	Florence Price	Sandra Coursey, Madison Hills	Sandra Coursey	2020	"each Rose uses a different melodic style and emotional vein to evoke the different connotations of yellow, white, and red roses"

american (classical) listening log :: 12/06/2020

2015	The Last Dalai Lama?	Philip Glass	Tenzin Choegyal	Orange Mountain Music	2020	Soundtrack to the film
2009	55 Chords	Tom Johnson	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020	It takes awhile to work through 3 hours of contemporary organ music. Having a diverse set of composers helps.
1979	Mad Rush (Live at St. John the Divine)	Philip Glass	Philip Glass	Orange Mountain Music	2020	Live recording on organ, appended to the Last Dalai Lama soundtrack. The work is 'a glistening labyrinth of interlocking rhythms and competing “grooves.”'
1979	Mad Rush	Philip Glass	Philip Glass	Orange Mountain Music	2017	1 Glass piece plus Monk, Jarrett, Palestine, Davis and Budd on From the Kitchen Archives, No. 5 - Pianos in the Kitchen.
1979	Mad Rush	Philip Glass	Donald Joyce	BMG Music	1993	Interesting that I don't really like any of these versions of Mad Rush.
1977-78	✓ The Time Curve Preludes	William Duckworth	R. Andrew Lee	Irritable Hedgehog	2011
1958	Book, Book and Candle	George Duning		Harkbit Entertainment	2004	Tepid jazz & pop-classical soundtrack to a peculiar movie. James Stewart is cranky, Kim Novak a witch (albeit a serious one) and Jack Lemmon a warlock & self-professed bongo player.

american (classical) listening log :: 12/5/2020

2019	Piano Sonata	Philip Glass	Maki Namekawa	Orange Mountain Music	2020
2018	✓ For All Its Fury	Devonté Hynes	Third Percussion	Cedille	2019
2018	Loss	Sarah Hennies	Judith Hamann	Blank Form Editions	2020	"stark and disorienting"
2018	Perfectly Voiceless	Devonté Hynes	Third Percussion	Cedille	2019
2017	Passacaglia "Distant Figure"	Philip Glass	Maki Namekawa	Orange Mountain Music	2020	Composed for pianist Anton Bagatov
2014	✓ Julie's Garden of Unearthly Delights	Anne LeBaron	Julie Favas, John Stehney	Innova	2020
2014	Exodus	Aaron Travers	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020	New contemporary organ recording
2013	✓ Celesta	Christian Wolff	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
2013	✓ Etude No. 20	Philip Glass	Maki Namekawa	Orange Mountain Music	2020
2013	✓ Etude No. 20	Philip Glass	Katia Labèque	KML Recordings	2020	The duo sisters each get their own etude. 20 > 17.
2012	Etude No. 17	Philip Glass	Marielle Labèque	Orange Mountain Music	2020
2012	✓ Ordinary	David Lang	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
2008	Concerto for Violin and Orchestra	Christopher Theofanidis	Albany Symphony	Albany Records	2020
2006	Angel Tears & Earth Prayers	Augusta Read Thomas	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
2003	Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra	Christopher Theofanidis	Albany Symphony	Albany Records	2020
1997	✓ Sizzles	Alvin Lucier	Randall Harlow	Innova	2020
1996	✓ Trio For Violin, Piano and Percussion	Charles Shere	Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio	Other Minds Music	2020
1994	✓ 90+	Elliot Carter	Yoko Hirota	Navona	2020
1931	✓ String Quarter 1931	Ruth Crawford Seeger	Spektral Quartet	New Focus Recordings	2020	"Ruth Crawford Seeger created pathbreaking music. But her family’s folk revival legacy has overshadowed her avant-garde compositions."

they solidify then tilt (2016). Nicholas Deyoe #2020release #sparse #dark #veer

1. "Los Angeles based composer, guitarist, and artistic director of the wasteLAnd series Nicholas Deyoe writes powerful music that fuses his interests in noise, microtonality, and dramatically expressive structure." Dan Lippel/NEW FOCUS RECORDINGS
2. "Nicholas Deyoe's they solidify then tilt veered between atmospheric and anxious, inspired by Alison Carter's poem in which she tries to make out the contents of her bedroom in the dark." Peter Matthews/Feast of Music
3. Recorded by Hypercube but not the Rodrigo Passannanti Hypercube. Peter Thelen/Exposé
4. Work list. Nicholas Deyoe

Philip Glass:Escape / Gerard Cousins @aworks #2020release #guitar #fresh

• Opening (from Glassworks) ✓ 
• Metamorphosis Nos. 1, 3, 4 ✓ 
• Escape (from The Hours) ✓ 
• Knee Play 2 (from Einstein on the Beach)
• Trump Sleeps (from The Truman Show) 

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• 2020 Orange Mountain Music
• "Welsh guitarist, composer and arranger." Wikipedia
• He's also written homage to Philip Glass, John McLaughlin, Arvo Part and Steve Reich. Spotify
• Fresh sounding takes of commonly recorded Philip Glass music.
• The Dublin Guitar Quartet also has a recording of music by Philip Glass on the Orange Mountain Music label. Spotify

Eastman: Evil Nigger / Gay Guerrilla - Kai Schumacher, Patricia Martin, Mirela Zhulali, Benedikt ter Break @aworks #2020release

• Evil Nigger - Live (1979) ✓ 
• Gay Guerrilla - Live (ca. 1980) ✓ 

• 2020 Neue Meister/Edel Germany GmbH
• "As he [composer Julius Eastman] stated in a recording contained in Unjust Malaise addressed to an audience in Northwestern University in 1980, the names were meant to elicit a “basicness” that “eschews that thing which is superficial”. In other words, they could be conceived of as a reference to the raw and complex quality of everyday life, as opposed to the abstract intent of a minimalism continually concerned with “big” and “Human” (yes, with capital H) events. Where canonical US minimalists promote coalition around “universal rhythms” (Americanized and taken from African peoples without retribution), Eastman incisively foregrounds difference, a productive and combative distinction that points at the basic intensity of living in a world that tries to suffocate the plurality continually exploding within it." David Murrieta Flores/a closer listen
• "Eastman’s uncompromising work and his guerilla struggle for artistic integrity are an acerbic rejection of “new music’s” conservative elite, from which he repeatedly estranged himself." Kai Schumacher/Facebook
• "Patricia Martin, who teaches at the same university I do, did the first performance of the two pieces „Gay Guerrilla“ and „Evil Nigger“ 40 years ago together with Julius Eastman himself!" Kai Schumacher/NINU NINA
• Recorded live At Moers Festival 2020. Discogs

Jeroen van Veen - The Best of Minimal Piano Music @aworks #2020release

• Opening from Glassworks (1981). Philip Glass
• ✓ Metamorphosis I-V (1988). Philip Glass 
• ✓ Mad Rush (1979). Philip Glass
• The Hours (2002). Philip Glass
• ✓ Modern Love Waltz (1978). Philip Glass
• Truman Show (1998). Philip Glass
• Etude No. 11 (2012). Philip Glassw
• China Gates (1977). John Adams
• ✓ Phrygian Gates (1977-78). John Adams

• 2020 Brilliant Classics
• A repackaging of prior recordings, the album also includes five more hours of works by Erik Satie, Arvo Part, Yann Tiersen and others. He's also recorded the full Piano Etudes, other American minimalism, and various works by Philip Glass.

albums, ranked (3/27/20)

1. Mal Waldron - Left Alone [2020 Hotel 49]
2. Michael Gordon, Donald Nally, The Crossing - Michael Gordon: Anonymous Man [2020 Cantaloupe Music]
3. Sun Ra - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, Vol. 1 [2020 Sun Ra LLC]. Ths is "out there" and I like that. Haven't yet heard Volume 2.
4. Meredith Monk, Bang On A Can All-Stars, Ashley Bathgate, Ken Thomson - Memory Game [2020 Cantaloupe Music]. See also Ashley Bathgate's  album from last year.
5. Lalo Schifrin - Bullitt (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [1968 Warner Records Inc.]. Love the movie; the soundtrack, not as much.
6. Thom Yorke -The Eraser Rmxs [2008 Thom Yorke]
7. Nicolas Jaar - Cenizas [2020 Other People]
8. Brooklyn Ryder - Healing Modes, disc 1 [2020 IN A CIRCLE RECORDS]
9. Jacaszek - Music for Film [2020 Ghostly International]
10. Tomo - lien 2014 [2020 tomo]. I think this at the bottom of the list because I didn't understand it. I should give it another try.  

albums, ranked (3/25/20)

1. Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land [1982 Virgin Records Ltd]. Lizard Point has some of my favorite sounds. 
2. Richard Chartier - Untitled Tapes: 1991-1993 [2012 3particles]
3. Tracy Silverman - Meditations  [2020 C21 FX / MX]
4. Julia Holter - Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [2020 Focus Features LLC]
5. Sufjan Stevens, Lowell Brams - Aporia [2020 Asthmatic Kitty Records]
6. William Stromberg - Herrmann: Garden of Evil [1998 Marco-Polo]
7. Psychic Ills - Hazed Dream [2011 Sacred Bones Records]. RIP
8. Mitch Greer - Ambient Harp Afternoon [2020 Amaryllis Recordings]
9. Gino Foti - Deep Devotion: J.S. Bach on Bass Guitar [2020 Gino Foti]. What the title says.
10. Manu Dibango - The Very Best of Manu Dibango: Afro Soul Jazz from the Original Makossa Man [2000 Soul Makossa]. Not the album I had and liked in the 1980s but RIP.