Favoriting Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from June 30, 2021 Favoriting

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Ridgewood Radio features concert recordings by adventurous bands and experimental musicians and restored archival tapes from private and institutional collections captured at venues large and small across the five boroughs of New York. It is produced by David Weinstein and Outpost Artists Resources operating out of the Ridgewood section of Queens, NY, where you'll find more yellow bricks than on the road to Oz and the cemetery of your choice is never more than a few blocks from home.

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Favoriting June 30, 2021: Excavated Piano

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Mutated, mechanical, miniature, and other magical manipulations of the keyboard juggernaut,
from Erik Griswold, Phyllis Chen, Denman Maroney, Margaret Leng Tan,
and a little Conlon Nancarrow.

Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
Conlon Nancarrow  Study No.21   Favoriting Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano Vol. 2  Dabringhaus & Grimm  2007  Recorded with piano rolls and the Ampico Bösendorfer Grand in the possession of Jürgen Hocker, which was restored under the supervision of Nancarrow.   
 
Erik Griswold  Wallpaper Music (concert recording)   Favoriting Interpretations Series  Roulette Archive  15 Nov 2012  The American born, Australia-based composer/performer in the New York premiere of his prepared piano tour-de-force.  0:05:53 (Pop-up)
 
Margaret Leng Tan/John Cage  Bacchanale   Favoriting Daughters Of The Lonesome Isle  New Albion  1994  Composed 1940, the first of Cage’s pieces for prepared piano, performed by the major interpreter and colleague of the composer.  0:52:37 (Pop-up)
Denman Maroney  Udentity III   Favoriting Udentity  Clean Feed  2007  Ned Rothenberg, clarinet; Dave Ballou, trumpet; Reuben Radding, bass; Michael Sarin, drums and composer Maroney on his signature hyperpiano, with an extreme set of inside the piano techniques.  0:59:08 (Pop-up)
Conlon Nancarrow  Study No. 25   Favoriting Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano Vol. 2  Dabringhaus & Grimm  2007  Recorded with the Ampico Bösendorfer Grand in the possession of Jürgen Hocker, which was restored under the supervision of Nancarrow.  1:13:59 (Pop-up)
 
Phyllis Chen  Childhood Is A Curious Country (concert recording)   Favoriting Roulette Concert Series  Roulette Archive  13 Nov 2012  Excerpts from a concert for toy piano, hacked toy piano, music boxes, miniature objects, and a coiled gong piano built by Ranjit Bhatnagar.  1:23:38 (Pop-up)
 

 
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david w:

Quick link to sign up for the Drummer newsletter: tinyletter.com... 
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listener james from westwood:

How'd they get that picture of my quarantine nest?!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:02pm
david w:

We are watching you, james.
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Webhamster Henry:

Hi Ridgewood!
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david w:

Hi, Henry!
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Threemoons:

Heyo.
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listener james from westwood:

Better you than the NSA. They should stick to that FOX guy.
Avatar ♥ 5:05pm
spodiodi:

hi david!
shenanigans and soaking sound great
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:07pm
Webhamster Henry:

I like piano music. Especially prepared strings, unprepared performers, Toy pianos, Una Cordas, bowed pianos, way in tune just pianos, way out of tune sad pianos.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:07pm
david w:

spodi! These are the kinds of things you say when you just came in from 100 degree heat.
  5:11pm
ruth:

Hey there -had to run outside for some emergency watering and NYC told everybody to turn off ac's to avoid a power outage so needed to check the building. sitting on an ice pack now and loving this twinkly piano now. PHEW!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:11pm
david w:

I totally share that interest with you, Henry. And james, I totally share that fear with you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:12pm
david w:

Fingers crossed that the power company doesn't shut down the stream!
  5:12pm
ruth:

Henry did you know David is a keyboard player?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:15pm
WR:

Hello David and Ruth and fans of the plink plunk plank, of which I am one.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:17pm
WR:

Right David, got the NYC power conservation alert about 40 minutes ago. They should have sent that out at 8AM as people were starting the day.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:17pm
david w:

Hello, WR. Plenty of plunk today, and thoughtful plunk I promise.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:18pm
WR:

I hear some plucks too, what more could I ask for!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:19pm
david w:

Yeah, Like they didn't know it was headed toward 100F (38 celsius)??!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:21pm
david w:

I don't know why this Griswold makes me so happy. Maybe because its in no hurry to go anywhere, just being here now.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:22pm
doctorjazz:

Hi David, Ruth, and Ridgewoodians!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:24pm
david w:

doctor! Mr. MD! I say yeah yeah yeah...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:27pm
doctorjazz:

Could be, all I really need...(EVERYBODY)!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:29pm
david w:

Ain't it the truth.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:32pm
Webhamster Henry:

@Ruth Sure!
Hey experimental Keyboardists - I've made the sounds from my old app Lake Piano available to my app AUMI. This pretty out of tune piano also has bits of children and dogs and doors in the samples.
  5:32pm
hank:

Hail Ridgewood Radio - liking the current selection - kind like a piano tuning.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:34pm
david w:

Now, after blissing out for 30 minutes, this is where I start to get anxious... where is he taking us?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:35pm
david w:

Hail and hearty hank!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:36pm
Webhamster Henry:

Nam June Paik would have started burning the thing by now.
  5:37pm
hank:

Reminiscent of that piece you made David - that I used in a piece "Sleep Walk"
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:38pm
david w:

@Henry, I think more likely he would have tipped it on its side.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:39pm
david w:

@hank, wow, there's a memory!
  5:40pm
hank:

I love that piece.and this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:41pm
david w:

Ahh. There it is. A spare and scribbly coda.
  5:44pm
hank:

I'm getting to the party late. This is from a concert at Roulette ?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:45pm
david w:

Yes. 2012.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:02pm
doctorjazz:

Love this Maroney!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:04pm
david w:

A great entree to his work, if you don't know it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:05pm
doctorjazz:

I don't, but I know those sidemen.
  6:06pm
hank:

Rockin it tonight Ridgewood !
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:11pm
Webhamster Henry:

I'm getting a little thunder cadenza in the mix.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:12pm
david w:

Thanks, hank. If Cage and Nancarrow rock you, you are one special cat.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:15pm
chresti:

Hi David and ruth and esteamed Ridgewoodians!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:16pm
chresti:

That's my dream house pictured!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:16pm
david w:

Hi, chresti (who is probably literally steamed).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:16pm
Webhamster Henry:

Nancarrow was probably pleased to have something better than his little upright Ampico.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:20pm
chresti:

david, and roasted.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:22pm
Webhamster Henry:

I never got the recut Nancarrow rolls when I had my Ampico baby grand, ($70 a roll .. hmmm!) But I played the test roll a lot. jhhl.net...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:24pm
Webhamster Henry:

Where is Ranjit ? He's usually on the chat board somewhere?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:25pm
david w:

Henry, now I am in total awe. And yeah, just when we feature Ranjit he melted away...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:28pm
david w:

@chresti, I think that photo was taken in Detroit where you could find many similar ruins waiting for love.
Avatar ♥ 6:29pm
spodiodi:

hi chresti! \\// ❄️
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:31pm
david w:

Next up in Drummerland:
Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan 7-10pm EDT:
wfmu.org...
Pathé 100: The Series. Immerse yourself in Shanghai of the 1930s and 40s and Hong Kong of the 1950s and 60s!
If You Lose Your Horse with Sam Segal 10-midnite
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:31pm
Webhamster Henry:

Yeah coiled gong!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:31pm
chresti:

Hi spodi! \\// 💊
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:32pm
chresti:

Detroit! I would've never guessed.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:32pm
Webhamster Henry:

Here it is, www.phyllischen.net...
  6:32pm
hank:

Thanks David, Ruth, and Ridgewood Radio.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:33pm
chresti:

Taking Phyllis to the shower with me..
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:34pm
david w:

Man, a shower sounds good right now. We are roasting in NYC!
  6:38pm
hank:

We just had a huge thunderstorm here in the mountains - temperature dropped to 73 and its marvelous. Sorry to put that out there - not to make anyone envious - its just so dang delicious.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:38pm
Gary:

@Hank, it will happen here eventually :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:39pm
david w:

I forgot my umbrella and an extra pair of dry socks!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:42pm
Webhamster Henry:

Yes, it's down to 77 or so in Kingston from 97 about half an hour ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:53pm
david w:

Thanks, Henry and everybody for helping with the back stories on much of where we wandered today. Stay cool!
Avatar ♥ 6:54pm
spodiodi:

thanks for the wonderful show, david!
  6:57pm
ruth:

Yes! a truly wonderful show D!! Stay cool!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:58pm
Webhamster Henry:

That was fun! I'm sure there are lots of other Roulette piano pieces that are completely different from these.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:59pm
Gary:

haha, good guess!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:59pm
listener james from westwood:

Many thanks, y'all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:00pm
david w:

Off to the cooling center!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:03pm
WR:

Wonderful wonderful episode David and Ruth. thank you!
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