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August 2, 2009: Glenn Gould String Quartet, Gunther Schuller at 45 RPM + several species of pianos, strings & guitars - forwards and backwards
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Comments | Approx. start time |
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Edward Ruchalski | Akimova | Water Train | Humbug | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |
Michael Denhoff | In(tro)vention mit Bach (...Steve Reich ist auch dabei...) for two player pianos | Player Piano 8: Original Compositions in the Tradition of Nancarrow | Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm | 0:00:05 (Pop-up) | |
Toshi Ichiyanagi | Music for Piano No. 2 | Asia Piano Avantgarde: Japan, Vol. 1 | Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm | performed by Steffen Schleiermacher | 0:05:06 (Pop-up) |
Tom Brosseau | Youth Decay | Posthumous Success | Fat Cat | 0:10:24 (Pop-up) | |
Henry Flynt | Violin Strobe (1978) | Hillbilly Tape Music | Recorded | "New American Ethnic Music, Vol. III" | 0:12:26 (Pop-up) |
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Hassara | The Zoo | Backyard I - III | Three Lobed | Originally released by Hassara 2005-2006 on "micro-released" CDRs. Glad to have all three in one place! | 0:17:42 (Pop-up) |
Alexander Turnquist | Statues in the Dark - Shadows Collide | As the Twilight Crane Dreams in Color | VHF | 0:29:56 (Pop-up) | |
Brian Ferneyhough | Kurze Schatten II | Arditti Quartet: Music of Brian Ferneyhough | WDR/Montaigne | 0:45:55 (Pop-up) | |
Foetus | Te Deum | Limb: Minimal Compositions, Instrumentals and Experiments (1980 - 1983) | Ectopic Ents | The piece Te Deum is inspired by Bunuel's classic Exterminating Angel, which was my favorite film at the time. It was recorded for a cassette compilation called Bethel, which was compiled and released by John Balance of Coil. The whole rhythm track is made with prepared piano and toy piano. Te Deum was a hymn played in the film, (although this is not a cover version of that hymn), but I also like the wordplay on "te deum -> tedium". The piano was prepared with alligator clips attached to the strings and thumbtacks in the hammers, objects placed between some strings with others damped with gaffer tape. The organs detune from each other by changing the varispeed while recording. On this track, like "Sick Minutes", a lot of the parts cycle in different time signatures so they never intersect at same point. There are a lot of concrète sound effects spun in. Before sampling technology was introduced I used to spin in sounds from prepared cassettes, and use tape loops, or "play " sounds onto tape using pause buttons on cassette machines. Some of my tracks like "What Have You Been Doing" and "I'll Meet You In Poland Baby" were constructed almost totally with effects, loops and sounds and very few live instruments. When sampling became available, I embraced it as it was a new way to do what I had been doing - organize sound. I tracked down the screenplay of Exterminating Angel which was the source of the dialog quotes - "vulgarity, violence and dirt", "in a few hours he'll be completely bald". The "baa" sounds represent the sheep which the inhabitants see while entrapped in the room. This track and its companion, "Piano Piece", were noisy because they were mixed to cassette. At the time I figured it was for a cassette release, so why bother mix to tape? But Fred Kevorkian has done an amazing mastering and restoration job on this album. | 0:48:05 (Pop-up) |
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Glenn Gould | String Quartet Op. 1 (1956) | Gould / Macmillan String Quartets | ATMA Classique | Performed by Quatour Alcan. Yes: Glenn Gould the pianist. Composed when he was 23 years old. | 1:01:42 (Pop-up) |
Gunther Schuller | Music for Violin, Piano and Percussion | Works by Thomas Oboe Lee / Gunther Schuller | GM Recordings | Version at 45 rpm. "We like it that way." | 1:34:12 (Pop-up) |
Starving Weirdos | Ocen Seal Concentration | Into An Energy | Bo' Weavil | 1:41:23 (Pop-up) | |
Ben Reynolds | The Virgin Knows | How Day Earnt Its Night | Tompkins Square | 1:51:33 (Pop-up) | |
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White Magic | Tpyge Wen | New Egypt | Latitudes | 2:11:14 (Pop-up) | |
Bionulor | D.TMS.05 | Bionulor | 2:02:20 (Pop-up) | ||
Lussier/Tetreault/Yoshihide | Glou Glou | Elektrik Toboggan | Victo | 2:19:51 (Pop-up) | |
William Basinski | Melancholia I | Melancholia | Musex International | 2:16:05 (Pop-up) | |
Lullatone | Stars on the Ceiling of a Planetarium | Songs That Spin in Circles | Audio Dregs | 2:19:11 (Pop-up) | |
Mia Doi Todd | Electrafficbirds Two | Morning Music | City Zen | 2:21:06 (Pop-up) | |
A Hawk and a Hacksaw | Raggle Taggle | Deliverance | Leaf | 2:25:46 (Pop-up) | |
Beirut | Cliquot | The Flying Club Cup | Ba Da Bing | 2:25:48 (Pop-up) | |
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Gianluca Becuzzi & Fabio Orsi | I'm Happy Here (Under the Rain) | Muddy Speaking Ghosts Through My Machines | A Silent Place | 2:52:31 (Pop-up) | |
Amy X. Neuberg | Difficult | The Secret Language of Subways | MinMax | 2:56:42 (Pop-up) |
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Brucey:
Back in 1996 or so I was working as a computer programmer for a company which made digital X-ray hardware/software for dentists. A tech support call was escalated to me, and I noticed the location of the dentist, Texarkana, Arkansas. Chatting up the dentist, I said to him, "Hmmmm, Texarkana, Arkansas, I'm a big fan of one of your town's favorite sons!" "Oh, no," he replied, "not Ross Perot!" "No, no, Conlon Nancarrow!" He said "Who?" I repeated, "Nancarrow", pronouncing it nan-car-row. He thought for a second, and said "Oh, Nancarrow," pronouncing it nan-crow. "That's how we say it around here." He then went on to tell about how he met Conlon at Conlon's brother's (the ultra-right winger) funeral. I quote as I remember, "That was one of the most interesting men I've ever met in my life."
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bartelby:
Just finished updating my listings on the retail book website. I think I'll go over to the couch now and listen on the radio proper. Incidentally, I first started listening to SHP as a crossover listener from Fabio's show.
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bethany, i think i would trade living in Brooklyn for proximity to the Dog Fish Head in a white hot nanosecond.
not that that's really relevant to ANYTHING.
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bunyan, that music made me wanna ymra eht nioj!!
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>fantastic music bethany!!!!!!!!!we love it
yes we do, what a great show.
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