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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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August 7, 2019: Ben Johnston's Hand
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | Approx. start time |
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Ben Johnston | Sonnets of Desolation | Ben Johnston – Visions And Spels / Sonnets Of Desolation | Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI) | 1984 | Sonnet #4 of the piece, entitled That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of Resurrection. Written for the New Swingle Singers, who premiered the piece in 1981 in Urbana, Illinois. Recognized as masters of the classical scat, the British octet’s repertoire ranges from works of the 16th century to the present. | |
Malawi Mouse Boys | Kulira Kwambewa (The Crying of the Mouse) | Forever is 4 U | Omnivore Records | 2016 | Ridgewood Radio Theme https://lovesupportunite.org | 0:03:07 (Pop-up) |
Music behind DJ: David W |
Music of the Spheres. |
Ridgewood Radio Noise Library |
Beautiful Drummer |
2019 |
Yo, Pythagoras. |
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Rozalie Hirs | Venus [Morning Star] | Six | Slagwerk Den Haag | 2010 | For six percussionists and electronic sounds. Hirs was inspired by the mobius-like curves of Zaha Hadid's pavilion in the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam and by the “Sixxen”, a set of percussion instruments developed by Iannis Xenakis for his work, Pléïades. | 0:08:18 (Pop-up) |
James Tenney | Septet | Modern Hearts - New Music For Electric Guitar | Redshift | 2014 | For six electric guitars and electric bass (1981/2000) performed by Canadian Adrian Verdejo.Guitars re-tuned to the harmonic series of the fundamentals (A and E). The piece traverses these two tonalities using temporal modulation. A canon, each voice rhythmically reflects the ratio of the partials (overtones) as they emerge (3:2, 5:4, etc.). | 0:16:31 (Pop-up) |
Ben Johnston | String Quartet #4 (Amazing Grace) | Jacaranda | YouTube | 2009 | Composed 1983, considered the composer's signature masterpiece, performed by Denali Quartet (presented by new-music organization, Jacaranda, Music at the Edge) in Santa Monica, CA. | 0:26:47 (Pop-up) |
Harry Partch | Daphne of the Dunes | The World Of Harry Partch | Columbia Masterworks | 1969 | Partch composed with scales dividing the octave into 43 tones generated by the overtone series, outlined in his book Genesis of a Music. Just for curiosity, the names of Partch’s instruments on this piece: Kithara, Surrogate Kithara, Harmonic Canons, Chromelodeon, Cloud-chamber Bowls, Spoils Of War, Gourd Tree, Diamond/Boo/Bass Marimba (with tones so low it is virtually unrecordable!), and Adapted Viola. | 0:38:10 (Pop-up) |
Ben Johnston | Knocking Piece | Darmstadt Aural Documents, Box 3: Ensembles | NEOS Music | 2016 | Composed 1963, performed by two percussionists from the University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players, September 1966, Darmstadt, Stadthalle. Another example where harmonic ratios are transposed into rhythmic counterpoint: 6 against 5 or 11 against 8, etc. Johnston championed this as a compositional tool. | 0:58:57 (Pop-up) |
Terry Riley | Persian Surgery Dervishes (#2 Paris) | Persian Surgery Dervishes | Shanti | 1972 | Recorded live in Paris, France at Théâtre de la Musique on 24 May 1972, using a modified Yamaha electric organ tuned in just intonation. | 1:04:13 (Pop-up) |
Harry Partch | Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California | The World Of Harry Partch | Columbia Masterworks | 1969 | The composer spent some time riding the rails as a "hobo" (in search off truth while eschewing commonpractice traditions) and knew this marginal culture well. | 1:20:11 (Pop-up) |
Charlemagne Palestine, Tony Conrad | An Aural Symbiotic Mystery | An Aural Symbiotic Mystery | Sub Rosa | 2006 | Recorded at Petit Théâtre Mercelis, September 7, 2005, Brussels. Palestine, piano, drone; Conrad, violin. Excerpt. | 1:29:25 (Pop-up) |
The Who | Baba O'Riley | Who's Next | Polydor | 1971 | Composer Pete Townshend recorded a Lowrey Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1 organ using its note multi-attack feature as the backing track. The song's title combines the names of Meher Baba and Terry Riley, among Townshend's philosophical and musical mentors. The song is often mistakenly called "Teenage Wasteland", after the phrase repeated in the song. Weinstein edit. | 1:55:46 (Pop-up) |
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