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African Cores - listen | listen with RealPlayer Elliott Sharp presents music of Central Africa. |
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Ahlam: Revolt Against Reason - listen | listen with RealPlayer Ahlam. The experimental side of Algerian RAI, part funk, part hip-hop, and sort of psychedelic to boot. |
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Susan Alcorn: Mandala - listen | listen with RealPlayer Playing the pedal-steel guitar, an instrument usually associated with country & western music, Texan Susan Alcorn creates a music that is simultaneously meditative and energizing. Susan Alcorn's compositions make use of improvisation while her pedal-steel guitar, with its natural vocabulary of slides, whoops, glisses, and clouds of slowly-shifting sustains, completely lends itself to extended techniques. Playlist 01 Mantra Pt. 1 14:49 02 Mantra Pt. 2 8:43 03 Mantra Pt. 3 5:07 04 Mantra Pt. 4 7:08 05 Mantra Pt. 5 9:55 06 Mantra Pt. 6 9:36 |
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Laura Andel: Electro Percussive Orchestra - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 8, 2006 The Laura Andel Electric Percussive Orchestra performs In:Tension in a complete version by the Argentinian composer/bandleader as issued by the Spanish Rossbin label. (58 minutes) |
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Albert Ayler - listen | listen with RealPlayer This program of essential Albert Ayler begins with live tracks recorded at La Cave in Cleveland in 1966, with a band made up of Don Ayler (trumpet), Frank Wright (tenor sax), Michael Samson (violin), Mutawef Shaheed (bass) and Ronald Shannon Jackson (drums). "New Grass," Ayler's last studio recording for Impulse, follows. Here he took a singular approach to R -n-B and gospel accompanied by vocalist Mary Maria Parks, drummer Bernard Pretty Purdie, and electric bassist Bill Folwell. Playlist 01 Truth Is Marching In 15:40 02 Spirits 9:23 03 New Grass 3:53 04 New Generation 5:06 05 Sun Watcher 7:29 06 New Ghosts 4:10 07 Heart Love 5:32 08 Everybody's Movin' 3:43 09 Free At Last 3:08 |
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Derek Bailey; Improvisations 1975 - listen | listen with RealPlayer The world lost another unique and visionary musical voice on December 25, 2005 with the passing of improvising guitarist Derek Bailey. His output was prodigious with recordings on many labels. This is one of my favorites, first released on the Italian Cramps label in 1975. -E. Sharp (43 minutes) |
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Bombay the Hard Way - listen | listen with RealPlayer Guns, cars, sitars - Bollywood film music composed by the legendary Shah brothers Kalyani and Anandji. |
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Carla Bozulich and Ches Smith: Pull Handles Up Not Out - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast October 10, 2005 A bicoastal project with Carla Bozulich on vocals and a variety of instruments and Ches Smith on percussion. Carla is well-known for her former band Geraldine Fibbers and her Willie Nelson tribute project Red Headed Stranger. (48 minutes) Playlist 01 Jaunty Vibes 3:07 02 Run 2:26 03 Connected 4:05 04 In The Attic 4:31 05 The Hungry Story 5:40 06 Gravity 4:35 07 Elements Ascending 6:39 08 Let Loose Dogs 3:51 09 Stop Counting 5:30 10 Xjinging 3:12 11 Where Were We? 4:34 |
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Anthony Braxton Solo - listen | listen with RealPlayer Gripping and virtuosic solo pieces as Anthony Braxton performs both his own compositions and works by Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and standards. Playlist
01 Ballade
02 Relationship
03 Buzz Logic
04 African Violets
05 Whole
06 Intervallic
07 Long
08 Pointillistic
09 Triplet Diatonic
10 26F Kelvin
11 You Go To My Head
12 Med/Dance
13 Multiphonic
14 Round About Midnight
15 Line
16 Quarter
17 Ballade
18 Half Nelson
19 Triadic Spiral
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The Music of Earle Brown - listen | listen with RealPlayer Directly influenced by the visual arts, particularly the works of Alexander Calder and Jackson Pollock, Earle Brown was the pioneer of open forms, graphic scores, and improvisation. Playlist 01 Centering (1973) 02 Available Forms I (1961) 03 Cross Sections And Color Fields (1975) 04 Available forms II (1962) 05 December 1952 (1952) |
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BUMP: The Everyday Pleasures of Love - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 17, 2006 From the artists: Artist Organized Art releases BUMP. Documented for the first time on Compact Disc, BUMP performs live Dec 1, 2005 at CMS Studios NYC courtesy of Artist Organized Art. The release is a truth recording resulting in a 7-track album running over 40 minutes. BUMP is a prime example of a change sweeping the music scene. The band members do not speak one to the other. After over two years, they have only recently disclosed their names. There is little known about any of them. One described the band as "a collection of strangers." BUMP states their goal is to one day play a wedding. They seek to swap audition tapes with professional club date bands who would "help" them pass. (44 minutes) Playlist 01 The Everyday Pleasures of Love - 3:29 02 Let Us Solve Your Music Problem - 9:40 03 Your Next Wedding or Anniversary - 5:03 04 We Out Price 1800-BAND-JOB - 4:50 05 Available for Banquets Receptions - 7:35 06 We Pay Cartage You Pay Meals - 7:30 07 Your Uncle's Next Birthday Party - 5:20 |
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Bus Ratch - listen | listen with RealPlayer Elliott Sharp presents Bus Ratch, a turntable team from Kyoto, prime exponents of glitch music. Playlist 01 Deletape 02 Con 03 Sub Slow 04 Goodwill leotard 05 Boil dawn 06 Madeleine 07 Cruel Principle Technique 08 Snack tape 09 Jersey beat |
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Camera Lucida: Sonochemical Observatory - listen | listen with RealPlayer Host Elliott Sharp interviews Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, who create interdisciplinary art works that integrate physics, chemistry and computer science with esoteric philosophical practices. Camera Lucida is a continually evolving light sculpture that allows one to see sound moving through space - right at the delicate horizon where acoustics and optics meet. By means of a phenomenon called sonoluminescence, sound waves are directly converted into light inside a glass chamber filled with gas-infused liquid. After adapting to the absolute darkness surrounding the installation, the viewer/listener gradually perceives the highly detailed shapes and movements of multiple sound sources. Current findings, particularly regarding waveform phenomena, are employed by the artists to investigate questions of perception and immortality. Such investigations are salient because the scientific picture of the world, which serves as the basis for contemporary thought, still cannot encompass the unrecordable workings of consciousness. "Camera Lucida: Sonochemical Observatory" is on view in New York at I20 Gallery until July 8, 2005. |
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Miles Davis: On the Corner (Live) - listen | listen with RealPlayer The electric music of Miles Davis destroyed the accumulated weight of the jazz tradition in a bold move that invented a futuristic African space music. In the studio to make "On the Corner", he jettisoned the usual chords, harmony, and melodic clichés, and pared the music down to nothing and built it up again. In this extremely rare live recording from the Quaker Jazz Festival, Philadelphia, September 24, 1972, Miles' band includes Carlos Garnett (soprano sax), Cedric Lawson (keys), Reggie Lucas (guitar), Khalil Balakrishna (electric sitar), Michael Henderson (bass), Al Foster (drums), Mtume (percussion), and Badal Roy (tabla.) Playlist
01 Black Satin 9:31
02 Rated X 15:12
03 Honky Tonk 9:34
04 Right Off 11:44
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James Dillon - listen | listen with RealPlayer With his durational acoustic compositions for traditional musical instruments, this self-taught son of Glasgow challenges the best musical ensembles. Here, Music Projects London grandly rises to the occasion to perform Dillon's East 11th Street. Playlist 01 East 11th St NY 10003 19:45 02 Windows And Canopies 20:05 03 La Femme Invisible 16:34 |
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Tod Dockstadter - listen | listen with RealPlayer Electroacoustic music of the 1950s and 60s by this pioneering sound artist. |
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Iancu Dumitrescu - A composer, conductor and theoretician of new music, Iancu Dumitrescu is the director of the Hyperion Ensemble, and with composer Ana-Maria Avram, founder of the Edition Modern label. For information on his recent recordings, go to ArtistIndex. Playlist 01 "Galaxy" 02 "Movemur Et Sumus III" 03 Reliefs II 04 Memorial/Alternances 05 Basoreliefs Simphoniques |
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John Duncan - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast October 31, 2005 Elliott Sharp interviews John Duncan. Sonic provocateur, performer, sculptor, installation artist, and expatriate, John Duncan pays a rare visit to New York for the November 5 opening of The Steelwater Message, an audio installation at Diapason Gallery, 1026 Sixth Avenue. In addition to the interview, we will hear the following tracks from John Duncan's CD, Incoming (Streamline 1005): Playlist 01 Pass 02 Flare 03 Ceremony 04 Voice Field |
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Ethiopia: The Golden Years of Modern Music - listen | listen with RealPlayer Ethiopian pop from 1969-1975 - from the incredible collection on Buda Musique. |
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Ethiopiques - listen | listen with RealPlayer Psychedelic desert instrumentals from the "golden age" of Ethiopian pop music, dating from 1969-74. Most are performed by jazz legend Mulatu Astatque, a unique and innovative bandleader, composer, arranger, and melder of international influences including Arabic, Caribbean, jazz, and Spanish music with Ethiopia's own rich musical traditions. Playlist 01 Yekermo Sew 02 Metche Dershe 03 Kasalefkut Hulu 04 Tezeta 05 Yegelle Tezeta 06 Munaye 07 Gubelye 08 Asmarina 09 Yekatit 10 Netsanet 11 Tezetaye Antchi Lidj 12 Sabye 13 Ene Alantchi Alnorem 14 Dewel |
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Exotica / Lyric - listen | listen with RealPlayer Mauricio Kagel and Julius Hemphill make music for short attention spans and long nights. |
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Morton Feldman (Coptic Light) and Elliott Sharp (Calling) - listen | listen with RealPlayer A sonic double-header: Morton Feldman's Coptic Light remains a luminous and gripped orchestral work. Elliott Sharp's Calling is visceral and terrifying! |
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Fontana Mix - Feed by Max Neuhaus - listen | listen with RealPlayer The legendary Max Neuhaus channels John Cage. Prepare for brilliant feedback. |
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Fultro by David Fulton - listen | listen with RealPlayer An electroacoustic work in 36 parts by a sadly under-recognized, San Francisco-based artist, a co-founder (with Elliott Sharp) of zOaR Records. Fulton's travels have sometimes taken him far afield from music. His "Semi-Trilogy," for example, uses field recordings from an Alaskan fishing boat. A rare listening opportunity. |
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Bernard Herrmann - listen | listen with RealPlayer The great film composer's most sonorous and brooding, get-under-your-skin hits! Selections here include music from Taxi Driver, Fahrenheit 451, The Day The Earth Stood Still, North by Northwest and the rarely heard, Night Digger. PLUS you'll hear the composer himself speak about writing film scores! |
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Hit the Road - listen | listen with RealPlayer A selection of current guitar-oriented music from the realm of experimental and fringe rock, presented by David Grubbs. |
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Hit the Trail - listen | listen with RealPlayer David Grubbs, the man behind Rickets and Scurvyand other classic CDs presents a selection of new experimental rock - from Sweden! |
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New Electroacoustic Music from Turkey: Erdem Helvacioglu - listen | listen with RealPlayer A selection of recent works from the award-winning Turkish composer, Erdem Helvacioglu. Helvacioglu is a multi instrumentalist, playing guitar, keyboard, bass, balama and other Turkish instruments. His music is a combination of ambient electroacoustic textures, the processed sounds of Turkish instruments, and adventurous harmonies and programming of synthesizers. His music was twice among the finalists of the Luigi Russolo Electroacoustic Competition. In 2001 he received the Best Performance Award in the 6th Roxy Music Competition, with his electronic band HAZ. (58.5 minutes) Playlist 01 Wandering Around The City 02 Untitled Conversation 03 Blank Mirror 04 Below The Cold Ocean 05 Dance Of Fire 06 Wounded Breath 07 August 17 |
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Russell Hoban - listen | listen with RealPlayer Russell Hoban is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, poetry, children's books and other, completely unclassifiable works. He has resided in England since 1969. That is where composer Elliott Sharp recorded him reading, in November 2004, from his post-apocalyptic novel, Riddley Walker, and his poem Lament for Thelonious Monk, and then made these sound settings for them with saxophones and zithers as well as an analog synthesizer and a computer. (Note: Riddley Walker is written in the first-person and Hoban manifests the title character's halting and uncertain speech. In "Lament," we hear the author's own voice.) Mostly known in the U.S. for Riddley Walker (written in a postulated future dialect of English), his other works include Pilgermann, Mr. Rinyo-Clacton's Offer, Angelica's Grotto and Her Name Was Lola. |
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Jon Appleton/Don Cherry: "Human Music" - listen | listen with RealPlayer A historic meeting in 1969 between electronic composer Jon Appleton and Don Cherry, harmolodic trumpeter extraordinaire and sonic gypsy. This record, originally released on Flying Dutchman has been long unavailable. |
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Deep Singh and Robert Thomas: Ish, Indian Classical Music - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast September 26, 2005 This New York-based duo plays a fresh and exciting interpretation of Hindustani classical music with Thomas on guitar (an instrument not normally associated with this music) and Singh on tablas and harmonium. Deep Singh, percussionist and composer, was born in London, and currently lives in New York. Singh began playing the tabla at the age of three and at age seven became the youngest disciple of Ustad Allah Rakha. Singh was recently an onstage percussionist in the Broadway production of Bombay Dreams, the Andrew Lloyd Webber/AR Rahman musical. Singh is currently completing a project with Devo which is scheduled to be released late summer 2005. (45 minutes) Playlist 01 Piloo 15:18 02 Bageshri 12:58 03 Pahadi 13:31 04 Bhairavi 7:57 |
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A Journey That Wasn't: Pierre Huyghe and Joshua Cody - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast October 10, 2005 Elliott Sharp in conversation with filmmaker Pierre Huyghe and composer Joshua Cody. On February 9th, 2005, seven artists and ten crewmembers set sail from the Port of Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, the southeast point of Argentina. Their journey centered on a search for an unknown island and an encounter with a unique solitary creature that was rumored to live only on the shores of an unnamed island somewhere at the height of the Polar Antarctic Circle. This adventure was planned to be the first part of a film. The second part, the representation of the adventure, takes place in New York on October 14, 2005 at dusk with A Journey That Wasn't, an orchestral musical in Central Park, based on the journey. Using ice, atmosphere, light, and an original score -- written by composer Joshua Cody and performed live on the ice by a symphonic orchestra -- Huyghe will transform the distant island in Antarctica into musical form. This event is both a presentation and a film shoot. Viewers are invited to sit and watch the show, which will be presented three times in a row. Each time will last under 30 minutes and may include pauses to re-shoot. The filming will record both the show and the audience members who watch it, so that those present witness the spectacle and become extras in the resulting film. Audience members are encouraged to come before 6:30pm and to wear dark or neutral-colored clothing. The event, organized in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, will become part of a new film by Huyghe to premiere in the 2006 Biennial Exhibition. |
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Hungarian Folk Music from Transylvania - listen | listen with RealPlayer Traditional Hungarian dance music played in exceptional ways by the Moldavian stylist Mihaly Halmagyi on violin, and his wife, Gizella Adam, on voice and gardon. Shake that booty Playlist 01 Hungarian dances 02 Swift Csardas 03 Hungarian Dances 04 Couple Dances 05 "Once a Little Bird" 06 Round Dance 07 Rakoczi March 08 Csardas 09 Hungarian Dances 10 Wedding March 11 "When People Are Looking for the Hen" 12 Chase 13 "The Shepherd Lost His Sheep" 14 Lament 15 Dance 16 Funeral Ceremony |
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Alan Licht presents the Music of Basil Kirchin - listen | listen with RealPlayer Besides writing music for British television and horror films, Kirchin created unique music mixing modified animal sounds with orchestra. Program includes a tribute by Rudolph Grey with fellow guitarist Licht and drummer Rashied Ali. |
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La CalderaThe mouth of a volcano, from which pours the hot lava. The sound of Latin American soul - as selected by Buenos Aires native, composer Laura Andel, who plays traditional folk music to the latest computer music, and all shades in between. (Broadcast in Spanish in alternate weeks.) |
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Edition #4 - listen | listen with RealPlayer New, from composer Laura Andel: Milongas from Argentina, Afro-rhythms from Surinam, traditional sounds from Bolivia, Afro-marimba sounds from Ecuador all mixed with music by contemporary composers from the same countries. Really really interesting. |
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Edition #3 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Laura Andel mixes music from her native Argentina by composers Alejandro Viñao, Guillermo Klein and José Halac and from Bahia, Brazil by Olodum, with Carlinhos Brown, Lenine and Tom Zé with traditional music from Venezuela by Simon Diaz, music recorded live at a party in Cuba and traditional music from the Bolivian Andes by Kala Chuyma. See complete playlist here. |
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Edition #2 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Laura Andel presents music from the Winti tradition of Suriname; new sounds from Argentinian composers Alejandro Iglesias-Rossi, Santiago Vazquez and Dino Saluzzi; music from composer Hermeto Pascoal and traditional music from the northeast of Brazil; music from the Afro-Peruvian coast by Nicomedes Santa Cruz, and music performed by Gregorio Mendoza and recorded live in Bolivia. See complete playlist here. |
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Edition #1 - listen | listen with RealPlayer (Spanish) + listen | listen with RealPlayer (English) New, from composer Laura Andel: Milongas from Argentina, Afro-rhythms from Surinam, traditional sounds from Bolivia, Afro-marimba sounds from Ecuador all mixed with music by contemporary composers from the same countries. Really, really interesting. Attention composers: Laura is always looking for music by composers with relations to, or inspired by Latin America, including traditional or ethnic music of the region. If you wish to submit music for this program, please, e-mail her at laura@lauraandel.com with a link to your sound file. |
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LEMUR -
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LEMUR is the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, a Brooklyn-based group of artists and technologists developing robotic musical instruments. Founded in 2000 by musician and engineer Eric Singer, LEMUR's philosophy is to build robotic instruments that "play themselves." In LEMUR designs, the robots are the instruments. Host Elliott Sharp interviews Singer and Luke DuBois of LEMUR and plays music composed for LEMUR by Joshua Fried and Mari Kimura as well as the sounds of the recent LEMUR installation, Drumming on the Ceiling. Playlist 01 Music for Robots - Joshua Fried 02 GuitarBotana - Mari Kimura 93 Drumming on the Ceiling - LEMUR |
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Jonathan Lethem Reads - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 23, 2005 Highly acclaimed for his novels including Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude, Brooklyn-based author Jonathan Lethem reads three short pieces with an original score composed and performed by WPS1's Elliott Sharp and featuring his compositions Zeppelin Parable, Children With Hangovers and Top Five Depressed Superheroes. |
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The Music of Roy Lichtenstein - listen | listen with RealPlayer This compilation of Roy Lichtenstein's favorite music tracks was made for a 2003 exhibition at the Kunstforum Vienna, on view from December 11, 2003 - March 7, 2004. Cassandra Lozano of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation aided Hayes Greenfield, the artist's saxophone teacher, in collecting the sources. Greenfield selected the versions his student liked best. On the last three tracks, the artist himself is playing and singing, live, at the Internet Cafe in New York. Playlist 01 Homage to Pharoah-Hayes Greenfield 7:47 02 Body & Soul - Coleman Hawkins 3:29 03 Cannonball - Cannonball Adderley 4:20 04 Bloomdido - Charlie Parker 3:29 05 That Old Black Magic - Johnny Hartman 3:26 06 Chez le Photograph du Motel - Miles Davis 3:56 07 Back Beat - Johnny Hodges 7:30 08 God Bless The Child - Billie Holiday 4:02 09 It Don't Mean A Thing - Stan Getz 6:40 10 Every Time We Say Goodbye - John Coltrane 5:45 Lichtenstein 11 Oh Lady Be Good - Lester Young 3:37 12 Live At The Internet Cafe - Roy Lichtenstein 3:49 13 Roy Singing The Blues - Live - Roy Lichtenstein 1:30 14 Dots & Lines - Roy Lichtenstein/Hayes Greenfield 1:56 |
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Kalimantan Strings - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 31, 2005 A selection of music, both instrumental and vocal, from Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo. The instruments represented are all varieties of lutes from the region, both plucked and bowed. This music is from a CD series on the music of Indonesia from the Smithsonian Folkways label. Playlist
01 Sampaq Lepoq
02 Pahampangan
03 Tumbang Gaya
04 Tingang Kuai
05 Sampaq
06 Karangut Saritan Nampui Kambang
07 Cak-Cakun
08 Jauh Di Mata
09 Ayun Anak
10 Sampaq Penihing
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Korean Cores - listen | listen with RealPlayer Korean traditional and classical music has always made great use of improvisation. Here are selections from the Ensemble Jong Nong Ak Oho, the Korean National Classical Music Institute, and legendary kayagum-player Hwang Byung Ki (one of the instruments being played by the ensemble is gayageum, a horizontal plucked zither and the ancestor of the Japanese koto). Excellent listening experience! |
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Peter Kowald and Damon Smith: Mirrors - Broken But No Dust - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast October 24, 2005 Improvised pieces for two acoustic basses performed by the late and lamented Peter Kowald from Wuppertal and Oaklander Damon Smith. Recorded in April and May of 2000 in Oakland. (60 minutes) Playlist 01 15:34 02 16:06 03 3:41 04 3:55 05 3:09 06 4:35 07 2:28 08 3:53 09 7:20 |
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Briggan Krauss: Object - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 2, 2005 Saxophonist, electronic musician and composer Briggan Krauss presents Object, selections from a series dedicated and inspired by the work of visual artists. Object #1 is comprised of pieces dedicated to the work of the American artist Joseph Cornell. Object #2 (Systems) is music from a collaboration with visual artist Raha Raissnia. Source material comes from recordings of acoustic instruments, found objects and sounds created or manipulated in Reaktor and Max/MSP. Playlist 01 Sound Hab #2 - Object #1 02 Betelgeuse - Object #2 03 Cockatoo and Corks - Object #1 04 Meissa - Object #2 05 Soap Bubble Set - Object #1 06 Bellatrix - Object #2 07 Cassiopeia - Object #1 08 Mintaka - Object #2 09 Set 9 - Object #1 10 Set 1 - Object #1 11 Alnilam - Object #2 12 Set 4 - Object #1 13 Set 10 - Object #1 14 Alnitak - Object #2 15 Set 5 - Object #1 16 Set 13 - Object #1 17 M42 - Object #2 18 Set 8 - Object #1 19 Set 7 - Object #1 20 Saiph - Object #2 21 Set 6 - Object #1 22 Set 11 - Object #1 23 Rigel - Object #2 |
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Lilith Stones - listen | listen with RealPlayer A 1992 recording from Sub Rosa, one of the first ambient and industrial music labels - a suite made exclusively with granite or clay stones that are struck, smashed, and grated. An electronics archive and producing entity for sampled sounds and texts, films, objects, Sub Rosa was founded by Frederic Wallheer and Guy Marc Hinant in the late 1980s and continues to produce fascinating tracks like these. Playlist 01 Clay 02 Chapel 03 Crag |
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London Musicians Collective (Guitar Soloists) - listen | listen with RealPlayer The London Musicians Collective has not only organized a festival of "exteme musics" for the last 13 years, it is also the producing power behind Resonance 104.4 FM, a broadcast and web-based arts radio station in the U.K. This program of guitar soloists comes from a commemorative CD featuring a track from each participating artist. In many cases it is material recorded exclusively for this program or is elsewhere unreleased. Playlist 01 A Spy (Alan Licht) 6:37 02 Short Story (Janet Feder 3:20 03 Xirx (Annette Krebs) 3:37 04 Loud Clouds (Alfredo Genovese) 4:01 05 Sitting On the Dock of EBay (Billy Jenkins) 2:01 06 Via Libera (Paolo Angeli) 4:01 07 The Slice (Elliott Sharp) 4:08 08 Memories of a Forbidden Planet (Dave Tucker) 5:06 09 Solo (Simon King) 2:29 10 Guitar solo (Keith Rowe) 5:48 11 Improvisation (John Bisset) 3:45 |
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Christian Marclay and Elliott Sharp: Graffiti Composition - listen | listen with RealPlayer Artist Christian Marclay created Graffiti Composition as a visual work and an ongoing open-ended musical score. He and host Elliott Sharp discuss their upcoming realization of the piece at MoMA's Titus Theatre on September 13, 2006 that features guitarists Vernon Reid, Lee Renaldo, Mary Halvorson, and Melvin Gibbs. (58 minutes) Playlist Blinding Shadow : Marclay/Sharp Sliced And Diced: Marclay/Otomo Yoshihide Score for video "Through My Fingers" by Janene Higgins: Marclay Derailment: Marclay/Yoshihide |
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Masters of the Immersiverse: Francisco Lopez and Carl Stone - listen | listen with RealPlayer Two composers whose work, heard live, seems to settle on your skin like a mist that then gathers drop by drop into a doppelganger who tackles you to the ground where you land in a pile of rose petals, feathers and lightning bugs. Francisco Lopez, Live in Montreal: From the composer's notes: "All my live performances are created by a multi-layered module structure with a surround system (multi-channel), in which a myriad original field sound sources are interweaved and mutated live to create an immersive experience in sound, instead of one of a listening kind." Carl Stone, Nak Won: From Vital Weekly: "The title track starts off as a "test" - an aural Rorschach experiment. What turns out to be a quite lovely play of primary tones is collaged and replicated over the course of 24 minute-long Max/MSP dissertation. At times like Speak & Spell for adults, at times simplified tonalities that percolate the unused portions of your brain stem. Cage would be quite proud of Stone's latter-day approach, breathing new life into minimalist composition, while filtering out even minute traces of excess. On Nak Won he has created a barren horizon line that hosts thousands of sound spheres, hovering and kinetic. This is the work of a clear mind filled with sketches." |
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Miya Masaoka: Works Old and New - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast March 20, 2006 Composer, sound artist, and koto virtuoso Miya Masaoka presents some of her work. She performs with Sylvie Courvoisier & Okkyung Lee at Tonic on January 8, 2007. |
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Mazk - listen | listen with RealPlayer Feel a yen for noise? This live collaboration between sonic provocateurs Masami Akita (aka. Merzbow) and Zbigniew Karkowski will blow your roof off. Recorded at the Pezner Club, Lyon, France in September 1999 and re-edited/mastered at Bunker 301 Studio, Tokyo, May 2000. |
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The Music of Ennio Morricone listen to part 1 | listen to part 1 with RealPlayer listen to part 2 | listen to part 2 with RealPlayer listen to part 3 | listen to part 3 with RealPlayer Ennio Morricone may be best known for his scores for Clint Eastwood "spaghetti westerns" but he's far more than an Italian Henry Mancini, as this survey by Fabio Roberti makes clear. Here Morricone emerges as a Class-A experimentalist with a canny sense of sound for all sorts of musicians. And if this show isn't hip enough for you, just try one of Fabio's Strength Through Failure ("The Failure of Rock," The Failure of Noise," "The Failure of Pop," etc.) shows on WFMU (and God bless). |
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Butch Morris' Conductions: Sucht Lust - listen | listen with RealPlayer Lawrence "Butch" Morris assembled a monthlong music marathon that he named Black February to celebrate 20 years of his "conduction" style of improvised conducting. "Standing before a group of improvisers -- often jazz improvisers, but he has worked with poets, electronic musicians and others -- he dislodges music from them, arranging it as it moves by means of hand signals, working from a little bit of his own written music, or more often none at all... While he long ago proved the validity of his idea, in some particularly moving performances he has also developed efficacy in its practice." -Ben Ratliff, The New York Times The selection here illustrates how Morris extends his ensemble directing strategies into the theatre. Morris collaborated with Martin Schutz and J.A. Dean on Sucht Lust, a work of music-theater by Christophe Marthaler, with assorted actors. Recorded at Hamburg Schauspielhaus, March 30, 1994. (German text) |
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The Music of Gordon Mumma - listen | listen with RealPlayer Gordon Mumma was among the first composers to make use of electronic circuitry of his own design. That made him a perfect collaborator for John Cage and David Tudor, while they were working with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Here are choice selections, recorded between 1959 and 1984. Check out his Web site here. |
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Musica Mathematica - A selection of sound pieces based on pure mathematics, including the music of Iannis Xenakis, Gyorgi Ligeti and Elliott Sharp. |
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Negativland (These Guys are from England and Who Gives a Shit) - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast January 23, 2006 The notorious banned Negativland remix/parody of U2 has finally been released on the band's own Seeland label in the form of various live perfromances and remixes. U2's pursuit of this fair-use appropriation and commentary cost Negativland tens of thousands of dollars and consumed years of their lives in courtroom battles. In a magnificent feat of hypocrisy, while suing Negativland, U2 on their own tours appropriated video and radio imagery and sounds to use in their stage show and trumpeted the modern uses of media collage. (40 minutes) Playlist 01 Excerpt from Over The Edge 02 Long Distance Dedciation 03 1991 A Capella Mix 04 Special Edit Radio Mix - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 05-10 Live in concert at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, 1993 |
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Neon Blue - listen | listen with RealPlayer Performance poet Tracie Morris takes to the turntables to play a selection of funk and R&B - ancient to the future - with an ear to contemporary world issues. |
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New Music from Austria: Bernard Lang - listen | listen with RealPlayer Bernard Lang is a Graz-based composer who works in many different media. His DW8 features the Radio-Symphony of Bavaria conducted by Peter Rundel and two turntablists, Marina Rosenfeld from New York and Dieter Kovacic. DW15 features singer Martina Koppelstetter and Georg Glasl on alto zither. (54 minutes) Playlist 01 DW8 (28:05) 02 DW15 Nr.1 (6:03) 03 DW15 Nr.2 (10:52) 04 DW15 Nr.3 (4:23) 05 DW15 Nr.4 (3:55) |
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New Music from China: Improvisation in Shanghai - listen | listen with RealPlayer Taken from a concert recorded at the DDM Warehouse in Shanghai. Performed as a collaboration by Other Two Comrades, Yan Jun, and The Top Floor Circus with Huan Qing on kalimba, jawharp, guitar effector, mixer, live record; Chen Zhi Peng on hand drums; Yan Jun on iPod, CD, MD, mixer; Lu Chen on vocals, vocal effector, oral organ, clarinet; Mao Du on vocals, guitar effector, handbell, loudspeaker; Gu Lei on vocals, snowbell, clarinet, strap for S&M; and MZ, telekinesis transmitted far from Germany. Cross-listed on the labels KwanYin (002) and Mule (200). (58 minutes) |
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NU - listen | listen with RealPlayer NU is the collective term for a group of electroacoustic composers based around Tama Art University and Mushashino Art University in Japan. Using laptop computers, musical instruments, and electronic processors, they are sonic seducers of the algorithmic first rank. Playlist 01 Utterance (Soichrio Mihara) 5:05 02 Plain (Akihiko Taniguchi) 5:09 03 Talkabout (Lalalila Works) 3:24 04 Re Lie D_st03 (Yuki Kaneko) 3:41 05 PBNS (Akihiro Kubota) 5:30 06 Fe203 (Satoshi Yashiro) 4:39 07 A Beehive (Lalalila Works) 2:57 08 Studiosession (Pico Pico Stomachs) 17:20 09 Rot-Frolic (Yuki Kaneko) 3:22 10 Fragmentation (Atsushi Tadokoro) 3:47 11 Sisyphe (Christophe Charles) 10:08 |
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Os Mutantes - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast November 7, 2005 Os Mutantes is the eclectic Brazilian rock band that typified (together with Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil) the global futurism of the Tropicalista movement of Brazil in the late '60s. (36 minutes) Playlist 01 Panis Et Circensis 3:37 02 A Minha Menina 4:41 03 O Religio 3:29 04 Adeus Maria Fulo 3:04 05 Baby 3:00 06 Senhor F 2:33 07 Bat Macumba 3:09 08 Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour 3:35 09 Trem Fantasma 3:15 10 Tempo No Tempo 1:47 11 Ave Genghis Khan 3:46 |
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The Music of Charlemagne Palestine - listen | listen with RealPlayer Charlemagne Palestine, visionary composer, pianist, performance artist, filmmaker, and mensch. Playlist 01 Composed by Charlemagne Palestine 02 Strumming Music 03 Timbral Assault 04 Piano Drone |
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The Music of Harry Partch - listen | listen with RealPlayer The essence of the outsider composer who built his own instruments and created his own tuning systems in the service of what he called "Corporeal Music." |
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Steve Peters' In Memory of the Four Winds - listen | listen with RealPlayer Albuquerque-based composer Steve Peters draws from both the experimental tradition and a wide range of world folk music to create music and sound works for dance, theater, radio and public spaces as well as concert settings. To make "In Memory of the Four Winds" he blends harnesses the sound of insects, violins, the wind through Ponderosa pines, Siberian elms and the parabolic transducer stream to create a unique experience of a place through sound - the very place you're in. Steve Peters' other releases include the pulsating, electro-acoustic cd, "Emanations" and "Delicate Abrasions" a 12-channel sound installation. Since 1989, he has been director of Nonsequitur, a nonprofit producing organization in the southwest. |
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Phonomena: DJ Olive and DJ Toshio - listen | listen with RealPlayer The duo hosting New York's popular Thursday night "Phonomena" subTonic lounge parties at Tonic, put together this electronic sound collage blurring the borders between music and life. |
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Steve Piccolo and Gak Sato: Airprints - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast April 25, 2005 "The interesting thing about environmental sound works is that although the procedure is often very similar (and hasn't really changed since the days of Ruttmann, Henry, Schaeffer et al) the results nearly always contain something very personal, idiosyncratic, even geo-specific or local."-Felice Villa, Suoni in liberte. This program by Milan-based artists and musicians Steve Piccolo and Gak Sato includes a soundtrack made for the video Big Dirty Love by A Constructed World (from Melbourne) plus soundwalks and audio collages making use of extensive editing and supplementary sounds. Recorded and produced by the duo. |
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Steve Piccolo and Gak Sato: Expedition - listen | listen with RealPlayer A slightly surreal and definitely seductive sound and music collage by the Milan-based duo Steve Piccolo and Gak Sato. Piccolo was a founding member of the Lounge Lizards, and Sato is both an intrepid electronic experimenter and a world-class DJ. |
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rothkamm: The Secret Doctrines of Pure Electronic Music, Pt. 1 Uncertainty is the Highest Form of Serialism - listen | listen with RealPlayer A mid-century modernist track from the dawn of pure electronic music precedes each track of rothkamm's supermodernist album FB01. Playlist 01 Paul Gredinger - Formanten II - Cologne 1954 02 rothkamm - Incident Outside Mesquite Hollywood - 2003 03 Franco Evangelisti - Incontri di fasce sonore - Cologne 1957 04 rothkamm - Message from Space Mountain - Hollywood 2002 05 Carlos & Bebe Barron - Love at the Swimming Hole - New York 1956 06 rothkamm - Independent Bernoulli Trials - Hollywood 2003 07 Vladimir Ussachevsky - Metamorphosis - New York 1957 08 rothkamm - Earth Frequency Oscillator - Hollywood 2002 09 Raymond Scott - Clavivox - New York 1958 10 rothkamm - Binary Rhythms of the Lizard People - Hollywood 2003 11 Herbert Eimert - Glockenspiel - Cologne 1953 12 rothkamm - Atmospheric Composition - Hollywood 2002 |
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The Music of Sasandu - listen | listen with RealPlayer From the Indonesian island of Roti, sounds made only from instruments constructed of bamboo and coconut leaves. (From the collection of the King Record Company - no relation to King Records in Cincinnati - a seminal music label headquartered in Tokyo in the years following World War II, and unavailable now - except here!) |
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Michael J. Schumacher: Other Rooms - listen | listen with RealPlayer Composer Michael J. Schumacher presents "Other Rooms,"a computer- generated ambient sound installation for multi-speakers. |
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Sinawai: Korean Shaman Music - listen | listen with RealPlayer Mostly improvised music meant to accompany the dance of a usually-female shaman (mudang). Performed by an ensemble including Park Jong Sul-Changgo, Park Jung Sun-Ajaeng, Kim Bang Hyun-Taegum, Kim Chan Sub-Haegum, Han Se Hyon-Piri, Jung Jung Min-Ching, Hong Ok Mi-Haegum. (59 minutes) Playlist 01 Sinawi 02 Haegum Sanjo 03 Ajaeng Sanjo |
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The SlipstreamA series of monthly alpha-wave mixes created by William Basinski for WPS1 -- and anyone interested in leaving the space-time continuum for just a little while. |
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"Disintegration Loops II" -
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Disintegration Loops II is the second disc in a series of four by William Basinski. His film collaborations with artist James Elaine is currently part of the experimental music series, "Visual Music: SEE HEAR NOW!" co-sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Roy and Edna Disney/Cal Arts Theater, RedCat, in conjunction with the exhibition, "Visual Music", February 13 through May 23, 2005. |
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Richard Chartier -
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This seamless and sublime stream of contemporary/ambient/minimalist/microsound pieces has been compiled by Basinski's guest composer and sometime collaborator, the very fine Richard Chartier, a star on the microtonal sound art circuit who also deejays experimental music in Washington, DC, where he lives. Embraceable listening. Richard Chartier's sound art has been exhibited around the world at such venues as ICC in Tokyo, Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Italy, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He travels widely as a performer and regularly appears as a DJ in the Blueroom at MIES in Washington, DC, where he lives. He has produced recordings for 121/k LINE (USA), "William Basinski + Richard Chartier," Spekk (Japan), Mutek_Rec (Canada) and Trente Oiseaux (Germany) and collaborated with other composers including William Basinski, Taylor Deupree, COH and *0. He is an Aries. Playlist 01 87 CENTRAL - night 02 COH - ...and shuttled across the sky 03 LAURIE ANDERSON - walking and falling 04 CHRIS CARTER - resonance 05 NURSE WITH WOUND - soliloquy for Lilith (1) 06 RICHARD CHARTIER - retrieval 1 07 ASMUS TIETCHENS - rasch 08 O - Ilta 09 MIKA VANIO - Se On Olemassa (It Is Existing) 10 FRANK BRETSCHNIEDER - night broadcast 11 NATHAN MCNINCH -artic waltz 12 FOURCOLOR - empty sky 13 FENNESZ - circassian 14 MOTION - moog edit 15 ZOVIET FRANCE - in my secrecy i was real 16 WILLIAM BASINSKI - saddest melody 17 TAYLOR DEUPREE + KEN KIRSCHNER - post-piano 10 18 WILLIAM BASINSKI - worry 19 SOGAR - aito-mathausen 20 MOTION - tones of white 21 RICHARD CHARTIER - archival1992 22 TORU TAKEMITSU - kwaidan 23 EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - ocean und brandung |
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"Disintegration Loop 1.1" -
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Composer William Basinski continues this sound project for WPS1 with the heavenly "Disintegration Loop 1.1," from a larger work featured in "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," an exhibition of new sound artworks opening July 29 at the Project gallery in New York. |
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The Fountain -
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The elegiac soundtrack to a film installation that debuted at Sideshow Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in September 2000. Fountain was produced by Basinski in collaboration with filmmaker James Elaine and writer/artist, Roger Justice. |
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Shortwave Music-
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This segment of "The Slipstream" features a blend of Basinski's 1998 Noton release, "Shortwavemusic," with unreleased recent tracks from the German artist and composer Carsten Nicolai, aka "Noto." |
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Elliott Sharp: Electroacoustic Music, Vol. 1 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Compositions for computer but including acoustic and biological sources, by WPS1's own Elliott Sharp. Includes music for "Suspension," a video installation by Janene Higgins, as well as the very intriguing "Insect Gamelan," excerpted from the soundtrack to "Lo Que Sono Sebastien," a film by Rodrigo Rey-Rosa. |
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Elliott Sharp: Electroacoustic Music, Vol. 2 - listen | listen with RealPlayer Elliott Sharp's work for concert and film, including tracks for Lo Que Sono Sebastian, Commune (John Berman's new documentary about the 1960s-era Black Bear Commune in northern California) and Dael Orlandersmith's acclaimed play, Yellowman. |
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Elliott Sharp's Radio Hyper Yahoo - listen | listen with RealPlayer Underpinning all of the words are music tracks on this wild show produced by WPS1 music coordinator Elliott Sharp range from the brutal electro beats of Tracie Morris' "Got It? Get It!" to the grinding funk of Eric Bogosian's "No Crime" to the stark soundscape of Steve Buscemi's "In The Film." Incredibly, there is more! The rootsy steel guitar-driven rock of Lisa Lowell's "In The Country," and the Hungarian Delta blues of Eszter Balint's "Estimated Time Of Wait," for example. Instrumental highlights include the psychedelic surf number, "Escalation" and the Miles-ian "Ask Me." The music is completely crafted by composer and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp and performed by him on instruments ranging from guitars, basses, saxophones, zither and banjo to computer processers, analog synthesizers, drum machines, and hacked speak-n-spell's. Guests on selected tracks include DJ Gak Sato and drummer Sim Cain. Radio Hyper Yahoo: 01 I'm A Sleeper (instr) 02 Got It? Get It? (vox: Tracie Morris) 03 No Crime (vox: Eric Bogosian) 04 Happy (vox: Maggie Estep) 05 In The Film (vox: Steve Buscemi) 06 Escalation (instr) 07 In The Country (vox: Lisa Lowell) 08 Heathern (vox: Jack Womack) 09 Estimated Time Of Wait (vox: Eszter Balint) 10 King Rat (vox: Edwin Torres) 11 Raise The Hammer (vox: Eric Mingus) 12 Hellavision (vox: Steve Piccolo) 13 The Passion Of Crust (instr) 14 Ask Me (vox: E#) |
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Howard Shore - listen | listen with RealPlayer Elliott Sharp presents Howard Shore's music for David Cronenberg's "Existenz". A dark, lush and brilliant orchestral score by a longtime Cronenberg collaborator for the smartest virtual reality film made to date! |
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Gary Smith: Solo Guitar (12 Improvisations) - listen | listen with RealPlayer A guitarist and improvisor living in London, Gary Smith has a unique and introspective guitar style filled with sonic surprises. (43 minutes) Playlist 01 2:40 02 5:20 03 3:44 04 3:48 05 5:30 06 2:47 07 5:39 08 2:22 09 1:45 10 1:45 11 4:10 12 3:25 |
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Sun Ra: The Kohoutek Concert - listen | listen with RealPlayer The legendary show recorded in New York at Town Hall, 1973. Playlist 01 Intro 02 Astro Black 03 Variation Of Kohoutek Theme 04 Journey Through Outer Space 05 Enlightenment 06 Unknown Kohoutek 07 Discipline 08 Outer Space EM 09 Space Is The Place |
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James Tenney - listen | listen with RealPlayer James Tenney is a visionary and influential North American composer whose work during the 1950's and 60's with computers, algorithmic composition, improvisation, and theory set the stage for much of the rest of the 20th century's sonic experimentation. Playlist 01 Harmonium 5 for String Trio 02 Ergodos II (for John Cage) 03 Water on the Mountain 04 Fire In Heaven 05 Collage #1 Blue Suede 06 Koan for String Quartet |
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James Tenney: Stan Brakhage's Interim - listen | listen with RealPlayer First broadcast May 16, 2005 For a performance at the Museum of Modern Art, Stan Brakhage's first film Interim(1952) was screened with a score by his one-time roommate and visionary composer James Tenney. This was Tenney's first composition and it is heard performed live by the virtuoso pianist, Jenny Lin. Completing this historic performance was a screening of Brakhage's early film In Between (1955), with John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano performed by Tenney. Finally, WPS1 Sonorama host Elliott Sharp interviews Tenney about Brakhage, the relationship between composing and performance, personal expression, and computers in music. Recorded by WPS1 during MOMA's Premieres Series, Monday, January 10, 2005. |
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Traveling Through the Jungle - listen | listen with RealPlayer Afro-American fife & drum bands, recorded 1942-1970, by artists who include Othar Turner, Napoleon Strickland and Sid Hemphill. The roots of this music go back to the bedrock of North American folk, combining British and early-American melodic and marching traditions with African percussion and syncopation. |
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Stephen Vitiello: "Bounce" - listen | listen with RealPlayer Stephen Vitiello makes listening a primary activity with "Bounce." Unexpectedly mesmerizing. |
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Kacy Wiggins - listen | listen with RealPlayer A musical journey visiting a wide range of modern music, from a personality better known to some in the New York electronic music scene as quiet personal electronics. Playlist 01 Pere Ubu - Non Alignment Pact 02 The Fall - I am Damo Suzuki 03 Can - Moonshake 04 ESG - UFO 05 Solex - Cayenne 06 A Tribe Called Quest - Peace Prosperity and Paper 07 Jaylib - Dubz 08 Untitled - qpe 09 Curd Duca - Gogo 10 Stereolab - Pack Yr Romantic Mind 11 My Bloody Valentine - Honey Power 12 Les Calamities - Malhabile 13 Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby 14 Flying Lizards - Her Story 15 TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun 16 Tall Dwarfs - Turning Brown and Torn in Two 17Untitled - qpe |
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Edgard Varese (Conducted by Pierre Boulez) - listen | listen with RealPlayer Edgard Varese's disciples include Frank Zappa, Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez, Stefan Wolpe, Morton Feldman, and Charlie Parker and Pierre Boulez, who is conducting the New York Philharmonic and Ensemble Intercontemporain in the performances recorded here. Playlist 01 Ameriques 02 Arcana 03 Octandres 04 Octandres 05 Octandres 06 Integrales |
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Robert Pete Williams: Free Again - listen | listen with RealPlayer WPS1's Elliott Sharp describes Robert Pete Williams' music as "dark, hallucinatory, impassioned, angular, and searching with an ancient modal quality, both African and American." According to Blues Online, Williams was born to sharecroppers in Zachary, Louisiana on March 14, 1914. He was unschooled and worked as a farm hand. His first instrument was a homemade cigar box guitar that he obtained in 1934, and worked frequently at local dances, country suppers, parties, and fish fries.Williams served time for murder at Angola State Prison farm in Angola, Louisiana from 1956 to 1959. While in prison he recorded for the Louisiana Folklore Society and Folk-Lyric/Arhoolie labels. His subsequent career included tours of clubs, universities, and festivals in both the U.S. and Europe. He died in Rosedale, Louisiana in 1980, at the age of 66. Playlist 01 Free Again 02 Almost Dead Blues 03 Rolling Stone 04 Two Wings 05 A Thousand Miles From Nowhere 06 Thumbing A Ride 07 I've Grown So Ugly 08 Death Blues 09 Hobo Worried Blues 10 Hay Cutting Song |
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Iannis Xenakis: Early Electroacoustic Pieces - listen | listen with RealPlayer Arguably one of the 20th century's greatest composers and theoreticians, Iannis Xenakis was a pioneer in electroacoustics, computer music, strategic thinking, game pieces and algorithmic composition. For all this intellectual weight, his music was always visceral and passionate. These pieces, from a collection available through the Electronic Music Foundation, include "Bohor," "Concret PH," and "Diamorphoses." |
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Iannis Xenakis: Persepolis - listen | listen with RealPlayer Xenakis (1922-2001), who used mathematical models for his compositions, created this 8-channel tape piece for the 1971 Festival of the Arts in Persepolis/Shiraz, Iran. For more information on this master musician and theorist, visit www.nexusjournal.com/Capanna-en.html. |
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Michiyo Yagi - listen | listen with RealPlayer Michiyo Yagi is a young koto virtuoso with a unique approach to the instrument, as at home in the avant-garde as she is in traditional Japanese music, "girl pop," or noise. In addition to her solo work, she also plays with Kokoo a Tokyo-based trio that plays nontraditional music with traditional Japanese instruments. Playlist
01 Diminished Shower
02 Talking Durian
03 Remembrance
04 4Seawall
05 Monochord
06 Taieki
07 Jueki
08 Shizuku
09 Foggy
10 Nenrin
11 Seawall 2
12 Ai No Corrida
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