Blog Profile / aworks
| URL : | http://rgable.typepad.com/aworks | |
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| Filed Under: | Music / Classical | |
| Posts on Regator: | 940 | |
| Posts / Week: | 3.7 | |
| Archived Since: | August 13, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Insext (2013). Daniel Wohl #rumble
"A volcanic rumble also persists throughout “Insext” in a way that makes it seem ready to devour the other elements at any moment." Textura
Cello Concerto (2012). Nico Muhly
"The first movement begins with a texture quite explicitly stolen from the first bar of Dutilleux’s Métaboles, and proceeds from there." Nico Muhly
aworks listening log :: what hath Bob Metcalfe wrought
Cul de Sac Cul De Sac and John Fahey - The Epiphany of Glen Jones John Fahey - Americana Masters Ethernet - Into the Woods - The Remixes (Tamarack Music) Ethernet - Into the Woods (Tamrack Music). That John Fahey/Cul...
aworks listening log :: amadou & mariam
Amadou & Mariam. 1990 - 1995: L'Intégrale des Années Maliennes (Because Music / Syllart Productions) Amadou & Mariam. Dimanche à Bamako (Nonesuch) Amadou & Mariam. Wati (Universe Music Jazz) Amadou & Mariam. Sou Ni Tile (EmArcy) Amadou & Mariam. Folila...
aworks sentences :: "a temple for the familiar"
Isola di San Michele- Igor and Vera Stravinsky ( Wikipedia) "In such an environment, a Temple for the Familiar if you will, new music—by its nature that which we have not before experienced—is doomed to failure, so the fact that...
aworks operational note :: aworks temporarily redefined #amadouetmariam
I'm spending the upcoming US holiday weekend listening to the music of Amadou & Mariam. So for now, the "a" in "aworks" stands for "African", "Amadou", and/or "Attractive." This means no music with violin, well, except for Teree La Sebin....
aworks sentences :: day five #tastemakers
Hotel California "For aspiring tastemakers, especially those who view themselves as evangelists rather than snobs, the good news is that the sheer volume of musical options (and the ease with which we can listen) will always make it possible to...
aworks sentences :: day four, bumping heads
Milton Babbitt in Juilliard School of Music, 1999 (Wikipedia) 'Polish Folk Songs, inspired by song sung at his grandmother's funeral, juxtaposes fragments of southern Polish folk songs, allowing them to, in the words of the composer, "bump heads as well...
aworks listening log :: the day the music stood still
The Day the Earth Stood Still Philip Glass Ensemble. Music in Twelve Parts (Orange Mountain Music) Adele Anthony. GLASS, P.: Violin Concerto / Company / Prelude from Akhnaten (Naxos) Bernard Herrmann. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Classic Records) William...
Rubhitbangklanghear Rubhitbangklangear (2010). Charlemagne Palestine + Z'ev
Palestine: "i met z'ev in amsterdam!! i'd known him for 20 years before he suggested one day that we perform together, which we did at lem barcelona in 2007!! later after seeing and hearing the carillon at my studio in...
aworks sentences :: day three, now with italics
Ocean's Eleven (Wikipedia) "The party will begin with an announcement that our beloved Dave Skidmore, of Third Coast Percussion, has been (fake) murdered and it is up to the attendees to solve the mystery of his death."Arlene & Larry Dunn...
aworks sentences :: day two
"In total, there are 53 channels now courting for cash, with very limited music content (for now)." Paul Resnikoff "Musicians will now be able to collect gold plaques for songs that log 500,000 or more streams, platinum for those that...
aworks sentences ::
Ferruccio Busoni 'As the British critic Edward Dent wrote, “Busoni sits at the pianoforte, listens, comments, decorates, and dreams.”' Alex Ross "That is to say that Strandberg often creates complex landscapes of rhythmically bracing music." Grego Applegate Edwards “The world-class...
aworks listening log :: #nowwithhashtags
Alvin Lucier Jon Nakamatsu - Gershwin: 3 Preludes (harmonia mundi) #yes Alvin Lucier - Still Lives (Lovely Music, Ltd) #humm Kenneth Fuchs - String Quartet No. 5, 'American' - Falling Canons - Falling Trio (Naxos) #christopheroriley #delraystringquartet Arditti Quartet -...
Baby Einstein on the Beach (2013). Philip Glass & Brooklyn Academy of Music
Via Tyler Cowen, I'd pay to see this:
aworks ratings :: alvin lucier
Alvin Lucier Still Lives. Alvin Lucier - Still Lives (Lovely Music, Ltd)Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators. Alvin Lucier - Still Lives (Lovely Music, Ltd) In Memoriam Jon Higgins. Jürg Frey - Lucier • Wolff • Schlothauer...
aworks ratings :: initial
Psycho Psycho: A Suite for Strings. Esa-Pekka Salonen: Los Angeles - Bernard Herrmann - The Film Scores (Sony) On Remembering a Naiad. La Monte Young. Arditti String Quartet - U.S.A (Montaigne) An American Elegy. Frank Ticheli. University of...
Music in Fifths (1969). Philip Glass #nottorture
Tim Munro of eighth blackbird on his early attempts at playing Music in Fifths: I complain to friends, exasperated. “But it’s just so bloody impossible. If I think about a post-rehearsal beer, I’m lost; If a drop of sweat drips...
Visitations I & II (1973). Jon Gibson #album #rdio #environment
I've been listening to quite a bit of electronic music so this is a more naturalistic departure from that:
Essays for the Piano (1976). Gordon Binkerd
Bridge Records has a new album out by Martin Perry with piano music by Gordon Binkerd and Charles Ives. I wasn't familiar with the late Mr. Binkerd.