NonPop

NonPop Show 068

Scott — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:30:59 +0000

Program Notes:
(running time – approx. 32 min)

1. “Street” 9:45
by David Lang
The Minimalists
Mode

2. “Propellers in Love” 9:28
by Arnold Dreyblatt
Propellers In Love
Hat Art Records

3. “Arcs” 11:48
by Stephen Scott
New Music for Bowed Piano
New Albion

A Sweeter Music

Scott — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:28:28 +0000

Sarah Cahill’s project to commission 18 composers protesting and reflecting on war, violence, and the nature of peace, is a fantastic project that has been made even more lovely by the addition of breathtaking three channel video projections by John Sanborn.

Two excerpts from the Cal Performances in Berkeley, CA on January 25th, 2009:
Mamoru Fujieda – The Olive Branch Speaks
The Residents – drum no fife (Why We Need War)

NonPop Show 067

Scott — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:47:55 +0000

Program Notes:
(running time – approx. 30 min.)

1. “Electric Counterpoint – Fast” 4:39
by Steve Reich
Steve Reich 1965-1995
Nonesuch

2. “1-100 (faster decay)” 13:41
by Michael Nyman
Decay Music
Obscure Records

3. “Four of One of Another” 11:26
by Mary Ellen Childs
Kilter
XI Records

NonPop Show 066

Scott — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:45:10 +0000

Program Notes:
(running time – approx. 34 min)

1. “She (Really) Had To Go”
by John Morton
Sonogram
Innova

2. “Canto Ostinato – Section 20″
by Simeon ten Holt
Simeon ten Holt: Complete Piano Works
Brilliant Classics

3. “Finalbells”
by Eric Richards
The Bells Themselves
New World Records

NonPop Show 065

Scott — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:28:22 +0000

Program Notes:
(running time – approx. 35 min)

1. “Esztergom to Keselyüs” 10:00
by Annea Lockwood
A Sound Map of the Danube
Lovely Music

2. “The Philospher’s Hand” 5:51
by Terry Riley
Requiem for Adam
Nonesuch

3. “Crossings – String Quartet No. 4 (Amazing Grace)” 10:34
by Ben Johnston
Ben Johnston: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, 4 & 9
New World Records

4. “Flying” 7:50
by Christopher Roberts
Trios for Deep Voices
Cold Blue Music

I Sing The Piano Electric

Scott — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:46:55 +0000

If you hooked this kind of thing up to Partch’s chromelodeon, you might get an even more scarily accurate rendering.

(Edit: A great article on this invention by Create Digital Music as well.)

Four Organs – Crash Ensemble

Scott — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:11:04 +0000

The Crash Ensemble starting off … by crashing. Maybe they should’ve put that on the Reich Remixed album.

NonPop Show 064

Scott — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:03:34 +0000

Program Notes:
(running time – approx. 38 min)

1. “Palindrome Variations”
by Paul Epstein
Connections
Capstone Records

2. “Dark Waves”
by John Luther Adams
Red Arc / Blue Veil
Cold Blue

3. “Left In Fragments”
by Christopher Tignor
Core Memory Unwound
Western Vinyl

4. “The Sixth Collection – Pattern XXI”
by Mamoru Fujieda
Patterns of Plants
Tzadik

Reactable

Scott — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:25:44 +0000

Reactable. Really object-oriented synthesis.

“The instrument is based on a translucent and luminous round table, and by putting these pucks on the Reactable surface, by turning them and connecting them to each other, performers can combine different elements like synthesizers, effects, sample loops or control elements in order to create a unique and flexible composition.”

A more sedate demonstration of the table.

A House (and Opera) in Bali

Scott — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:29:12 +0000

Evan Ziporyn has posted video clips on Vimeo from the Indonesian performance of his new opera, “A House in Bali” based on the book of the same name by Colin McPhee. As spare as the scale of the performance is, looking at these videos gives the sense that even the western voices seem a bit overwrought so far away from the west. There is also an extensive piece Ziporyn wrote on NewMusicBox which is well worth the read. He talks about how he deals with being the outsider, much in the same way that his subject did.

Evan Ziporyn’s “A House In Bali” – Excerpt 1, Act 1 Scene 1 from Evan Ziporyn on Vimeo.