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You know who rocks? Scriabin. I’m just saying.
July 21, 2008Why don’t you go join Naxos and listen to some?
Scriabin Society, Wikipedia, a blog post about his synasthesia.
Recent Acquisitions, 20080703: Modern Classical
July 3, 2008Olivier Messiaen‘s (wikipedia)(see also) Complete Bird Music for Piano Solo, performed by Carl-Axel Dominique. Probably best if I don’t start, I love Messiaen so much. I’ll just point out that Malcom Ball’s website has a page whereon you can compare the actual birdsongs to OM’s transcriptions, and another page containing midi examples to accompany his manifesto, Technique de mon Langage Musical (see the see also above).
Magick by John Zorn. Since I’m a drooling bass clarinet fetishist I had to have this for “Sortilege,” a bass clarinet duo by which I was not disappointed. The accompanying string quartet is also great. The thing about Zorn is, since he wears his technical limitations as a sax guy on his sleeve, and since he helms alot of high risk endeavors that frequently flop, it’s easy to underestimate both the clarity and potency of his vision, as well as his skill as a composer. Buy a disc from Tzadik, mp3’s from Amazon.
The Outsider, a BBC doc about Harry Partch.
May 13, 2008It’s on YouTube in 6 parts. Here’s part one.
Direct YT link.
HP dot com. The American Mavericks site has some Flash simulations of some of his instruments. These guys worked with him alot, and care for his instruments in their instrumentarium. (now is that a word, or what?)
Henry Brant (1913-2008) memorial linkfest.
April 30, 2008Website. Wikipedia. Interviewed by Charles Amirkanian, August 2001. Audio interview at American Mavericks. Buy some records.
Obits: NYT; SF Chronicle; Arts Journal; New Music Box;
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December 12, 2007WebernUhrWerk is a cute little app by Karlheinz Essl that generates pieces from the row that Anton Webern was working with at the time of his death.
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) memorial linkfest
December 8, 2007Obits: NYT, BBC, WaPo, Bloomberg
Informative bloggery: Marginal Revolution, Damin Lanigan (the Telegraph), The Rest Is Noise,
Deutsche Grammophon sells DRM-free MP3’s online…
November 30, 2007…at their new DG Webshop. Including 600 out-of-print titles.
Ligeti on YouTube
October 21, 2007A post-facto graphic score by Rainer Wehinger for the electronic piece Articulations, synced to the music.
Direct YT link
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