Monday, September 8th
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One-word review: Wow!
Matthew Shipp (piano), live (music starts at 5:00), Chicago, 8/27/14
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alone
One-word review: Wow!
Matthew Shipp (piano), live (music starts at 5:00), Chicago, 8/27/14
composer, n. somebody who wants to hear sounds nobody’s ever heard before.
Mario Diaz de León (1979-), Prism Path; International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE),* live, New York, 2011
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*Claire Chase, flutes; Eric Lamb, flutes; Joshua Rubin, clarinets; Cory Smythe, piano; Nathan Davis, percussion; Mario Diaz de León, electronics.
sounds of Mali
Salif Keita, “Mandjou,” live, Senegal (Dakar), 2005
last night in Chicago
He played this piece, among others, at Constellation.
Steve Reich (1936-), New York Counterpoint (1985), excerpts; James Falzone (clarinet), recording, 2014
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Here’s another take.
Evan Ziporyn (clarinet), live, London, 2012
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Crazy what you happen upon in the middle of the night.
King Buzzo (AKA Buzz Osborne), “Boris,” “Ballad of Dwight Fry,” “Suicide In Progress,” live, Baltimore (Ottobar), 7/17/14
What I’m doing, it’s not folk music, it’s not heavy metal. It’s ‘molk,’ how ’bout that?
sounds of Chicago & Norway & the Netherlands
Who needs coffee?
Lean Left (Ken Vandermark, reeds [Chicago]; Paal Nilssen-Love, drums [Norway]; Andy Moers & Terrie Hessels, guitars [Netherlands]), live, Belgium (Brussels), 2014
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lagniappe
musical (& other) thoughts
Ken Vandermark has a lot of interesting things to say about improvised music and life as a musician, about politics and movies and journalism and New York, as you can hear in this podcast-interview.
sounds of Norway
Maja S. K. Ratkje, live (music begins at 1:40), Norway (Punkt Festival, Kristiansand), 2013
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lagniappe
reading table
A Prison gets to be a friend —
Between its Ponderous face
And Ours — a Kinsmanship express —
And in its narrow Eyes —We come to look with gratitude
For the appointed Beam
It deal us — stated as Our food —
And hungered for — the same —We learn to know the Planks —
That answer to Our feet —
So miserable a sound — at first —
Nor ever now — so sweet —As plashing in the Pools —
When Memory was a Boy —
But a Demurer Circuit —
A Geometric Joy —The Posture of the Key
That interrupt the Day
To Our Endeavor — Not so real
The Check of Liberty —As this Phantasm Steel —
Whose features — Day and Night —
Are present to us — as Our Own —
And as escapeless — quite —The narrow Round — the Stint —
The slow exchange of Hope —
For something passiver — Content
Too steep for looking up —The Liberty we knew
Avoided — like a Dream —
Too wide for any night but Heaven —
If That — indeed — redeem ——Emily Dickinson (1830-1886; Franklin #456)
sounds of Chicago
Marcos Balter (1974-), Dark Rooms (2007); Third Coast Percussion, 2014
If someone asked me to describe this, I wouldn’t know how to begin—which I mean as a compliment.
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
[Y]oung musicians need Balter as much as Bach.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 12/3/13
Let’s return to New York for another take on piano and string quartet.
Vijay Iyer (piano) and the Brentano String Quartet, from “Time, Place, Action” (V. Iyer), live, New York, 2014
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Happy (88th) birthday to my mother, who’s been dead almost two decades. When it comes to longevity, my genes are lousy. But, always, there’s today.
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Terry Riley (piano), live (sound: 0:16-), Moscow, 2000
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