Wednesday, May 17th
what’s new
Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar), Anthony Pirog (guitar), Jarrett Gilgore (alto saxophone), Janel Leppin (cello), live, Washington, D.C., 5/1/23
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2022
Tuesday, December 27th
like nothing else
Susan Alcorn Quintet (SA, pedal steel guitar; Eddie Kwon, violin; Mary Halvorson, guitar; Michael Formanek, bass; Ryan Sawyer, drums), “Night in Gdansk” (S. Alcorn), live, Berlin (Berlin Jazz Festival), 11/4/21
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2022
Wednesday, November 30th
alone
Why not slow down and . . . listen . . . to . . . each . . . sound?
Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar), “Three Waters” (photos and video footage, David Lobato and Susan Alcorn Lobato), 2011
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other day, Chicago
2022
Saturday, May 21st
sounds of New York
Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar) and Catherine Zikora (tenor saxophone), live, New York (Zürcher Gallery), 5/19/22
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yesterday, Chicago
2020
Wednesday, November 11th
two takes
“Crepuscule with Nellie” (T. Monk)
Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar), live, Baltimore, 11/6/20
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Thelonious Monk (piano), live, Paris, 1969
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other day, outside Chicago (Salt Creek Trail)
2020
Thursday, August 20th
two takes
Oliver Messiaen (1908-1992), O sacrum convivium (1937)
Susan Alcorn (1953-, pedal steel guitar), live, 2011
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Ensemble Aedes, live, France (Compiègne), 2013
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yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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reading table
So you must not be frightened . . . if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloud-shadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any agitation, any pain, any melancholy, since you really do not know what these states are working upon you?
—Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), Letters to a Young Poet (1929, translated from German by M.D. Herter Norton)
2020
Monday, May 11th
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Susan Alcorn (1953-, pedal steel guitar), Nels Cline (1956-, guitar, electronics), Chris Corsano (1975-, drums, electronics), live, New York, 2016
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As the Zen master Shunryu Suzuki Roshi said, life is like getting into a boat that’s just about to sail out to sea and sink.
—Pema Chödrön (1936-), When Things Fall Apart (1997)
2020
Thursday, May 7th
what’s new
Susan Alcorn (1953-, pedal steel guitar), live (Quarantine Concert presented by Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago), 4/29/20
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a while ago, Maine (Monhegan Island)
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LET THERE BE PHYSICAL SUDDENNESS!
—Michael McClure, poet, playwright, songwriter, etc., October 20, 1932–May 4, 2020, from “PLUME ODE”
2018
Wednesday, August 1st
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Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar), Mary Halvorson (guitar), live, New York, 2016
Tonight she’ll be playing at a Chicago art gallery, Corbett vs. Dempsey, beginning at 6 p.m., with reed players Ken Vandermark and Joe McPhee.
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other day, Monhegan Island, Maine
2018
Monday, July 30th
Last night I heard her at Chicago’s Hungry Brain. Otherworldly. Tonight she’ll be playing, and talking (with reed player Ken Vandermark), at the Experimental Sound Studio—all of which will be streamed, beginning at 7:30 (CST).
Susan Alcorn (pedal steel guitar), live, Rochester, N.Y., 6/18/18
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