January 2012
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Das Pizzicato auf der Violine
Das Pizzicato auf der Violine [PDF]
Wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades „Magistra Artium“ eingereicht von Aya Georgieva
December 2011
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Opus 20 Modern Masterworks: John Cage
WATCH/VIDEO #01: Biography PART 1
WATCH/VIDEO #01: Biography PART 2
Opus 20 Modern Masterworks: John Cage documentary film (Uplink Factory, Japan, 2006) music by John Cage, Ingo Metzmarcher, Hermann Ktetzschmar, David Tudor, Ensemble modern film by Klaus Lindemann presented by the Alte oper Frankfurt
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Elliott Carter - Happy 103rd birthday!
I would like to wish Elliott Carter today a happy 103rd birthday!
Sonata for Cello and Piano (1948)
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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
wqxr.org : League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Orchestra of the League of Composers Season Finale with works by Babbitt, Carter and Treuting
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Hosted by: Nadia Sirota
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Celebrating the ageless music of Elliott Carter
wqxr.org : Forever Young - Celebrating the ageless music of Elliott Carter
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Hosted by: Olivia Giovetti
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Elliott Carter - Quintet for Piano and Winds...
Quintet for Piano and Winds [1/3]
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Quintet for Piano and Winds [2/3]
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Quintet for Piano and Winds [3/3]
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Carter’s Quintet for Piano and Winds of 1991 explores the drama of how instruments from the different families (piano, horn and reed) work with, within and against one another.
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Wagner's Ring of Anti-Semitism: Can the Artist Be...
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Naomi Lewin is joined by three experts:
Roberto Paternostro is music director of the Israel Chamber Orchestra. In July, he led the ensemble in Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll – along with works by Jewish composers – at the annual Wagner festival in Bayreuth, Germany.
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein is director of Interfaith Affairs at The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. He...
November 2011
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Composer Portrait - William Schuman
William Schuman (1910-1992)
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Q2 Music · Michael Gordon
wqxr.org : Q2 Music : The Electric and Kinetic Sound World of Michael Gordon · Q2 Music’s First of Four November Portraits of Scene-Stealing, Living Composers
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Vinylmania
VINYLMANIA: when life runs at 33 revolutions per minute · A Film & Video project in Torino, Italy by Paolo Campana
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October 2011
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Automatenklavier · By Winfried Ritsch
puredata.info : Automatenklavier, by Winfried Ritsch and IEM · custom-built electronics + Pd makes a piano speak English
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September 2011
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Michael Tippett · Piano Sonata No. 1
Michael Tippett (1905-1998) · Piano Sonata No. 1 (1936/1937, rev. 1942 e 1954) · Nicholas Unwin, piano
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“Tippett originally intended the first movement of Piano Sonata No. 1 as a set of variations on an original theme. He completed the sonata in 1938, published it in 1942. The original name was Fantasy Sonata since it departed from the usual four movement classical sonata form with a...
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Red Bull Music Academy and RBMA Radio · Steve...
Red Bull Music Academy and RBMA Radio · Steve Reich · The Music Maker
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via redbullmusicacademy.com
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Electric Independence · Morton Subotnick
The latest episode of Electronic Independence features electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick.
Subotnick gives a tour of his New York studio and discusses his career, working with Don Buchla, the Buchla Series 100 modular synthesizer and working with Ableton Live.
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via motherboard.tv
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Arthur Berger · Duo for Cello and Piano
Arthur Berger · Duo for Cello and Piano (1951) · Joel Krosnick, cello · Gilbert Kalish, piano
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Arthur Berger’s Duo for Cello and Piano (1951), called “diatonic Webern” by Milton Babbitt, focuses on C major and shows a synthesis of traits from the Quartet for Winds: large melodic leaps, Baroque rhythm and counterpoint, and a dance-like lilt (found in the second movement of...
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George Perle · Six Celebratory Inventions
George Perle · Six Celebratory Inventions · Michael Brown, Piano · Cleveland, July 2009
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web : georgeperle.net
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James Tenney · Spectrum 3
James Tenney · Spectrum 3 · For chamber ensemble (1995)
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Roger Sessions · Piano Sonata No. 3
Roger Sessions · Piano Sonata No. 3 (1965) · 1. Adagio e misterioso, sostenuto · Robert Helps, piano
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Exquisite Labyrinth · The Music of Pierre Boulez
Exquisite Labyrinth: The Music of Pierre Boulez · Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, composer Nico Muhly, violinist Clio Gould and Gillian Moore, Southbank Centre’s Head of Contemporary Culture, discuss Southbank Centre’s weekend festival Exquisite Labyrinth: the music of Pierre Boulez. The festival takes place from Friday 30 September to Sunday 2 October 2011.
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via soundcloud.com
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en Echo · Philippe Manoury and Miller Puckette
en Echo · By Philippe Manoury and Miller Puckette · a music piece for soprano and live electronics · en Echo uses real time score-following software which responds to the singer’s voice
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via puredata.info
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Indeterminacy · John Cage
Writer and performer Stewart Lee reads ‘Indeterminacy’ by John Cage with music by Tania Chen and Steve Beresford. · Extract from a live performance at St Georges Bristol, April 2011.
LISTEN/WATCH [vimeo.com]
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wgbh.org · Berg and Poulenc
Marc-André Hamelin, piano James Campbell, clarinet
Alban Berg : Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano · at 29:35 Francis Poulenc : Sonata for Clarinet and Piano* · at 42:02
skip the Brahms piece and go directly to 29:35…
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via wgbh.org
* The Sonata for Clarinet and Piano was among Poulenc’s final works and, like his Oboe Sonata, it dates from the summer of 1962. He...
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Louis Andriessen · De Staat · Anaïs Nin
Louis Andriessen discusses De Staat (The Republic) and Anaïs Nin (new work for singer, ensemble and film)
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wqxr.org · Notation, Notation, Notation
Notation · Turning Sound into Representational Squiggles · Nadia Sirota
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Rzewski · De Profundis
Frederic Rzewski · De Profundis (1992) · Lisa Moore
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Adorno und Stockhausen · 1960
Theodor W. Adorno und Karl-Heinz Stockhausen
Gespräch über Neue Musik (1960) [49:39]
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Max Mathews + Richard Boulanger · Live from 1992
Max Mathews and Richard Boulanger Live from 1992 · Concert with Max Mathews, Richard Boulanger playing radio drums · bowling green state university · Burton Beerman, clarinet · Maureen Chowning, soprano voice · Celesta Haraszti, dance
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Max Mathews is the father of computer music who worked at bell labs in the early 50s. The radio drum is a realtime performance...
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Sonifying Processing
computermusicblog.com · Download · Sonifying Processing: The Beads Tutorial · PDF
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Zimmermann · Vier kurze Studien (1970)
Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970) · Vier kurze Studien, per violoncello solo (dedicati a Siegfried Palm) (1970) · Siegfried Palm, violoncello
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wikipedia.org : Bernd Alois Zimmermann
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Sandwich · Revolution 9
FEATURING · REVOLUTION 9 [The Beatles] + REVOLUTION 10 [Sandwich] · audio montage by Sandwich
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via Sandwich Radio
wikipedia.org : Revolution 9
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Zapf Dingbat music/one (partition)
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Martin Messier talks about his new piece Sewing...
Electroacoustic composer Martin Messier talks about his new piece Sewing Machine Orchestra, his musical beginnings, and how he creates new sounds with old Singers. · By Daisy Atterbury
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Book · Nietzsche and Music · By Georges Liébert
Nietzsche and Music · By Georges Liébert · University of Chicago Press · ISBN: 9780226480879 · Published January 2004
Georges Liébert is maitre de conference at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris and a producer at France-Musique.
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The Music and Thought of Friedrich Nietzsche · By Benjamin Moritz
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Book · Claude Debussy · By David J. Code
Claude Debussy · By David J. Code · University of Chicago Press · ISBN: 9781861897596 · Published August 2010
David J. Code is lecturer in music at the University of Glasgow.
Introduction 1 · A Music that Clothes the Poetry 2 · A Dream from Which One Draws Back the Veils 3 · The Art of a Curious Savage 4 · Something New, Which Surprises Even Ourselves Epilogue References Select Bibliography...
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49x2 Words · Piece for two voices
49x2 · Piece for two voices (2001/2011)
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Licht und Klang · Georg Friedrich Haas
Licht und Klang · Georg Friedrich Haas in Residenz · Lucerne Festival
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John Cage night · Review by Guy Dammann
John Cage night · Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
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via guardian.co.uk
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enjoy climate change · part one
enjoy climate change · [part one 22:32] for e-guitar feedback system and electronic drones [2009/2010/2011/2012] in collaboration with George Koehler [e-guitar material]
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[extrait limité à 07:30] · © 2011 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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Opening Night Preview · James Dillon's Nine Rivers
2011-12 Opening Night Preview: James Dillon’s Nine Rivers · By Miller Theatre
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Critical Thinking · A Conversation with Alex Ross
Critical Thinking: A Conversation with Alex Ross · By Matt DeStefano
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Alex Ross · therestisnoise.com
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blogs.wfmt.com · Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel discusses his book AND THEY ALL SANG: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey.
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studsterkel.org : Bio
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wqxr.org · MATA Festival, 2011
MATA Festival, 2011: Opening Night · Founded in 1996 by Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky and Lisa Bielawa, MATA is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to commissioning and presenting works by young composers from around the world.
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nytimes.com : New York Times coverage of MATA’s Opening Night
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wnyc.org · Gig Alert · Butch Morris
Gig Alert: Butch Morris · By Marlon Bishop : WNYC Culture Producer
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New Sounds · Acoustic Music with Computers
New Sounds · Episode #3074 · Acoustic Music with Computers · Hosted by John Schaefer
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tonBAND montage [version b]
tonBAND montage [version b] · Max/MSP, electronics and magnetic tape [Tonband] [2011] · © Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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Sound art and spatial practices
Sound art and spatial practices : situating sound installation art since 1958 · By Gascia Ouzounian
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The body as re-mediator of electronic sound
To un-button : strategies in computer music performance to incorporate the body as re- mediator of electronic sound · By Oliver La Rosa, Jaime Eduardo
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Boulez · Cummings ist der Dichter
Pierre Boulez · Cummings ist der Dichter | für 16 Solostimmen oder gemischten Chor und Instrumente · Text: Edward Estlin Cummings, aus »Poems 1932 – 1954
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Als Pierre Boulez sich 1952 in New York aufhielt, besuchte er zusammen mit John Cage eine Buchhandlung. Auf Boulez‘ Frage, welche interessanten Dichter es gäbe, zeigte Cage ihm einen Band mit Gedichten von Edward...
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Poignant Reflections · David Dubal
notesontheroad.com : Poignant Reflections: David Dubal on Self-Reliance and Why “The Piano Matters” · Written by Kimball Gallagher
wwfm.org : The Piano Matters
David Dubal · The Essential Cannon of Classical Music
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nymag.com · Brownstone Accelerando
nymag.com · Brownstone Accelerando · The 154-year-old Brooklyn Philharmonic has no home, no subscribers, and an iffy budget. But it also has Alan Pierson.