2012 / 02 / 22

Our guest today was Lorraine Vaillancourt, artistic director of the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne.

Jeu de temps / Times Play (JTTP) 2012
Call for New Works from Young and / or Emerging Sound Artists / Composers

1. Bernard Hermann – Vertigo Suite (Matt Haimovitz)
2. Maxime Corbeil-Perron – Fragments
3. Beethoven – Eroica Opening Chords
4. Osvaldo Golijov – Sidereus
5. Michael Ward-Bergeman – Barberich
6. Schubert – Der Leiermann (Fiescher-Diskau)
7. Hans Zender / Schubert – Der Leiermann (Blochwitz, Ensemble Moderne)
8. Hans Zender / Schubert – Erstarrung
9. Peter Ablinger – Whitney Houston
10. JS Bach / Schoenberg – Prelude and Fugue in E flat, BWV 552

2012 / 02 / 08

Our guests were Symon Henry and Samuel Lalande-Markon. The ensemble Magnitude 6 will be playing Spem in Alium and related new works in Montreal on February 21 and 22 (details here).

1. Gavin Bryars – Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet
2. W. Carlos / J.S. Bach – Badinerie
3. Mindaugas Piecaitis – CATcerto
4. Bengt Hambraeus – Interferences
5. Thomas Tallis – Spem in Alium (Magnitude 6)
6. Sebastien Lavoie – Metalloid
7. Symon Henry – Gestes Liberté
8. Dave Sanford – Corpus Shot

2012 / 01 / 25

Our guest today was Mira Benjamin of Quatuor Bozzini. Quatuor Bozzini has a concert coming up this Friday (January 27 2012), 8pm, at Chapelle Historique Bon Pasteur in Montreal. On the program is “Thomas devant la fontaine eteinte” for string quartet and actor, by Nicolas Gilbert.

Check out this book on musical time.

Playlist:

1. Cassandra Miller – Swainson’s Thrush (Quatuor Bozzini)
2. Taylor Brook – Florescences (Quatuor Bozzini)
3. Simon Martin – Miniature pour quatuor a cordes (Quatuor Bozzini)
4. Marie-Pierre Brasset – Dyea (Quatuor Bozzini)
5. Oyvind Torvund – plus plus
6. John Williams – Jurassic Park
7. Paul Steenhuisen – Pensacola
8. Schoenberg – Erwartung
9. Aaron Gervais – Schizo psycho
10. Bob Pritchard – …flow mingled down
11. Tristan Murail – C’est un jardin secret
12. Michael Parsons – Fourth Bagatelle
13. Chris Newman – Winter Trip No. 1
14. Cléo Palacio-Quintin – Archipel Imaginaire II

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2012 / 01 / 11

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1. Charles Wuorinen – Fourth String Quartet
2. Beethoven – String Quartet Op. 132 (Manfred Clynes)
3. Steve Mackey and Rinde Eckert – Ravenshead
4. Fred Ho – Blazing on the Turquoise Sea
5. Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht – Mackie Messer
6. Tomas Adès – Powder her Face
7. Jeffrey Mumford – Through a Stillness Brightening
8. Manuel Penella – El Gato Montés
9. Pierre Boulez = Le marteau sans maître
10. Paul Dolden – Who has the biggest sound?

2011 / 12 / 28

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1. Otto Luening – Fantasy in Space
2. Richard Barrett – Earth
3. Sebastian Currier – Quick Change; Broken Minuets (3rd mvt.)
4. Dylan Mattingly – Six Night Sunrise
5. Claude Debussy – Violin Sonata (Oistrakh)
6. Paul Dolden – Who has the biggest sound?
7. Composers of Reddit
   • Rachel Boyd – Black Piano
   • D0derlein – Minor Rain
   • Serious Killers soundtrack
   • Ian M. Clarke – 3 Flutes (Meem, Myself, and I)
   • Julian Porter – Fanfare for Brass and Percussion
   • E’Narda McCalister – Rhapsody for the Cult of the Sun

2011 / 12 / 14

We had great conversation today with musicians Pemi Paull and Isak Goldschneider, who will both be performing on Sunday, December 18th at Sala Rossa in Montreal (details here).

Playlist:

1. Jean Derome – Le magasin de tissu
2. Georg Friedrich Haas – Torso (IV)
3. Paul Dolden – The Un-Tempered Orchestra
4. Lev Zhurbin – Budget Bulgar (Warhol Dervish)
5. Richard Reed Parry – Heart, Breath, and Orchestra
6. Missy Mazzoli / Victoire – Cathedral City
7. Gerard Grisey – Prologue (Pemi Paull, viola)

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2011 / 11 / 30

Guests this week: Symon Henry and Jean Derome!

Playlist:

• Arvo Pärt – Fratres (Gidon Kremer and Keith Jarrett)
• Symon Henry – Favorite Game (interlude pour un violence; ana fakhr); Container City; L’heure des sons et des odeurs; Eclats-vitrail
• Jean Derome – Le magasin de tissu

We also discussed Gjerdingen’s musical schemata.

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Jean Derome on Where’s the Beat! (Nov 30, 2011)

New music composer and performer Jean Derome will be with us in the studio Wednesday, November 30th, 2011. Don’t miss it!

2011 / 11 / 16

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1. David Soldier – Sontag in Sarajevo
2. Györgi Ligeti – Désordre (Lucille Chung)
3. Györgi Ligeti – Désordre (Pierre-Laurent Aimard)
4. Algorithmic version of Désordre
5. Keith Jarrett – Rio (part 1)
6. Györgi Ligeti – Fanfares (Lucille Chung)
7. Beethoven – “Les Adieux” (Ashkenazy)
8. Györgi Ligeti – Automne à Varsovie (Lucille Chung)
9. Györgi Ligeti – Automne à Varsovie (Pierre-Laurent Aimard)
10. German ad for Electroacoustic Music
11. Another German ad for Electroacoustic Music
12. Bob Pritchard – (?)
13. Scott Rickard – The world’s ugliest music
14. Milton Babbitt – Partitions
15. Michael Parsons – Oblique Piece 10
16. Marc Sabat – Erbsen 4

2011 / 11 / 02

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MIT has an open course on algorithmic and music

1. David Berezan – Cyclo
2. Gottfried Michael Koenig – Terminus X
3. ANTON Composition System
4. David Cope – Invention #2 for piano
5. Dave Soldier – Elephonic
6. Christopher Ariza – to leave the best untold
7. Dick Hyman and Mary Mayo – Moon Gas
8. The Little Ludwig
9. James Harley – Neue Bilder
10. Komar and Melamid and Dave Soldier – Most Wanted Song, Most Unwanted Song
11. Erdem Helvacioglu – Resonating Universes (part 8 )