2012 / 5 / 16

Our guest was Simon Martin

1. Mia Zabelka – Roter Halbmond
2. Erdem Helvacioglu / Siyaha Ozgurluk – Freedom to the Black
3. Sonny Clark / John Zorn, George Lewis, Bill Frisell – News for Lulu
4. Simon Martin – Projections liberantes
5. Simon Martin – Icebergs et soleil de minuit
6. Simon Martin – Musique d’art

2 / 5 / 2012

Our guests were Peter Schubert and Fabrice Marandola of McGill University, Viva Voce, and Sixtrum. On May 4, 2012, 7:30 p.m., at
Redpath Hall, McGill University
3461 McTavish Street, Montreal,
celebrated percussion ensemble Sixtrum joins forces with VivaVoce to celebrate the 100th birthday of iconoclastic American composer John Cage. The program features premieres by Chris Paul Harman, Stacey Brown and Brian Cherney, as well as works by Cage and Vivier.

1. Diana Deutsch – Sometimes Behave So Strangely
2. Julia Wolfe – Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
3. Brian Eno – Generative Music (track 2)
4. Brad Garton – Transplant-wait
5. Claude Vivier – Pulau Dewata (McGill performers)
6. John Cage – Four2
7. Raymond Deane – Samara
8. Arthur Honegger – Pacific 231 (Bernstein)
9. Michael Gordon – For Madeline

2012 / 4 / 18

1. Kraftwerk – The Robots
2. Arturo Fuentes – Passatempo; Rincontri
3. Kurt Schwitters – Ursonate (Christian Bök)
4. Kurt Schwitters – Ursonate (Kurt Schwitters)
5. Jason Freeman – Interactive Music
6. Chris Chafe – TeleCello Concerto
7. Arnold Dreyblatt – Point Rotation
8. Cordâme – Vancouver
9. Nuntium
10. Christopher Mayo – Clean room design
    : sous les mers
11. Philippe Leroux – D’Aller (Mira Benjamin)
12. Bruckner 9 / I (Furtwangler)

2012 / 4 / 4

This show includes a review of the Music, Mind and Invention Workshop

1. John Cage – Williams Mix
2. Krzysztof Penderecki – Fluorescences
3. Krzysztof Penderecki – Te Deum
4. Jonny Greenwood – Popcorn Superhet Receiver
5. Andre Prevost – Scherzo for Strings
6. Melissa Hui – Solstice
7. JB Floyd – Tribute
8. Art Tatum plays Dvorak Humoresque
9. Jonny Greenwood – Smear

2012 / 3 / 7

Our guest was Claire Cavanagh from the SMCQ. They will be performing “the well tempered telephone” tomorrow afternoon.

1. Ivan Wyschnegradsky – Dialogue à trois
2. JS Bach – Prelude in A minor, BWV 551
3. JS Bach – Presto (Gidon Kremer)
4. Leo Kupper – Guitarra Cubana
5. Gerard Grisey – Talea
6. Walter Boudreau / Yves Daoust / Bach – Well Tempered Telephone (SMCQ)
7. More telephone
8. Radiohead / Matt Haimovitz – Pyramid Song
9. Beatles / Walter Boudreau – She’s leaving home
10. JS Bach – Allegro Assai (Hilary Hahn)
11. Charles Ives – Violin Sonata No. 4 (Hilary Hahn)
12. Kubilay Üner – Various
13. Supercollider

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