May 15, 2013

Algorithmic music, and more.

1. Christopher Dobrian
2. Bruce Jacob
3. Tune Toys
4. Athanasius Kircher – Tono Hypodorio
5. Jim Bumgardner – Kasparov vs Deep Blue
6. Martin Brain – Anton
7. Pierre Barbaud – Terra Ignote ubi subt leo
8. Pony Trap with Robot Drummers
9. Pierre Barbaud – Bruckneriana; Les Creatures
10. Alexander Tcherepnin – Eight Pieces for Piano, Op.88
11. Pierre Barbaud – Nonetto in forma di triangolo

May 1, 2013

1. Gyorgi Ligeti – Melodien
2. Jeremy Leach – algorithmiccomposition.org
3. Tom Collins Research
4. Vincent Berger Rond
5. Catherine Christer Hennix – Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage; The Electric Harpsichord

April 3, 2013

Our guest was Cassandra Miller, artistic director of Innovations en concert. Violin duet concert coming up April 8 with Jonathan Crow and Andrew Wan.

1. Serge Arcuri – Soliloque (Jonathan Crow, violin)
2. Michael Oesterle – Daydream Mechanics (Quatuor Bozzini)
3. Laurence Crane – See Our Lake (Apartment House)
4. Johan Strauss Jr. – O Schoener Mai
5. Michael Finnissy – O Schoener Mai

March 20 2013

Discussion on the evaluation of computer music and AI generative systems. I’ll post my (draft) slides soon.

Feb 20, 2013

In the first hour, we discuss the modern, postmodern, and technological eras in culture and music. In the second hour, an interview with composer Louis Dufort.

1. John Zorn – Road Runner
2. Karlheinz Stockhausen – Gruppen
3. Keith Fullerton Whitman – Generators
4. Louis Dufort – Four negentropic stories (fourth story)

February 6, 2013

Guests Alain Lefebvre and Chris Strickland.

1. Thomas Tallis – Spem in Alium
2. Manfred Werder – Place time sounds
3. Michael Pisaro – No longer wild
4. Andrea Neumann and Sabine Ercklentz – Pruh
5. Werner Dafeldecker – Long dead machines
6. Antoine Beuger – Lieux de passage
7. Michael Pisaro – The punishment of the tribe by its elders

Jan. 13 2013

1. Michael Pisaro – Fields have ears; Ascending series
2. Radu Malfatti and Keith Rowe – Nariyamu
3. Hans Rott – Symphony in E Major
4. France Jobin – Friday
5. Daniel Goldmark – The Spinach Overture

Jan 9, 2013

1. John Corigliano – Tarantella from Symphony #1
2. Franz Liszt – Tarantella
3. Brett Dean – The Lost Art of Letter Writing
4. York Hoeller – Spheres
5. Philip Glass – Beck Rework – NYC 73-78
6. Philip Glass – Amon Tobin Rework – Warda’s Whorehouse
7. Philip Glass – Warda’s Whorehouse
8. David Bowie – Where are we now?
9. David Rosenboom – In the beginning I
10. Wenhui Xie – Sonnets to orpheus
11. Ferde Grofe – Missippi Suite

12 / 12 / 12

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<li>Elliott Carter – 90+ (Charles Rosen)</li>

<li>Karlheinz Stockhausen – Klavierstuck I (David Tudor)</li>

<li>Goffredo Petrassi – Partita per Pianoforte; Nunc</li>

<li>David Chalmers – Zombie Blues</li>

<li>Jonathan Harvey – Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco; Speakings</li>

<li>Ravi Shankar – Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra</li>

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November 28, 2012

Our guest was pianist Brigitte Poulin.<br>

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<li>Melissa Hui – The Mask Fails</li>

<li>John Cage – Sonatas and Interludes (Brigitte Poulin)</li>

<li>John Cage – Music for … 5</li>

<li>Michel van der Aa – Up-Close</li>

<li>Michel van der Aa – Imprint</li>

<li>Louis Andriessen – Xenia</li>

<li>Daniel Catan – Florencia en el Amazonas (act I scene 1)</li>

<li><a href = “http://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/otherperson/sierpinski.html”>Bill Sethares</a> – Fractal Rondo; Fractal Air; Fractal Sonata</li>

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