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 )

2011 / 10 / 19

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Playlist:

1. Brian Ferneyhough – La terre est un homme
2. Frank Corcoran – Quasi una Visione
3. Alfred Schnittke – Variations on one chord, op.39
4. Bjork – Virus
5. Paul Dolden – Below the Walls of Jericho

Links:

• Pleasant vs Unpleasant music
• Generative music for media applications
• Bjork’s aps
• Paleophonics
• Ana Sokolovic / SMCQ
• Ludovico Einaudi in Montreal

2011 / 10 / 05 – Ana Sokolovic

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Our guest was composer Ana Sokolovic.

1. Ana Sokolovic – Svadba (excerpts)
2. Serbian dance music
3. Ana Sokolovic – Five Dances for Violin (first dance)
4. Ana Sokolovic – Ciaconna
5. Ana Sokolovic – Concerto for Orchestra
6. Ana Sokolovic – Oro
7. Music from one line of code
8. Alva Noto – Flash Forward
9. Benjamin Broening – Recombinant Nocturnes (Nocturne Fragments: Flexible, Mysterious, Resonant)
10. Martin Tétreault – Le quatuor de tourne-disques
11. Theresa Transistor – Nuisible
12. Veryan Weston – First interlude from Tesselations II
13. Andrea Pensado – BR+DSC

2011 / 09 / 21

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JTTP 2011 Winners!

5. Guillaume Campion — Neige cendre

4. Guillaume Barrette — Parasite

3. Jullian Hoff — Scratch

2. David Arango Valencia — Canción de Otraparte (Chanson d’ailleurs)

1. Maxime Corbeil-Perron — Fragments

1. Marc-André Perron — Effervescence/Somnolence

Ana Sokolovic and the JTTP winners on Where’s the Beat!

Our next two shows are going to feature conversations with special guest composers!

September 21 we will host the winners of this years Jeu de Temps / Times Play Awards (http://cec.sonus.ca/jttp/index.html).

October 5 we will be speaking with the illustrious Serbian-Canadian composer Ana Sokolovic.

2011 / 9 / 7

Yes, we’re back.

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1. Benjamin Thigpen – Malfunction
2. Francesco Filidei – Capriccio Italiano
3. Tchaikovski – Capriccio Italiano
4. Salvatore Sciarrino – Anamorfosi
5. Guillou Improvisation St. Eustache
6. Stanley Silverman – Long Lived Free Enterprise
7. Cleverbot talks with Cleverbot
8. Hideki Benno – Sample
9. Elena Mendoza – Diptiko; Akt Zeichnung
10. Franck Christoph Yeznikian – Six fleurs inverses
11. Marvin Minsky on the BBC talking about Beethoven
12. Sibelius 3rd mov on a 32nd Violin
13. Shlomo Mintz, Sibelius 3rd movement
14. Salvatore Sciarrino – Efebo con Radio (1981), for voice and orchestra
15. Holzkopf – High Tide
16. Philippe Petit / Mahler – Off to Titan
17. Ferde Grofe – Huckleberry March