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		<title>The Avant-Garde Project</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2007/07/02/the-avant-garde-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Avant-Garde project is &#8220;a series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.&#8221;Some wonderful stuff that&#8217;s just not available any other way. It&#8217;s being released via BitTorrent (though older [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.avantgardeproject.org/index.htm">Avant-Garde project</a> is &#8220;a series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.&#8221;Some wonderful stuff that&#8217;s just not available any other way. It&#8217;s being released via BitTorrent (though older &#8220;releases&#8221; are available direct from the project website), and includes some absolute gems which I&#8217;ve alwas wanted to hear. Subotnick&#8217;s <a href="http://www.avantgardeproject.org/AGP6/index.htm"><em>The Double Life of Amphibians</em></a>, an example of his &#8220;ghost electronics&#8221; technique; three <a href="http://www.avantgardeproject.org/AGP18/index.htm">indeterminate</a> pieces from John Cage; and a set of <a href="http://www.avantgardeproject.org/AGP28/index.htm">underwater recordings</a> of &#8220;humpback whales, beluga whales, narwhals, orcas, and bearded seals.&#8221;<strong>Update:</strong> The AGP has released several more recordings of particular interest, one of which is &#8220;The World of Harry Partch&#8221; (<a href="http://www.avantgardeproject.org/agp57/index.htm">AGP 57</a>), which I&#8217;ve missed ever since I heard it once at a friend&#8217;s house on vinyl. It&#8217;s particularly notable for the great (and funny!) performance of &#8220;Barstow&#8221; with Partch himself as the principle vocalist.</p>
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		<title>77 Million Paintings</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2007/06/30/77-million-paintings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who&#8217;ve read my postings on EMUSIC-L and have followed this blog have probably noted that I&#8217;m a big fan of generative art: ambient music, installation pieces, and so on.
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Brian Eno has just released 77 Million Paintings; a DVD of generative art accompanied by music. You can see an excerpt at [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those of you who&#8217;ve read my postings on EMUSIC-L and have followed this blog have probably noted that I&#8217;m a big fan of generative art: ambient music, installation pieces, and so on.</p>
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<p>Brian Eno has just released <em>77 Million Paintings</em>; a DVD of generative art accompanied by music. You can see an <a href="http://www.77millionpaintings.com/">excerpt</a> at this link (requires Flash; the full-size piece is Flash as well). The music for the demo is &#8220;Ikebukuro&#8221; from <em>The Shutov Assembly</em>.</p>
<p>The version on the website is a limited subset, of course, but it&#8217;s an effective sample. The images combine very organic textural bits with more hard-edged graphics in a nicely-judged way. I also find the rate at which the piece changes to be just right: interesting enough to look at for a while if you like, but not so quick that it constantly engages the reptilian brain&#8217;s &#8220;what was that?&#8221; reflex. More details on the piece and how it was done are available at the <a href="http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/eno/">Apple</a> website. A lot of the work was apparently done on the Mac.</p>
<p>The piece is available at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2F77-Million-Paintings-Brian-Eno%2Fdp%2FB000EMSU2O%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Ddvd%26qid%3D1183257007%26sr%3D8-1&amp;tag=elw-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325">amazon.com</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=elw-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" style="border-width: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; border-style: none !important; margin: 0px !important" />.Â <span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span">Update:</span>Â The <a href="http://www.longnow.org/77m/">three-day North American premiere</a> is on at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. I&#8217;ve missed two of the three days; I may try to hit tomorrow&#8217;s Long Now Foundation member&#8217;s day.</p>
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		<title>Subbotnick classics available</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2006/11/15/subbotnick-classics-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joemcmahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been looking for Silver Apples of the Moon and Sidewinder for a long time; how pleasant to find out that you can buy them from Subotnick himself via Kagi.com.Silver Applesand The Wild Bull are available on a single CD, with Sidewinder and Until Spring (which I&#8217;ve not yet heard) on another (update: available on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for <em>Silver Apples of the Moon</em> and <em>Sidewinder</em> for a long time; how pleasant to find out that you can <a href="http://www.mortonsubotnick.com/order.html">buy</a> them from Subotnick himself via Kagi.com.<em>Silver Apples</em>and <em>The Wild Bull</em> are available on a single CD, with <em>Sidewinder</em> and <span style="font-style: italic" class="Apple-style-span">Until Spring</span> (which I&#8217;ve not yet heard) on another (update: available on <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=159293440">iTunes</a> as well!).I have been listening to the <a href="http://www.avantgardeproject.org/AGP6/index.htm">AGP</a> recordings of <em>The Double Life of Amphibians</em>, and they&#8217;re interesting, likable, and challenging pieces.</p>
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		<title>Roger Reynolds at LOC now up</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2005/04/27/roger-reynolds-at-loc-now-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2005 02:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joemcmahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Library of Congress&#8217;s site featuring the music of Roger Reynolds is an outstanding example of what such an organization can do. The site shows the depth of the Library&#8217;s holding in a particular are, covering everything from Reynolds&#8217; music to photographs of the composer.
Reynolds has a close working relationship with the LOC; I only [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Library of Congress&#8217;s <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/html/rreynolds/rreynolds-home.html">site</a> featuring the music of Roger Reynolds is an outstanding example of what such an organization can do. The site shows the depth of the Library&#8217;s holding in a particular are, covering everything from Reynolds&#8217; music to photographs of the composer.</p>
<p>Reynolds has a close working relationship with the LOC; I only wish I had heard the <a href="http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0201/justice.html">performance</a> of <em>JUSTICE</em> performance while I was still living in DC.</p>
<p>As a composer of sorts myself, I find the <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/html/rreynolds/interview-part1.html">interview</a> with Reynolds particularly interesting. He&#8217;s an interesting character. Originally an engineer, he didn&#8217;t really come to music until he was 14. His approach is an interesting combination of intuition and formalism; he uses tone rows, but what to do next is <em>guided</em> by the row, not dictated. As he says:</p>
<blockquote><p> &#8230; It&#8217;s very clear that there will be an aesthetic consistency to anything that<br />
an artist does with commitment and capacity. It cannot be otherwise. Because what it is all about, and I&#8217;ve said this to you in our correspondence, what it is all about is <em>the exercise of aesthetic consistency</em>. I am a being, a creature; I hear and see and interact with the world, and when I am making something the ultimate question is: Does it fit? Does it belong in this thing? And that&#8217;s not a local question. It&#8217;s a question that involves understanding the whole project even the way the whole project fits in a larger set of things &#8211; something which may be locally inadmissible in terms of its relationship to the larger thing. So for me it&#8217;s always about my aesthetic sensibility, and the things that I al<br />
low in are <em>right</em>. Now they may be foolish, they may be banal, they may be<br />
trivial, but they&#8217;re &#8220;right&#8221; if they get past my filter.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now this is a principle I can agree with.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s an amazing variety of material here. I won&#8217;t link to all of it &#8211; better you visit the site and see it in context &#8211; but the particular bit I <em>will</em> link to is the <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200029025/track.html?ID=tr0001">recording</a> and <a href="ihttp://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/html/rreynolds/interview-part3.html">analysis</a> of <em>Transfigured Wind III</em>. This interview intersperses comments by the composer, score excerpts, and the appropriate sound clips; this is something I hope other sites will aspire to doing.</p>
<p>Most contemporary classical music doesn&#8217;t do a lot for me. I like the electronic stuff because of the unique sonorities, mostly; I&#8217;m not an analyst by any means. Taking a composition apart in real-time is more work that I prefer to do when listening to a brand-new piece, especially when the piece is a complex one. <em>Transfigured Wind III</em>, however, does a great job of combining &#8220;extended&#8221; performances on various instruments with a very subtle computer part to produce a uniquely haunting and interesting piece that is an excellent esthetic experience even without deep understanding. Thanks to the analytic interview, I can have both the pleasure of listening to an excellent piece of complex music and the intellectual pleasure of really understanding the composer&#8217;s methods and intentions at the same time.</p>
<p>In short, this is an excellent presentation of a particular composer&#8217;s unique approach to music, and worth a detailed exploration. I plan to study it very carefully and perhaps to save a copy of the interview pages for reference.</p>
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		<title>The David Tudor website</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2004/06/03/the-david-tudor-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Full of fascinating ideas about Tudor&#8217;s performance style, diagrams of some of the beautiful &#8220;scores&#8221;, and a lovely, lovely page of the wonderful tangles of electronics he and his collaborators have used. The story about setting the house speakers afire was particularly fun.
http://www.emf.org/tudor/
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Full of fascinating ideas about Tudor&#8217;s performance style, diagrams of some of the beautiful &#8220;scores&#8221;, and a lovely, lovely page of the wonderful tangles of electronics he and his collaborators have used. The story about <a href="http://www.emf.org/tudor/Articles/jdsa_giant.html">setting the house speakers afire</a> was particularly fun.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.emf.org/tudor/">http://www.emf.org/tudor/</a></p>
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		<title>Crossing the Horizon: Elaine Walker / Chaos Melody Theory</title>
		<link>http://www.ibiblio.org/emusic-l/2003/11/12/crossing-the-horizon-elaine-walker-chaos-melody-theory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elaine Walker has done some interesting stuff with iterated function systems, mapping points in both the real line and the complex plane to melodies. Melodies that almost but don&#8217;t quite repeat, and which vector off at strange angles from your expectations.  Hynotic minimalist metallic sculptures. What Philip Glass might sound like if he came [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/">Elaine Walker</a> has done some interesting stuff with iterated function systems, mapping points in both the real line and the complex plane to melodies. Melodies that almost but don&#8217;t quite repeat, and which vector off at strange angles from your expectations.  Hynotic minimalist metallic sculptures. What Philip Glass might sound like if he came from a planet orbiting the Crab Nebula.She has a four-movement piece (mp3&#8217;s: <a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/chaos/1minusrxsquared/movement1.mp3">1</a> <a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/chaos/1minusrxsquared/movement2.mp3">2</a> <a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/chaos/1minusrxsquared/movement3.mp3">3</a> <a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/chaos/1minusrxsquared/movement4.mp3">4</a>) that explores different points of the complex space laid out by the equation 1-rx^2, as well as a <a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/chaos/ListeningExamples/CCimprov.mp3">live improv</a>.I&#8217;ve heard a number of &#8220;music from chaos&#8221; pieces and have generally been bored silly within a few minutes. Walker&#8217;s pieces, however, are lively and interesting. Very tasty stuff. Her <a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/chaos/">thesis</a> on the subject is good reading.[update 01/08] &#8211; Since I originally found her work, she&#8217;s been doing a <span style="font-style: italic" class="Apple-style-span">lot</span>Â of recording: the bandÂ <a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/ZIA/sections/bio.html">ZIA</a>,Â <a href="http://www.myspace.com/numbersine">Number Sine</a>, andÂ <a href="http://www.ziaspace.com/ZIA/sections/music.html#ELAINE">solo work</a>Â as well.</p>
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