Over the course of the day I had some (not enough) vinyl, but mostly I had CDs. Music I couldn’t fill with those media (or if a backup was required) I could stream, using a wireless interface provided (with some limitation).
I also made or had LP-sized cover art for each album, and I posted it for the audience to see while the albums played. Occasionally people would come over to me while a track was playing and look at the cover art and chat for moment or two, especially if the same music left a strong impression on them at some point.
BTW: Some of the streamable links in the playlists, below, weren’t used because I had some of the same music on CDs or vinyl.
Notes/statements for intro
I compose New Music, a term that’s totally lost its meaning today. But it goes by many other names, some you may have heard of or know:
- Tape Music,
- Musique Concrète,
- Found Sound
- Experimental,
- Electroacoustic, Electronic (but very different than “EDM”),
- Acousmatic
- Noise
just to scratch the genre/name surface that’s blossomed over the last 80 years.
Today is my musical calendar. I’ll more or less present music in the order in which it “came into my life” — when it took root in my budding/nascent “composer-mind”.
Throughout the 60s, starting around age 9 (1963), I lived on parallel tracks. One was classical music (played guitar specifically), the other was rock (played bass guitar)
I was first introduced to most of the music I’ll play between the ages of about 15 to 20.
(I’m thinking I”ll go through it in roughly the chronological order of the “meetings”.)
The late-1960s influences – my ages 13-18
You can hear tints and hints of “outside” and “straight-ahead” Jazz
- King Crimson
- Soft Machine
- Frank Zappa
You can definitely hear concrete and tape music, electronic and acousmatic music
and the bizarre oozing through for example the musics of
- The Beatles – who were themselves tuned into the New Music
- Jimi Hendrix
- Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
My music – sprinkle some in, but the playlist is about those who’ve inspired me.
Maroc – 19:00
Combustible – 7:00
Flags, Riggings and Floors – 4:30
Here’s the playlist
Andrés Segovia
Bach Cello Suite No. 6 in D Maj (BMV 1012) – 4:00
Bach Cello Suite No. 1 in G Maj (BMV 1007) – 2:20
Bach/Anonymous – Lute Suite in E Minor – 1:33
Jimi Hendrix – Psychedelic (definition of); power trio (def of) — VINYL
Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell
Electric Ladyland 1968
“1983… (A Merman I Should Turn to Be) – 13:00
travel through psychedelia to acousmatic.
Cream – power trio (def of); Blues based; high-psychedlia — CD
Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baken
Wheels of Fire 1968
White Room – 5:00 (slower)
Politician – 4:10 (andante)
Those Were the Days – 3:00
Crossroads – 4:20King Crimson —
VINYL
Robert Fripp, Gordon Haskell, Keith Tippet, Jon Anderson, Mel Collins
Lizard (1970 – sophomore in high school)
Cirkus – 6:30 (energetic)
Indoor Games – 5:40
Happy Family – 4:20
Lady of the Dancing Water – 2:50 (slow ballad)
Mothers of Invention / Frank Zappa
Absolutely Free – 1967— VINYL
Plastic People – 3:40
The Duke of Prunes – 2:12
[[[ Amnesia Vivace – 1:00
The Duke Regains His Chops – 1:45
Call Any Vegetable – 2:20 ]]]
Uncle Meat – 1969 — CD
Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme – 2:00
The Voice of Cheese – 0:30
Nine Types of Industrial Pollution – 6:00
Zolar Czaki – 1:00
Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague 4:00
The Legend Of The Golden Arches – 3:30
Louie Louie – Live at the Royal Albert Hall – 2:20
The Dog Breath Variations – 2:00
Sleeping in a Jar – 1:00
Our Bizarre Relationship – 1:00
The Uncle Meat Variations – 5:00
Electric Aunt Jemima – SKIP TRACK 12
Prelude to King Kong – SKIP TRACK 13
God Bless America – Live at Whiskey A Go Go – 1:15
A Pound For A Brown On The Bus – 1:30
Ian Underwood Whips It Out In Copenhagen – 5:00
Mr. Green Genes – 3:15
We Can Shoot You – 2:03
———— MAYBE STOP AFTER THAT ———
If We’d All Been Living in California – 1:15
The Air – 3:00
Project X – 5:00
Cruisin For Burgers – 2:20
Frank Zappa — VINYL
Hot Rats – 1969 – whole thing – 44:00
An ear-opening education (CalArts 1972-75) — ages 18-21
Edgar Varèse — CD
- Ionisation – 6:15
- Density 21.5 – 3:30
- Intégrales – 10:30
- Déserts – 25:30 [Completed the year I was born, 1954]
- (others later if needed)
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) – SPOTIFY
Quatre Études de rythme (Four Rhythm Studies) is a set of four piano compositions by Olivier Messiaen, written in 1949 and 1950.
Luciano Berio — VINYL
Sinfonia – (Side 2) — 15:00
PIerre Schaefer — CD (mine)
Cinq Etudes de Bruits (5 studies of noises) – first “published” Tape Music –
HOME BURNED CD – 16:00
(Wikipedia)The five études were composed in 1948 and are the earliest pieces of musique concrète, a form of electroacoustic music first theorized by Schaeffer that utilizes recorded sounds as the primary compositional resource.
The five études were composed at the studio Schaeffer established at RTF (now ORTF), the Studio d’Essai in Paris. They are:[1]
- Étude aux chemins de fer – trains[2][3]
- Étude aux tourniquets – toy tops and percussion instruments[4]
- Étude violette – piano sounds recorded for Schaeffer by Pierre Boulez
- Étude noire – piano sounds recorded for Schaeffer by Boulez
- Étude pathétique – sauce pans, canal boats, singing, speech, harmonica, piano
The works were premiered via a broadcast on 5 October 1948, titled Concert de bruits.[5][6]
Iannis Xenakis — CDs
- Syrmos – 11:45 — CD (commercial, track 5)
- Concret PH – 3:00 — CD (commercial, Tracks 2 & 3)
- Orient Occident – 11:30
- Karlheinz Stockhausen — CD & SPOTIFY
- Kontakte – 1958-60 – 35:00 — CD Track 3
- Gesang der Jünglingen – 1955-56 – 13:14 — SPOTIFY
boy soprano (Josef Protschka) and tape
Kurzwellen (Shortwave) – 1968 – 50:00 — SPOTIFY
Aloys Kontarsky, piano; Alfred Alings and Rolf Gehlhaar, tamtam,
Johannes Fritsch, viola, Harald Bojé, electronium, K. Stockhausen, filters
and potentiometers
György Ligeti — SPOTIFY
Atmosphères – 1961 – 9:05 – Used in Kubricks’s 2001 A Space Odyssey
Wiener Philharmonika (Claudio Abbado)
Volumina – 17:30
Gerd Zacher
Luc Ferrari — CD (mine)
Far-West News – 1 HOUR
Steve Reich — SPOTIFY
Violin Phase (tape an violin) – 1967 – 15:20
Bernard Parmegiani — SPOTIFY
De Natura Sonorum – 1975
tape
Part 1 – 28:00
—> Part 2 – 25:00 <— do this one if you have to choose btw the two
Miles Davis — VINYL
Miles Davis, Bennie Maupin, Wayne Shorter, John McLaughlin, Joe Zawinul, Dave Holland, Harvey Brooks, Chick Corea
Bitches Brew – 1970
Bitches Brew – 27:00Cecil Taylor Unit Structures – 1966 Enter, Evening -10:00 (off the Unit Structures album that was on Blue Note Records) https://open.spotify.com/track/1fhssVj5465AYKpfHy0A9P?si=3e1fcdbb35c94113
Weather Report — VINYL
Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Miroslav Vitous, Airto Moreira, Alphonse Mouzon
Weather Report – 1971 – 40:00
My continual inspirations — 1980s, 1990s and beyond
Curtis Roads — SPOTIFY
Point Line Cloud 2005
link to whole album – pick some
- Half Life – Pts 1 and 2 – 9:00
- Sonal Atoms
- Granules
Horacio Vaggione
24 Variations – 10:00 — SPOTIFY
From Fluides — CD (mine)
- Consort for Convolved Violins – 9:00
- Préludes suspendus III – 7:00