modbit - contemporary classical music

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1. Jurgen Simpson: Unlocking (2001)
2. Arnold Schoenberg: 5 pieces for Orchestra (1909, revised 1949)
3. Richard Carrick: Masculin-Feminin (1995)
4. Michael Gordon: Industry (199?)
5. Harrison Birtwistle: Earth Dances (1986)
6. John Cage: Freeman Etudes, Book I: 5, 6, 7 and 8 (1977-80)

audio is incomplete due to a problem with the automated recording of the stream, so no audio for this show

1. Steve Reich: Come Out (1966)
2. Chris Mercer & Burt Turetzky: Collaboration - Improv, Handheld Rides Again, The Closer (200?)
3. Bernd-Alois Zimmermann: Nobody knows de trouble I see (1954)
4. John Cage: Freeman Etudes, Book I: 1, 2, 3 and 4 (1977-80)
5. Ge Gan-ru: Fu (200?)
6. Peter Maxwell Davies: Turris Campanarum Sonantium (1970)

download: complete-modbit-show73.mp3

audio ends 5/6′th of the way through the Walshe composition ‘Physics…’. i am adjusting my recording technique so this doesn’t happen again if the show goes overtime

this show is dedicated to the memory of michael tymchyshyn

1. Gyorgy Ligeti: Double Concerto for flute, oboe and orchestra (1972)
2. Chris Mercer - Bert Turetzky: Collaboration - Polyphony, Hard Gran, Sus Time (200?)
3. Mei-Fang Lin: L’image reconsituee (200?)
4. Donnacha Dennehy: Bulb (2006)
5. Morton Feldman: Why Patterns? (1978)
6. Jennifer Walshe: Physics for the Girl in the Street (200?)

download: complete-modbit-show72.mp3

show co-hosted by alex lazarevich and ben grosser, all jazz show to celebrate the upcoming Nature’s Tables Reunion 2, at the Canopy Club in Urbana, August 15th and 16th, 2008

1. Thelonious Monk: Abide with me
2. Thelonious Monk: Well you needn’t (background to show intro)
3. Eric Dolphy and Booker Little: Booker’s Waltz
4. Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder
5. Count Basie: Jumpin’ at the Woodside (live)
6. Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt: After Hours
7. Miles Davis: Sivad
8. Regina Carter: Don’t get Sassy
9. Charlie Parker: Marmaduke
10. Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt: The Eternal Triangle
11. Duke Ellington: Blue Pepper

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1. Chris Mercer & Bert Turetzky: Collaboration: Motoric Maelstrom, Alchemy, El Cruncho (200?)
2. Donnacha Dennehy: Bulb (2006)
3. Gyorgy Ligeti: San Fransico Polyphony (1973-74)
4. Andrew Hamilton: above under now (2002)
5. Andrew Hamilton: above under now (2002)
6. Iannis Xenakis: Nomos Alpha (1965)
7. Vytautas Germanavicius: Space Dunes (200?)
8. Rachel Holstead: Enchant (2003)
9. Earle Brown: Times Five (1963)

show not recorded. i’ve been recording the show via the webstream, using a free software package called streamripper (http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/), but the stream was down tonight so no recording.

1. Hugues Dufourt: Antiphysis (1978)
2. Chris Mercer & Bert Turetzky: Collaboration: The Opener, Ride Red Ride, Ornithology (200?)
3. Andrew Hamilton: music for roger casement (2006)
4. Luigi Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz (1971-72)
5. Keith Moore: Forever Young (2003)

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1. Arnold Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra, Op 31 (1926-28)
2. Milton Babbitt: Partitions (1957)
3. Edgar Varese: Integrales (1925)
4. Gyorgy Ligeti: Atmospheres (1961)
5. Gerard Grisey: Four Songs to Cross the Threshold (1997-98)

show hosted by Ben Grosser

audio starts during Sole Injection…

download: complete-modbit-show68.mp3

1. Kenneth Gaburo: Dante’s Joynte (1976)
2. Zack Browning: Sole Injection (1996)
3. Gyorgy Ligeti: Piano Etudes 1, 2 and 3 from book I (1985)
4. Linda Antas: Still, Standing Still
5. Iannis Xenakis: Tetras (1983)
6. Miles Davis: Rated X (1973)
7. Skerik’s Syncopated Taint Septet: Daddy Won’t Taint Bye-Bye
8. Donnacha Dennehy: Elastic Harmonic (2005)
9. Alex Lazarevich: I -32,767 the sandbox (1995)
10. Louis Andriessen: Hout (1991)
11. Zack Browning: Execution 88 (2006)
12. Gyorgy Ligeti: Etudes for Organ

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1. Salvatore Martirano: UIUS & Just fa Laffs (1990-91)
2. Charles Ives: Variations on America (1891)
3. Paul Reller: Carcass (1989)
4. Barak Perelman: Opus 2, mvnt #1
5. Barak Perelman: Opus 2, mvnt #2
6. Barak Perelman: Study for 2 keyboards
7. Luciano Berio: Sequenza III (female voice) (1965-66)
8. Jennifer Walshe: a sensitive number for the laydeez (2004)
9. Sever Tipei: A.N.L.-folds (1998)
10. Iannis Xenakis: Thallein (1984)

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1. Herbert Brun: Gesto (1965)
2. Gerard Grisey: Talea (1986)
3. .. complete playlist coming soon…

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1. Donnach Dennehy: Glamour Sleeper (2003)
2. Gyorgy Ligeti: Ramifications (1968-69)
3. Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic, Buddha’s Bedroom and The Nursery (2006)
4. Zack Browning: Execution 88 (2006)
5. Chris Mercer: SWR-Redux (2004, rev. 08)
6. Ben Grosser: Idler Xaxis: Gamma Interlace (1993)
7. Morton Feldman: The Viola in My Life I (1970)
8. Iannis Xenakis: Pleiades: Peaux (1979)

WEFT is back on air with a 10K watt transmitter. Right on. Dig it…

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1. Giancinto Scelsi: Anahit (1965)
2. Gyorgy Ligeti: Etudes for Piano, book I (1985)
3.  Harrison Birtwistle: Silbury Air (1977)
4. Vitas Germanavicius: Luminous III (2005)
5. Mei-Fang Lin: Multiplication Virtuelle
6. Zack Browning: Impact Addiction

WEFT’s transmitter was struck by lightning on May 30th, 2008. modbit was on hiatus until June 14th 2008.

http://weft.org/story/2008/07/02/weft-is-back-full-power

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1. Jean-Claude Risset: L’autre face
2. Kaija Saariaho: Jardin Secret II
3. Zack Browning: Venus Notorius
4. Chris Mercer: Swampoid
5. Edgar Varese: Integral
6. Luciano Berio: Laborintus 2

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modbit host for this date was Steve Severinghaus

1. Ben johnston: String Quartet No. 9, mvnt IV
2. Thomas Buckner: Tania Leon: Canto
3. Monroe Golden: North Shelby, Natchez Trace
4. James Tenney: Music for Player Piano
5. Vladimir Ussachevsky: Computer Pieces #5, 6, 7
6. Alexander Mosolov: Iron Foundry
7. Tim Johnson: Failing
8. Paul Marquardt: Test Pattern
9. James Tenney: for Ann (vising)
10. Steve Reich: Phase Patterns
11. Terry Riley: The Cusp & Magic 3 and 5

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1. Sever Tipei: L’Execration du Pere-Mere
2. Zack Browning: Profit Beater
3. Chris Mercer: Voices of Lemurs (2007)
4. Rick Burkhardt: The Second Order
5. Ben Grosser: u transformed i union d
6. Hans Werner Henze: Violin Concerto No. 2

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Zack Browning’s music was featured on a DMA Piano recital given by Jee-Ean Kim on April 3rd 2008 in Smith Recital Hall. The Zack pieces below are from a live recording of that concert.

1. Zack Browning: Thunder Roll
2. Zack Browning: Blacktop Infusion
3. Zack Browning: Execution 88
4. Zack Browning: Venus Notorius
5. Luigi Nono: A Carlo Scarpa…
6.  Paul Reller: Black Magic Flute
7. Iannis Xenakis: Anaktoria

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1. Edgar Varese: Deserts (1950-54)
2. David Lang: Illumination Rounds
3. Michael Gordon: Thou Shalt! Thou Shalt Not! (1983)
4. Alexander Mosolov: Iron Foundry (1927)
5. Elliott Carter: Symphony of Three Orchestras (1976)
6. Robert Constable: Crackhead
7. Daniel Goode: Coeurd’Orr

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1. Zack Browning: Impact Addiction (1995)
2. Frederic Rzewski: Piano Piece No. IV
3. Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9, mvnt 1 (1894)
4. Claude Debussy: Preludes for Piano, Book I, No. 10 (1909-10)
5. Claude Debussy: Preludes for Piano, Book I, No. 1 (1909-10)
6. Oliver Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie, first 3 movements (1946-48)
7. Elliott Carter: Esprit Rude, Esprit Doux (1985)
8. Earle Brown: Times Five (1963)
9. Preston Ari Swirnoff: Maariv 1 (2006)

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1. Milton Babbitt: Partitions (1957)
2. Milton Babbitt: It Takes Twelve to Tango (1984)
3. Milton Babbitt: Playing for Time (1977)
4. Iannis Xenakis: Metastasis (1953-54)
5. Iannis Xenakis: Pithoprakta (1955-56)
6. Morton Feldman: for Frank O’hara (1973)
7. Andrew Hamilton: music for roger casement (2006)
8. Hyo-Shin Na: Then Thousand Ugly Ink Blots (200?)

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1. Christophe Bertrand: Dikha (2000-01)
2. Morgan Powell: FFFF (1993)
3. Barak Perelman: Opus 2, mvnt #1 (2006)
4. Barak Perelman: Opus 2, mvnt  #2 (2006)
5. Barak Perelman: Opus1, mvnt #7 (2006)
6. Iannis Xenakis: Palimpsest (1979)
7. Daisy Butler: Bath (2004)
8. Daisy Butler: Doilies (2004)
9. Robert Carl: Time/Memory/Shadow (1988)

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1. Salvatore Martirano: Thrown (1984)
2. Gyorgy Ligeti: Cello Concerto (1966)
3. Donnacha Dennehy: Glamour Sleeper (2003)
4. Emmanuel Nunes: Litanies du feu et de la mer II (1971)
5. Andrew Hamilton: music for roger casement (2006)
6. Preston Ari Swirnoff: Maariv 4 - 4 tape machines (2007)

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special show of all-female composers

1. Julia Wolfe: The Vermeer Room (1989)
2. Anneli Arho: Minos’ (1978)
3. Insook Choi: Later, the Runaway, leaving no trace, not even a trace of misfortune (1991)
4. Thea Musgrave: Chamber Concerto No. 2 (1966)
5. Elizabeth Brown: Migration - in memory of Julie Farrell (1992)
6. Chaya Czernowin: Afatzim (2003)
7. Diana Deutsch: selections from Phantom Worlds (2003)
8. Anna Rubin: Crying the Laughing and Golden (1982-83)
9. Chin-Chin Chen: Points of Arrival (1998)

download: complete-modbit-show52.mp3

all female composers in celebration of woman’s history month

1. Carla Scaletti: Sun Surge Automata
2. Julia Wolfe: Lick
3. Chaya Czernowin: Winter Songs (2003-04)
4. Galina Ustvolskaya: Grand Duet (1959)
5. Allison Cameron: Two Bits (1991)
6. Kaija Saariaho: Lichbogen (1985-86)

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1. York Holler: Arcus (1978)
2. Iannis Xenakis: Naama (1984)
3. Christoph Bertrand: Aus (2003)
4. Monroe Golden: Section 16 (200?)
5. Miles Davis: Rated X (1972)
6. Steve Takasugi: Jargon of Nothingness (200?)

download: complete-modbit-show50.mp3

1. Ross Feller: This Appearance (199?)
2. Salvatore Martirano: SAMPLER: Everything Goes when the Whistle Blows (1985)
3. Barak Perelman: Study for 2 Keyboards (2001)
4. Barak Perelman: Opus 1 - Movement #4 (2006)
5. Barak Perelman: Opus 1 - Movement #7 (2006)
6. Zack Browning: Sole Injection (1996)
7. Monroe Golden: Iron Road (200?)
8. Earle Brown: Octet 1 (1953)
9. Earle Brown: December 1952 (1952)
10. Keith Moore: Radial (2006)
11. Alvin Lucier: Fragments for Strings

download: complete-modbit-show49.mp3

1. Miles Davis: ESP
2. Miles Davis: Eighty-One
3. Chris Mercer: Polyphony
4. Chris Mercer: Hard Gran
5. Chris Mercer: Sus Time
6. Chris Mercer: Improv
7. Chris Mercer: Handheld Rides Again
8. Chris Mercer: The Closer
9. Gyorgy Ligeti: String Quartet #2
10. Count Basie: Corner Pocket
11. James Brown: Say it Loud
12. James Brown: Lost Someone
13. Iannis Xenakis: Gendy 3
14. Polvo: Can I Ride
15. Polvo: Kalgon
16. Polvo: Bend or Break
17. Miles Davis: Sivad

download: complete-modbit-show48.mp3

1. Gyorgy Ligeti: Ramifications (1968-69)
2. Sonny Rollins: But not for me (1959)
3. Crystal Method: Vapor Trail
4. Smashing Pumpkins: Cherub Rock
5. Future Prophecies: Achhaai
6. Infantry Rockers: Sheila
7. Keith Moore: Vent (1995)
8. Bud Powell: Grooving High (1961)
9. Gabriel Faure: Pie Jesu Aria from Requiem Op. 48
10. Sonic Youth: Kool Thing
11. Bitman & Roban: El Hechizo
12. Polvo: Fractured
13. Donnacha Dennehy: Glamour Sleeper (2003)
14. Ben Grosser: IfButOr (1995)
15. The Prodigy: Poison

download: complete-modbit-show47.mp3

1. Gyorgy Ligeti: Trio (1982)
2. Michael Gordon: Yo Shakespere (1992)
3. Iannis Xenakis: Pithoprakta (1955-56)
4. Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Requiem for a Young Poet (1969)

download: complete-modbit-show46.mp3

1. Edgar Varese: Equatorial (1934)
2. Iannis Xenakis: Anaktoria (1969)
3. Salvatore Martirano: SAMPLER: Everything Goes when the Whistle Blows (1985)
4. Chris Mercer and Burt Tureski: Collaboration (200?)
5. Miles Davis: Agharta (1975)
6. Jonathan Harvey: Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1980)
7. Brian Ferneyhough: Time and Motion Study No. 1 (1984)

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1. Zack Browning: Coming Up 7’s
2. John Cage: Three Dances (1945)
3. Luigi Nono: No Hay Caminos… Hay Que Caminar (1989)
4. Louis Andriessen: Hout (1991)
5. Morgan Powell: THO
6. Sever Tipei: Daria (2006)
7. Morton Feldman: Three Pieces for String Quartet (1956)

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1. Gerard Grisey: Acoustic Spaces (1974-1985)
2. Steve Takasugi: Jargon of Nothingness (200?)

Show was hosted by composer, performer, and friend, Rick Burkhardt. Rick was at one time an airshifter at WEFT and he was back in town for the holidays, and was kind enough to sit in and do modbit for me this week. Unfortunately, I don’t have a playlist, or a recording or the show. Sorry!

download: complete-modbit-show42.mp3

1. Ann Warde: Eye of the Day (1999)
2. Alban Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra Op. 6 (1910)
3. George Lewis: So You Say
4. George Lewis: Chicago Datagram
5. Hans Werner Henze: Prison Song

download: complete-modbit-show41.mp3

1. Edgar Varese: Integral (1925)
2. Gyorgy Ligeti: String Quartet #2 (1968)
3. Morgan Powell: Old Man (1967)
4. Christophe Bertrand: Dikha (2001)
5. Morton Feldman: I Met Heine on the Rue Furstenberg (1971)
6. Iannis Xenakis: Pleiades - Peux (1978)
7. Rick Burkhardt: Una Corda (1995)
8. Milton Babbitt: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1985)

download: complete-modbit-show40.mp3

1. Salvatore Martirano: Ballad (1966)
2. Iannis Xenakis: Metastasis (1953-54)
3. Henry Cowell: Ostinato Pianissimo (1934)
4. Keith Moore: From the Diary of an Organaut (1996)
5. Luigi Dallapiccola: Two Sketches - Air, Flying Throughout (19??)
6. Pierre Boulez: Multiples (1970)
7. Salvatore Martirano: Ballad (1966)
8. Bela Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra (1942-43, rev. 1945)

download: complete-modbit-show39.mp3

1. Zack Browning: Impact Addiction (1995)
2. Charles Ives: Central Park in the Dark (1909)
3. Harrison Birtwistle: For O, for O, the Hobby-Horse is Forgot (1976)
4. Bernfried Prove: Choor II (2001)
5. Chaya Czernowin: Maim (water) (2007)
6. John Cage: Freeman Etudes Book II - 9 & 10 (1977-80)

download: complete-modbit-show38.mp3

1. Claude Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (1894)
2. Aribert Reimann: Nacht-Raume (19??)
3. Chris Mercer & Bert Turetzky: Collaboration: Hand held rides again, The Closer (200?)
4. Luciano Berio: Points on a Curve to Find (1974)

… recording cuts off an hour into the program …

Show was not recorded. Steve Severinghaus was the guest host for modbit on this show. Steve is a volunteer at WEFT, interested in contemporary classical, also a singer, and computer programmer.

download: complete-modbit-show36.mp3

1. Magnus Lindburg: UR (1986)
2. Karlheinz Stockhausen: Song of the Youths (1956)
3. Steve Reich: Piano Phase (1967)
4. Hanze Werner Henze: Compases para preguntas ensimismadas (1969)
5. Bernard Rands: Canti del Sole (1984)

download: complete-modbit-show35.mp3

1. Morton Feldman: False Relationships and the Extended Ending (1968)
2. Gyorgy Ligeti: Lux Aeterna (1966)
3. Louis Andriessen: Workers Union (1975)
4. Benjamin Grosser: Sound Booze (1996)
5. Brian Ferneyhough: String Quartet #2 (1980)
6. Anton Webern: Six Pieces for Orchestra Opus 6 (1909-10, rev. 1928)
7. Luciano Berio: Differences (1959)

download: complete-modbit-show34.mp3

1. Edgar Varese: Integral (1925)
2. Terry Riley: In C (1964)
3. Iannis Xenakis: Mists (1980)
4. Dai Fujikura: Okeanos Breaze (200?)
5. Chin-Chin Chen: Points of Departure (200?)

download: complete-modbit-show33.mp3

1. Pierre Boulez: Structures for two pianos I (1952)
2. Steve Martland: Babi Yar (1983)
3. Donnacha Dennehy: Paddy (2003)
4. Eric Richards: The Bells Themselves (1997-99)
5. Monrow Golden: North Shelby (200?)
6. Benjamin Grosser: dimbit (2004)
7. Rick Burkhardt: Not Everything (will be included in the reorganization) (2004)
8. John Cage: Music for Changes Book 4 (1951)

download: complete-modbit-show32.mp3

1. Gerard Grisey: Quatre Chants Pour Franchir Le Seuil (1998)
2. Philip Glass: Strung Out (1967)
3. Zack Browning: Black Top Infusion (2003)
4. David del Puerto: Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra (1992)
5. Donnacha Dennehy: Glamour Sleeper (2003)

Show was not recorded. Show host was Steve Severinghaus. Steve is a singer and a computer programmer, among other things, and volunteers at WEFT.

download: complete-modbit-show30.mp3

1. Morgan Powell: Red White Black Blues (1992)
2. Gerhard Stabler: Strike the Ear (1987)
3. Iannis Xenakis: Rebonds (1987-89)
4. Iannis Xenakis: Akea (1986)
5. Interview with composer Keith Moore
6. Keith Moore: Vent (1996)
7. Interview with Moore continued…
8. Keith Moore: Radial (2006)
9. Interview with Moore continued…
10. Keith Moore: Hiatus Pitch (1995)
11. Interview with Moore continued…
12. Chris Mercer: Recumbent Base (200?)

download: complete-modbit-show29.mp3

1. Salvatore Martirano: Phleu (1988)
2. Tom Johnson: Failing: a very difficult piece for string bass (19??)
3. Julio Estrada: Canto Oculto (1977)
4. Claude Debussy: Nocturnes (1889)
5. York Holler: Arcus (1978)
6. Zack Browning: Black Notes (1987, rev. 95)
7. Steve Takasugi: Diary of a Lung (200?)

download: complete-modbit-show28.mp3

1. Gyorgy Ligeti: Piano Concerto (1985-86)
2. Eric Lyon: Stem Cells (2003?)
3. Steve Riech: Come Out (1966)
4. Michael Gordon: Strange Quiet (1987)
5. Elliot Carter: Anniversary (1989)
6. Chris Mercer: A Snowballs Chance (200?)
7. Chaya Czernowin: Afatzim (2003)
8. Morton Feldman: Intersection 3 (1953)