modbit - contemporary classical music

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)

show not recorded

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)

show not recorded

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)

show not recorded

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