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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)

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

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)

download: complete-modbit-show27.mp3

1. Gyorgy Ligeti: Lontano (1967)
2. Iannis Xenakis: Pleidaes - Peaux (1979)
3. Conlon Nancarrow: Study for player piano #45c (19??)
4. Louis Andriessen: De Staat (1972-76)
5. Iannis Xenakis: Keren (1986)
6. Donnacha Dennehy: Streetwalker (2003)
7. Julia Wolfe: Lick (1994)
8. Keith Moore: Vent (1994)

download: complete-modbit-show26.mp3

1. Luigi Nono: Per Bastina: Tai-Yang Cheng per Nastro magnatico e Stumenti (1968)
2. Chaya Czernowin: Winter Songs (2003)
3. Interview with composer & artist Benjamin Grosser
4. Ben Grosser: Epistatic Nitch (1994)
5. Interview with Grosser continued…
6. Ben Grosser: Lotted Ebb (1998)
7. Interview with Grosser continued…
8. Ben Grosser: dimbit (2003)
9. Interview with Grosser continued…
10. Zack Browning: Sole Injection (1996)
11. Iannis Xenakis: Rebonds (1987-89)
12. Keith Moore: from the Diary of an Organaut (1996)
13. Stephan Wolpe: Stehende Musik (1925)
14. Morgan Powell: Faces (1973)

download: complete-modbit-show25.mp3

1. Bruno Maderna: Biogramma (1972)
2. Iannis Xenakis: Dammerschen (1994)
3. Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question (1906)
4. Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (1913)
5. Ben Grosser: Idler Xaxis: Gamma Interlace (1993)
6. Ben Grosser: lotted ebb (1998)
7. Daisy Butler: Denial of Service (2006)
8. Morton Feldman: Extensions 1 (1951)

download: complete-modbit-show24.mp3

1. Luciano Berio: Laborintus II (1963-65)
2. Salvatore Martirano: UIUS & Just fa Laffs (1990-91)
3. Gyorgy Ligeti: Monument, Self Portrait, Bewegung (1976)
4. Donnacha Dennehy: Elastic Harmonic (2005)
5. John Cage: Chorals (1978)
6. Salvatore Martirano: Isabella (1994-95)

download: complete-modbit-show23.mp3

Special Jazz show in honor of the Natures Tables Jazz Reunion celebration at Mike and Molly’s pub.

Enjoy!

show not recorded

1. Salvatore Martirano: Sampler: Everything goes when the Whistle Blows (1985)
2. Elliot Carter: Esprit rude, Esprit doux (1983)
3. Luc Ferrari: Strathoven (1985)
4. Luc Ferrari: Presque rien avec filles (1989)
5. Bela Bartok: Piano Concerto #1 (193?)
6. Keith Moore: Vagrants on every floor (1993)<