21st century classical music

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I also want to check their music further. A comment in the Houben disc mentioned Feldman, but I feel it is much closer to Cage's late period (number pieces.) For me, Feldman's music is more repetitive and continuous, while late Cage and Wandelwiser are more sparse & austere.

I think this Michael Pisaro's article summarizes the concept well.

I think Wandelwiser is closer to Cage too.

[San Antone]

Thomas Ankersmit - Figueroa Terrace

https://www.youtube.com/v/XxdMFzae-mE

[torut]

Thomas Ankersmit - Figueroa Terrace

https://www.youtube.com/v/XxdMFzae-mE

This is nice ambient music (I don't know if that is the composer's intention), thank you. It reminded me of Ryoji Ikeda's +/- (1996). I heard his recent works on youtube, and prefer his old works which were more minimalistic.

[petrarch]

This is nice ambient music (I don't know if that is the composer's intention), thank you. It reminded me of Ryoji Ikeda's +/- (1996). I heard his recent works on youtube, and prefer his old works which were more minimalistic.

Thanks for this, I didn't know Thomas Ankersmit. I wouldn't call it ambient music, though, as I find it engaging throughout. Yes, it is reminiscent of Ikeda, whose works I enjoy greatly, both old and new. They're on the same label, so the similar aesthetic isn't totally surprising.

[torut]

Thanks for this, I didn't know Thomas Ankersmit. I wouldn't call it ambient music, though, as I find it engaging throughout. Yes, it is reminiscent of Ikeda, whose works I enjoy greatly, both old and new. They're on the same label, so the similar aesthetic isn't totally surprising.

I should have written that I used it as ambient music and it was nice. I regard ambient music highly.
It was my impression after watching just few youtube clips of Ikeda's recent works that they have a little too much beats. I want to check them more.

[petrarch]

I regard ambient music highly.

Me too, mind you.

[torut]

Antonis Anissegos - oblating spheres [ending] (2013) for 3 string quintets & electronics (dedicated to Walter Russell)

https://soundcloud.com/antonis-anissegos/oblating-spheres-end

His soundcloud page

I was searching for information about a new album of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes played by Antonis Anissegos, and found that he is also a composer.

[torut]

Daniel Brandes (born 1985) - intimations of melody (2012) for 2-5 melody instruments

https://www.youtube.com/v/kgTTPzXBCmc

Another Wandelweiser composer I like. His string quartet The rooms are furnished in a most peculiar manner is included in A chacun sa miniature by the Quatuor Bozzini, a nice collection of miniature string quartets.

[torut]

Christian Wolff: 8 Duos
Robyn Schulkowsky with Christian Wolff, Frederic Rzewski, Kim Kashkashian, Joey Baron, Reinhold Friedrich, Rohan de Saram

[asin]B00B2SD6V4[/asin]

This album contains some recent works of Christian Wolff.

[audio]http://www.newworldrecords.org/media/file0dxAQ.mp3[/audio] For a Medley (2012) for percussion duo (excerpt)
[audio]http://www.newworldrecords.org/media/fileTdXG2.mp3[/audio] Duo 7 (2007) for percussion and melodica (excerpt)

Also, Edition Wandelweiser Records released an album of Microexercises (2006).

From "Beat Keller & Reza Khota play 11 Microexercises by Christian Wolff"

https://www.youtube.com/v/kfFBDCp0Tms

[Cato]

Opus 34 of a composer named Karl Henning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch/v/TdocQFG9WyE

[San Antone]

Andrea Di Paolo

https://www.youtube.com/v/y-JgRGOOA6M

"Arcaica"

[Cato]

Opus 34 of a composer named Karl Henning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch/v/TdocQFG9WyE

For newer GMG members, visit this page and follow the links to other works by Karl!

[torut]

Opus 34 of a composer named Karl Henning:

A nice organ work. The link does not work with Chrome on Mac OS X. I think you need to write

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Hsiao-Lan Wang - Before Sunrise (2012) for vibraphone and marimba

https://www.youtube.com/v/hqBfJib6W_k

[torut]

Magnus Granberg - Ist gefallen in den Schnee (2010)

https://www.youtube.com/v/JrBJdIvRwz8

Magnus Granberg & Skogen: Magnus Granberg - piano, Angharad Davies - violin, Leo Svensson Sander - cello, Erik Carlsson - percussion, John Eriksson - vibraphone & crotales, Petter Wästberg - electronics, Henrik Olsson - bowls and glasses, Anna Lindal - violin, Toshimaru Nakamura - no input mixing board

Interview with Magnus Granberg

The way the piece relates to Schubert is that the rhythmic material as well some other temporal proportions are derived from two different songs from Schubert's well known (well, that's an obvious understatement!) song cycle Die Winterreise; the title of the piece, Ist gefallen in den Schnee, is a text fragment derived from one of these songs.
The tonal material, on the other hand, is derived from a jazz song, which one I have actually forgotten. The rhythmic as well as the tonal material is then transformed by means of different methods, in some cases rather mildly, in other cases rather heavily.
So, why did I choose to do like this when writing the piece? For a couple of different reasons, I think. For me it's a very concrete way of relating to and at the same time transcending musics that have, in one way or the other, been of a certain importance to me. Coming more or less from a working class background as I do, choosing Schubert is a way to approach a music that I haven't really have had access to (but which I somehow have come to like), without giving in to it fully. Jazz, on the other hand, is more or less what I grew up listening to, so partially basing the piece on a jazz song is a simple way to relate to that heritage without reproducing the actual music. It's obviously also a (perhaps both naïve and pretentious) way of trying try to reconcile musics with different social connotations, and a way to reconcile oneself with history and the contemporary world.

[San Antone]

Magnus Granberg - Ist gefallen in den Schnee (2010)

https://www.youtube.com/v/JrBJdIvRwz8

Magnus Granberg & Skogen: Magnus Granberg - piano, Angharad Davies - violin, Leo Svensson Sander - cello, Erik Carlsson - percussion, John Eriksson - vibraphone & crotales, Petter Wästberg - electronics, Henrik Olsson - bowls and glasses, Anna Lindal - violin, Toshimaru Nakamura - no input mixing board

Interview with Magnus Granberg

Nice.  The label Another Timbre is good. 

[torut]

Nice.  The label Another Timbre is good.

Yes, there are many interesting recordings in their catalogue. This one posted by Artem some time ago is also very nice.

I don't know how to post youtubes here, but i wanted to share this short extract from a solo piano piece by Bryn Harrison called Vessels released later this month on Another Timbre label. It's an interesting composition, similar to Morton Feldman's later long piano compositions, but is also kind of different.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7c_3RJOqWY&list=UU3EXY6jOXxa_9E17MP2_nqw

Here's a link to a website: http://www.anothertimbre.com/vessels.html

This is really beautiful, and at the same time, it causes a strange feeling. The music reminded me of Feldman's piano pieces.

[torut]

Jürg Frey - Paysage pour Gustave Roud (2007/2008)

https://www.youtube.com/v/LpJG3sw5HSA

I ordered several Another Timbre CDs (Harrison, Skogen, Wandelweiser set, etc.)

[Artem]

I ordered several Another Timbre CDs (Harrison, Skogen, Wandelweiser set, etc.)

I hope you have among your ordered disks CD of Terry Jennings minimalistic piano pieces coupled with John Cage's Electronic Music for Piano, 1964.  That's one of my favorite releases from Another Timbre label (http://www.anothertimbre.com/lostdaylight.html)

[torut]

I hope you have among your ordered disks CD of Terry Jennings minimalistic piano pieces coupled with John Cage's Electronic Music for Piano, 1964.  That's one of my favorite releases from Another Timbre label (http://www.anothertimbre.com/lostdaylight.html)

Added to cart! The excerpt is beautiful. Thank you. I may pick some more CDs before making another order.

I had ordered these.
Skogen: Ist gefallen in den Schnee
Anders Dahl & Skogen: Rows
Skogen: Despairs Had Governed Me Too Long
Bryn Harrison: Vessels
Wandelweiser und so weiter [6 CD Box]

[torut]

Matthew Burtner - Spectral Shift of a Distance Form (2014) for tenor saxophone, distance cellos and computer

https://www.youtube.com/v/6ewqozmWLvM

His compositions web page is nice. You can hear audio samples, see score excerpts, and purchase the scores. SXUEAK for squeaky toys and computer (2006) is fun.