21st century classical music

[kishnevi]

This was actually posted by sanantonio in the WAYLT thread, but I'm putting it here for my personal convenience, because I won't be able to listen to it this morning (or the rest of the day, or tomorrow),  and want to be able to find it when I do get the chance.

https://www.youtube.com/v/HlJvqa9xU4E

Lutz Glandien - Es Lebe
Recorded May 1989 at the Studio of the Academy of Art, Berlin, GDR.  Tuba -- Michael Voight

Lutz Glandien (born 1954) is a Berlin-based German avant garde composer and musician. He has composed a number of classical and electroacoustic pieces, released four solo albums, and collaborated with English percussionist Chris Cutler to record two acclaimed avant-rock albums, Domestic Stories (1992) and P53 (1996).

Beautifully sonorous, even for those who do not usually enjoy electroacoustic music, this might be a gateway to a new sonic world.

[San Antone]

Jeffrey,

Disclaimer: That work was written in 1986, or thereabouts - so it does not technically adhere to the thread topic - but, hey, who cares?

[jochanaan]

Oliver Schneller ...

https://www.youtube.com/v/XGYpbuS8ZNA

Stratigraphie (2005-6) für sechs Instrumente und Live-Elektronik Ensemble UnitedBerlin / Titus Engel, conductor.

Gorgeous!  For some reason the opening made me think of Lutoslawski's Symphony #3; I think it's the way a fast, loud opening is followed by a long quiet chord.  I like how this one sounds almost tonal and dance-like in sections, then tosses twists at us.

[San Antone]

Gorgeous!  For some reason the opening made me think of Lutoslawski's Symphony #3; I think it's the way a fast, loud opening is followed by a long quiet chord.  I like how this one sounds almost tonal and dance-like in sections, then tosses twists at us.

Some of the electronic/acoustic music I like best has a lush, like you say, "almost tonal" effect.  The one that Jeffrey cross posted also comes across in that manner.

[San Antone]

Keeril Makan

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

After Forgetting

[San Antone]

Salvatore Sciarrino ~ Quattro Adagi (2008)

https://www.youtube.com/v/tixdkJ1__JE

[some guy]

sounds almost tonal

Ya know, jochanaan, it's interesting. I'm 61. I've been listening to classical music for over fifty of those years. I have partaken in online classical music discussion boards for seven years, more or less.

Before doing so, I never, at any time, ever thought of things as being tonal or not tonal. Things were interesting, to me, or not. Things were intriguing, or not. Some things made me want to hear them again. Some did not.

Many things that I did not like at first became great favorites. A few things that were instantly likable became somewhat meh as time went on.

But never, until online music discussions, did I ever think of tonality per se. Whether something was in a key or not just didn't enter into it.

I still don't think that way--just by the way!!--but it's a concept that's hard to avoid, being ubiquitous* and all.

Anyway, it's interesting. I don't have the impression that you think of things that way, either, but are aware that others do--and are encouraging those others to give this "non-tonal" piece a quick listen.

Good on you for doing so.

*Plus, you see it everywhere!

[Pessoa]

Ramon Lazkano

http://www.youtube.com/v/1JyL4ZrlX68

Lur-Itzalak (2003)
Lisa Kerob, violon / Thierry Amadi, violoncelle — Ramon Lazkano (San Sebastián, 1968), es un compositor español, afincado en París.

Sounds a bit like Sciarrino´s flutes.

[San Antone]

I'm 61.

So am I, at least for the next month.

[some guy]

Well, I don't get to 62 until March. So you have three months to lord it over me, whippersnapper that I am....

[jochanaan]

Ya know, jochanaan, it's interesting. I'm 61. I've been listening to classical music for over fifty of those years. I have partaken in online classical music discussion boards for seven years, more or less.

Before doing so, I never, at any time, ever thought of things as being tonal or not tonal. Things were interesting, to me, or not. Things were intriguing, or not. Some things made me want to hear them again. Some did not.

Many things that I did not like at first became great favorites. A few things that were instantly likable became somewhat meh as time went on.

But never, until online music discussions, did I ever think of tonality per se. Whether something was in a key or not just didn't enter into it.

I still don't think that way--just by the way!!--but it's a concept that's hard to avoid, being ubiquitous* and all.

Anyway, it's interesting. I don't have the impression that you think of things that way, either, but are aware that others do--and are encouraging those others to give this "non-tonal" piece a quick listen.

Good on you for doing so.

*Plus, you see it everywhere!

Having perfect pitch, and being a performing musician, the question of "key" or "no key" is inescapable to me.  But when I get a chance, I do like to play with the concept of tonality, sometimes throwing in a little polytonality or atonality into an improvisation.

[San Antone]

Polina Nazaykinskaya

https://www.youtube.com/v/DfB4eY8ve_0

Haim for clarinet, string quartet and two pianos (excerpt)

[San Antone]

Esaias Järnegard

http://www.youtube.com/v/xIdcrYEDa00

Stones Ash Ash (2011)

[San Antone]

Cecilia García

https://www.youtube.com/v/gmR1NHk9qdY

Desarme Final (2007)

More clips here.

Garcia's music resides at the boundary of electoacoustical/classical and electronica/ambiant.  Some may object to her use of "beats" here and there, but this is not trance music. 

[some guy]

I have to confess that I don't listen to each and every clip posted here.

Partly because that's my whole life, listening to new music. So I hardly need any encouragement.

But occasionally I'll take a nibble. And I must say, that Järnegard thing was very very tasty indeed.

I'm very tempted, now to go back to the beginning and listen to every single clip on this whole thread.

Could be quite fun, eh?

[San Antone]

I have to confess that I don't listen to each and every clip posted here.

Partly because that's my whole life, listening to new music. So I hardly need any encouragement.

But occasionally I'll take a nibble. And I must say, that Järnegard thing was very very tasty indeed.

I'm very tempted, now to go back to the beginning and listen to every single clip on this whole thread.

Could be quite fun, eh?

Listening is good; but posting some clips you find noteworthy would be even better.

[San Antone]

A worthwhile website for electroacoustic music.  Free streaming of mp3 audio for all their sound pages, including 70 hours of the history of electroacoustic music.

[Sean]

Esaias Järnegard

http://www.youtube.com/v/xIdcrYEDa00

Stones Ash Ash (2011)

Good grief.

[some guy]

Yes dear, we know.

You are the only person in the world. The only one of any consequence, anyway.

Why do you even bother?

[some guy]

A worthwhile website for electroacoustic music.  Free streaming of mp3 audio for all their sound pages, including 70 hours of the history of electroacoustic music.

Nice challenge at the end, after apologizing for the obvious gaps in the selection!

Very tempting, I assure you, as some huge names are simply non-existent. Starting with Francis Dhomont. He taught for many years in Montreal, so one entire strand of Canadian electroacoustic music can be attributed to him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45PQX_2j1Y0&list=TLuUMWpWT0KrpyEhBdqbD0h7Wku_qTaUDk

And the women! All the women who are not on that list. Starting with Pauline Oliveros. Indeed, electroacoustic music is practically--for the past thirty or forty years--the special province of women. Or maybe I just prefer women, so know the female electroacoustic composers better.... Or maybe the women are simply writing better stuff. Hmmmm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY6_i26s-U4

This is a recent film by Patrick Bokanowski. Music by Michele Bokanowski.

(sanantonio, you do know that I posted two links awhile back. Post #643. I want to make sure I get credit for those. )