21st century classical music

[San Antone]

New music from New York: Loadbang's "Lungpowered"



Label: New Focus Recordings
Catalog Number: fcr163
Release Date: October 5, 2015

Lungpowered features works by composers Alex Mincek, David Brynjar Franzson, Reiko Fueting, Alexandre Lunsqui, William Lang, and Scott Worthington that engage with breath, wind, and air as it passes through the instruments in conventional and unconventional ways.

[San Antone]

Scott Miller : high adventure avant garde music of the best sort



SCOTT MILLER and ZEITGEIST celebrate the first decade of their work together with the release of Tipping Point, a CD featuring Miller's works for instrument and electronics alongside his only strictly acoustic work written in the 21st century.

Known for his interactive electroacoustic chamber music and experimental performance pieces, Miller has twice been named a McKnight Composer Fellow, he is a Fulbright Scholar, and his work has been recognized by numerous international arts organizations.

[Rinaldo]

https://www.youtube.com/v/SCCWZIKN8Gg

[San Antone]

Marina Khorhova : existential sounds on the border of life



"My composition VORderGRENZE (2010) for clarinet, cello and prepared piano deals with the edges of life: existential sounds on the border of life and death represented by different breath sounds, reinforced with partials and translated into the instrumental parts. The fight to the last breath is the essential message of the piece, which is expressed by some extreme sound gestures. Various processes and characteristics of inhalation and exhalation were tried in quasi sound-photographs. Suffocating breath sounds, for example, are chaotic and noisy. Last breaths have a dark timbre with delicate nuances (such as wheezing) during inhalation and exhalation. The instrumentalists were also directed to blow on megaphones and this natural and quiet breathing was compared and linked, as it were, with the inhalation and exhalation of the instrumental sounds."

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

In the Listening thread I posted that I was listening to some Brett Dean. Composing since the late 80s but mainly active as a composer in the 20th century with a nice string of concerti and other orchestral music, a couple of large scale choral works, chamber music and almost two operas under his belt. Two of his most notable recent premieres would be his hour long choral and orchestral work The Last Days of Socrates performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker and his trumpet concerto Dramatis Personae written for the acclaimed trumpet player Håkan Hardenberger.

[San Antone]

Annea Lockwood : sound artist



Born in New Zealand in 1939 and living in the US since 1973, Annea Lockwood is known for her explorations of the rich world of natural acoustic sounds and environments, in works ranging from sound art and installations, through text-sound and performance art to concert music.

[San Antone]

Lisa Bielawa : Singing Rilke



Lisa Carol Bielawa (born in San Francisco, California, September 30, 1968) is a composer and vocalist. She is a 2009 Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition and spent a year composing as a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She takes inspiration for her work from literary sources and close artistic collaborations.  Her song cycle, The Lay of the Love and Death, has recently received a very good recording by baritone Jesse Blumberg and violinist Colin Jacobsen (both premiered the work in 2006) on Innova Records.

[San Antone]

Yehuda Yannay : composer,conductor, filmmaker and performance artist



Yannay moved from Romania to Israel in 1951, where he studied with Alexander Uriya Boskovitch, who influenced him greatly. After completing his studies at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv, he pursued postgraduate studies in America, enabled by a Fulbright Fellowship. At Brandeis University (MFA 1966), he studied with Arthur Berger and Ernst Krenek, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (DMA 1974) he studied with Salvatore Martirano, among others. In 1968 he settled permanently in the USA.

[milk]

There is a concert coming up which I am wondering about. It's a bit of an effort to get there and I don't know the composers. I wonder if anyone has any reactions to the following program, I'm not including the Japanese on the program because I cannot understand the Kanji:
Valerio Sannicandro - Renaissance
Philippe Manoury - Last
Yyves Chauris Trio
George Aperghis- Les sept crimes de l'mour
Valerio Sannicandro Corps/Riens

No idea about this program. Any thoughts?

[jochanaan]

Mauricio Pauly : electroacoustic chamber music



Mauricio Pauly is a Costa Rican composer based in the United Kingdom since 2007. He specializes in writing music for chamber instrumental ensembles, which he often augments with performatory amplification and real-time electronic processing. His music is designed under the assumption that the listener can be primed to experience a sense of poetic structure; that a temporal mold can be offered where listeners can pour their own semantic biases and create a sense of personal, heuristic navigation.

Very dynamic!

[milk]

Very dynamic!

The description sounds like a discussion from the bridge of Star Trek Voyager. Any quantum-flux irregularities in that music?   

[bhodges]

There is a concert coming up which I am wondering about. It's a bit of an effort to get there and I don't know the composers. I wonder if anyone has any reactions to the following program, I'm not including the Japanese on the program because I cannot understand the Kanji:
Valerio Sannicandro - Renaissance
Philippe Manoury - Last
Yyves Chauris Trio
George Aperghis- Les sept crimes de l'mour
Valerio Sannicandro Corps/Riens

No idea about this program. Any thoughts?

I know some of Manoury and Aperghis, but not these particular works. Looks like an intriguing evening to me. I would definitely go - but as they say, YMMV.

[milk]

I know some of Manoury and Aperghis, but not these particular works. Looks like an intriguing evening to me. I would definitely go - but as they say, YMMV.

Thanks for the input. I'll research them a bit more.

[San Antone]

Anna Thorvaldsdottir : composer whose work conjures entire environments of sound

[jochanaan]

Anna Thorvaldsdottir : composer whose work conjures entire environments of sound

With a name like hers, she should be in a saga.

[milk]

Anna Thorvaldsdottir : composer whose work conjures entire environments of sound

Wow. I love the sample of "Aeriality." Reminds me a lot of JLA. My next purchase. Thanks!

[San Antone]

Responsio : Peter-Anthony Togni meets Machaut



I posted an overview recently in this blog on Machaut's Messe de Nostre Dame – but this recording/work reflects, comments, refutes, challenges and embellishes the medieval voice of Guillaume de Machaut and his medieval masterpiece.

[North Star]

Responsio : Peter-Anthony Togni meets Machaut

I posted an overview recently in this blog on Machaut's Messe de Nostre Dame – but this recording/work reflects, comments, refutes, challenges and embellishes the medieval voice of Guillaume de Machaut and his medieval masterpiece.

That looks mighty interesting. And I wonder if there are any other folks here who are interested in a 'contemporary response' to Machaut that includes a clarinet and four voices. . . 

[San Antone]

That looks mighty interesting. And I wonder if there are any other folks here who are interested in a 'contemporary response' to Machaut that includes a clarinet and four voices. . . 

I hope so - it IS an interesting work and the vocal group does a good job OVPP with Machaut.  Togni is a new composer for me, but on the merit of this work I will listen to more.  He has written a significant amount of choral music, including a Requiem.

[Karl Henning]

That looks mighty interesting. And I wonder if there are any other folks here who are interested in a 'contemporary response' to Machaut that includes a clarinet and four voices. . . 

One never knows, do one?

http://www.youtube.com/v/nG3rgcU6CqI