21st century classical music

[San Antone]

For the night: Sophie Lacaze

Voices of Australia, for solo flute and recorded voices (2002)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA5rKI1NXHk&list=WLACC4B73F08165787

nice one.  I've heard  a few of her other works and she is a very interesting composer.

[Philo]

For the early morning: Doina Rotaru

Symphony No. 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL58njl9Ldg

[San Antone]

For the early morning: Doina Rotaru

Symphony No. 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL58njl9Ldg

very nice; thanks

[torut]

Wolfgang von Schweinitz (*1953)
Plainsound Glissando Modulation
Raga in just intonation for violin and double bass, op. 49 (2006–2007) Region 3
Andrew McIntosh, violin
Scott Worthington, double bass
performed February 16, 2012
Conrad Prebys Concert Hall - UC San Diego
https://www.youtube.com/v/EH0vpPgf3XM

This is one of my favorite contemporary music albums recently.

Plainsound Glissando Modulation
Raga in just intonation for violin and double bass, op. 49 (2006–2007)
Helge Slaatto, violin
Frank Reinecke, double bass
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It sometimes sounds like medieval music, sometimes not resembling anything. There are many interesting & beautiful moments.

Wolfgang von Schweinitz studied in 1968-76 with Esther Ballou at the American University in Washington, D.C., with Ernst Gernot Klussmann and György Ligeti at the music academy in Hamburg, and with John Chowning at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in California.

Just intonation reveals softer, more moving consonances, but also more intense dissonances than the ones admitted by earlier and non-tonal interpretations of tempered tuning. What we are dealing with here is the very first functional system of microtonality to have been thoroughly thought out. Within this scheme, consonance and dissonance no longer appear as opposites: as one complements the other, they form but a single continual harmonic plane. The historically unstable border between these two poles was always dependent on aesthetic criteria or ones arising from questions of tuning, but in the present case it is the acoustic principle of the consonance that has seemingly gained ground. Wolfgang von Schweinitz proposes a tentative new definition: sounds may be considered consonant if they can be tuned exactly by ear.

[torut]

Rozalie Hirs (born 1965) is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music and a poet.

article 7 [seven ways to climb a mountain] (2012) for bass clarinet and electronic sounds
https://soundcloud.com/fie-schouten/article-7-rozalie-hirs

Venus [morning star] (2010) for percussion sextet and electronic sounds
https://www.youtube.com/v/OxDdCeWEUqg

[San Antone]

Rozalie Hirs (born 1965) is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music and a poet.

article 7 [seven ways to climb a mountain] (2012) for bass clarinet and electronic sounds
https://soundcloud.com/fie-schouten/article-7-rozalie-hirs

Venus [morning star] (2010) for percussion sextet and electronic sounds
https://www.youtube.com/v/OxDdCeWEUqg

Thanks for the information on her.  I like what I've heard very much.

[Philo]

For the night:

Amy X Neuburg

Inbred Kisses for 32 voices and 4 electric guitars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBg58JbPBTU

[Philo]

For the morning: Agata Zubel

Parlando for Soprano and Computer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkPx2boekM8

[San Antone]

philip jeck : shining

https://www.youtube.com/v/LM9qzw0FsEs#t=73

[San Antone]

Colours ... for piano, xylophone and electronics.

Music by Thomas Bjørnseth. Composed 2009.

https://www.youtube.com/v/nTRHjFMiaa4

[torut]

Colours ... for piano, xylophone and electronics.

Music by Thomas Bjørnseth. Composed 2009.

https://www.youtube.com/v/nTRHjFMiaa4

Thank you for the post. Sensitive, beautiful music. The youtube page has a link to the album web site, where the whole album can be downloaded for free, under the Creative Commons License. It is so nice! I just downloaded it and am now listening to the other tracks.

[Philo]

For the afternoon:

Terje Isungset

Vena Leikros for Ice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzqq8SLgoGk

[San Antone]

For the afternoon:

Terje Isungset

Vena Leikros for Ice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzqq8SLgoGk

very nice - this is the kind of music I am listening to a lot these days.

[Philo]

very nice - this is the kind of music I am listening to a lot these days.

Glad that you enjoyed it, I came across this because I'm on a Scandinavian kick. 

[Philo]

For the early morning: Sampo Haapamaki

Connection for String Quartet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mArc7ESYB0

[Philo]

For the afternoon: Arne Nordheim

Fonos for Trombone and Orchestra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1LRsbbd5es

[torut]

Clarence Barlow (born December 27, 1945)

Approximating Pi (2007)
"a sonification of Archimedes's method, in a special new version for saxophone (Joel Hunt) and 8 channels of electronic sound"
https://www.youtube.com/v/xd2-OkRZZws


I need time to understand this ...

Xylophonie I
https://www.youtube.com/v/WzQ0ya0PtmM

His other compositions such as ...until... Version 7 for guitar (1980), ...until... Version 8 for piccolo (1981) are also good, can be found at youtube.

[Philo]

For the night: Francisco Coll Garcia

In Extremis for Chorus and Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yXyYTkq7Es

[Mr Bloom]

If Ligeti had scored Hitchcock's "The Birds", I think that the result would have been nearly identical.

But seriously, that's really neat. I had no idea what "zugvogel" meant, but somehow I knew that it had something to do with geese. I googled it and, sure enough, it means "migratory birds". Not something I'd listen to on a regular basis, but it is remarkable just how geese-like it sounds.

While I've heard and loved plenty of contemporary music, I can't take these kind of pieces anymore. Once you got that it was about woodwinds doing birds sounds, what is there left ? 13 minutes of nothing. The piece is just a sound-related idea. And we got plenty of pieces that are just that, an overly complex and overlong development of a sound-related idea.
It seems that for these composers music nowadays is just a big fart contest, everyone trying to make the most interesting fart with an instrument, or sound as they call it. It's just one big imposture.

PS : sorry if I sound harsh, but I've heard this piece after some Simon Steen-Andersen works, which are just some of the most stupid music I've ever heard.

[Philo]

While I've heard and loved plenty of contemporary music, I can't take these kind of pieces anymore. Once you got that it was about woodwinds doing birds sounds, what is there left ? 13 minutes of nothing. The piece is just a sound-related idea. And we got plenty of pieces that are just that, an overly complex and overlong development of a sound-related idea.
It seems that for these composers music nowadays is just a big fart contest, everyone trying to make the most interesting fart with an instrument, or sound as they call it. It's just one big imposture.

PS : sorry if I sound harsh, but I've heard this piece after some Simon Steen-Andersen works, which are just some of the most stupid music I've ever heard.

lol