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Music of Robert Carl: From Japan / Elizabeth Brown, shakuhachi; Katie Kennedy, cello; Bill Solomon, vibraphone; Sayun Chang, percussion

1 CD / New World / 2012-07-10

Works: Robert Carl: A Clean Sweep, for shakuhachi & fixed media; Bullet Cycle, for 2 soloists, percussion & fixed media; Brown Velvet, for bassoon & electronics; Collapsible Mandala, electronics
Performers: Brown, Elizabeth [Flute]; Carl, Robert; Chang, Sayun; Hare, Ryan; Kennedy, Katie; Solomon, Bill; Sternfeld-Dunn, Aleksander

Robert Carl (b. 1954) has long been interested in Japanese music and culture, and in the spring of 2007 he received a grant from the...continue...

Annea Lockwood: In Our Name / David Behrman, John King, William Winant, Thomas Buckner, Theodore Mook

1 CD / New World / 2012-06-12

Works: Annea Lockwood: Jitterbug, for ensemble; In Our Name, for voice, cello & tape; Thirst, for narrator, voice & tape
Performers: Behrman, David; Buckner, Thomas [Baritone Vocals]; King, John; Mook, Theodore; Norderval, Kristin; Winant, William [Percussion]

Annea Lockwood (b. 1939) distinguishes herself with works ingeniously combining recorded found and processed sounds, live-performance and visual components, and exhibiting her acute sense of...continue...

Kyle Bruckmann: On Procedural Grounds / Rova Saxophone Quartet, sfSound

1 CD / New World / 2012-04-10

Works: Kyle Bruckmann: Cell Structure, for clarinet, oboe & electronics; On Procedural Grounds, for saxophone quartet & ensemble; Orgone Accelerator, for english horn, oboe & electronics; Tarpit, for ensemb...
Performers: Bruckmann, Kyle; Ingalls, Matt
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack; Rova Saxophone Quartet; sfSound

In his compositions, composer/performer Kyle Bruckmann (b. 1971) seeks to integrate rigor and internal logic with raw immediacy while fully engaging his fellow performers as...continue...

Earl Howard: Granular Modality

1 CD / New World / 2012-03-13

Works: Earl Howard: Bird 3, for synthesizer; Crupper, for koto, synthesizer & electronics; 2455, for alto saxophone; Strasser 60, for synthesizer
Performers: Howard, Earl; Masaoka, Miya

In many respects Earl Howard's (b. 1951) music is an anomaly that resists categorization and the seductiveness of genre. He is an important force in...continue...
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John Bischoff: Audio Combine

1 CD / New World / 2012-02-14

Works: John Bischoff: Audio Combine, for electronics; Sidewalk Chatter, for electronics; Local Color, for electronics; Decay Trace, for electronics; Surface Effect, for electronics
Performers: Bischoff, John

John Bischoff (b. 1949) is an early pioneer of live computer music. He was a founding member of the League of Automatic Music Composers (1978),...continue...
Recording information: Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland Califo (01/05/2010/05/02/2011)....continue...

Chris Brown: Iconicities: 3 Pieces for Percussion & Live Electronics

1 CD / New World / 2011-09-13

Works: Chris Brown: Stupa, for vibraphone, piano & electronics; Gangsa, for percussion ensemble & electronics; Iceberg, for percussion & electronics
Performers: Brown, Chris; Brown, Chris [Composer]; Winant, William [Percussion]
Conductors: Winant, William
Ensemble: William Winant Percussion Group

Chris Brown's (b. 1953) music has evolved within the intersections of many different traditions and styles. Following early training as a classical pianist, he was...continue...

Speak

1 CD / New World / 2011-05-10

Works: Anne La Berge: Drive, for voices & electronics; Brokenheart, for flute, piano, voice & electronics; ur-DU, for voices & electronics; away, for flute, voice & electronics; 800 speakers, for flute, voi...
Performers: Buttrich, Stephie; Fuhler, Cor; Geffin, Josh; La Berge, Anne [Composer]; Myers, Misha; Ozzard-Low, Patrick; Walker, Amy [Vocals]

Anne La Berge's (b. 1955) career as flutist/improviser/composer stretches across international and stylistic boundaries. Her performances bring together a ferocious and far-reaching virtuosity, a penc...continue...
Recording information: Studio 150, Amsterdam, NL (06/2009-07/2009).

REVIEWS:

The Wire (p.50) - "As a performer using quartertone flute, amplified and processed, La Berge transforms the s...continue...

Larry Polansky: The World's Longest Melody

1 CD / New World / 2010-07-13

Works: Larry Polansky: Ensembles of Note, for 2 ensembles & electronics; tooaytood; For Jim, Ben and Lou, for guitar, harp & percussion; Getting Rid of the Glue, for guitar; Ivtoo, for guitar; The World's L...
Performers: Callier, Toon; Polansky, Larry; Prins, Stefan; Stevens, Jeroen; Troch, Jutta
Conductors:
Ensemble: Sic; Zwerm

The World's Longest Melody is a collection of experimental music written for the guitar by composer/guitarist Larry Polansky (b. 1954). These works explore new techniques...continue...

Charles Dodge: A Retrospective (1977-2009)

1 CD / New World / 2010-06-08

Works: Charles Dodge: Cascando; Fades, Dissolves, Fizzles, for electronics; Violin Variations, for violin & electronics
Performers: Dodge, Baird; Dodge, Charles

Rosenboom: How much better if Plymouth Rock had landed on the pilgrims / Golia, et al

2 CD / New World / 2009-05-12

Works: David Rosenboom: How Much Better if Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims
Performers: Buchla, Don; Chaudhuri, Swapan; DiGennaro, Tony; Dolister, Caleb; Golia, Vinny; Khan, Ashish; McFaul, Thomas G.; Minaie, Sam; Newton, Lynn David; Noice, Alex; Rosenboom, Daniel; Rosenboom, David; Sha...

David Rosenboom (b. 1947) has been widely acclaimed as an innovator in American experimental music since the 1960s. Although much of his work has been...continue...
Personnel: David Rosenboom (piano, prepared piano, organ, dumbek, electronics, computer); Aashish Khan (sarod); Vinny Golia (flute, shakuhachi, piccolo, clarinet, saxophone); Daniel Rosenboom (trumpet...continue...

The Theory of Impossible Melody - Polansky: B'rey'sheet [In the beginning], Psaltery, Simple Actions&Rules of Compossibility, etc

1 CD / New World / 2009-01-13

Works: Larry Polansky: B'rey'sheet (In the Beginning), for voice & live electronics (Cantillation Study no 1); Four-Voice Canon no 3 ("Computer"); Four Voice Canon no 21 ("Epitaph"), for electric guitars; F...
Performers: Burk, Phil; Diamond, Jody; Ellis, Dan; Hayward, Robin; Mann, Chris; Polansky, Larry; Repetto, Douglas; Rosenboom, David

Amongst the lineages of knowledge that Larry Polansky (b. 1954) has woven together in his creative work, as both a composer and theorist, have been...continue...

Malcolm Goldstein: Sounding of Sources / Goldstein, et al

1 CD / New World / 2008-03-01

Works: Malcolm Goldstein: Configurations in Darkness, improvisation for unspecified instrumental ensemble; Ishi/timechangingspaces, radio work (recording of Yahi songs); Ishi/"man waxati" Soundings, improvi...
Performers: Goldstein, Malcolm

Malcolm Goldstein has been labeled as an "improviser" and a "composer-violinist" (or merely a violinist). What this CD once and for all shows is that...continue...

League of Automatic Composers - Perkis, et al / Folk, et al

1 CD / New World / 2007-11-01

Works: Tim Perkis / John Bischoff / Jim Horton: Dense Drone, for electronics; Martian Folk Music, for electronics; Oakland One, for electronics; Radio Air Check, for electronics; Oakland Three, for electron...
Performers: Behrman, David; Bischoff, John; deMarinis, Paul; Gold, Rich; Horton, Jim; Perkis, Tim

About their group, Tim Perkis and John Bischoff write, "The League of Automatic Composers was a band/collective of electronic music experimentalists active in the San...continue...

Nick Didkovsky: Ice Cream Time / Didkovsky, et al

1 CD / New World / 2007-10-01

Works: Nick Didkovsky / Booli Selmayr: Ice Cream Time Song; Nick Didkovsky: Ice Cream Time, for saxophone quartet & electronics; Nick Didkovsky / Thomas Dimuzzio: Seltzer Session 1, for saxophone quartet & ...
Performers: Armbruster, Sascha; Didkovsky, Nick; DiMuzio, Thomas; Formenti, Andrea; Hofstetter, Beat; Kappeler, Beat
Conductors:
Ensemble: ARTE Quartet

Nick Didkovsky's music reflects current trends and practices including the use of live, interactive computer-assistance, genre jumping and blurring the distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow....continue...

David Rosenboom: Future Travel / David Rosenboom, et al

1 CD / New World / 2007-10-01

Works: David Rosenboom: Future Travel, for variable instrumentation; And Out Come the Night Ears, for piano & electric music box
Performers: Rosenboom, David

"Future Travel (1981) is a journey in sonic imagery. It is set sometime in the future and its starting point is earth. The traveler, whose...continue...

David Dunn: Autonomous and Dynamic Systems

1 CD / New World / 2007-05-01

Works: David Dunn: Lorenz; Autonomous Systems; Nine Strange Attractors; Gradients
Performers: Dunn, David

A relentless explorer, composer, performer and theorist, David Dunn uses electro-acoustic resources, voice, non-human living systems, as well as traditional instruments. A creator of textsound...continue...

Vladimir Ussachevsky - Electronic & Acoustic Works 1957-1972

1 CD / New World / 2007-02-01

Works: Vladimir Ussachevsky: Metamorphosis, for electronics; Linear Contrasts; Wireless Fantasy for tape; Of Wood and brass for tape; Computer Piece No 1 for tape; Sketches (2) for A Computer Piece for tape...
Performers: Ottley, JoAnn; Shields, Alice; Ussachevsky, Vladimir
Conductors: Morton, Ian; Weight, Newell
Ensemble: Macalester College Chamber Chorus; Utah Symphony Brasses

In 1950, the Columbia University Music Department requisitioned a tape recorder to use in teaching and for recording concerts. In 1951, the first tape recorder...continue...

New Music for Electronic & Recorded Media - Oliveros, et al

1 CD / New World / 2006-11-01

Works: Johanna Beyer: Music of the Spheres, for electronic instruments & triangle; Annea Lockwood: World Rhythms; Pauline Oliveros: Bye bye butterfly; Laurie Spiegel: Appalachian Grove 1; Megan Roberts: I C...
Performers: Anderson, Laurie [Performance Artist]; Anderson, Ruth; Beyer, Johanna; Johnson, Scott [Guitar/Composer]; Loarie, Phil; Lockwood, Annea; Novak, William; Oliveros, Pauline [Composer]; Sofer, Danny; Spi...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Electric Weasel Ensemble

Earle Brown: Selected Works 1952-65 / Brown, et al

1 CD / New World / 2006-08-01

Works: Earle Brown: Times Five; Octet I; Folio; Novara, for piano & ensemble; Music for Violin, Cello and Piano; Music for Cello and Piano; Nine Rarebits
Performers: Albrecht, Dorothea von; Daugherty, Michael; Driesten, Roelof van; Floore, John; Gruntz, George; Hartsuiker, Ton; Jurriaanse, Govert; Moore, Arthur; Olbrich, Christine; Oldeman, Gerrit; Raimondi, Matt...
Conductors: Brown, Earle [Composer]

This long-awaited reissue of the CRI recording of Earle Brown's (1926-2002) music is the best overview of his seminal early works. 'Music for Violin, Cello...continue...

Eve Beglarian: Tell the Birds

1 CD / New World / 2006-05-01

Works: Eve Beglarian: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, for voice & chamber ensemble; Creating the World, for voice & chamber ensemble; Robin Redbreast, for voice & piccolo; Wonder Counselor, for organ & tap...
Performers: Adelson, Andrew; Arron, Edward; Beglarian, Eve; Bielawa, Lisa; Burhans, Caleb; Dargel, Corey; Ferrari, John; Fieldes, Mat; Gould, Jessica; Grabois, Daniel; Grice, Janet; Herrington, Benjamin; Kampmei...
Conductors: ; Dresher, Paul; Lubman, Bradley
Ensemble: ; MATA Ensemble; Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band

Eve Beglarian is a composer and performer whose music has been described as "an eclectic and wide-open series of enticements." Tell the Birds is her...continue...

Assassin Reverie - Riley / Terry Riley, ARTE Quartett, et al

1 CD / New World / 2005-10-01

Works: Terry Riley: Uncle Jard, for sax quartet, voice, piano & harpsichord; Assasin Reverie, for sax quartet & (optional) tape; Tread on the Trail, for unspecified performers
Performers: Armbruster, Sascha; Formenti, Andrea; Hofstetter, Beat; Kappeler, Beat; Riley, Terry [Composer]
Conductors:
Ensemble: ARTE Quartet

Gordon Mumma: Electronic Music of Theater & Public Activity

1 CD / New World / 2005-10-01

Works: Gordon Mumma: Megaton for Wm. Burroughs; Conspiracy 8; Cybersonic Cantilevers; Cirqualz
Performers: Mumma, Gordon; Smoliar, Stephen

Alvin Lucier: WInd Shadows / John Anderson

2 CD / New World / 2005-09-01

Works: Alvin Lucier: In Memoriam Stuart Marshall, for bass clarinet and pure wave oscillator; 40 Rooms, for quintet and digital reverberation system; In Memoriam Jon Higgins, for clarinet & slow-sweep pure ...
Performers: Anderson, John; Denyer, Frank; Fulkerson, James; Keser, Marieke; Lucier, Alvin; Swaay, Judith van; Tiernan, Jos
Conductors:
Ensemble: Barton Workshop

Lucier: Vespers and Other Early Works

1 CD / New World / 2002-10-01

Works: Alvin Lucier: Vespers; Chambers; North American Time Capsule; (Middletown) Memory Space; Elegy for Albert Anastasia
Performers: Archibald, Rees; Looker, Charlie; Lucier, Alvin; Mizutani, Ryuku; Onsgard, Shawn; Welch, Matt
Conductors: Lucier, Alvin
Ensemble: Brandeis University Chamber Chorus members

Personnel: Charlie Looker (electric guitar); Rees Archibald (shakuhachi); Matthew Welch (accordion).

Recording information: Studio Fonologica, Milan, Italy (1961-2002); Sylvania Applied Resear...continue...

The Oak of the Golden Dreams - Richard Maxfield, Harold Budd

1 CD / New World / 1999-08-01

Works: Richard Maxfield: Pastoral Symphony; Bacchanale; Concerto for Piano for David Tudor; Amazing Grace; Harold Budd: Oak of the Golden Dreams; Coeur D'Orr
Performers: Block, Robert; Block, Robert P.; Budd, Harold; Fields, Edward; Jenning, Terry; Jennings, Terry; Machkat, Fahrad; Maxfield, Richard; Orena, Charles; Roussakis, Nicolas; Tudor, David [Composer/Piano]

Personnel: Terry Jennings (saxophone); Charles Orena (soprano saxophone); David Tudor (piano).

This CD collects long-unavailable recordings of two important figures in American avant garde/min...continue...

Rothman: Cézanne's Doubt / Buckner, Clelland, et al

1 CD / New World / 1998-01-01

Works: Daniel Rothman: Cézanne's Doubt, chamber opera for solo voice, clarinet, trumpet, cello, audio & video processing
Performers: Buckner, Thomas [Baritone Vocals]; Clelland, Kent; Mook, Theodore; Smeyers, David; Smith, Wadada Leo

Dreaming The World - Sorrel Hays

1 CD / New World / 1997-01-01

Works: Sorrel Hays: Structure 123; Dreaming the World; Take a Back Country Road; Tunings
Performers: Basile, Sal; Buckner, Thomas; Charles, Brian; Gunji, Maya; Hays, Sorrel; Kennedy, John [comp/cond]; Kivnick, Eric; Kubera, Joseph; Lopez, Jennifer; Ries, Marilyn; Schaffer, John; Smith, Jai; Wood, Ch...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ariadne String Quartet