Tag Archives: Classical/avant-garde
Richard Carr–Places I’ve Walked
Lovely, evocative works for a variety of instruments, inspired by his world-wide treks. Environmental sounds, voices in addition to instruments. Play!
Speak, Be Silent
Four contemporary composers, quiet or staccato or loud. All pieces very different.
Daniel Elms–Islandia
Electro/acoustic pieces, minimal, lyrical, all inspired by the people and places of NE England. Nice!
Jeffrey Brooks–The Passion
Three pieces for amplified large ensemble, rhythmically varying. Play/sample!
Thad Anderson–Lines & Spaces
Compositions for percussion, strings, live processing using his “duration lines” theory–building layers of sound–ambient, minimialist, nice!
Refracted Resonance
Rhythmically varying, producing interesting sounds from the guitar. Play/sample!
Hypothetical Islands
Varying works for reed quintet, ambient, flowing to staccato. Play or sample!
William Brittelle–Spiritual America
Mix of rock, chorus, electronics and song, about America.
Morton Subotnick–Vol. 4 Complete Piano Works
Varying piano pieces–some solo and lyrical, others staccato and electronic or with tape. Interesting!
Ramon Lazkano–Piano Works
Works for solo piano, multiple hands, lots of variability, some with orchestra. Play!
Jeff Morris–With Strings
Strongly electronic cello pieces–violin works range from acoustic to electronic. Play!
Nirmali Fenn– The Clash of Icicles Chamber Music
Quite a variety of rhythms, tones and instruments in very abstract works ranging from lyrical to broken and intense. Play!
James Tenney– Changes: 64 Studies for 6 Harps
Somewhat staccato, very short, and interesting abstract harp pieces. Play!
Peter Thoegersen–Three Pieces in Polytempic Polymicrotonality
Radical composer with many layered polymicrotonal synthesizer. Sample.
Poetry of Places
Nadia Shpachenko continues her pianistic explorations with new works about particular places and their traits. Some strident and abstract, others lyrical. Play!
Anton Dressler–Livemovement
Classical yet electronic clarinet works, echoing, lyrical. Excellent!
Erik Lund–Memos
Seeking to translate ideas into sound, these are highly abstract, intense works for a great variety of instruments and rhythms. Play!
David Rosenboom–Deviant Resonances
Experimental music, soundscapes with instruments/electronics, ambient and machine-like. Sample.
Scott Wollschleger–American Dream
Abstract, meandering, ambient pieces for solo piano or a mix of percussion, vibraphone, bass. Play!
Catherine Lamb–Atmospheres Transparent/Opaque
Sonic and tonal explorations, intermingling, droning, expressing how sounds can be difficult to individualize, just like the color spectrum and its shades. The Dedalus Ensemble performs (elec. guitar, winds, strings, voice).
Chen Yi–Ba Yin (The Eight Sounds)
The Prism Quartet with the Conservatory Wind Symphony Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City perform this Asian-influenced work, both lyrical and dissonant.
Joel Grare–Des Pas Sous La Neige
Very interesting percussion works (cow bell, cymbals drums, etc.)–lyrical, and delicate predominantly. Play!
Bradford Terrence Ellis–Tooka-Ood Zasch
Prism Quartet and Mr. Ellis perform this one piece–jungle sounds morph into sax quartet with drums and marching band like rhythms continuing to change into other sound patterns.
Vernacular
Cellist Saeunn Thorstensdottir plays these very abstract solo pieces by Icelandic composers. Plucking, squeaking and other sounds. Halgrimsson’s lyrical. Play!
Just National Guitar
John Schneider performs these great just intonation pieces by Lou Harrison, Tom Johnson and others. Yate’s works more folk, with voice.
