Podcasts about Bang on a Can

David First “I define immersive as the first time I realized that there was a bigger universe than my daily life.”  David First is a many-sided composer-musician having played in Dead Cheese, a hippie guitar band in his youth, performed with Cecil Taylor in Carnegie Hall, produced many records of minimalist drone music some of which were released on Phill Niblockʼs XI label, he's played in rowdy bar bands, led the no-wavish band the Notekillers, which had a significant influence on Sonic Youth and he has even conducted a Mummerʼs String Band in various Philly parades. The Village Voice once described him as "a bizarre cross between Hendrix and La Monte Young." He's performed at most of the avant garde's hallowed halls including The Kitchen, Bang On A Can, Central Park Summerstage, The Knitting Factory, Tonic, the Deep Listening Institute, CBGBʼs as well as De Ijsbreker in Amsterdam and many festivals throughout Europe.  Other projects include working with the sonification of the atmospheric phenomena known as the Schumann Resonances and human brainwaves and other esoteric projects such as The Western Enisphere, a drone and micro-pulse acoustic-electric ensemble. Samples Playlist Wave Music III - 60 Clarinets & a Boat • Charlie Morrow Tape Letter to Michigan • David First Dead Cheese Twice Daily live @ Cheese Nation 1971 • David First Harmonic Dance • David First The Distant Softening Spirit Wave Pulse Tape Girder Interference Etude • Wreck, First & Morrow  Live at AmbientChaos • David First  Wave Music V - Conch Chorus and Bagpipe • Charlie Morrow Tell Tale • David First Etude 15 • David First Distant Signals • Charlie Morrow Pulse Piece • David First Blossom Dearie Snippet of her Air • Wreck Mix Spirit Voices • Charlie Morrow Subjects touched upon: drones, bar bands, rock & roll bands, Lamonte Young, Dave's Waves, Sunview Luncheonette Greenpoint, psychedelic revolution, poet Jerome Rothenberg, bending notes, Douglas Kahn, minimalist tendencies, free jazz, world music, Meteor Crater AZ, the heavens, the Kitchen, Phill Niblock, guitar, oscillators, signal generators, Muddy Waters, electronic music, Dennis Sandole, Hermann von Helmholtz, ancient voltaic cells, Harry Partch, Charles Ives, the minor third, blues, Gert Stern, new age, pseudo-science, Schumann resonances, improv, Discman, electrical engineer father, heterodyning, pursuit of magic, Canal Street ... 

"I've always prided myself on doing whatever music came my way… the one thing I wasn't doing, was the music I spent thousands of hours listening to and thinking about." - Evan Ziporyn Today on the show Evan Ziporyn returns to discuss his latest album project which features pop arrangements, why we both love and appreciate popular musical styles, and his recent recording of David Bowie's final album Blackstar. Evan also shares an amazing story of meeting Bowie after he sought out Evan for his work with Bang On A Can. Upgrade to Clarineat Gold: https://www.clarineat.com/join Exclusive Offers for Listeners: https://www.clarineat.com/offers 

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Composer David Lang's operas take us to unexpected places — an opera that is too quiet to hear, an opera for 1000 singers and a rewrite of Beethoven's Fidelio. His opera Love Fail will have its Australian premiere online for the Yarra Valley Opera Festival.Also, how did a fake musical set in a supermarket become the most talked about show of 2020? When Daniel Mertzlufft posted a 40-second TikTok video of an act one finale to a non-existent musical, nothing had prepared him for what came next.

Composer David Lang's operas take us to unexpected places — an opera that is too quiet to hear, an opera for 1000 singers and a rewrite of Beethoven's Fidelio. His opera Love Fail will have its Australian premiere online for the Yarra Valley Opera Festival. Also, how did a fake musical set in a supermarket become the most talked about show of 2020? When Daniel Mertzlufft posted a 40-second TikTok video of an act one finale to a non-existent musical, nothing had prepared him for what came next.

Composer David Lang's operas take us to unexpected places — an opera that is too quiet to hear, an opera for 1000 singers and a rewrite of Beethoven's Fidelio. His opera Love Fail will have its Australian premiere online for the Yarra Valley Opera Festival. Also, how did a fake musical set in a supermarket become the most talked about show of 2020? When Daniel Mertzlufft posted a 40-second TikTok video of an act one finale to a non-existent musical, nothing had prepared him for what came next.

He's got major cred: he actually studied with Jascha Heifetz, at age 20 he played principal second violin for the Rochester Philharmonic, then went on to work with Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Joe Jackson, Todd Rundgren, the Mahavishnu Project... he founded a string quartet you might have heard of called Ethel. Whether he's on Broadway or in Bang On A Can he kills it every time, I went to his house in Massachusetts.

Solénoïde (19.11.2018) - Solénoïde propose une 'Blender Session’ un peu spéciale puisque nous introduisons un nouveau critère de sélection : celui du partenariat international. L’idée est de s’intéresser à des productions réunissant des artistes de différentes nationalités collaborant aussi bien au sein de groupes établis que lors de réunions musicales éphémères. Cette volonté de s’associer entre musiciens d’origines très diverses est à la base de projets souvent osés et parfois géniaux !

Glacial orchestras, floaty head voices, critique among friends. The New York composer discusses three important albums.

Liner notes: Acrosyntactic, Post Traumatic System 2007 16:17. Live theremin interference noise performance at the Stone NYC, curated by Elliott Sharp. Live concert recording 8 bit mono. Sound is a carrier of information. - AJ Ptak

Composer Julia Wolfe & guitarist Mark Stewart discuss their Bang On A Can collaborations

В этом выпуске: Земля духов "Ghostland", новая классика, сборник "Время быть время жить", Brian Eno в исполнении американского коллектива "Bang On A Can"

A look into the story of the electric guitar in concert music. Featuring music by Steve Reich, Kronos Quartet, Bang On A Can, Stephen Mackey, D.J. Sparr, Anthony Joseph Lanman, Bryce Dessner, and Sonic Youth

Our "How To" episode: how to design a book cover, how to correctly use the terms “Latino” and “Hispanic,” and how to revive your relationship with the arts. 1:06 - This week, members of the nonprofit Business for Culture and the Arts closed up shop. The group’s members worked for nearly 30 years to build bridges between the arts and business communities. But the board and members voted Thursday to dissolve operations, handing over some of its programs to the Regional Arts and Culture Council, RACC. We look at what a healthy business/arts relationship might look like. 9:52 - Portland comics artist and illustrator Terry Blas's dad was born in the U.S. and his mom in Mexico. He used to use the terms “Latino” and “Hispanic” interchangeably, but he doesn’t any more. This summer, he published a comic on Vox-dot-com about how he explains his heritage. And, as of this week, it’s been shared over 170-thousand times. 14:43 - The son of a professional treasure hunter, Nate Fasold hunts down famous guitars played by the like of Elliott Smith and Kurt Cobain from his shop on North Mississippi Avenue. 23:06 - Tonight is a fundraiser for the next stage in Portland MC Mic Crenshaw’s African Hip-Hop Caravan. It's a group made up of hip-hop collectives across the continent, including in Cape Town, Harare, Arusha and Nairobi, that aims to talk about the current state of African hip-hop. Crenshaw tells us about his last caravan trip. 33:17 - Sure, you shouldn't judge a book by a cover. But don't tell that to the designers behind some of the excellent and award-winning covers at the local publisher Tin House. They lay out their hands-on process. 39:43 - The Britt Music and Arts Festival in Jacksonville commissioned a new work about Crater Lake by composer Michael Gordon. Gordon co-founded Bang On A Can, a music festival and collective, and his compositions have been performed around the world by the likes of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Kronos Quartet. Think Out Loud's Dave Miller talked with Gordon about the lakes serenity and violence.

http://radiowonderland.org/serendipity/index.phpRadio Wonderland "bio"RADIO WONDERLAND is me, Joshua Fried, performing solo live sound processing by drumming on old shoes (I'm a drummer) and manipulating a steering wheel (I'm a, er, wheel player). RADIO WONDERLAND turns live commercial FM radio into recombinant funk.All the sounds originate from an old boombox, playing radio LIVE. Nothing is pre-recorded; anything picked up during the performance is fair game until the end. All the processing is by custom software I wrote in the MaxMSP programming environment. But I hardly touch the laptop. My controllers really are a vintage Buick steering wheel, old shoes mounted on stands, and some gizmos. You'll hear me build grooves, step by step, out of recognizable radio, and even UN-wind my grooves back to the original radio source.I walk on with a boom box, playing FM radio LIVE. Once onstage, I plug it into my system and start slicing up radio. I arrange those slices both rhythmically, and, by playing them at different speeds, melodically as well, all according to what I hear. I call this process the RE-SHUFFLER. With another algorithm, which I call my RE-ESSER, (studio nerds will recognize this as a joke on de-esser), I isolate the sibilance, so I can compose on the spot with those S, T, K, Sh, etc. sounds, just like programming a drum machine. The ANYTHING-KICK morphs a bit of radio in the direction of a kick drum.The sum total is dance music. I ham it up like mad, using the theatricality of the objects. It's great fun, and more musical than the video suggests. Every show is rather different, naturally, because the source material is entirely different each time.So what's it all about? What is the art-speak that goes with RADIO WONDERLAND? I want to show that we ALL can interrupt and interrogate the never-ending flow of commercial media. So my transformations, taken individually, must be clear and simple?mostly framing, repeating and changing pitch?although when everything is put together the whole is indeed complex. My controllers are simple too: the wheel merely a knob to take things up and down (frequency, tempo) or play radio loops like a turntable, the shoes just pads I hit softer or louder. The surreal quality of using such ordinary objects underscores the absurd disconnect between digital controller and sound, as well as the congenial nature of the aural transformations themselves. So, too, my riffs must be vernacular and not elite. (We need the funk.)How did this all happen?I discovered dub, punk, and Eno in 1978 and by '79 I was making music. I soon realized that I wanted it to dance.1980s:Performed as my own-person--uh, that's one-person--dub band at clubs such as The Pyramid, Danceteria, Mudd Club, Irving Plaza, Limelight, Tunnel, Limbo Lounge, while still collaborating with choreographers and performance artists including the great Iris Rose and Watchface.Did remix work for Chaka Khan, Ofra Haza and They Might Be Giants.Had a record deal with Atlantic, releasing "Jimmy Because" produced by Joe Mardin and Arif Mardin (Chaka Kahn, Nora Jones, Bee Gees, David Bowie, Bette Midler, Aretha Franklin).1990s:Skewed meself towards the concert hall and theater, doing Bang On A Can, Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, etc. Did a big collaboration with the great choreographer Douglas Dunn. Had a 16 week run of a gibberish operatic suite, Headfone Follies at HERE Arts Center. Made this web site:Composer Joshua2000s:Radio Wonderland is (slowly) born! And is my way ofBringing It All Back Home.Posted by Joshua Fried in Bio at 08:22

Inspired by the 8 hours I spent at the 2009 Bang On A Can marathon, here is a intro to the composers I discovered there. (00:18) Memory – Ethel John [...] Continue reading → The post MikeyPod 137 | Bang On A Can appeared first on MikeyPod.

Inspired by the 8 hours I spent at the 2009 Bang On A Can marathon, here is a intro to the composers I discovered there. (00:18) Memory – Ethel John [...] Continue reading → The post MikeyPod 137 | Bang On A Can appeared first on MikeyPod.

I've been slacking lately. There have been 2 shows since the last update. One was a Thanksgiving double-header (4 hours of Silent Noise Radio!) featuring my dad. I'm just going topost that one today. Sorry about the low audio quality. I didn't want to have a file that was over 200MB (yes it's that low quality).Bobby's Half:1Kanye WestSay You Will2AutechreSimmm3BorisNo Ones Grieve, Part 24*Des ArkMy Saddle is Waiting5*John Titor1976 (IBM 5100)6*John Titor2000 (Correspondence)7JesuConqueror8Bang On A Can1/1Music For Airports (Brian Eno)9CommonUniversal Mind Control10Fly Pan AmAutant Zig-Zag11DeadbeatRise Again12City of CaterpillarMinute-Hour-Day-Week-Month-Year-(The Faiths in My Chest)13Sigur RósÁgætis byrjun14Black Ox OrkestarAz Vey Dem Tatn15HrstaTomorrow Winter ComesKniffen's Half:1Aids WolfVampire KingThe Lovvers2ColleenI'll Read you a storyGolden Morning Breaks3KniffenIt ends in my dreams4Joanna NewstromThis side of the BlueThe Milk-Eyed Bartender5MothousTheres a shifting6Primal ScreamSwastika Eyes7MstrKrftSweet JusticeThe Looks8PortisheadRoadsGlory Times9Tokyo Ska Paradise OrchestraSoul GrowlStompin on Down beat Alley10TrentemollerMoan (Vinyl Dum Mix)11At the GatesLegion (Slaughterford Cover)Slaughter of the Soul (Bonus Tracks)12Diablo Swing OrchestraBalrog BoogieThe butcher's Ballroom13Jean Michel JarreChants MagnetiquesImages14Klaus SchulzeFloatingMoondawn15GongFloating AnarchyFloating Anarchy16GongStone Innoc FrankensteinFloating Anarchy17KraftwerkComputer WorldComputer World[[DOWNLOAD]]

We’re featuring double bassist, composer, and conductor Peter Askim on today’s episode of Contrabass Conversations. A former member of the Honolulu Symphony and an internationally acclaimed composer, Peter currently serves as music director and composer-in-residence for the Idyllwild Arts Academy. His Eight Solitudes for Double Bass won the 2002 International Society of Bassists Composition Competition. Learn more about Peter at his website peteraskim.com. There are some excellent opportunities for high school bassists at the Idyllwild Arts Academy. Bassists study with Chris Hanulik (Los Angeles Philharmonic Principal Bass) and Jeremy Kurtz (San Doego Symphony Principal Bass) and recieve a great deal of attention from Peter as well. Learn more about this program atidyllwildarts.org. Enjoy!   About Peter: Active as a composer, conductor and bassist, Peter Askim is the Music Director and Composer-in-Residence of the Idyllwild Arts Academy. He has been a member of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra and served on the faculty of the University of Hawaii-Manoa, where he directed the Contemporary Music Ensemble and taught theory and composition. As a composer, he has had commissions and performances from such groups as the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Honolulu Symphony, the International Society of Bassists, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, the Idyllwild Arts Orchestra, the Portland Chamber Music Festival, and Serenata Santa Fe, as well as by performers such as flutist/ conductor Ransom Wilson, Metropolitan Opera soprano Lauren Flanigan, Grammy-nominated soprano Judith Kellock and violinist Timothy Fain. His compositions are published by Liben Music Publishers and the International Society of Bassists, and his music is recorded on the Gasparo and Albany labels. His compositions have been performed at the Aspen, Bowdoin, Music At the Anthology, June in Buffalo and Bang On A Can festivals, among others, and have frequently been broadcast on WNYC and Hawaii Public Radio. Mr. Askim won the 2002 International Society of Bassists Composition Competition for Eight Solitudes and is a frequent recitalist for the International Society of Bassists, the Hawaii Contrabass Festival and the World Bass Festival in Wroclaw, Poland. He performed and recorded his bass concerto Islands at the International Society of Bassists convention under the direction of flutist/ conductor Ransom Wilson. As a conductor, Mr. Askim has served as Music Director of the Branford Chamber Orchestra and makes frequent guest conducting appearances, including the Sewanee Philharmonia, the Oregon Festival of American Music, the Wroclaw (Poland) Chamber Orchestra Sotto Voce and the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. He has premiered numerous works, including by composers Richard Danielpour and Christopher Theofanidis and has collaborated with such artists as the Miró String Quartet, ‘cellist Matt Haimovitz, violinists Ian Swensen and Todor Pelev and ‘cellist John Walz. He has also received critical praise as a jazz artist in such publications as Jazztimes, the New York Post and New York Newsday. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna and holds bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees from Yale University, where he graduated with Distinction in Music. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Composition from the University of Texas at Austin. He studied composition with Dan Welcher, Donald Grantham, Anthony Davis, Jan Radzynski, Syd Hodkinson and David Finko, and double bass with George Rubino, Diana Gannett, Donald Palma, Wolfgang Harrer and Ludwig Streicher. Music Performed: Islands (double bass concerto) from “Moving, Still” About Moving, Still: Moving, Still – CD New CD features compositions of Peter Askim and such artists as Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center flutist/conductor Ransom Wilson, conductor Naoto Otomo and the Tokyo Symphony, members of Orchestra Asia-Japan, pianist Douglas Aschcraft and Peter Askim as conductor and bassist. Links: http://www.idyllwildarts.org/ http://peteraskim.com