Podcast appearances and mentions of Cathy Berberian

Grabado en cinta y en directo: pura desnudez y autenticidad. 'Silvia & Salvador' es un disco que viaja con total naturalidad por el español, el francés, el portugués, el catalán y el inglés. En cualquier caso, es un canto al amor, a la amistad y a la música como idioma universal. Silvia Pérez Cruz y Salvador Sobral nos acompañan esta tarde en el programa para hablar y compartir su música.La Pequeteca de Leticia Audibert busca novedades editoriales para los más pequeños y recuerda que sigue en marcha la temporada de ferias del libro por distintas ciudades de España.Con nuestra crítica de arte, Mery Cuesta, nos sumergimos en la obra —y sobre todo en la vida— de una figura irrepetible que transitó entre la ópera, la experimentación vocal, la performance… y también lo hortera, lo kitsch y lo camp: la inclasificable Cathy Berberian.En Sevilla, desde mañana y hasta el 28 de junio, el Cortijo de Cuarto y el Teatro Romano de Itálica acogerán a doce compañías dentro del Festival Internacional de Danza de Itálica 2025. Este año el festival contará con tres estrenos absolutos y un estreno nacional. Marta Sánchez nos adelanta los detalles.La reconocida ensayista neoyorquina Vivian Gornick visita estos días Madrid con motivo de la Feria del Libro. 'Por qué algunos hombres odian a las mujeres y otros textos feministas' fue el eje de su conversación con Marta Sánchez ante un público entregado. Daniel Gallego estuvo allí.Terminamos con una mirada a través del objetivo de Marisa Florez. La fotoperiodista, activa entre 1970 y 2020, protagoniza una gran exposición retrospectiva dentro del festival PHotoEspaña en la Sala de Canal de Isabel II. Medio siglo de historia reciente de nuestro país a través de casi 200 imágenes. Ángela Núñez nos lo cuenta.Escuchar audio

Coincidint amb el centenari del naixement de Cathy Berberian, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge presenta una exposició que examina la genealogia de "Stripsody", una de les creacions vocals més inclassificables del segle XX. Creada amb la complicitat d'Umberto Eco, la peça combina la imatge, la performance i l'experimentació amb la paraula a partir de la iconografia i el llenguatge dels còmics.En aquest pòdcast el comissari Arnau Horta parla amb la Laia Carbonell sobre l'exposició i la figura de Cathy Berberian.

Una de las características de su obra es la incorporación de sonoridades no codificadas de la voz, como risas, susurros o carraspeos. He aquí su tema: la voz, su naturaleza orgánica, traspuesta y abierta a la sensibilidad de la escucha a través de los incipientes procedimientos electrónicos._____Has escuchadoCorale (1981). Maryvonne Le Dizès, viola; Ensemble InterContemporain; Pierre Boulez, director. Sony Classical (1990)Folk Songs. Black Is the Color (1964). Cathy Berberian, mezzosoprano; Julliard Ensemble; Luciano Berio, director. BMG Classics (1973)Laborintus 2. Première partie (1965) / textos de Edoardo Sanguineti. Ensemble Musique Vivante; Chorale Expérimentale; Luciano Berio, director. Harmonia Mundi (1987)Sinfonia. O King (1968). Göteborg Konserthus; Peter Eötvös, director. Deutsche Grammophon (2005)_____Selección bibliográficaBERIO, Luciano, Un recuerdo al futuro. Acantilado, 2019*BOULEZ, Pierre y Enzo Restagno, Sequenze per Luciano Berio. Ricordi, 2000COHEN-LEVINAS, Danielle (ed.), Omaggio a Luciano Berio. L'Harmattan, 2006*DALMONTE, Rossana y Bálint András Varga (eds.), Luciano Berio: Two Interviews. Marion Boyars, 1985ECO, Umberto, “Eco in ascolto: entrevista de Umberto Eco con Luciano Berio”. Revista de Occidente, n.º 114 (1990), pp. 123-136*FERRARI, Giordano, “El teatro musical como crítica de la sociedad: Passagio de Luciano Berio y Edoardo Sanguineti”. Doce Notas Preliminares, n.º 14 (2004-2005), pp. 120-138FERRARI, Giordano (ed.), Le théâtre musical de Luciano Berio: actes des six journées d'études qui ont eu lieu à Paris et à Venise entre 2010 et 2013. L'Harmattan, 2016FLYNN, George W., “Listening to Berio's Music”. The Musical Quarterly, vol. 61, n.º 3 (1975), pp. 388-421*HALFYARD, Janet K., Berio's Sequenzas: Essays on Performance Composition and Analysis. Ashgate, 2007*HICKS, Michael, “Text, Music, and Meaning in the Third Movement of Luciano Berio's Sinfonia”. Perspectives of New Music, vol. 20, n.º 1-2 (1981), pp. 199-224*JOOS, Maxime, “Luciano Berio: Dramaturgie et Œuvre Ouverte”. Musurgia, vol. 10, n.º 2 (2003), pp. 7-27*MEHINOVIC, Vedran, “Two Late Orchestral Works of Luciano Berio”. Tempo, vol. 69, n.º 273 (2015), pp. 20-29*MULLER, Theo y Luciano Berio, “‘Music Is Not a Solitary Act': Conversation with Luciano Berio”. Tempo, n.º 199 (1997), pp. 16-20*NEIDHÖFER, Christoph, “Inside Luciano Berio's Serialism”. Music Analysis, vol. 28, n.º 2-3 (2009), pp. 301-348*OSMOND-SMITH, David, “Berio and the Art of Commentary”. The Musical Times, vol. 116, n.º 1592 (1975), pp. 871-872*—, Berio. Oxford University Press, 1991SZENDY, Peter, “Un roi à l'écoute”. En: L'Opéra éclaté: la dramaturgie musicale entre 1969 et 1984. Editado por Giordano Ferrari. L'Harmattan, 2005 *Documento disponible para su consulta en la Sala de Nuevas Músicas de la Biblioteca y Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación de la Fundación Juan March

Eloain Hübner erzählt, wie elo zur Musik und dem Komponieren gekommen ist und welche Bedeutung Notentext und die Improvisation haben. Elo berichtet auch über die Pionierarbeit im Bereich der Vokalperformance von Frauen wie Cathy Berberian. Und wie Interpret:innen und Komponist:innen Projekte und Stücke gemeinsam entwickeln und wie jede:r mehr den jeweiligen Talenten folgen kann, weil es mehr Möglichkeiten gibt wie zum Beispiel composer-performer zu sein. Eloain und Irene sprechen über Stimme, Mozart, Chöre, Kuratieren, Kontexte und auch das Festival Kipppunkte von Musik 21 Niedersachsen in Hannover.

Welcome to another conversation from the high/low art divide between opera-singer-turned-experimental-performer Ema Katrovas and comedian-and-TV-writer-turned-novelist Nicholas Anthony. For this end-of-the-year episode, Nick and Ema decided to talk about The Beatles and their influence on a few pieces of “high art”: new journalist Joan Didion's essay “The White Album” and avant garde singer Cathy Berberian's covers of Beatles' songs. They also briefly talk about American composer Ned Rorem's essay “The Music of the Beatles”. Their starting point is a 2021 documentary by Peter Jackson, Get Back. Nick and Ema circle around the question: Were the Beatles exceptional, lucky, or both? Does one need opportunity or even fame to create one's best work? Is trying to tell a story about the Beatles, or any other iconic artist, that answers these questions even useful?  Music excerpts from this episode:  Revolution 9 from the Beatles' White Album (1968) Gavin Bryars' “Jesus' Blood Never Found me Yet”(1971) Cathy Berberian's cover of “She's Got a Ticket to Ride” (1977)  Cathy Berberian's Stripsody (1966)  Things mentioned in the episode (in order of appearance): “Now and Then” (new Beatles' song): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opxhh9Oh3rg Deresiewicz's essay “We're All Bored of Culture Now”: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/bored-of-culture-william-deresiewicz Get Back, the Beatles documentary by Peter Jackson (it didn't come out “last year” like we said but in 2021): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles:_Get_Back Bernstein's lecture on the Beatles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v32U0mjGz6g Rick Beato's music channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RickBeato Joan Didion's book of essays “The White Album”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Album_(book) Ned Rorem's essay “The Music of the Beatles”: https://jdsalas.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/article-the-music-of-the-beatles-.pdf Susan Sontag's “Notes on Camp”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_%22Camp%22 Collection of academic essays on Cathy Berbarian: https://www.routledge.com/Cathy-Berberian-Pioneer-of-Contemporary-Vocality/Karantonis-Placanica-Verstraete/p/book/9780367669294  Links:

Episode 100 Crosscurrents in Early Electronic Music: Italy—Part 1 Playlist Berio, Maderna, Nono, Zuccheri, RAI Studio di Fonologia Musicale (RAI), Milan Luciano Berio, “Mutazioni” (1955) from Prospettive Nella Musica (1956 RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana). The first complete tape work by Berio at the newly founded RAI studio, which he was running with composer Bruno Maderna. Sound engineering by Marino Zuccheri. Berio and Maderna kept an open mind about the music that would be produced under its roof. They did not align themselves aesthetically with either the musique concrète approach taken in Paris or the serialist, rules-based composing style of Cologne. “Bruno and I immediately agreed,” explained Berio, “that our work should not be directed in a systematic way, either toward recording acoustic sounds or toward a systematic serialism based on discrete pitches.”[1] As a consequence, Alfredo Lietti Marino Zuccheri, engineers for the studio, filled it with equipment that appealed to a wide spectrum of compositional needs. In 1956, studio no. 3 at RAI had a custom-built cabinet with six vertical racks consisting of audio generators (9 sine wave oscillators, 1 white noise generator, 1 pulse generator), sound modifiers (plate reverb, octave filter, high pass filter, low-pass filter, variable band-pass filter, third-octave filter, ring and amplitude modulators), and a mixing panel. Several tape recorders were available mix and match sounds. You can almost sense the excitement of the creation of these foundational works as each composer brought their own individualism to the sound a translated that into electronic music. 3:36 Berio & Maderna, “Ritatto di Città (poema radiofonico)” (1955) (1955 RAI). File from the RAI Archives. This is an excerpt from a radiophonic production that was 26' long. 6:05 Bruno Maderna, “Notturno” (1956) from Prospettive Nella Musica (1956 RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana). Maderna's first official solo tape work produced at the RAI studio. From an original disc released by the RAI in 1956. 3:24 Luciano Berio, “Perspectives” from Prospettive Nella Musica (1956 RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana). An eight-part work of experiments in transforming musical sounds and rhythms with electronic manipulation. 6:36 Bruno Maderna, “Música su Due Dimensioni” from História da Música Eletroacústica (1958). 7:10 Luciano Berio, “Momenti”(1960) from Images Fantastiques (Electronic Experimental Music) (1968 Limelight). This release was an American collection of European electronic music released on the Limelight label, a subsidiary of Philips. Although released a few years after “Momenti” was available elsewhere, this was an album that captivated my imagination at the time. You hear Berio's innate sense for fashioning unique sounds and rhythms with this sound material, adding some reverb to give it depth, producing audio that is reminiscent of natural sounds, but transformed to give it an other-worldly quality. 7:02 Bruno Maderna, “Dimensioni II (Inventione su Una Voce)” from Musica Elettronica / Electronic Music (1994 Stradivarius). Anyone familiar with Italian new music will know the name of Cathy Berberian. She was an American operatic mezzo-soprano and for a time (1950-64) was married to Luciano Berio. She was a kind of muse for the modern composers at the Milan studio, lending her incredible vocal capabilities to tracks that could then be transformed into electronic music. One such famous piece, not included here because it is so familiar, is “Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)” by Berio. Instead, I wanted to feature another tape piece, this one by Maderna, because he not only transforms Berberian's voice using electronic techniques but allows her to express herself as well in some unmodified sections. This marks a period where Maderna was longer magnetic tape pieces, ten minutes or more each. Unlike his shorter, more frenetic works, these longer pieces gave him time to develop themes, apply long silences, and structure his works around variations on his audio materials. 10:52 Luigi Nono, “Omaggio a Vedova” (1960) (1976 Wergo). A magnetic tape work by another outstanding contributor to electronic music in Italy, Luigi Nono. Like Berio, Nono went on to be better known for his instrumental and vocal compositions. This work is an homage to artist Emelie Vedova. Note that we feature another homage to Vedova from 1967 later in the podcast, “Parete 1967 _1” by Marino Zuccheri. 4:52 Niccolò Castiglioni, “Divertimento” (1960) from Elektron 3 (1967 Sugar Music). Produced at the Studio di Fonologia Musicale di Milano. Castiglioni was an Italian composer, born in Milan who later came to the United States to teach composition at the University of Michigan. This work sounds a bit like chirping insects and is the only tape piece he produced at the RAI. 2:38 Bruno Maderna, “Le Rire” (1962)” from Musica Elettronica / Electronic Music (1994 Stradivarius). Another long-form tape piece by Maderna. The voices heard and processed are those of Maderna, Cathy Berberian, and the sound designer Marino Zuccheri. The sounds in the beginning are modulated by sine waves and filters, plus some occasional ambient sounds like footsteps and rain. The second part of the work, beginning around the 11-minute mark, switches to more traditional musique concrete sounds reminiscent of drums, flutes, as well as white noise. 15:53 Luigi Nono, “La Fabbrica Illuminata” for voice and magnetic tape (1964) from Luigi Nono La Fabbrica Illuminata (1968 Wergo). Nono was also expanding his use of electronic sounds and wrapping them in vocal music. This work combines sounds created at the RAI with vocals written for a choir ( Chor Der RAI Mailand) and sopranos (Carla Henius). Marino Zuccheri helped Nono with the tape music. 16:28 Jon Hassell, “Music for Two Vibraphones” (1965) (1965 RAI). Yes, this is the Jon Hassell, the American composer and trumpeter. I know he is American, but I couldn't resist including this brief track that he recorded while in Milan in 1965. To my ears, this has an especially digital sound, especially when you consider how time consuming it must have been to assemble the opening sequence using tape editing. It is also a work of contrasts, with the explosive opening section giving way to about a minute of extremely quiet, almost ambient sound to close the work. 2:43 Marino Zuccheri, “Parete 1967 _1” (1967) from Parete '67 Per Emilio Vedova (2018 Die Schachtel). The sound mixer and designer at the RAI studio, Zuccheri often appears as a credit on works created in the studio. Working as a sound technician after World War II, Zuccheri was transferred to the RAI headquarters in Milan where he met Luciano Berio. He was instrumental in developing the system and layout of the Studio di Fonologia Musicale, where he worked until 1983. His close collaboration with the composers working at the Studio, above all Berio, Maderna and Nono, gave rise most of their notable tape pieces. Visitors, such as John Cage, were quick to acknowledge his steady hand as chief orchestrator of sound and engineering at the studio. He was often asked to provide electronic music for broadcast and film productions, of which this is one, a collaboration with Emilio Vedova for the preparation of the Italian pavilion of the Montreal Expo. 15:03 Luigi Nono, “Contrappunto Dialettico Alla Mente” (For Magnetic Tape)(1968) from Roland Kayn / Luigi Nono – Cybernetics III / Contrappunto Dialettico Alla Mente (1970 DGG). Another one of Nono's exquisite works combining vocals and electronic music on magnetic tape, recorded at RAI. In this work you can see how Nono complements the sound palette of the usual RAI sounds with sounds that are uniquely presented by human voices. Chorus, Coro Da Camera Della RAI; Conductor, Nino Antonellini; Soprano Vocals, Liliana Poli; Other Voices, Cadigia Bove, Elena Vicini, Marisa Mazzoni, Umberto Troni. 19:48 Opening background music: Bruno Maderna, “Serenata III” (1962)” from Musica Elettronica / Electronic Music (1994 Stradivarius). 11:20 Opening and closing sequences voiced by Anne Benkovitz. Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes. See my companion blog that I write for the Bob Moog Foundation. For additional notes, please see my blog, Noise and Notations.   [1] Joel Chadabe, Electric Sound: The Past and Promise of Electronic Music (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997), 48

This is my reading an article I wrote for a newly-launched publication called Theorema Review (https://theorem-a.org/). I'm mainly reading it to draw attention to the idea behind the publication, launched a couple months ago by a friend, that of artists reviewing other artists (though I also used my review as an excuse to ponder experimental vocal music history and experimentation vs. communication in art.) Lots of John Cage and Cathy Berberian in the this one! Link to the article (including footnotes and sources): https://theorem-a.org/2022/12/08/anaphora-by-michael-edward-edgerton/ During my reading I play Felicita Brusoni's rendition of Michael Edward Edgerton's Anaphora available in full here: https://youtu.be/dgkiWUgNEdA --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/convoontheverge/message

Quel futur pour le passé aujourd'hui ? Et si le cours de l'histoire déformait celle de la musique ? Tout commence par une dystopie puis retour au concert-atelier du 17 janvier à la Librairie La Vagabonde, à Tours, avec le violoncelliste soliste Benjamin Garnier. ************** programme musical ************** - John Oswald, Tune, album Plunderphonic (Mystery Tape Laboratory, 1989) - Sushi Dart Scar, Z24, album 69 Plunderphonics 96 (Seeland, 2001) - Wieldung Von Ovenbath, Dwig, album 69 Plunderphonics 96 (Seeland, 2001) - extrait d'une conférence donné par Robert Pascal [https://youtu.be/j-1N3uPw31s] - Robert Pascal, Alnilam, extrait de Les instants élémentaires, interprété par Benjamin Garnier, violoncelle* - Robert Pascal, Duo pour deux violons, extrait - Klaus Huber, Transpositio ad infinitum, commande de Msitslav Rostropovitch, interprété par Benjamin Garnier, violoncelle * - John Oswald, Beatles, album Plunderphonic (Mystery Tape Laboratory, 1989) - The Buggles, Video Killed The Radio Star (Island Records, 1979) - J. G. Ballard, The Denoiser (Le Débruiteur), lecture extraite de Nouvelles complètes 1956 / 1962, traduction de Gisèle Garson et Pierre Versins, Éditions Tristram, 2008 - John Oswald, Spring, album Plunderphonic (Mystery Tape Laboratory, 1989) - Luciano Berio, Thema (Omaggio a Joyce), élaboration électro-acoustique sur la voix de Cathy Berberian (1958) - John Oswald, Dab, album Plunderphonic (Mystery Tape Laboratory, 1989) - Geese Ritz Bog & Usable Scud Dye, Debizet, album 69 Plunderphonics 96 (Seeland, 2001) - Birds On A Wire, El Cant Dels Ocells, album Ramages (PIAS, 2020) - Graciane Finzi, Thèmes et variations sur "Il Cant Dells Ocells", commande du concours international Pablo Casals, interprété par Benjamin Garnier, violoncelle * - Denis Dufour, Paysage, commande pédagogique du CNR de Boulogne-Billancourt, interprété par Benjamin Garnier, violoncelle * * Enregistré en concert le 17.01.2023, Librairie-café La Vagabonde, Tours (prise de son, mixage : Jean-Baptiste Apéré) ********************************************* Emission radiophonique sur les musiques contemporaines proposée par l'ensemble PTYX. Présentation : Jean-Baptiste Apéré réalisation, production, sans concession : ptyx fan club vnrpe (c) 2023 Avec le soutien du Conseil départemental d'Indre-et-Loire et de la Maison de la Musique Contemporaine

Meet Felicita Brusoni, Italian singer and voice researcher. Felicita is pursuing a doctorate at Malmö Academy of Music is Sweden (part of Lund University) where she is working on a project called “A Voice Beyond the Edge.” One of her main mentors is composer Michael Edgerton, author of The 21st Century Voice: Contemporary and Traditional Extra Normal Voice which is a catalog of vocal sounds that often comes up in conversations about extended vocal techniques. As the name of Felicita's artistic research project implies, this is definitely going to be an episode for voice geeks but also for those who like the bizarre. Felicita and I talk about the inaccuracy of the term “extended vocal techniques,” about the somewhat hard-to-define but increasingly popular discipline of “artistic research,” about the difference between extended techniques in the mid-20th century and today, about Felicita's fresh discovery that humans can produce ultrasounds, but also about singers Cathy Berberian and even Maria Callas and, at the end, Felicita even tries to teach me an extended technique I hadn't done before – to mixed results. Felicita's website: https://www.felicitabrusoni.com/ Felicita's Instagram: @felicitabrusoni_soprano

Today's special episode is in honor of my best friend, partner-in-crime and Corona-lockdown buddy, the distinguished theater scholar and author David Savran, who this week once again celebrated another journey around the sun. I invited him to be the first guest in a new series I will be presenting on Countermelody featuring colleagues and friends speaking about the music (and the singers!) that have most deeply affected and inspired them. Perhaps it's not surprising that in the nearly two decades that we have known each other, that David's taste in music and singers often falls neatly in step with mine. But there are many other musical paths and byways that he has explored that have taken him in quite different directions. Our spirited dialogue is punctuated by music that spoke to him most deeply in the first 25 years of his life. We hear samples of everything and everyone from Sammy Davis, Jr. to Grace Slick, from Cathy Berberian to Joni Mitchell, from Lisa della Casa to Nina Hagen, from Alfred Drake to Frank Zappa. The episode also constitutes a fascinating exploration of the role that memory and nostalgia play in the creation of musical tastes and preferences. Happy Birthday, Davey, and thanks for being my guest! Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.  

Episode 63 An Electronic Poetry Slam   Playlist Roland Giguere, “Les Heures Lentes” from Voix De 8 Poètes Du Canada (1958 Folkways). Spoken poetry intermixed with musique concrete by Francois Morel. The electronic music and poetry are never heard simultaneously on this album, but the music was composed to set the tone for each work that followed. 1:29. François Dufrêne & Jean Baronnet, “U 47” from A Panorama Of Experimental Music, Vol. 1: Electronic Music / Musique Concrete (1967 Mercury). Dufrêne was a French sound poet and visual artist who performed what he called "crirythmes," a style of vocal noises. The electronic music on tape was composed by Baronnet, who was a co-founder, with Pierre Henry, of Studio Apsome, their private studio for electronic music, after their break from the GRM studios of Pierre Schaeffer in 1958. Recorded under the supervision of Pierre Henry, in collaboration with the sound laboratories of the West German Radio (Cologne), Italian Radio (Milan), French Radio and Television (Paris), and the Studio Apsome (Paris). 3:33 Intersystems, “A Cave in the Country” from Peachy (1967 Pentagon). This was the Canadian experimental music band that produced some radically original music and performed live events mostly in the Toronto area from 1967 to 1969. Poetry and vocals by Blake Parker. Electronic music using the Moog Modular synthesizer by John Mills-Cockell. Performers, Blake Parker, Dik Zander, John Mills-Cockell, Michael Hayden. 1:50 Intersystems, “Carelessly Draped in Black” from Peachy (1967 Pentagon). This was the Canadian experimental music band that produced some radically original music and performed live events mostly in the Toronto area from 1967 to 1969. Poetry and vocals by Blake Parker. Electronic music using the Moog Modular synthesizer by John Mills-Cockell. Performers, Blake Parker, Dik Zander, John Mills-Cockell, Michael Hayden. 4:32 Bruce Clarke, “Of Spiralling Why” from The First See + Hear (1968 See/Hear Productions). From See/Hear, a quarterly publication of recordings of contemporary sound arts. There were three issues total. All from Canada. When there was electronic music, it was provided and created by Wayne Carr using a Buchla Box. Carr was associated with all three of the See/Hear albums/issues. This piece was commissioned for the Adelaide 1968 Arts Festival by the Melbourne ISCM, fragments of poetry were chosen at random from the unpublished works of the late Ann Pickburn, whom I believe you hear performing her words on this track. 9:35 Jim Brown and Wayne Carr, “Blues for Electric” from Oh See Can You Say (1968 See/Hear). Poetry and synthesizer. Poetry and voice, Jim Brown; engineer, Buchla Box, Wayne Carr. The second LP of this quarterly LP/magazine that seemed to only have three issues. “Wayne Carr plays synthesizer whenever it happens.” This is noted on another LP as a Buchla Box, so I've assumed that's what he used on all three albums. 3:09 bill bissett & Th Mandan Massacre (sp), “fires in th tempul” from Awake In Th Red Desert (1968 See/Hear Productions). Poetry and voice, Bill Bissett; Toy Flute, Roger Tentrey; Flute, Tape Recorder, Ross Barrett; Guitar, Terry Beauchamp; Percussion, Gregg Simpson, Harley McConnell, Ken Paterson, Martina Clinton; Producer, Jim Brown; Buchla Box, engineer, Wayne Carr. 3:32 bill bissett & Th Mandan Massacre (sp), “now according to paragraph c” from Awake In Th Red Desert (1968 See/Hear Productions). Poetry and voice, Bill Bissett; Toy Flute, Roger Tentrey; Flute, Tape Recorder, Ross Barrett; Guitar, Terry Beauchamp; Percussion, Gregg Simpson, Harley McConnell, Ken Paterson, Martina Clinton; Producer, Jim Brown; Buchla Box, engineer, Wayne Carr. 2:40 Ruth White, “The Irremediable” from Flowers Of Evil (1969 Limelight). Electronic music, translations, and vocalizations by Ruth White. Words by Charles Baudelaire. Legendary American electronic music pioneer, most noted for her early explorations of sound using the Moog synthesizer. "An electronic setting of the poems of Charles Baudelaire composed and realized by Ruth White." 4:55 Ruth White, “The Cat” from Flowers Of Evil (1969 Limelight). Electronic music, translations, and vocalizations by Ruth White. Words by Charles Baudelaire. Legendary American electronic music pioneer, most noted for her early explorations of sound using the Moog synthesizer. "An electronic setting of the poems of Charles Baudelaire composed and realized by Ruth White." 3:27 Charles Dodge, “Speech Songs: No. 1 When I Am With You (Excerpt)” and “Speech Songs: No. 2 He Destroyed Her Image (Excerpt)” from from 10+2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces (1975 1750 Arch Records). Realized at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for computer music in 1975. 3:45 William Hellermann, “Passages 13 – The Fire (For Trumpet & Tape)” from Peter Maxwell Davies / Lucia Dlugoszewski / William Hellerman, Gerard Schwarz, Ursula Oppens, The New Trumpet (1975 Nonesuch). Composed by William Hellermann; voices, Jacqueline Hellerman, John P. Thomas, Marsha Immanuel, and Michael O'Brien; words by Robert Duncan. This poem was first published in 'Poetry,' April-May 1965. Tape realized by Hellerman at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. 25:28 Robert Ashley, “In Sara, Mencken, Christ And Beethoven There Were Men And Women (Excerpt)” from 10+2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces (1975 1750 Arch Records). Lyrics By – John Barton Wolgamot; Moog Synthesizer,Paul DeMarinis; Voice, Robert Ashley. Excerpt from an album-length work released in 1974 on Cramps Records. 3:53 Robert Ashley, “Interiors with Flash” from Big Ego (1978 Giorno Poetry Systems). A study for what would become Automatic Writing, a longer work by Ashley. recorded at Mills College, Oakland, California, May 14, 1978. Voice, Mimi Johnson; Electronics, Polymoog, Voice, written, produced, and mixed by Robert Ashley. 3:05 Joan La Barbara, “Cathing” from Tapesongs (1977 Chiaroscuro Records). Composed, produced, edited and sung by Joan La Barbara. The story behind this piece is a great one. In the 1970s, La Barbara, along with Meredith Monk, emerged in America as two of the premiere practitioners of avant garde vocalizing. Some might recognize the name of this piece as possibly a tribute to Cathy Berberian, the earlier generation's version of an avant garde diva (La Barbara and Monk would never consider themselves as divas in the sense that Berberian was). Rather than being a tribute to Berberian, La Barbara was responding to a radio interview (apparently broadcast during the intermission of her concert at the 1977 Holland Festival). Berberian was outspoken about the new generation of vocalists and wondered out loud how any respectable composer could write for “one of those singers.” La Barbara's response, composed in response, took excerpts from the interview (20 phrases), edited and rearranged them, altered them electronically to compose this piece. In her liner notes, she only identifies Berberian as another “professional singer.” Take that! 8:01. Laurie Anderson, “Closed Circuits” from You're The Guy I Want To Share My Money With (1981 Girono Poetry Systems). One of Anderson's tracks from this 2-LP collection of text and poetry that also includes works by John Giorno and William Burroughs. I think this was the tenth album from Giorno that began in 1975 with the Dial-A-Poem Poets. Electronics (Microphone Stand Turned Through Harmonizer), Wood Block, voice, Laurie Anderson. 7:23. Background music for opening Laurie Anderson, “Dr. Miller” from You're The Guy I Want To Share My Money With (1981 Girono Poetry Systems). Another of Anderson's tracks from this 2-LP collection of text and poetry that also includes works by John Giorno and William Burroughs. This is another version of a track that later appeared on Anderson's Unted States Live LP in 1984. Saxophone, Perry Hoberman; Synthesizer, Percussion, voice, Laurie Anderson. 4:19 Opening and closing sequences voiced by Anne Benkovitz. Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes. For additional notes, please see my blog, Noise and Notations.

This special episode, the first of two year-end celebrations, presents artists who have already been featured on Countermelody in rare recordings that have recently become available to me. A few of the artists heard include George Shirley, Heather Harper, Lawrence Winters, Elisabeth Söderström, Camilla Williams, Julia Migenes, John Raitt, Gloria Davy, Rosanna Carteri, Mirella Freni, Robert McFerrin, Margaret Marshall, Yi-Kwei Sze, Eileen Farrell, Shirley Verrett, Cathy Berberian, and many, many others in recordings, most from my personal collection, which you may not have heard before. This is a gift of love and gratitude from me to my listeners and supporters, a backward glance at all of the great singers who have been heard on the podcast over the past two and a half years, a theme which will continue next week. I look forward to continuing with new topics and new singers as we move into 2022. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.

I return to Cathy Berberian, Prima Donna of the Avant Garde (or “The Divine Miss B” as she was sometimes called in the mid-seventies) for a further exploration of her career and influence on vocalism in the twentieth century and beyond. This time around I consider her explorations outside of the avant garde, specifically the recital. Based on her 1967 recording of Beatles Arias, the conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt invited Cathy Berberian to take part in his groundbreaking 1969 period instrument recording of Monteverdi’s Orfeo. In 1969 Cathy Berberian began to perform recitals that exploited her entire stylistic and vocal range, a program which eventually became known as “From Monteverdi to The Beatles.” In 1971 her ex-husband Luciano Berio wrote a theater piece for her called Recital I (For Cathy), in which she portrayed an increasingly deranged performer who eventually descends into madness. Her interest in Reynaldo Hahn and Marcel Proust eventually led her to create a program entitled À la recherche de la musique perdue. Additional late-career recitals were called Cathy Berberian’s Second Hand Songs and Cathy Sings America. This episode features excerpts from all of those works, as well as a smattering of folk music and a recorded excerpt of her singing the title role of Carmen, a tantalizing prospect which never came to be. The episode also includes a tribute to Kathleen Ferrier, whose 109th birthday was observed this past week. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel’s lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” Occasional guests from the “business” (singers, conductors, composers, coaches, and teachers) lend their distinctive insights. At Countermelody’s core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. At Countermelody’s core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. Please visit the Countermelody website (www.countermelodypodcast.com) for additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. And please head to my Patreon page at www.patreon.com/countermelody to pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available only to Patreon supporters are currently available.

This episode is the first part of a tribute I have been wanting to create for quite some time. It honors the extraordinary artist and musician Cathy Berberian (1925-1983), the cosmopolitan Armenian-American vocalist who made an indelible mark on contemporary classical music and the public recital. Possessed of an extraordinarily flexible intelligence and sensibility, she influenced an entire generation of composers, including John Cage, Sylvano Bussotti, Henri Pousseur, and, in particular, her one-time husband Luciano Berio. Each of these composers wrote music with Berberian specifically in mind, and Berberian’s input strongly influenced the shape and form that these works assumed. Divorcing Berio in 1964 freed her to pursue her own musical interests, which included her own compositions, a musical friendship with Igor Stravinsky, a burgeoning interest in folk music, and the music of the Beatles. Her 1967 recording of so-called Beatles Arias (titled Revolution in its US release) is a unique document, which both explores the hidden depths of this material, at the same time poking fun at the entire crossover genre. Her daring theatricality and vibrant personality continue to exert an indelible influence that extends far beyond the avant garde. In two weeks I will explore the directions that she pursued in her later career. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel’s lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” Occasional guests from the “business” (singers, conductors, composers, coaches, and teachers) lend their distinctive insights. At Countermelody’s core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. At Countermelody’s core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. Please visit the Countermelody website (www.countermelodypodcast.com) for additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. And please head to my Patreon page at www.patreon.com/countermelody to pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available only to Patreon supporters are currently available. Cathy Berberian resources: Music is the Air I Breathe, a 1994 documentary on Cathy Berberian by the late filmmaker Carrie de Swaan: Links to audio interviews and performances on CathyBerberian.com.

It’s been a year since the pandemic sent us all into various degrees of lockdown, panic, and depression. In certain parts of the world there is no end in sight, while in other parts, medical expertise is being blatantly defied as lockdown measures are carelessly lifted. I did a survey of my friends and listeners this week regarding their favorite sad songs, and I got hit with an avalanche of a wide range of not-happy music. In this episode I am limiting myself to so-called “classical” music. Because the music itself is so heavy, I impersonate (at the top of the episode) a radio announcer for WOKE-FM, a fictional Milwaukee “Top 40 Classical Radio Station,” who is taking calls from all over the world from listeners requesting their favorite sad music. These spurious callers have invariably good taste, and request some glorious music, albeit very sad indeed, by some transcendent performers, including Irmgard Seefried, Maria Callas, Janet Baker, Pierre Bernac, Nan Merriman, Lois Marshall, Peter Pears, and two beautiful French sopranos, Renée Doria and Andréa Guiot, who, at extremely advanced ages, each recently departed this earth. Composers from Dowland, Rameau, and Monteverdi are represented, alongside Poulenc, Schubert, Mahler, Debussy, and Stravinsky. The episode also includes guest vocal appearances by singers, including Cathy Berberian, Magda Olivero, Charles Panzéra, Jorma Hynninen, and Bethany Beardslee, who will receive full-episode treatment in the near future. Ultimately, we return to the atmosphere of a normal Countermelody episode, and are deeply moved by the singers, composers, and music represented. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel’s lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” Occasional guests from the “business” (singers, conductors, composers, coaches, and teachers) lend their distinctive insights. At Countermelody’s core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. At Countermelody’s core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. Please visit the Countermelody website (www.countermelodypodcast.com) for additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. And please head to my Patreon page at www.patreon.com/countermelody to pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available only to Patreon supporters are currently available.

Episode 31 Electronic Literature The Marriage of Electronic Music, Poetry, and Literature   Playlist Luciano Berio, "Thema (Omaggio A Joyce)," from Orient-Occident/Momenti-Omaggio A Joyce/Continuo/Transition 1 (1967 Philips). Composed by Luciano Berio at the RAI studio in Milan. Vocals, Cathy Berberian. The piece dates from 1958-59. An exploration of editing and tape composition with the voice as a key source of audio material. This is an interpretative reading of the poem "Sirens" from chapter 11 of the novel Ulysses by James Joyce. This release on the Philips Prospective 21e Siècle is shorter than the one released around the same time on the Turnabout label in America. It omits the spoken sequence at the beginning where Berberian recites the words prior to them being manipulated on tape. John Cage/David Tudor, "Side 3" excerpt from Indeterminacy: New Aspect of Form in Instrumental And Electronic Music (1959 Folkways). John Cage reads previously prepared stories and anecdotes, David Tudor performs electronic music at the same time with no Earthly connection between the two. This was a long-standing performance practice of theirs and I saw them do this several times. John Cage, "Part One (To Line 220)" from Roaratorio: An Irish Circus On Finnegans Wake (1992 Mode), excerpt, for speaker, Irish musicians and 62-track tape. Speaker, John Cage. Production: WDR, Köln; Süddeutscher Rundfunk, Stuttgart; Katholieke Radio Omroep, Hilversum; Technical cooperation: IRCAM, Paris. First transmission: 22 October 1979, WDR3-Hörspielstudio. This score is a means for translating any book into a performance without actors, a performance which is both literary and musical or one or the other. In this case, the book was Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. The text of Roaratorio was published separately as Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake. This was part of the evolution of Cage's interest in creating works of text for performance with music and other activities. It further evolved into his use of texts by Henry David Thoreau for which he used chance processes to derive a text for solo vocal performance. Shakespeare, excerpt, (1962 Odhams Books Ltd.). BBC radioplay production with musique concrète by Desmond Leslie. King Henry is played by Richard Burton. Electronic music provided on tape for a set of Shakespeare play productions. This short. 2 and a half-minute segment is from Act IV, Scene 3 and gives you an idea of how the sound effects was joined with the dialog. This was a common outlet for electronic music in the UK. Shackleton, “Music For The Quiet Hour, Part 2,” excerpt, from Music For The Quiet Hour (2012 Woe To The Septic Heart!). Vocals, words (poetry), Vengeance Tenfold; Composer, producer, A. Gerth, K. Biswas, Sam Shackleton. A collaboration between producer Shackleton and vocalist Vengeance Tenfold. Beats, bass and rhythm patterns provide a backdrop for some stark poetry. This is a portion of a longer work that whose overall length is about an hour. Lily Greenham, “Traffic” from Lingual Music (2007 Paradigm Discs). Reissue of text-sound works made by Danish concrete poet Lily Greenham, probably between 1972-75. Hugh Davies is credited with assisting on the electronics for this work. Voice: Lily Greenham. Anne Clark, "Swimming" and "An Ordinary Life" from The Sitting Room (1982 Red Flame). Clark is a foremost British poet who fuses her texts with electronic music. This was the first of her albums. Words, Keyboards, Electronic Percussion, Water Percussion, Anne Clark; Guitar, Effects, Voice, Gary Mundy; Keyboards, Domonic Appleton, Patrik Fitzgerald; Keyboards, Electronic Percussion, Andrea Laschetti. Rick Wakeman, “The Journey,” excerpt, from Journey to the Center of the Earth (1974 A&M). Recorded in concert at The Royal Festival Hall London on Friday January 18th 1974. Synthesizers and other keyboards, Rick Wakeman; Narrator, David Hemmings; drums, Barney James; guitar, Mike Egan; accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Measham. Alan Parsons Project, "The Raven" from Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe (1976 Charisma). Words from the tale of the same name by Poe. The Harmony Vocoder heard on "The Raven" was invented and built by EMI Central Research Laboratories.Keyboards, Alan Parsons, Andrew Powell, Billy Lyall, Christopher North, Eric Woolfson, Francis Monkman; Composed by Alan Parsons, Andrew Powell, and Eric Woolfson. Silver Apples, "Dust" from Silver Apples (1968 Kapp). "INSTRUCTIONS: Play Twice Before Listening." Composed and Arranged by Dan Taylor and Simeon; Percussion, Dan Taylor; Oscillators, mixers, electronic gear (The Simeon), Simeon; Vocals, Dan Taylor, Simeon. Alice Shields, " Study For Voice And Tape" from Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 (1998 New World Records). Recorded Voice, Buchla synthesizer, poem by Alice Shields. Ronald Perera, "Three Poems of Gunter Grass," part 1, “Gleisdreieck" from Music And Words (1980 CRI. Ronald Perera, electronic music on tape created in the Smith College Electronic Music Studio; soprano, Elsa Charlston; Conductor, Richard Pittman. John Hill, "Europa" from Six Moons Of Jupiter (2009 Finders Keepers). Recorded at Sigma Sound, Philadelphia, January-August 1970, but I don't think it was ever released. Uses a Moog Modular synthesizer programmed by Walter Sear. Composed, arranged produced, Moog Modular Synthesizer, Guitar, Bass, Flute, Recorder, Hammond organ, John Hill; Drums, Percussion, Jimmy Valerio; Performer (Poetry), Susan Christie; poetry, Ian Michaels. Ruth White, "The Clock," "Evening Harmony," "Lover's Wine," Owls," from Flowers of Evil (1969, Limelight). Composer, vocals, electronics (Moog Synthesizer), Ruth White; based on poetry by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Ruth White. Fantastic music from this singular composer who owned a Moog Modular Synthesizer. Her other music was often composed for media, television, and children's records.     Archive Mix In which I play two records at the same time to see what happens. The recordings were: Lily Greenham, “ABC in Sound” from Lingual Music (1968/2007 Paradigm Discs). Recording from 1968 and includes the words of poet Bob Cobbing. Arif Mardin, “The Prophet,” excerpt from side 1, from The Prophet (1974 Atlantic). Narrator Richard Harris; keyboards, Bob James, Pat Rebillot, and Ken Bichel (ARP 2600). Poetry by Kahlil Gibran.     The opening montage consists of excerpts from Milt Gabler and a reading of “The People Yes (Excerpt)” by Carl Sandburg and some saxophone music from Avant Slant (1968 Decca); James Joyce reading “Anna Livia Plurabelle” (1929 The Orthographic Institute); John Cage and David Tudor, Indeterminacy (1959 Folkways); Alice Shields, Dance Piece No. 3 from Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973 (1998 New World Records); Luciano Berio, "Thema (Omaggio A Joyce)," from Electronic Music III (1967 Turnabout);  Anne Clark, "The Sitting Room " from The Sitting Room (1982 Red Flame); Arif Mardin, “The Prophet,” excerpt from The Prophet (1974 Atlantic); Ruth White, "Owls" from Flowers of Evil (1969, Limelight).   Background music is excerpted from Shackleton, “Music For The Quiet Hour, Part 2,” from Music For The Quiet Hour (2012 Woe To The Septic Heart!).   Opening and closing sequences voiced by Anne Benkovitz.      

durée : 00:19:56 - La Discothèque idéale de France Musique : Luciano Berio, Recital I for Cathy, par Cathy Berberian - La flamboyance d'un enregistrement phare de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle, celui de Luciano Berio et de son alter ego, la mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian, consacré à trois œuvres essentielles du compositeur italien. Un choix de Gabrielle Oliveira Guyon.

durée : 00:08:15 - De la première bande-dessinée, "Katzenjammer Kids" (1897), à Stripsody (1966) - par : Christophe Dilys - Le 12 décembre 1897, Rudolph Dirks publie ce qui est quelquefois présenté comme la première bande dessinée, les 'Katzenjammer Kids', dans les pages du dimanche du New York Journal. Quel est le chemin musical qui mène à 'Stripsody' de Cathy Berberian, objet musical étrange, léger et provocant ?

Mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean chats about Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs, Caroline Shaw’s Cant voi l’aube, and how 70s disco shaped her musical taste. Useful links:Spotify playlist for Lotte’s pieces Spotify playlist for main pieces Spotify playlist for final question pieces  Other useful links:Composer Luciano Berio Australian National Academy of Music Ensemble Q Mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian Luciano Berio’s Sequenza III for solo female voice, premiered by Berio’s wife, Cathy Berberian Video of Cathy Berberian performing her Stripsody (showing the score) Father of the American folk revival, Pete Seeger’s obituary in the NY Times Composer Caroline Shaw Mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices Netherlands Dance Theatre trailer for the contemporary dance production of Caroline Caroline Shaw’s Partita for 8 Voices Norman Connors Aquarian Dream Bela Bartok’s Piano Sonata, Sz. 80 Support Lotte:Lotte performs online concert through the Tait Memorial Trust Lotte’s website https://www.lottebettsdean.com/Lotte’s social media: Facebook , Instagram, & Twitter  Get in touch with us!DONATE: PayPal.me/MusicBoxConcerts Facebook: @OutsidetheMusicBox Instagram: @outsidethemusicbox Twitter: @OutsideMusicBox Email: concerts.musicbox@gmail.comWebsite: www.musicboxconcerts.com

Am 4. Juli 1925 wird Cathy Berberian geboren. Die Stimme der vielseitigen Sängerin umfasste drei Oktaven. Um Konventionen des Konzertlebens scherte sie sich nicht.

"Mich fordert das Schwierige heraus, all das zu erkunden, was vorher noch nie gemacht wurde". Sie war neugierig, unkonventionell, charismatisch. "Primadonna der Avantgarde" wurde Cathy Berberian genannt. Ihre Stimme umfasste drei Oktaven, mit ihr konnte sie jeden Ton, jedes Geräusch, jeden menschlichen Ausdruck hervorbringen. Seit ihrem Debut 1957 galt sie als die vielseitigste und stilbildende Sängerin der Neuen Musik. Autor: Christian Kosfeld

Intervista a Enzo Minarelli, Paolo Spedicato e Carlo Serra in conversazione con Roberto Paci Dalò. >> Sabato 30 novembre alle 15 in Sala conferenze all'ultimo piano di Salaborsa un incontro sul progetto a cura di Enzo Minarelli in collaborazione con Daniela Ronconi Demetriou e Paolo Spedicato su Demetrio Stratos, il cantante, polistrumentista e musicologo greco, frontman del gruppo prog rock Area. Introduce Enzo Minarelli, direttore di Archivio 3ViTre di Polipoesia e dell’Archivio sonoro La voce Regina. Seguono le proiezioni e un ascolto guidato dell’opera di Stratos: Evaporazione, 1' 41'' da LP Area Maledetti (Maudits), 1976: Tra poesia sonora ed estetica Area Stratosphera – A tribute to Demetrio Stratos, New York, 2-3 giugno 1989 di Paolo Spedicato Stratos Artaud, la voce e il suo multiplo, Rai Teche, 1978-1979 Animale macchina, Marco Bertoni-Enrico Serotti, da New Machine Voice (LP, 3ViTre, 1990) Intervengono: > Carlo Serra, dell'Università degli studi di Torino: Lobotomia e altri equivoci > Adriana Cavarero, dell'Università degli studi di Verona: La potenza della voce > Homage à Violette Nozières di Demetrio Stratos (1978) e Stripsody di Cathy Berberian (1966) a cura di Cristina Zavalloni Inoltre, dal 25 al 30 novembre 2019 l'ingresso di Salaborsa (Esedra) accoglie Stratosmania a cura di Paolo Spedicato, con libri, articoli, memorabilia della vita e dell'attività di Demetrio Stratos visibili negli orari di apertura della biblioteca. Si ringrazia Janete el Haouli. Foto di Pino Ninfa Fonte: https://www.bibliotecasalaborsa.it/eventi/demetrio_stratos

durée : 00:22:15 - L'Orfeo de Monteverdi par Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Gravé en 1968, ce premier enregistrement de la musique de Monteverdi par Nikolaus Harnoncourt est un jalon du renouveau baroque : l'orchestre composé d'instruments anciens uniquement, la refonte totale de l'instrumentation et de l'interprétation, la présence de Cathy Berberian... Un grand moment !

Cathy Berberian.

Questa settimana "La lingua batte" prende spunto dalla mostra "Il corpo della Voce. Carmelo Bene, Cathy Berberian, Demetrio Stratos" per parlare di voce.

Tutto si lega in questa amplissima porzione di battiti: la poesia sonora, in mostra a Parigi; le ricerche sulla voce condotte da Carmelo Bene, Demetrio Stratos e Cathy Berberian, ascoltabili (e visibili!)

Il corpo della voce. Carmelo Bene, Cathy Berberian, Demetrio Stratos

Electroacoustic viscera, recurrent symbolism, crying through synthesis. The Manchester-based artist discusses three important albums.

durée : 01:59:08 - Comme une chansons populaire ; Carte blanche à Adrien et Christian-Pierre La Marca - par : Jean-Baptiste Urbain - ## Prélude à l'après-midi : Comme une chanson populaire **Trad. Centre de la France** _Rossignolet du bois_ Isabelle Druet, mezzo-soprano ; Christian-Pierre La Marca, violoncelle ; Stéphane Milleret, accordéon Enregistrement France Musique, 22 octobre 2009, Paris, Petit Palais **Luciano Berio** _Folk Songs (extraits) :   I. Black is the Colour   II. I Wonder if I Wander   III. Loosin’ Yelav   IV. Rossignolet du bois_ Cathy Berberian, mezzo-soprano ; Juilliard Ensemble, dir. Luciano Berio (RCA) **Luciano Berio** _Folk Songs (extraits) :   V.  A la femminisca   VI. La Donna ideale   VII. Ballo   VIII. Motettu de tristura_ Nora Gubisch, mezzo-soprano ; Alain Altinoglu, piano ; Gérard Caussé, alto ; Raphaël Perraud, violoncelle ; Bastien Pelat, flûte ; Raphaël Sévère, clarinette ; Iris Torossian, harpe ; Adrien Perruchon et Camille Baslé, percussions (Naïve) **Luciano Berio** _Folk Songs (extraits) :   IX. Malurous qu’o uno fenno   X. Lo Fiolaire   XI. Azerbaijan Love Song_ Anna Stéphany, mezzo-soprano ; Labyrinth Ensemble (Alpha) ## Concert **Carte blanche aux frères La Marca** [**Adrien La Marca**](http://www.jacquesthelen.com/adrien-la-marca/)**, alto** [**Christian-Pierre La Marca**](http://www.christianpierrelamarca.com/)**, violoncelle** [**Liya Petrova**](https://www.liyapetrova.com/)**, violon** [**Elise Thibaut**](http://www.orchestredeparis.com/fr/orchestre/interview/elise-thibaut_65.html)**, violon** [**Jonas Vitaud**](https://www.jonas-vitaud.fr/)**, piano** {% image 676a3288-c0fd-4f4e-911e-44b637f0e413 %} **Ludwig van Beethoven** _Duo pour alto et violoncelle en mi bémol majeur WoO 32 « Duo des lunettes »   I. Allegro   II. Minuetto_ Adrien La Marca et Christian-Pierre La Marca **Robert Schumann** _Adagio et Allegro en la bémol majeur op. 70 (version pour alto et piano)   I. Adagio   II. Allegro con brio_ Adrien La Marca et Jonas Vitaud **Gaspar Cassado** _Suite pour violoncelle seul         I. Préludio-Fantasia   II. Sardana   III. Intermezzo e danza finale_ Christian-Pierre La Marca **Johannes Brahms** _Trio en la mineur op. 114 (version pour alto, violoncelle et piano)        I. Allegro   II. Adagio   III. Andantino grazioso   IV. Allegro_ Adrien La Marca, Christian-Pierre La Marca et Jonas Vitaud **Anton Dvorak** _Quintette pour piano et cordes n° 2 en la majeur op. 81 (extrait) :         I. Allegro ma non tanto_ Liya Petrova, Elise Thibaut, Adrien La Marca, Christian-Pierre La Marca et Jonas Vitaud _**Enregistré le 26 février 2018 au Studio 106**_ - réalisé par : Laurent Lefrançois

I programmet diskuteras ungersk kammarmusik med Notos-kvartetten, Ester Yoo tolkar Tjajkovskij, orkestermusik av Chaminade samt Barbara Hannigan som både sjunger och dirigerar på ny skiva. I panelen Ditte Hammar, Edward Klingspor och Per Lindqvist som tillsammans med programledaren Johan Korssell betygsätter följande skivor: HUNGARIAN TREASURES Kammarmusik av Dohnányi, Kodály och Bartók Notos-kvartetten RCA 88985411882 PETER TJAJKOVSKIJ Violinkonsert D-dur m.m. Esther Yoo, violin Philharmonia Orchestra Vladimir Ashkenazy, dirigent DGG 481 5032 CÉCILE CHAMINADE Callirhoë, Konsertstycke för piano och orkester Victor Sangiorgio, piano BBCs konsertorkester Martin Yates, dirigent Dutton CDLX 7339 CRAZY GIRL CRAZY Musik av Luciano Berio, Alban Berg och George Gershwin Barbara Hannigan, sopran och dirigent Ludwig Orchestra Alpha ALPHA 293 Referensen Tjajkovskijs violinkonsert Johan jämför med och refererar till en inspelning där Maxim Vengerov är solist och spelar tillsammans med Berlins filharmoniker allt under ledning av Claudio Abbado. Inspelad på skivmärke Teldec.  Sofia möter Anders Hillborg Sofia Nyblom träffade kompositören Anders Hillborg dagen efter uruppförandet av det nya verket Aeterna. Samtalet kretsar runt arbetet som tonsättare, samarbetet med violinisten Lisa Batiasjvili i den andra violinkonserten samt lite tankar om framtiden och det kommande verket som är beställt av Londons symfoniorkester.   Andra i programmet nämnda eller rekommenderade inspelningar: Chaminades Konsertstycke med pianisten Danny Driver tillsammans med BBCs skotska symfoniorkester, Glasgow, ledda av Rebecca Miller på märket Hyperion. Tjajkovskijs violinkonsert med Maxim Vengerov tillsammans med Berlins filharmoniker under ledning av Claudio Abbado på Teldec (Referensen); Vilde Frang och Danmarks radios symfoniorkester ledda av Eivind Gullberg Jensen på EMI; Janine Jansen och Mahler Chamber Orchestra under Daniel Harding på Decca; Hilary Hahn tillsammans med Liverpools filharmoniker ledda av Vasily Petrenko på DG; Lisa Batiasjvili och Berlins statskapell dirigerade av Daniel Barenboim på DG; Jascha Heifetz och Chicagos symfoniorkester under Fritz Reiner på RCA; David Oistrach och Sovjetunionens statliga symfoniorkester under Kirill Kondrasjin på Melodija; Pinchas Zuckerman och Israels filharmoniker under ledning av Zubin Mehta på Columbia samt med Itzhac Perlman tillsammans med Israels filharmoniker allt under Zubin Mehta på Angel. Ester Yoo spelar Sibelius och Glazunovs violinkonserter på DG. Barbara Hannigans framträdande i Berwaldhallen i Stockholm, då hon också sjöng och dirigerade samtidigt. Berios Sequenza III med Cathy Berberian på märket Stradivarius. Inget Svep denna vecka

Šį kartą „Audiologai“ sudėti iš dviejų dalių. Pirmoje – nežinomi muzikinių motyvų keliai: lyg kažkur girdėta melodija atsikartoja įvairių epochų muzikoje. Kas tai? Plagiatas ar pasąmonės veikla? Antroje pokalbių apie garsą ir klausą ciklo „Audiologai“ laidoje – pasakojimas apie unikalią armėnų kilmės amerikietę dainininkę Cathy Berberian, dainavusią bemaž visų stilių ir žanrų muziką.

Šį kartą „Audiologai“ sudėti iš dviejų dalių. Pirmoje – nežinomi muzikinių motyvų keliai: lyg kažkur girdėta melodija atsikartoja įvairių epochų muzikoje. Kas tai? Plagiatas ar pasąmonės veikla? Antroje pokalbių apie garsą ir klausą ciklo „Audiologai“ laidoje – pasakojimas apie unikalią armėnų kilmės amerikietę dainininkę Cathy Berberian, dainavusią bemaž visų stilių ir žanrų muziką.

Cathy Berberian raccontata da Angelo Foletto

I tredje programmet möter vi två New Yorkbaserade musiker. Elviolasten och tonsättaren Martha Mooke har bland annat spelat på Broadway, medan tonsättaren och pianisten Elodie Lautens operor sätts upp off-Broadway och off-Metropolitanoperan. Jag möter Martha Mooke I en vacker våning på övre västra Manhattan. Hon spelar med New York's ledande ensembler och har inga problem med att gå mellan notbundna och improviserande uppdrag. Just denna vecka varvar hon fyrsträngat violaspel, i stycken av Tjajkovskij och Bruckner, i en symfoniorkester i New Jersey, med att i studio, med femsträngad elviola, spela in altfiolstycken som tonsatts för henne. Och så har hon precis avslutat komponerandet av sin tredje String Quartet. En klassisk altfiol har fyra strängar, men Martha Mooke äger ett flertal femsträngade instrument. Hon processor ljudet I dator och med allehanda pedaler Den elektrifierade altfiolen kan låta som ett keyboard, en synth, en gitarr eller som en saxofon! Så här skriver Village Voice: ”Med sitt kritvita hår, och den blå femsträngade altfiolen, är Martha Mooke en frapperande uppenbarelse med ett bredare register än många improvisatörer kan skryta med.” Martha Mooke, som är en av stammusikerna i Carnegie Hall, har bl a jobbat med Luciano Berio, Cathy Berberian, David Bowie, David Byrne, Lou Reed, Kronoskvartetten och Rufus Wainwright. Årligen spelar Martha Mooke vid stödkonserten för Tibet House tillsammans med Philip Glass och Patti Smith. -Två turnéer med Barbara Streisand var drömturnéer av första klass! Barbara vet exakt hur hon vill ha det musikaliskt och vi musiker blev behandlade exemplariskt. Det var fantastiskt att varje kväll stå en meter från Barbara Streisand när hon gör sin stora entré och publiken jublar. Du hör inget, du vibrerar – inte bara ditt instrument, utan även din kropp vibrerar, berättar Martha Mooke. Martha Mooke’s nästa CD heter Hebra d'luz, Ljustråd, efter stycket med samma namn som tonsättaren Tania León skrivit till henne. http://www.marthamooke.com/ Tonsättaren och pianisten Elodie Lauten föddes i Paris men flyttade till New York tidigt 1970-tal. Hennes pianostycke Variations On The Orange Cycle inkluderades i Chamber Music America’s lista över nittonhundratalets 100 bästa musikstycken. Och Sequenza 21, som är en av de tre främsta internettidningarna för nutida konstmusik, listade Elodie Lauten som en av de mest inflytesrika tonsättarna av postminimalismen under de senaste 30 åren. Elodie Lauten har skrivit fem operor, stycken för piano, för elektronik och för orkester. Hon finns med på 30 CD-skivor, utgivna av 15 stora och små bolag. I New York upplever Elodie Lauten en frihet hon aldrig känt i Paris. Här kan hennes excentricitet blomma bland andra människor som är udda och kommer från olika länder. Elodie Lauten startar tjejrockband, lever en tid på Chelsea Hotel med sin pojkvän och bor tillsammans med den öppet homosexuelle poeten Allen Ginsberg. Några av hans dikter utgör librettot till hennes opera Waking in New York. Elodie Lauten skapar det lyraliknande 21-strängade instrumentet Trine och använder det i Preludiet till sin opera Death of Don Juan. Operan hade premiär i maj 2011 på Manhattan’s Theater For The New City, i East Village. - Don Juan-typen, förföraren, är en karaktär från en förfluten tid då kvinnor endast hade tre val: hustru till en man, nunna eller prostituerad. Idag, efter 1960- och 70-talens sexuella frigörelser och kvinorörelsens landvinningar, är en sådan Don Juan-karaktär inte trovärdig, säger Elodie Lauten, som i operan ger Don Juan möjlighet att uppleva äkta kärlek. Elodie Lautens far föddes som Raphael Shecroun i Algeriet. Han tar namnet Errol Parker och blir jazzmusiker och kompositör och skriver bitonal, komplex musik. 18 år gammal lämnar han Algeriet och flyttar till Paris där han bl a spelar med gitarristen Django Reinhardt. 1968 flyttar Errol Parker till New York och är så stolt över sina afrikanska rötter att han byter ut virveltrumman mot congas i trumsetet. 1971 startar han sin egen label, Sahara Records. Elodie Lauten är konstnärlig ledare för den ideella organisationen Lower East Side Perfroming Arts. http://www.elodielauten.net/

Playliste de Jacques Marie Bernard pour webSYNradio : Rencontres réelles et imaginaires sur webSYNradio qui font virevolter en figures, bagarres et autres banquets sonores Luc Ferrari et Cathy Berberian, Marilyn Monroe et Liza Minnelli, Nino Rota et Erik Satie, Sun Ra, Darius Milhaud et les Dadas, Alain Kan et Frank Royon, Pierre Schaeffer et Igor Stravinsky, Pierre Henry et Beethoven, John Cale et Terry Riley, Les Residents et les Ramones, Robert Wyatt et Sinatra, Janis Joplin et Raoul Haussman, Krzysztof Penderecki et Luciano Berio, John Cage et Marcel Duchamp et Philip Glass, Henri Chopin et John Zorn …

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Cathy Berberian.Favourite track: Sinfonia by Swingle Sisters Book: Survival manual Luxury: Box of spices

Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Cathy Berberian. Favourite track: Sinfonia by Swingle Sisters Book: Survival manual Luxury: Box of spices