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August 25, 2007

Jeff Harrington - BlueStrider for Piano - Performed Live at Renee Weiler Concert Hall, Greenwich Village by Paul Hoffmann

Jeff Harrington - BlueStrider for Piano - Performed Live at Renee Weiler Concert Hall, Greenwich Village by Paul Hoffmann
Paul Hoffmann, Pianist, Recorded live May 18, 2007. Score available at http://parnasse.com/pdf/bs.pdf

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Jeff Harrington - Puce for Solo Violin - Recorded by Piotr Szewczyk, Violinist

Jeff Harrington - Puce for Solo Violin - Recorded by Piotr Szewczyk
Piotr Szewczyk, Violinist, as part of his Violin Futura project - http://violinfutura.com. Score available at http://parnasse.com/pdf/puce.pdf
Music of Jeff Harrington

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August 20, 2007

August 2007 CMC Feature of the Month -- Episode 2 [mp3]

August 2007 CMC Feature of the Month -- Episode 2 [mp3]

Clarinettist Paul Roe talks to Bernard Clarke about his experiences of performing new music, composers writing for orchestra, and his views on how new music should be presented and performed.

Music excerpts used with kind permission:

Episode 2 [9:03]

Music excerpts used with kind permission:

0:06 Earthloops, Eibhlis Farrell (Paul Roe [cl]) copyright Eibhlis Farrell

2.22 It's the Hole that Kills You Not the Bullet, Stephen Gardner (Paul Roe [bcl]) copyright Stephen Gardner

3.59 A Piacere, Jane O'Leary (Paul Roe [bcl]) copyright Jane O'Leary

6.54 Improvisation IV, Rob Canning (Paul Roe [bcl], Rob Canning [live electronics]) copyright Galway Arts Festival

8:35 Monster, Ed Bennett (Paul Roe [bcl]) copyright Ed Bennett


From Podcast: Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland: Monthly Podcast.

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August 18, 2007

Ca Dao (2007) by Steve Layton

Ca Dao (2007) by Steve Layton
(music: original, Alesis QSR / voice: young girl, Mekong Delta, Vietnam, 1971. Recording and translation with permission of John Balaban, from his Ca Dao Vietnam: Vietnamese Folk Poetry, Copper Canyon Press, 2003.)

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Prufrock (2007) by Steve Layton

Prufrock (2007) by Steve Layton
(Voice: T.S. Eliot / Music: original, Alesis QSR; manipulated ACID samples via Freesound -- thanks plagasu, jppi-Stu, Connum, Cleetis, martypinso, synthania, Erdie, Abyssmal)

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August 13, 2007

Spellbound radio 8/5/07 hr 1

Spellbound radio 8/5/07 hr 1
Spellbound radio 8/5/07 hr 1 - Purple Note Radio Network - Spellbound, music for theremin
From Podcast: Spellbound, a brief program of music for theremin.

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Spellbound radio 8/5/07 hr 2

Spellbound radio 8/5/07 hr 2
Spellbound radio 8/5/07 hr 2 - Purple Note Radio Network - Spellbound, music for theremin
From Podcast: Spellbound, a brief program of music for theremin.

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August 09, 2007

04TheTourist.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

04TheTourist.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
Imagine that the music we hear is only a slice of a deep, unbroken continuum, surfacing briefly like a whale, a thread in a tapestry, or incompletely like the tip of an iceberg. Or an animal in a zoo – certainly ours is the domesticated form. How does i

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09ParableoftheSown.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

09ParableoftheSown.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
You, in my garden, in my secret soil! In my sowing I was careful, and yet you are not the seed that I remember planting. Your strange and curled crown – your leaves all twisted round – you seem to find me stunned (but I've been cold and kind of brea

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05Submerging.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

05Submerging.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
Imagine that the music we hear is only a slice of a deep, unbroken continuum, surfacing briefly like a whale, a thread in a tapestry, or incompletely like the tip of an iceberg. Or an animal in a zoo – certainly ours is the domesticated form. How does i

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ParableOfTheSowerfinalMp3.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)

ParableOfTheSowerfinalMp3.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
The first twenty-one notes of the Bach D minor violin partita are imagined as seeds planted in a row. Each seed sprouts and blooms. Each chord-blossom imagines an inner nature of its seed note, based on the quality, tension and direction of that note as i

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August 07, 2007

Tapan (2007), solo piano, by Steve Layton

Tapan (2007), solo piano, by Steve Layton
Terse chanted ritual, cutting a big fast drum with a slow song.

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August 05, 2007

Spellbound radio 7/29/07 hr 1

Spellbound radio 7/29/07 hr 1
Spellbound radio 7/29/07 hr 1 - Purple Note Radio Network - Spellbound, music for theremin
From Podcast: Spellbound, a brief program of music for theremin.

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Spellbound radio 7/29/07 hr 2

Spellbound radio 7/29/07 hr 2
Spellbound radio 7/29/07 hr 2 - Purple Note Radio Network - Spellbound, music for theremin
From Podcast: Spellbound, a brief program of music for theremin.

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August 03, 2007

Vertical Timescape, Night - for bass clarinet, xylophon, Chinese percussion, gamelan, vocals , clockwork and breath samples

Vertical Timescape, Night - for bass clarinet, xylophon, Chinese percussion, gamelan, vocals , clockwork and breath samples
for more look at http://www.rainerhilgers.de

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Schlagwerk (Percussion-Instruments) for Ethnic Percussion, piano, flute.

Schlagwerk (Percussion-Instruments) for Ethnic Percussion, piano, flute.
A very cheerful, rhythmic piece, made in 2005. - More information at http://www.rainerhilgers.de

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August 01, 2007

August 2007 CMC Feature of the Month -- Episode 1 [mp3]

August 2007 CMC Feature of the Month -- Episode 1 [mp3]

Clarinettist Paul Roe talks to Bernard Clarke about his experiences of performing new music, composers writing for orchestra, and his views on how new music should be presented and performed.

Music excerpts used with kind permission:

Episode 1 [13:34]

Music excerpts used with kind permission:

0:10 Monster, Ed Bennett (Paul Roe [bcl]) copyright Ed Bennett

3:34Improvisation IV, Rob Canning (Paul Roe [bcl], Rob Canning [live electronics]) copyright Galway Arts Festival

6:19 It's the Hole that Kills You Not the Bullet, Stephen Gardner (Paul Roe [bcl]) copyright Stephen Gardner

10:04 Earthloops, Eibhlis Farrell (Paul Roe [cl]) copyright Eibhlis Farrell

12:44 A Piacere, Jane O'Leary (Paul Roe [bcl]) copyright Jane O'Leary


From Podcast: Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland: Monthly Podcast.

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