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NewMusicBox Mix 5: Percussion Focused

NewMusicBox Mix 5: Percussion FocusedThis edition of the NewMusicBox Mix is all about, well, hitting things! All of these recordings feature percussion in a variety of settings. Each track is streamed separately on this page, with information about the recordings and purchasing links to encourage further exploration and continued listening.
These artists have very generously donated their tracks to this project, and we encourage you to support them by purchasing their albums and letting them know if you enjoy what you hear!—AG

Dylan Ryan/Sand: Sky Bleached
Dylan Ryan / Sand, Barocco
Performed by Dylan Ryan, drums; Timothy Young, guitar; Devin Hoff, bass
Sky Bleached
Cuneiform

Billband: Towards Daybreak
Bill Ryan, Rapid Assembly
Performed by Billband
Towards Daybreak
Innova

David Kechley: Colliding Objects
David Kechley, Dancing – IV. War Dance
Timetable Percussion: Matthew Gold, Joseph Tompkins, Matt Ward with guests Eric Poland and Chris Thompson
Colliding Objects
Innova

Everywhere Entangled
Stephen Gorbos, Push
University of Houston Percussion Ensemble
Everywhere Entangled
Albany

Robyn Schulkowsky: Armadillo
Robyn Schulkowsky, Armadillo Part II
Performed by Robyn Schulkowsky, percussion; Fredy Studer, drums; Joey Baron, drums
Armadillo
New World

Makoto Nakura: Wood and Forest
Carlos Sánchez-Gutíerrez, Winik/Té
Performed by Makoto Nakura, marimba
Wood and Forest
American Modern

John Cage: The Work for Percussion 2
John Cage, Second Construction
Performed by Third Coast Percussion
John Cage: Works for Percussion 2
Mode

Joseph Byrd: NYC 1960-1963
Joseph Byrd, Animals
Performed by ACME
Joseph Byrd: NYC 1960-1963
New World

Christian Wolff: 8 Duos
Christian Wolff, Percussionist 5
Performed by Christian Wolff and Joey Baron, percussion
Christian Wolff: 8 Duos
New World

Sean Noonan: A Gambler's Hand
Sean Noonan, Thank You
A Gambler’s Hand
Songlines

NewMusicBox Mix 3: Tracks and Treats

NewMusicBox Mix 3: Tracks and TreatsThis edition of the NewMusicBox Mix contains an assortment of tempting recordings to accompany Halloween escapades—from the creepy to the quirky and beyond. Directly below you will find a link to download a folder containing all of the mix tracks. In addition, each track is streamed separately on this page, with information about the recordings and purchasing links to encourage further exploration and continued listening.

These artists have very generously donated their tracks to this project, and we encourage you to support them by purchasing their albums and letting them know if you enjoy what you hear!—AG

 

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Nonextraneous Sounds

Daniel Wohl, Saint Arc
Performed by Mariel Roberts
Nonextraneous Sounds
Innova

 

Light and Power

Isaac Schankler, Haunted House Aria
from Light and Power
Performed by Juventas New Music Ensemble
Chelsea Beatty and Christine Teeters, sopranos
Lidiya Yankovskaya, music director
Live performance, May 22, 2011
Cambridge YMCA Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Available on Bandcamp

 

In Our Name

Annea Lockwood, Jitterbug (excerpt)
performed by David Behrman, John King, and William Winant
In Our Name
New World Records

 

St. Helena

Tim Kuhl, Tales of Transformation
Performed by Grey McMurray, guitar and effects; Rick Parker, trombone and effects; Jared Samuel, bass and celeste; Tim Kuhl, percussion
St. Helena

 

Song From The Uproar

Missy Mazzoli, I Have Arrived
Performed by NOW Ensemble
Song From The Uproar
New Amsterdam

Available November 13. 2012

 

District of Noise Vol. 5

Tag Cloud, Ominous Green Energy

District of Noise. Vol. 5

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Sister Death

Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores, Unawake
Sister Death
Cuneiform

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Sounds Heard: Anthony Paul De Ritis—Devolution

Questions of “real” or “fake” are dialectically put aside on the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s new recording of music by Anthony De Ritis, music in which, in a way, everything is real and fake all at the same time. Or, more precisely: this is music which is constantly, enthusiastically directing your attention to the materials out of which it’s fashioned. The manufactured nature of music, which the classical music tradition tries to misdirect away with notions of transcendence and sublimity, is here part of the whole point.

It’s most obvious on the title track, Devolution, a 2004 concerto for turntables (manned by Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky) and orchestra. Using warhorses as familiar as Ravel’s Bolero and Beethoven’s Seventh as fodder for sampling and remixing (by soloist and ensemble alike) fairly ensures that the manipulations are going to be noticeable, the fragments effortlessly grabbing one’s attention. But De Ritis has a knack for translating some measure of that composerly prerogative into a listener’s experience as well; Devolution is a musical evocation of the tactile malleability of music itself, the finished product explicitly indistinguishable from the act of assembling the parts. (The performance, under the direction of Gil Rose, is a blast, hitting the score’s marks with a kind of joyfully volatile precision.)

But the older works on the recording already show hints of that process as well. Legerdemain, from 1994, mixes orchestral and computerized sounds, but in such a way that the boundaries are thoroughly blurred: Are those strings or a string pad? Oscillators or flutter-tonguing? On record, untangling the two is even more difficult, and one instead notices the score’s miscellany of dialects, flipping through expressionist angst and cinematic thrills in equal measure, a stylistic salmagundi to match the means of production. 1992’s Chords of Dust seems more straightforward, a tone poem inspired by the World War II memories of De Ritis’s father, but even here, the elements become noticeable as elements: the decorous march echoes, the mournful chorales, the Copland-esque optimism, the familiar toolbox for evoking the period and the event—but the arrangement positioned somewhere between those standard semiotic signals and a commentary on the act of signaling.

All three works take as their starting point some form of musical détente—between the concert hall and the dance club, or between instruments and electronics, or between the power of experience and the power of cliché. Whether or not such treaties need to be arranged anymore is debatable, but De Ritis has a flair for the negotiations. This is music that enjoys getting down to brass tacks, and noticing just how shiny they are, and how sharp.

NewMusicBox Mix 2: Strings of Summer

NewMusicBox Mix 2: Strings of SummerSometimes when a theme presents itself, the best action is to run with it! This edition of the NewMusicBox Mix consists almost entirely of music for string instruments. Directly below you will find a link to download a folder containing the eight tracks of the mix. In addition, each track is streamed separately on this page, with information about the recordings and purchasing links to encourage further exploration and continued listening.

These artists have very generously donated their tracks to this project, and we encourage you to support them by purchasing their albums and letting them know if you enjoy what you hear!—AG

 

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Janel and Anthony

Janel & Anthony, Big Sur
Where Is Home
Cuneiform

 

 

Cornelius Dufallo, Journaling

Vijay Iyer, Playlist One (Resonance)
Performed by Cornelius Dufallo
Journaling
Innova


Jeffrey Weisner, Neomonology

Armando Bayolo, Mix Tape: Kid’s Got the Beat
Performed by Jeffrey Weisner
Neomonology
Innova
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(Release date: September 25, 2012)

 

 

Pauline Oliveros, Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970

Pauline Oliveros, Fed Back 2
Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970
Important Records


Anthony Paul DeRitis, Devolution

Anthony Paul De Ritis, Legerdemain
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, Conductor
Anthony Paul De Ritis: Devolution
BMOP Sound

Van Stiefel, Solaris

Van Stiefel, Souls & Raindrops
Performed by Van Stiefel and Holly Nadal
Solaris
New Focus Recordings

Airi Yoshioka, Stolen Gold

Becca Schack, Pulse
Performed by Airi Yoshioka
Stolen Gold
Albany Records

William Brittelle & ACME, Loving The Chambered Nautilus

William Brittelle, Loon Birds in Meshed Crystal
Performed by Nadia Sirota and Clarice Jensen (ACME)
Loving the Chambered Nautilus
New Amsterdam Records

 

NewMusicBox Mix: Spring Fling Edition

NewMusicBox MixAt NewMusicBox we make it a point to feature as much great new music as possible, so we thought it would be fun to start our own mix series, built from some of the new and recent recordings that travel across our desks, land in our inboxes, and hook our ears out in the world. Directly below you will find a link to download a free mp3 file containing the nine tracks of the inaugural mix. In addition, each track is streamed separately on this page, with information about the recordings and purchasing information to encourage further exploration and continued listening.

These artists have very generously donated their tracks to this project, and we encourage you to support them by purchasing their CDs, and letting them know if you enjoy what you hear!—AG

 

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ETHEL: Heavy

John King, No Nickel Blues
Performed by ETHEL
Heavy
Innova

 


Ergo: Sorrows of the Moon

Ergo, Sorrows of the Moon
If Not Inertia
Cuneiform


Kati Agócs: Pearls (Peregrination)

Kati Agócs, Pearls (Peregrination) Movement II of Pearls
Performed by American Composers Orchestra
American Composers Orchestra Emerging Composers Series: Volume 1


Drew Baker: Stress Position

Drew Baker, Stress Position
Marilyn Nonken, piano
Stress Position
New Focus Recordings


Angelica Negrón: Remando En El Mismo Lugar

Angélica Negrón, Remando en el Mismo Lugar
Performed by Angélica Negrón
Alejandro

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David Crowell: Kaleidoscope

David Crowell, Kaleidoscope
Eucalyptus
Innova


So Percussion (with Cenk Ergün and Beth Myers): Use

Cenk Ergün, Use
So Percussion with Cenk Ergün and Beth Myers
Cage 100: The Bootleg Series
Cantaloupe Music

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Marcus Fischer: Up Above the Hill-Sky

Marcus Fischer, Up Above the Hill-Sky
INSTA/GRAM/BIENT: 25 Sonic Postcards

Check out entire project here and here

Free download available here


Eve Beglarian: The Flood

Eve Beglarian, The Flood
Performed by BRIM: Eve Beglarian (vocals), Taylor Levine (guitar), Malcolm Merriweather (vocals), Mary Rowell (bass), and special guest Ron Blessinger (violin)
Brim: Songs from the River Project EP (1 of 4)
Text: Robert Frost
Recorded live at Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY, 28 January 2012
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