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January 31, 2017: A440, Op. 4, No. 16: Prepare for Piano Preparation with Stephen Scott, Toshiro Mayuzumi, The Flashbulb, Aphex Twin, Arvo Pärt and - of course - John Cage
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John Cage |
Three Dances for Two Prepared Pianos (1945)
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0:00:00 (MP3 | ) | |||
Aphex Twin |
Jynweythek Ylow (2001)
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Drukqs | 0:05:50 (MP3 | ) | ||
Music behind DJ: The Flashbulb |
Windup Glass (prepared) (2015)
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Compositions for Piano | 0:08:07 (MP3 | ) | ||
Toshiro Mayuzumi |
Pieces for Prepared Piano and Strings, III. Finale
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Benjamin Owen, Prepared piano with the Louisville Orchestra | 0:14:00 (MP3 | ) | ||
Igor Stravinsky |
Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, I. Presto (1929, rev. 1949)
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Valery Gergiev, piano with Mariinsky Orchestra directed by Denis Matsuev | 0:18:20 (MP3 | ) | ||
Stephen Scott |
Baltic Sketches: Hocket I
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Fire and Ice | Performed by the Bowed Piano Ensemble http://bowedpianoensemble.com/ | 0:25:52 (MP3 | ) | |
Stephen Scott |
Baltic Sketches: Four-Note Aria
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0:27:49 (MP3 | ) | |||
Stephen Scott |
Baltic Sketches: Hocket II
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0:28:04 (MP3 | ) | |||
Stephen Scott |
Baltic Sketches: Lament
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0:29:03 (MP3 | ) | |||
Stephen Scott |
Baltic Sketches: Dance
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0:31:19 (MP3 | ) | |||
0:40:55 (MP3 | ) | |||||
John Cage |
Tossed As It Is Untroubled (Meditation) (1944)
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Philipp Vandre, Prepared Piano | 0:37:40 (MP3 | ) | ||
John Cage |
Works of Calder, I. Prepared Piano
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Margaret Leng Tan, prepared piano | 0:40:44 (MP3 | ) | ||
John Cage |
Works of Calder, II. Film Soundtrack with Narration
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0:42:55 (MP3 | ) | |||
John Cage |
Works of Calder, III. Film Soundtrack with Percussion
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0:45:05 (MP3 | ) | |||
Arvo Pärt |
Tabula Rasa, II. Silentium (1977)
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Tabula Rasa | Alfred Schnittke, Preparedb Piano, Gidon Kremer, violin, Tatjana Grindenko - violin, and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra | 0:50:03 (MP3 | ) |
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![]() good evening Bethany! thank you for opening with Cage! |
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![]() Thanks, Linda! Welcome all - get PREPARED for Prepared Piano throughout this show! |
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![]() yay!!!!! |
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![]() Hello! |
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![]() hey |
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![]() any sound was ok by cage so long as it wasn't jazz! |
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![]() Yippee! |
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![]() @Kurt: Cage hated jazz? |
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![]() Cage put those poor percussion orchestras out of business |
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![]() have we seen the short film called Sound? with Cage & Rahsaan Roland Kirk? doubt he hated jazz. |
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![]() Speaking of Glass - Philip 80 today. |
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![]() I hope you're gonna play something from Kathy Supové's Exploding Piano tonight! |
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![]() @Revolution Rabbit: I went to Glass's 75th birthday event at LPR a while back - I might even say five years ago |
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![]() i'm sitting in a chair Cage sat in once or twice :-D |
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![]() cage was anti-improvisation, and jazz represented - to him - the height of pure ego. he was trying to create music with no composer or performer ego. in his later years he softened on that stance... a little. |
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![]() I am sitting in a chair Different from the one you are in now :) |
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![]() ranjit ~ only apparently. :-D |
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![]() @Ranjit....look at you with the ALVIN LUCIER reference. Made my day. |
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![]() missed it. what a plebe. :-D |
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![]() We are all open minded, right - except for the things we aren't open minded about. Was always curious to me that Cage loved chance but not improv, as Kurt points out. |
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![]() i can see it. improv is assertion, chance is surrender .. |
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![]() chance operations were to be determined before the performance, not all willy nilly based on if your feet are sore or you think the violinist is cute. |
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![]() @Kurt - thanks, that's really interesting |
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![]() ...or the saxophone has a bad reed |
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![]() there's good saxophone reeds? |
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![]() he definitely softened a bit on the anti-improv stance eventually |
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![]() John Cale: How did you develop all these what in 'serious' music we would call 'prepared instruments'? Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth): We just acquired all these really really cheap guitars...which were only good for one sound... Interesting - as people often say in Improv - it's not your last note - but your next one...to me that implies Listening - in a very Cage sense - @ same time as expressing yerself...but that's Jazz, & Cage was after something very specific...aren't sore feet & cute violinists Chance occurrences? Only determined chance...To think that all that great Sax is basically built on a duck call for a mouthpiece (& brass all a raspberry)... |
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![]() this Stravinsky reminds me of John Adams - or it should be vice versa I suppose... |
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![]() @Revolution Rabbit - I love that quote! |
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Tue. 1/31/17 8:27pm
geezerette:
Howdy! I see improv as surrender in the form of countless rapid responses. A sense of unselfconscious play. |
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![]() Ranjit - tomorrow is FEBRUARY 1st. Plans for the month? |
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![]() Yes! It'll be the tenth year of instrument-a-day, so I can't give up yet. |
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![]() That's truly amazing. Be sure to hold a concert on March 1st with however many of the 282 have survived. |
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![]() Cool....is there a web site to follow the instrument-a-day? |
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![]() And yes, I was going to say 280 until I remembered there would have been 2 LEAP years in there. |
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![]() Very few have survived :) - there's maybe a dozen from the 9 years that I still play regularly, and most of those are away at an exhibit. I do want to have a show, though! @Ken - I'll post 'em all at moonmilk.com. |
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![]() @geez: For me - that is *thee* most extraordinary thing - when you're playing w/ others & not even thinking about it - it's all just happening. But I suppose Cage was really about the Audition - the Listening w/ nothing else... What is the 'instrument-a-day' ?? : ) |
Tue. 1/31/17 8:41pm
Listening Out There:
This might be the only John cage piece that I've ever liked... | |
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![]() Thanks, Bethany. |
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![]() @Kurt: Ah! So he’s the classic artist with an ego who pretends he has no ego so he can cast judgement on others. Maybe? Just saying! Enjoying anyway. |
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![]() great! |
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![]() Hey, Kurt, great opening set on your show today. I only heard the first set, walking to campus. |
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![]() Hard not to grant Cage his intellectual rigor...there's all that stuff that WyntonMarsalis said about Jazz & Democracy - yerknow - you really do have to determine your space w/ people - so if Cage was about trying to remove the people & letting what happened happen maybe that was a valid attempt. |
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![]() @RevRabbit - Ranjit makes an instrument each day of February. Additionally, he was the mastermind behind the 8-bit violin that was the Grand Prize for my last Marathon show. |
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![]() Oh - February - *makes* one! Thx! Wow. |
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Tue. 1/31/17 8:55pm
geezerette:
@RevRab:What is the "instrument-a-day"? I was out for a bit. Always loved Cage,and Calder's Circus knocks me out! I found Cage to be very funny, maybe that was a matter of timing. |
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![]() Calder was way kewl! |
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Tue. 1/31/17 8:57pm
Marc Francis:
Beautiful. Thank you Bethany. |
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![]() Calder and Cage were both way kewl! And Margaret Leng Tan is too. Thanks, Bethany! |
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Tue. 1/31/17 8:59pm
geezerette:
@Bethany: What a wonderful program, have to listen often. FMU , such an embarrasment of riches. :D |
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