Night After Night

An economy of lovehearts and thumbs up.

At the individual level, however, all social relationships are open to monetization or careerism. Artists, curators and writers have ended up at the same openings, dinner tables and panel discussions for decades, but the operations of their relationships and tastes have never been more visible. What happens when behavior changes to suit the network? Or art does? When every actor in a network is aware, painfully aware, that they are part of the same milieu, criticism becomes increasingly fraught. Social networking is generally hostile to critical conversation – being based on an economy of lovehearts and thumbs up. Socializing is now highly professionalized. A critic friend reviews an artist friend's exhibition and posts it online. The artist publicly thanks the critic. It all gets a lot of likes. They like each other's pictures of cats. You liked them too. (This is all a form of work, don't forget.)—Laura McLean-Ferris

From "Declaration of Dependence"
, Even issue 1, Summer 2015

Playlist (Melting in Solid Blue Tune).

A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.

Jakob Ullmann – Müntzers stern/solo II – Dafne Vicente-Sandoval (Edition RZ; 2018; listen to excerpts here)

Jeph Jerman – Imbrication (Unfathomless; 2018)

Mathieu Ruhlberg & Joda Clément – Sound Diary of Quiet Pedestrians (Unfathomless; 2018)

Cool Maritime – Sharing Waves (Leaving Records; 2018)

Mary Halvorson – The Maid With the Flaxen Hair – A Tribute to Johnny Smith (Tzadik; due July 27, 2018)

Melaine Dalibert – Musique pour le lever du jour (elsewhere; due June 15, 2018)

Enslaved – Below the Lights (Osmose Productions; 2003)

Salim Washington – Dogon Revisited (Passin’ Thru; 2018)

Luigi Nono – Edizione delle opere, Vol. 1 (Shiiin; 2017)
> Risonanze erranti. Liederzyklus a Massimo Cacciari – Luca Richelli, Ensemble Promoteo/Marco Angius; Risonanze erranti. Liederzyklus a Massimo Cacciari – Experimentalstudio der HSS des SWF

Derek Bailey – Solo Guitar Volume 1 (Incus/Honest Jon’s; 1971/2017)

Archie Shepp – Live in San Francisco (Impulse!; 1966/1998)

Thomas Martin Nutt – Trichromatic Moiré – Sarah Hennies, Shirley Pegna, Samuel Rodgers, Ko Ishikawa, Harriet Butler, David Lacey, Joseph Clayton Mills, Keiko Yamamoto, Rie Nakajima & Marie Roux, Ryu Hankil, Sally Ann McIntyre, Will Montgomery, Joseph Clayton Mills, Tetuzi Akiyama, Lo Wie (Sonic Art Research Unit; 2018)

Demdike Stare x Il Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza – The Feed-Back Loop (DDS; 2018)

Peter Ablinger – Regenstücke Vol. 1 (God Records; 2012)
> Ohne Titel / 3 Klaviere (1-6) – Elisabeth Väth-Schadler, Hannes Gill, Isabel Pérez-Requeijo; Regenstück 1-6 / 6 (3) Schlagzeuger – Brian Archinal

Klaus Lang – Organ Works Vol. 1 (God Records; 2013)
> 17 symmetrien. – Aleksej Vylegzhanin, Klaus Lang, Adam McCartney, Ja Young Baek, Kelvin Ng; mars attacks. – Emanuel Schmelzer-Ziringer

Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of (Warp; due June 1, 2018)

La Barranca – Lo Eterno (Fonarte Latino; 2018)

Bernd Richard Deutsch – Mad Dog – Ensemble “die reihe” Wien/Christian Muthspiel (YouTube; 2011)

Bernd Richard Deutsch – Okeanos – Wolfgang Kogert, ORF RSO Vienna/Stefan Asbury (YouTube; 2015)

Dieter Schnebel – Lamento di Guerra – Anna Clare Hauf, Wolfgang Kogert (YouTube; 2017)

King Crimson - Live in Vienna (DGM; 2018)

Tweetview: Jennifer Koh plays Chris Cerrone with the Detroit Symphony.

THREE MINUTES until @DetroitSymphony live webcast of two new pieces, Roshanne Etezady's 'Diamond Rain' and @chriscerrone Violin Concerto (with the fabulous @JenniferKoh1), plus Tchaikovsky's 'Pathétique,' all conducted by @PeterOundjian here: https://t.co/78LDdjtX9F #DSOLive pic.twitter.com/GH8g0Yb7yf

— Steve Smith (@nightafternight) May 26, 2018

That was a very fine spoken introduction @PeterOundjian just offered… informative, optimistic, funny when warranted, and just reassuring enough for anyone who needs such in a concert with two world premieres. All that and a Sleeping Giant shout-out. #DSOLive

— Steve Smith (@nightafternight) May 27, 2018

Inspired (said @PeterOundjian) by research suggesting the atmosphere of Neptune would produce a rainfall of diamonds, Roshanne Etezady's 'Diamond Rain' is all brilliant shimmer, coiled energy, slashing release. Effective and inviting. Orchestra sounds great. #DSOLive

— Steve Smith (@nightafternight) May 27, 2018

We're off and running in the @chriscerrone Violin Concerto now. Oooooh, NICE job, video director, for showing us the bowed vibraphone doubling the solo line just then. Seriously: the direction on this is outstanding, the camera's always right where it needs to be. #DSOLive

— Steve Smith (@nightafternight) May 27, 2018

Bristling, bustling first movement goes without pause into a second movement where electric tension finally breaks. Third movement slow and pensive. @JenniferKoh1 is working hard & sounding fabulous, especially right now. #DSOLive

— Steve Smith (@nightafternight) May 27, 2018

This sounds like… Emo Pärt. (I mean that as a compliment, @chriscerrone… this is gorgeous.) #DSOLive

— Steve Smith (@nightafternight) May 27, 2018

Wow: just when you thought the concerto was barreling toward its obvious conclusion, @chriscerrone swerves into a dreamy lullaby coda, @JenniferKoh1 soaring over pizzicato strings and crotales. Sweet. #DSOLive pic.twitter.com/yZFJQGWvPN

— Steve Smith (@nightafternight) May 27, 2018

A rousing response, well earned and deserved. Congratulations to @chriscerrone, @JenniferKoh1, @PeterOundjian & the @DetroitSymphony… and that video director, too. #DSOLive pic.twitter.com/mk5kAJKJHw

— Steve Smith (@nightafternight) May 27, 2018

…and after the ovation, the debriefing with @chriscerrone, @JenniferKoh1 and @StephanBobalik. Well done, all. #DSOLive pic.twitter.com/DknLCobdr7

— Steve Smith (@nightafternight) May 27, 2018

It should surprise no one that @PeterOundjian and the @DetroitSymphony can play a gorgeous 'Pathétique,' and are. Still admiring the direction. Camera's always where it should be—lingering, for instance, on acting principal clarinet @and_levine in the first movement. #DSOLive pic.twitter.com/hWqB5fTOIJ

— Steve Smith (@nightafternight) May 27, 2018

So… now that you've read my reaction via tweets, why not check out the archived performance, courtesy of the Detroit Symphony?

Playlist (Find Your Way Back Home).

A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.

Nova Scotian Arms - Tremble in Blue: Or, The Bodies We Leave Behind (Hooker Vision; 2008)

Thomas Martin Nutt - Trichromatic Moiré - Sarah Hennies (Sonic Art Research Unit; 2018)

Nova Scotian Arms - Adrift (Hooker Vision; 2008)

Rachel Evans/Nova Scotian Arms - Crickets/That's Where They Jump the Whales (Hooker Vision; 2008)

Nova Scotian Arms/The Ex-Sanguinator - split (Hooker Vision; 2008)

Spiid/Nova Scotian Arms - split (Hooker Vision; 2008)

Nova Scotian Arms - Broad St. Ambient (Hooker Vision; 2008)

The Ex-Sanguinator - Waterlife (Hooker Vision; 2008)

Rachel Evans - Ear (Hooker Vision; 2008)

Nova Scotian Arms - Cascade Conversions (Hooker Vision; 2008)

Various artists - Compilation, Volume One (Hooker Vision; 2009)

Spiid - January (Hooker Vision; 2009)

Nova Scotian Arms - Skyed Out (Hooker Vision; 2009)

Maurice Ravel - Ma mère l'Oye; Shéhérazade; Le Tombeau de Couperin - Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth (Harmonia Mundi; 2018)

Ben McElroy - 1,000 Sewing Machines (Unknown Tone; 2017)

Banks Bailey - The Pool (Unfathomless; 2017)

Various artists - affinités sélectives volume 1 (Rhizome.s; 2018)

Morgan Evans-Weiler - iterations & environments (Rhizome.s; 2018)

Richard Chartier - Overview (Line; 2003)

Robert Curgenven + Richard Chartier - Built Through (Line; 2012)

Richard Chartier + Yann Novak - Undefined (Line; 2013)

The Hands Free - The Hands Free (New Amsterdam; due May 25)

Hildegard von Bingen (arr. Alex Fortes) - Columba aspexit; Carlo Gesualdo (arr. Alex Fortes) - O tenebroso giorno; Io parto e non più dissi - Aizuri Quartet (YouTube; 2017)

Franz Joseph Haydn - String Quartet in C, Op. 20, No. 2 - Aizuri Quartet (YouTube; 2017)

Conlon Nancarrow - String Quartet No. 3 - Aizuri Quartet (YouTube; 2017)

Ludwig van Beethoven - Grosse Fuge (Op. 133) - Aizuri Quartet (YouTube; 2017)

Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky - Symphonies Nos. 4-6 - Leningrad Philharmonic/Evgeny Mravinsky (Deutsche Grammophon; 1960/2000)

Claude Debussy - Prélude à l'aprés-midi d'un faune; Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien; La Mer - Philharmonia Orchestra/Pablo Heras-Casado (Harmonia Mundi; due June 22 digital, July 6 physical)

Vinny Golia, Steph Richards, Bert Turetzky - Trio Music (pfMENTUM; 2018)

Derek Bailey, Mick Beck, Paul Hession - Meanwhile, back in Sheffield… (Discus Music; 2018)

Steve Roach - Empetus (Fortuna/Projekt; 1986/2017)

Luciano Berio - Formazioni; Folk Songs; Sinfonia - Jard van Nes, Electric Phoenix, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly (Decca; 1990)

Luciano Berio - Sinfonia; Ekphrasis - London Voices, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Peter Eötvös (Deutsche Grammophon; 2005)

Playlist (so that I can be free).

A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.

Jim O'Rourke - Steamroom 40 (Steamroom; 2018)

Leon Kirchner - Lily - Diana Hoagland, Columbia Chamber Soloists/Leon Kirchner; String Quartet No. 2 - Lenox String Quartet (Columbia Masterworks; 1974)

Anthony Braxton - Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986 (Black Saint; 1986)

Bright Duplex - Strawberry Trust (Thor’s Rubber Hammer; 2009)

Weston Olencki - piece for two trombones (self-released; 2018)

Kevin Drumm - The March Flog (self-released; 2018)

Matthias Urban - Passagen (Experimedia; 2018)

Pascal Savy - Dislocations (Experimedia; 2018)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5 in D; Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1; The Lark Ascending - Sarah Chang, London Philharmonic Orchestra/Bernard Haitink (EMI Classics; 1996)

Erica Dicker - Taking Auspices (Tubapede; 2018)

Steve Kuhn/Sheila Jordan Band - Playground (ECM; 1980/2008)

Arthur Blythe - Basic Blythe (Columbia; 1988)

Gil Sansón & Bruno Duplant - same place (idealstate; 2013)

Wolfgang Rihm - Jagden und Formen - Ensemble Modern/Dominique My (Deutsche Grammophon; 2002)

Various artists - Musical Offering (Melodiya; 1990)
> Oleg Buloshkin - Sacrament; Sofia Gubaidulina - Vivente-non Vivente; Eduard Artemiev - Mosaic; Twelve Looks at the World of Sound; Edison Denisov - Birds' Singing; Alfred Schnittke - Stream

Various artists - Phantom Images (Huddersfield Contemporary Records; 2018)
> Katherine Young - For Daphne and Delia II; Chris Mercer - Phantom Image; Charmaine Lee & Sam Pluta - quarks; Aaron Cassidy - I, for example, ...

Monty Adkins & Paulina Sundin - Beyond Pythagoras (Huddersfield Contemporary Records; 2018) > Emergence - Stockholm Saxophone Quartet; Spectral Shards; Splintered Echoes - Johnny Axelsson; Rondures - Stockholm Saxophone Quartet

Steve Roach - Dreamtime Return (Fortuna/Projekt; 1988/2018)

Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 30 - Cory Smythe (New Braxton House; 2011)

Ingrid Laubrock - Serpentines (Intakt; 2016)

Susan Alcorn - Evening Tales (Mystra; 2016)

Jason Lescalleet - Electronic Music (RRRecords; 2003)

Jason Lescalleet's Due Process - Combines XIX, XX (We Break More Records; 2003)

Jason Lescalleet - Much to My Demise (Kye; 2014)

Graham Lambkin/Jason Lescalleet - The Food Chain/Nice Ass (Glistening Examples; 2011)

Jason Lescalleet - This Is What I Do, Vol. 20 (Glistening Examples; 2018)

David Grubbs & Taku Unami - Failed Celestial Creatures (Empty Editions; 2018)

Steve Roach - Molecules of Motion (Projekt; 2018)

Steve Roach - Slow Heat (Timeroom Editions; 1998/2018)

Sarah Hennies - Casts (Astral Spirits; 2015)

Various artists/Vanessa Rossetto - ISSUE Members Mixtape 001 (Issue Project Room; 2018)

Nova Scotian Arms - Howard Hughes (Hooker Vision; 2008)

Playlist (Get Up and Fly Away).

A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.

John Luther Adams - Become Ocean - Seattle Symphony/Ludovic Morlot (Cantaloupe Music; 2014)

John Luther Adams - Inuksuit - ensemble/Doug Perkins (Cantaloupe Music; 2013)

Kate Carr - I Ended Out Moving to Brixton (Flaming Pines; 2018)

Franco Battiato - Clic (Bla Bla; 1974)

Luciano Cilio - Dialoghi del presente (EMI Italy; 1977/2018)

Johnny Chang - V.T. plausible tunings - Johnny Chang, Samuel Dunscombe, Michiko Ogawa, Suidobashi Chamber Ensemble (SoundCloud; 2018)

Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton - Music for David Mossman (Live at Vortex London) (Intakt; 2018)

Alexander von Schlippenbach Globe Unity Orchestra - Globe Unity – 50 Years (Intakt; 2018; listen here)

John Butcher/Damon Smith/Weasel Walter - The Catastrophe of Minimalism (Balance Point Acoustics; 2017)

Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks, Vol. 26: Albuquerque Civic Auditorium, Albuquerque, NM 11/17/71 (Grateful Dead/Rhino; 2018; listen here)

Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks 2018 Bonus Disc: Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, MI 12/14/71 (Grateful Dead/Rhino; 2018)

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 3 in A minor - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (YouTube; 2017)

Olivier Messiaen - Turangalîla-Symphonie - Paul Crossley, Tristan Murail, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle (EMI Classics; 1987/2005)

Gustav Holst - The Planets; Colin Matthews - Pluto, the Renewer; Kaija Saariaho - Asteroid 4179: Toutatis; Matthias Pintscher - Towards Osiris; Mark-Anthony Turnage - Ceres; Brett Dean - Komarov's Fall - Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle (EMI Classics; 2006)

Michael Tippett - The Rose Lake - London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle (LSO website; 2018)

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1 in D - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (YouTube; 2018)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4 in F minor - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (YouTube; 2016)

Archie Shepp - Montreux One (Arista Freedom; 1976)

Haptic - ten years under the earth (Unfathomless; 2017)

Taylor Ho Bynum - THB Bootlegs Volume V: Pop Songs (THB Music; 2018)

Midori Takada - Through the Looking Glass (RCA Red Seal Japan/WRWTFWW/Palto Flats; 1983/2017)

Sarah Hennies - Gather & Release (Category of manifestation:; 2016)

d'incise - Ufer/cm. (INSUB.; 2018)

Maria de Alvear - De puro amor & En amor duro - Eve Egoyan (World Edition; 2018)
> De puro amor; En amor duro

David Tudor - A Second Wind for Organ (Odyssey; 1968) > Mauricio Kagel - Improvisation Ajoutée; Christian Wolff - For 1, 2 or 3 People; Gordon Mumma - Mesa

Shadowfax - The Dreams of Children (Windham Hill; 1984)

Dave Burrell - High (Douglas; 1969)

Henry Threadgill's Zooid - Pop Start the Tape, Stop (Hardedge; 2004)

Archie Shepp - Montreux Two (Arista Freedom; 1976)

Sonmi 451 - Panta Rei (Eilean; 2017)