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The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker remains suspended indefinitely in its conventional format, replaced with a mix of album reviews and listings for events taking place online—some live, others pre-recorded. (Click on the images to enlarge them, or hit the links to read the text on the New Yorker website.)
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…
Pinkish Black & Yells at Eels - Vanishing Light in the Tunnel of Dreams (Ayler; 2020)
Carl Michael von Hausswolff - 20. Solo Dance for Dewa Alit (Touch: Isolation exclusive; 2020. More information here.)
Philip Jeck - 21. Followed by Bells (Touch: Isolation exclusive; 2020. More information here.)
Rosy Parlane - 22. Awa (Touch: Isolation exclusive; 2020. More information here.)
OZMOTIC - 23. Oxygen Particle (Touch: Isolation exclusive; 2020. More information here.)
Claire M. Singer - 24. Rionnag a Tuath (Touch: Isolation exclusive; 2020. More information here.)
Heitor Alvelos - 25. Aviation (Touch: Isolation subscriber exclusive; 2020. More information here.)
Various artists - Podcast We'd Like to Hear 1: Apartment House + Another Timbre (Music We'd Like to Hear; 2020)
Triptykon with Metropole Orkest - Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019) (Century Media; 2020)
People Skills - Zoom Meeting (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Devin DiSanto - ritual out of order (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Kevin Parks - Love will make us (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Sun Yizhou - It Doesn't Mean Anything (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Matthew Revert - Duo for Ulcer and Throat (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Stefan Thut - an organ (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Steve Beresford/David Toop - No Relation (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Enslaved - Mardraum—Beyond the Within (Osmose; 2000)
Enslaved - Monumension (Osmose; 2001)
Enslaved - Below the Lights (Osmose; 2003)
Philip Glass - Music in Eight Parts - Philip Glass Ensemble (Orange Mountain Music; 2020)
Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi - Tima Formosa (Black Truffle; 2010)
Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi - In a Flash Everything Comes Together As One There Is No Need for a Subject (Black Truffle; 2011)
Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi - Imikuzushi (Black Truffle; 2012)
Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi - Now while it's still warm let us pour in all the mystery (Black Truffle; 2013)
Arnold Dreyblatt - Second Selection (Black Truffle; 2015)
Matthew Shipp - The Piano Equation (Tao Forms; 2020)
Damu the Fudgemunk, Archie Shepp & Raw Poetic - Ocean Bridges (Redefinition; 2020)
Roland Kayn - The Man and the Biosphere (Reiger-records-reeks; 2020)
Jim O'Rourke - Shutting Down Here (Portraits GRM; 2020)
Lucy Railton - Forma (Portraits GRM; 2020)
Max Eilbacher - Metabolist Meter (Foster, Cottin, Caetani and a Fly) (Portraits GRM; 2020)
Robert Fripp - Music for Quiet Moments 4: Requiem (Norwich 16 Jun 2006) (DGMLive; 2020)
The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker remains suspended indefinitely in its conventional format, replaced with a mix of album reviews and listings for events taking place online—some live, others pre-recorded. (Click on the images to enlarge them, or hit the links to read the text on the New Yorker website.)
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…
Aisha Orazbayeva - Music for Violin Alone (self-released; 2020)
> Angharad Davies - Circular Bowing Study; Johann Sebastian Bach - Largo from Sonata No. 3 in C; Nicola Matteis Jr. - Alla Fantasia; Oliver Leith - Blurry Wake Song; James Tenney - Koan; John Cage - Eight Whiskus; Aisha Orazbeyeva - Ring
Cenk Ergün & Friends - Amore Vieni for Isolated Ensemble (self-released; 2020)
Steve Roach - The View Beyond (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2020. More information here.)
Gary Husband & Markus Reuter - Music of Our Times (MoonJune; 2020)
Bonnie Jones - An Hour Is a Sea (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Tim Berne - Sacred Vowels (9donkeys; 2020)
Bethan Kellough - 16. Lines of Flight (Touch: Isolation exclusive; 2020. More information here.)
Strafe F.R. - 17. Reeflex (Touch: Isolation exclusive; 2020. More information here.)
Yann Novak - 18. The Elation of Protest (Touch: Isolation exclusive; 2020. More information here.)
Howlround - 19. Insula Acid (Touch: Isolation exclusive; 2020. More information here.)
Joe Foster - Since I Don’t Know When (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Dave Quam - Till the Storms of Life Pass Us By (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Joel Stern - 10pm Eternal (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
James Rushford - Terrace (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Jürg Frey - List of Words List of Sounds (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Heather Frasch - The sound of objects helps me remember (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Lee Patterson - to make a virtue of clumsy, drunken sins (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Feronia Wennborg - In new constellations (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Jeph Jerman - cutter (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Cathy Lane - Here We All Are (Lucier mix) (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Rie Nakajima - carpet (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Jason Lescalleet - The Feckless Dreamer (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Brent Fariss - The Juggler (an imaginary play about Robert Lax) (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Lance Austin Olsen - I woke up this morning and Richard Penniman was gone (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Marja Ahti - Traces of Friction (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Kate Carr - on every stair another stairway is set in negative (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
C. Lavender - Myth of Equilibrium (Editions Mego; 2020)
William Parker - Trencadis (Centering; 2020)
Triptykon with Metropole Orkest - Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019) (Century Media; 2020)
Tropos - Axioms // 75ab (Biophilia)
Danny Clay - Ocean Park (laaps; due June 4, 2020)
Crazy Doberman - Illusory Expansion (Astral Spirits; 2020)
Christian Rønn & Aram Shelton - Multiring (Astral Spirits; 2020)
Otomo Yoshihide & Chris Pitsiokos - Live in Florence (Astral Spirits; 2020)
Tim Stine Trio - Fresh Demons (Astral Spirits; 2020)
May 16, 6pm EDT
Satie Pandémie: Collective Vexation
A 20-hour livestream honoring Erik Satie's birthday
Produced by Teatro Miela Bonawentura, Trieste, Italy
More details and playback here.
Dipping into the livestream and out again, I watched and listened to some or all of these contributions…
Alvin Curran
Stephen Drury
Petra Persolja
Kathleen Supové
8:30pm EDT
Katherine Young
Solo set for The Quarantine Concerts, produced by Experimental Sound Studio
More details and playback here.
Arrived in time to catch the last 10 minutes of a moody, effective 18-minute performance involving bassoon and electronics.
8:50pm EDT
Object Collection: You Are Under Our Space Control
Abridged/socially isolated adaptation presented for Indexical
More details and playback here.
Here again, caught the last 10 minutes or so—just enough to address my curiosity about whether this troupe could adjust its idiosyncratic vision and expression to livestreaming. The result was weirdly compelling, which I guess means "yes."
9pm EDT
Satie Pandémie: Collective Vexation
Returned to the livestream for a bit, mainly to watch some friends and favorites.
Gloria Cheng
Sarah Gibson
Thomas Kotcheff
Vicky Ray
Corey Hamm
Richard Valitutto
Lorenzo Marasso
May 17, from around 1:30pm EDT
Satie Pandémie: Collective Vexation
Returned to the livestream once again, trying to catch some friends and favorites. Not everything went according to plan, and not every segment sounded good. But the performances were lovely, and some – Burleson, Distler, and Guneyman in particular – were quite daring, approaching their assignments with flashes of individualism.
Geoffrey Burleson
Hiroko Sakurazawa
Jed Distler
Sarah Bob
Meral Guneyman
A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…
Okkyung Lee - Yeo-Neun (Shelter Press; 2020)
Susan Alcorn - The Heart Sutra (Ideologic Organ; 2020)
Savvas Metaxas - Detach (Glistening Examples; 2020)
Renato Grieco and Francesco Tignola - Hibernacula (Glistening Examples; 2020)
Eyvind Kang - Ajaeng Ajaeng (Ideologic Organ; 2020)
Sonic Youth - Blastic Scene (Live in Lisbon 1993) (Moneyland/Sonic Youth Archive; 1995/2020)
Sarah Hennies - Foragers (self-released; 2020)
Aki Onda - Nam June's Spirit Was Speaking to Me (Recital; 2020)
Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey - Saturday Night (Recital; 2020)
Malcolm Green - Electric Landlady (Recital; 2020)
Taku Sugimoto - DDDD (self-released; 1985/2020)
Kendra Amalie/Ryley Walker - Papaya in a Hound’s Tooth (Husky Pants; 2020)
Chris Kallmyer - Gimmie Mountain Language (self-released; 2020)
Michael Pisaro - black, white, red, green, blue - Giacomo Fiore (self-released; 2020)
Mike Shiflet - Every Possible Outcome (self-released; 2020)
Lawrence English - Lassitude (Room40; 2020)
Tom Johnson - Twelve - Dante Boon (self-released; 2020)
Cassie Wieland - heart - Adam Holmes (self-released; 2020)
Alex Groves - Curved Form (St. Endellion) (self-released; 2020)
Grant Evans - Calendar Moth (self-released; 2020)
Oren Ambarchi - 14. Sbagliato (Demo) (Touch: Isolation exclusive; 2020. More information here.)
UnicaZürn - 15. Mission Creeper (Touch: Isolation exclusive; 2020. More information here.)
Porcupine Tree - Coma:Coda (Rome 1997) (self-released; 2020)
Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 1 in E minor; Symphony No. 2 in D - Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York/John Barbirolli (Columbia/Sony Classical; 1940-42/2020)
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5 in D; Edward Elgar - Variations on an Original Theme ("Enigma") - Philharmonia Orchestra/John Barbirolli (HMV/Beulah; 1962/2020)
Robert Fripp - Music for Quiet Moments 2: GentleScape (Barcelona 24 July 2009) (DGMLive; 2020)
Benedict Drew - Music for crawling around inside a costume (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Lasse Marhaug - April 15, 2020 (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Marc Baron - Elle a traversé deux fois la même rivière (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Aaron Dilloway - Chicken Traces (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Parlours - Claustic to crystal (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Makoto Oshiro - in & out of my place (my amplifier has an annoying hum that needs to be taken care of) (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Shots - First Things First (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Anastassis Philippakopoulos - unwritten music (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Delphine Dora - lost in my dreams, a nightmare maybe (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Dead & Company - Citi Field, New York, NY, 6/24/2017 (Los Muertos/Rhino; 2020)
Jérôme Noetinger - "The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today." (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Christian Mirande - Night Moves (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Sarah Hughes - In a Tissue (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Helm - Droned Distancing (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Utah Kawasaki - 20200503 (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Kiera Mulhern - Cave outside of which (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Toshimaru Nakamura - Nimb #61 (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Steve Roach - Timeroom Archives, Vol. 1 (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2020. More information here.)
The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker remains suspended indefinitely in its conventional format, replaced with a mix of album reviews and listings for events taking place online—some live, others pre-recorded. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)
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The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker remains suspended indefinitely in its conventional format, and album reviews linger. But with a marked uptick lately in the number of live online events planned and announced well in advance, the possibility of "events listings" has resumed. For the May 11 issue, though, I've returned to album reviews. One, the John Adams concerto, was requested by the editor, which is not to say I had any hesitation about taking that request; the other, the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble album, was my own choice, and I wish I'd had twice as many words, or more. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text on the New Yorker website.)
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…
bbob drake - vibibib (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Francisco Meirino - To make a little more with a little less (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Miguel Frasconi - Standing Breakage (for Stan Brakhage) (self-released; 2015)
King Crimson - Belcourt Theatre, Nashville, TN, August 3, 2008 (DGMLive; 2020. Audio samples here.)
Steve Roach - The Heart of Distant Horizons (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2020. More information here.)
Geneva Skeen - 12. Perhaps You Understand My Question (Touch: Isolation exclusive; 2020. More information here.)
Simon Scott - 13. Stridulation (Touch: Isolation exclusive; 2020. More information here.)
Shy Layers - Composition for Loud Magic (Longform Editions; 2020)
Penelope Trappes - Gnostic State (Longform Editions; 2020)
Inoyama Land - Fuku-Ura (Longform Editions; 2020)
Ruven Nunez - Within Dreams, Without Dreams (Longform Editions; 2020)
King Crimson - Music Hall, Boston, MA, April 23, 1974 (DGMLive; 2020. Audio samples here.)
Ning Yu - Of Being (New Focus; due May 8, 2020)
> Wang Lu - Rates of Extinction; Misato Mochizuki - Moebius-Ring; Emily Praetorius - Of Being
Billington/Shippy/Wyche - Billington/Shippy/Wyche (Astral Spirits; 2017)
TARAB - 41 Containers (AMPLIFY2020: quarantine; 2020)
Porcupine Tree - Köln 4th December 2007 (TV broadcast) (self-released; 2020)
John Oswald - b9, an abridged whirlwind of all 9 Beethoven symphonies (Fony; 2020. Presently unavailable.)
Sarah Davachi - Five Cadences (self-released; 2020)
Bill Laswell - Against Empire (M.O.D. Reloaded; 2020)
Robert Fripp - Music for Quiet Moments 1 - Pastorale (Mendoza 3rd June 2007) (DGMLive; 2020)
Aisha Orazbeyeva - Music for Violin Alone (self-released; 2020)
> Angharad Davies - Circular Bowing Study; Johann Sebastian Bach - Largo from Sonata No. 3 in C; Nicola Matteis Jr. - Alla Fantasia; Oliver Leith - Blurry Wake Song; James Tenney - Koan; John Cage - Eight Whiskus; Aisha Orazbeyeva - Ring
Áine O'Dwyer - Daedalus Airs (self-released; 2020)
Wendy Eisenberg - Dehiscence (self-released; 2020)
John Mark Sherlock - utopianism - ensemble KORE (self-released; 2020)
Tim Berne - Sacred Vowels (9donkeys; 2020)
David Torn - FUR/TORN (9donkeys; 2020)
Teodora Stepančić - clarinets 2 5 6 (self-released; 2020)
> No2 (Germaine) - Germaine Sijstermans; No5 (Rastko) - Rastko Uzunović; No6 (Katie) - Katie Porter
Gabriela Areal and Luciano Vitale - pases (Love Records; 2020)
Killswitch Engage - Atonement II B-Sides for Charity (Metal Blade; 2020)
Killswitch Engage - Atonement (Metal Blade; 2019)
Lamb of God - "Checkmate," "Memento Mori," "New Colossal Hate" (from Lamb of God) (Epic; due June 19, 2020)
Wooden Wand - Wooden Wand Steals the Covers (Volume 1) (self-released; 2020)
Nate Wooley - Three Studies for Future Uncertainties (Tisser Tissu Editions; 2020)
Emeralds - Fresh Air (A Soundesign Recording/self-released; 2009/2018)
Emeralds - Allegory of Allergies (Gods of Tundra/self-released; 2007/2020)