Night After Night

Playlist (Songs to Be Sung).

A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.
Published by National Sawdust Log.

Dean Rosenthal - Stones/Water/Time/Breath (Edition Wandelweiser; 2019)

bin li - i am also here (Edition Wandelweiser; 2019. Audio samples here.)

Jürg Frey - fields, traces, clouds - Jürg Frey, Ordinary Affects (Edition Wandelweiser; 2019. Audio sample here.)

Daniel Pioro - Dust (Bedroom Community; 2019)
> Valgeir Sigurðsson - Dust; Edmund Finnis - Elsewhere; Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber - Passacaglia; Oliver Coates - Dark Sky Community; Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending

Anthony Braxton - 3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011 (Firehouse 12; 2016)

Bruno Duplant & Pierre Gerard - soleil clandestin (Edition Wandelweiser; 2019. Audio sample here.)

Pat Metheny Group - American Garage (ECM; 1979)

Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (ECM; 1981)

Pat Metheny Group - Offramp (ECM; 1982)

Pat Metheny Group - First Circle (ECM; 1984)

Lyle Mays - Lyle Mays (Geffen; 1986)

Pat Metheny Group - Still Life (Talking) (Geffen; 1987)

Antti Tolvi - Just Gong (Longform Editions; 2019)

Olli Aarni - Haalea (Longform Editions; 2019)

Jasmine Guffond - Current Harmonics (Longform Editions; 2020)

Pablo’s Eye - Tentative d’épuisement d’un lieu parisien (Longform Editions; 2020)

Simone Kermes - Inferno e Paradiso - Amici Veneziani (Sony Classical; 2020)

Vanessa Rossetto - self-care (Unfathomless; 2020)

Thibault Jehanne - Farol (Unfathomless; 2020)

Andrew Chalk - Blue Eyes of the March (Faraway Press; 2006)

The Necks - Three (Northern Spy; due March 27, 2020. More information here.)

Kory Reeder - love songs/duets (Edition Wandelweiser; 2019. Audio sample here.)

Rishin Singh - out from the blinding white - Dante Boon (Edition Wandelweiser; 2019. Audio sample here.)

Alice Coltrane - Live at Carnegie Hall 1971 (Alternative Fox; 2020)

Tilman Robinson - Deer Heart (Hobbledehoy Record Co; 2016)

Franz Liszt - Via Crucis - Reinbert de Leeuw (VPRO/YouTube; 2013)

Harrison Birtwistle - Pulse Shadows - Claron McFadden, Arditti Quartet, Nash Ensemble/Reinbert de Leeuw (Teldec; 2001)

Playlist (Stand in Defiance).

A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.
Published on National Sawdust Log.

Christopher Rouse - Iscariot; Clarinet Concerto; Symphony No. 1 - Martin Fröst, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra/Alan Gilbert (Bis; 2008. Audio samples here.)

Christopher Rouse - Flute Concerto; Symphony No. 2 - Sharon Bezaly, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra/Alan Gilbert (Bis; 2009. Audio samples here.)

Christopher Rouse - Odna Zhizn; Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4; Prospero's Rooms - New York Philharmonic/Alan Gilbert (Dacapo; 2016)

Hildur Guðnadóttir - Chernobyl (Music from the HBO Miniseries) (Deutsche Grammophon; 2019)

Hildur Guðnadóttir - Joker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (WaterTower Music; 2019)

Víkingur Ólafsson - Bach Reworks / Part 2 (Deutsche Grammophon; 2018)

Anthony Braxton - Compositions Nos. 254 & 352 (from GTM (Iridium) 2007) (New Braxton House; 2012)

Taku Sugimoto - A Young Person's Guide to Antoine Beuger (slubmusic; 2008)
> tanzaku; sekundenklänge (some sounds, just seconds)

Godflesh - Streetcleaner (Earache; 1989)

Kill the Client - Cleptocracy (Willowtip; 2008)

Tim Berne's Snakeoil - The Fantastic Mrs. 10 (Intakt; due Feb. 14, 2020. More information here.)

Kaffe Matthews - foreigner (Objects Limited; due April 10, 2020. More information here.)

Tom Carter - Sunview (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2020. More information here.)

Long Distance Poison - Technical Mentality (Hausu Mountain; 2020)

Britton Powell - If Anything Is (EP) (Catch Wave Ltd.; 2020)

Nick Storring - My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell (Orange Milk; due March 27, 2020

Michael Pisaro - Barricades - Shira Legmann, Michael Pisaro (Elsewhere; 2019)

Johann Sebastian Bach - Partitas Nos. 1, 3 and 4 - Shira Legmann (self-released; 2019)

Shots - Private Hate (Careful Catalog; 2019)

Kevin Drumm - Concatenate (self-released; 2020)

Curt Sydnor - Deep End Shallow (Out of Your Head; due March 20, 2020)

Gerald Cleaver - Signs (577 Records; due March 27, 2020)

Jung Jae-il - Parasite (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Sacred Bones; due Feb. 14, 2020)

Playlist (I Found That Essence Rare).

A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.
Published on National Sawdust Log.

Georg Friedrich Haas - Konzert für Klangwerk und Orchester - Christoph Sietzen, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg/Ilan Volkov (Live New Music Channel/YouTube; 2019)

Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 358, from 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (Firehouse 12; 2007)

Anthony Braxton - 10+1tet (Knoxville) 2016 (New Braxton House; 2016)

Anthony Braxton - Trio (Knoxville) 2016 (New Braxton House; 2016)

Webber/Morris Big Band - Both Are True (Greenleaf Music; due April 3, 2020)

Matthew Shipp - The Piano Equation (Tao Forms; due May 1, 2020. More information here.)

Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey - Invisible Ritual (New Focus; 2020)

Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons - Boston Symphony Commissions (Naxos; 2019)
> Eric Nathan - The Space of a Door; George Tsontakis - Sonnets - Robert Sheena; Timo Andres - Everything Happens So Much; Sean Shepherd - Express Abstractionism

Hector Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique - Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Jader Bignamini (Detroit Symphony Orchestra/YouTube; 2020)

Christopher Cerrone - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra ("Breaks and Breaks") - Jennifer Koh, Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Peter Oundjian (Detroit Symphony Orchestra/YouTube; 2018)

Andrew Norman - Sustain - Los Angeles Philharmonic/Gustavo Dudamel (Deutsche Grammophon; 2019)

Matthew Shipp String Trio - Symbolic Reality (Rogue Art; 2020. Audio sample here.)

Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (Charisma; 1977)

Brett Dean - Composer and Performer - Sydney Symphony/Simone Young, Hugh Wolff (Bis; 2008. Audio samples here.)
> Viola Concerto; Twelve Angry Men; Intimate Decisions; Komarov's Fall

The Necks - Body (Northern Spy; 2018)

The Necks - Three (Northern Spy; due March 27, 2020. More information here.)

Sir Richard Bishop - Oneiric Formulary (Drag City; due April 17, 2020)

Douglas Boyce - Some Consequences of Four Incapacities (New Focus; 2018)
> 102nd & Amsterdam - Aeolus Quartet; Piano Quartet No. 1 - counter)induction; Fortuitous Variations - Trio Cavatina

Ryan Streber - Concentric (New Focus; 2014)
> String Quartet - counter)induction; Cold Pastoral - Line C3 Percussion Quartet; Shadow Etudes - counter)induction; Descent - Daniel Lippel; Compassinges - Sam Solomon, Kristi Errera-Solomon, David Fulmer, Keats Dieffenbach, Nadia Sirota, Clarice Jensen; Trio for Flute, Viola, and Cello - Alex Sopp, Nadia Sirota, Clarice Jensen

Daniel Lippel - Mirrored Spaces (New Focus; 2019)
> compositions by Karin Wetzel, Kyle Bartlett, Orianna Webb, Daniel Lippel, Ryan Streber, Dalia Raudonikytė With, John Link, Sergio Kafejian, Sidney Corbett, Douglas Boyce, Ethan Wickman, and Christopher Bailey

Jessica Meyer - Ring Out - Miranda Cuckson, Jessica Meyer, Caleb van der Swaagh, Andrew Yee, Nicholas Tamagna, Adam Marks, Roomful of Teeth (Bright Shiny Things; 2019)
> But Not Until; I Only Speak of the Sun; Released; Seasons of Basho; Only a Beginning; Ring Out, Wild Bell

Tilman Robinson - Deer Heart (Hobbledehoy Record Co; 2016)

Dead & Company - Ruoff Home Mortgage Center, Noblesville, IN 6/6/18 (Los Muertos/Rhino; 2019)

Dire Wolves - Dig Where You Stand (Feathered Coyote; 2019)

Evan Johnson - Forms of Complaint (Kairos; due March 6, 2020)
> hyphen - Peter Neville; Apostrophe 1 (All communication is a form of complaint) - ELISION; clutch - Graeme Jennings; Colophons ("That other that ich not whenne"), reflecting pool / monument - Mieko Kanno, EXAUDI/James Weeks; Positioning in Radiography - Mabel Kwan

Alex Hills - OutsideIn (Carrier; 2020)
> OutsideIn - Aisha Orazbayeva, 12 Ensemble/James Weeks; Flatland - EXAUDI/James Weeks; Short Long Shrink Stretch - Jacob Brown, 4|12 Collective/Adam Hickox

Philip Glass - Two Pages; Contrary Motion; Music in Fifths; Music in Similar Motion - Philip Glass Ensemble (Orange Mountain Music; 2013. Audio samples here.)

Philip Glass - The Photographer - Paul Zukofsky, Philip Glass Ensemble/Michael Riesman (CBS Masterworks; 1983)

The Iditarod - Göteborg and Oslo (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2020. More information here.)

Gang of Four - Happy Now (Gill Music Ltd.; 2019)

Gang of Four - Live… In the Moment (Gill Music Ltd.; 2016)

Gang of Four - What Happens Next (Metropolis; 2015)

Gang of Four - Content (Yep Roc; 2011)

Gang of Four - Shrinkwrapped (Castle; 1995)

Gang of Four - Mall (Polydor; 1990)

Gang of Four - Hard (EMI; 1983)

Gang of Four - Songs of the Free (EMI/Infinite Zero; 1982/1996)

Gang of Four - Solid Gold/Another Day/Another Dollar (EMI/Infinite Zero; 1981/1995)

Gang of Four - Entertainment/Gang of Four (EMI/Infinite Zero; 1980/1995)

Eddi Reader - Starlight EP (Reveal; 2019)

Playlist (Um, Listen).

A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.
Published on National Sawdust Log.

Georges Lentz - Caeli inerrant… - Mysterium - VIII. Jerusalem (After Blake) - Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg/Duncan Ward (YouTube; 2015)

Georges Lentz - Caeli inerrant… - Mysterium - II. Ngangkar; IV. Guyuhmgan - Sydney Symphony Orchestra/Edo de Waart (ABC Classics; 2012)

Tristan Murail - Terre d’ombre - Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France/Peter Eötvös (Radio France; 2014)

Georges Lentz - Caeli inerrant… - Mysterium - II. Ngangkar; IV. Guyuhmgan; VI. Monh - Tabea Zimmermann, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg/Emilio Pomàrico (Timpani; 2013)

Morton Feldman - For John Cage - Darragh Morgan, John Tilbury (Diatribe; due Feb. 27, 2020. Details and audio here.)

Clara de Asís - Sans Nom Ni Forme (Pilgrim Talk; 2020)

Anthony Braxton - Compositions Nos. 356 and 357, from 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (Firehouse 12; 2007)

Eva-Maria Houben - haiku for 11; die himmelsmechanik for orchestra - University of California San Diego Chamber Orchestra/Matt Kline (Diafani; 2019. Audio samples here.)

Eva-Maria Houben - twin compositions: le jardin suspendu/tombeau (Diafani; 2019. Audio samples here.)

Eva-Maria Houben - one performer I & II - Denis Sorokin (Diafani; 2019. Audio samples here.)

Eva-Maria Houben - le silence de l'orgue (Diafani; 2019. Audio sample here.)

Bruno Duplant - là où nos rêves... (Diafani; 2013. More information here.)

Jakob Ullmann – Müntzers stern; solo II – Dafne Vicente-Sandoval (Edition RZ; 2018. Audio samples here)

Scott Johnson - John Somebody (Nonesuch/Tzadik; 1986/2004. Audio samples here.)

Scott Johnson - Patty Hearst (original motion picture soundtrack) (Nonesuch/Tzadik; 1988/2007. Audio samples here.)

Scott Johnson - Rock Paper Scissors (Point Music; 1997)

Scott Johnson - Americans (Tzadik; 2010. Audio samples here.)

Scott Johnson - Mind Out of Matter - Daniel C. Dennett, Alarm Will Sound/Alan Pierson (Tzadik; 2018. Audio samples here.)

Kevin Drumm - Slow Night (self-released; 2020)

Charles Curtis - Performances & Recordings 1998-2018 (Saltern; 2020)

Anthony Burr/Charles Curtis - Alvin Lucier (Antiopic; 2005. Out of print; details here.)

Philip Glass - Waiting for the Barbarians - Kelly God, Elvira Soukop, Eugene Perry, Richard Salter, Michael Tews, Opernchor des Theaters Erfurt, Philharmonisches Orchester Erfurt/Dennis Russell Davies (Orange Mountain Music; 2008. Audio samples here.)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Sinfonia Antartica; The Wasps: Aristophanic Suite - Norma Burrowes, London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra/Adrian Boult (EMI/Warner Classics; 1970/1987)

Anthony Braxton - Creative Orchestra Music 1976 (Arista; 1976)

Anthony Braxton with the Northwest Creative Orchestra - Eugene (1989) (Black Saint; 1991. Audio samples here.)

Andrew Norman - Sustain - Los Angeles Philharmonic/Gustavo Dudamel (Deutsche Grammophon; 2019)

Playlist (Interstellar Our Escape).

A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.
Published on National Sawdust Log.

Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg Variations - Simone Dinnerstein (Telarc; 2007)

Anáhuac - ascua (Astral Spirits; 2020)

Robert Fripp - The Kitchen, New York, NY, Feb. 5, 1978 (DGMLive; 2020. Audio samples here.)

Anthony Braxton - Compositions Nos. 354 and 355, from 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (Firehouse 12; 2007)

Anáhuac - Anáhuac (Astral Spirits; 2020)

Steve Roach - Deep Sky Immersion (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2020. Details here.)

Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 2 in D - Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra/Susanna Mälkki (YouTube; 2019)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Die Zauberflöte: Overture; Hans Abrahamsen - Let me tell you - Barbara Hannigan; Piotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4 in F minor; Sleeping Beauty: The Diamond Fairy & Coda from Act III - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (YouTube; 2019)

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Live in Adelaide '19 (Flightless; 2020)

Ka Baird & Muyassar Kurdi - Voice Games (Astral Editions; due Feb. 28, 2020)

Philip White - angels (iv) (Anticausal Systems; 2020)

Alice Coltrane - World Sprituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (Avatar Book Institute/Luaka Bop; 1982-95/2017)

John Luther Adams - Become Desert - Seattle Symphony Chorus, Seattle Symphony/Ludovic Morlot (Cantaloupe Music; 2019)

The Giving Shapes - Earth Leaps Up (Elsewhere; due Feb. 24, 2020)

Gavin Bryars with Philip Jeck and Alter Ego - The Sinking of the Titanic (Touch; 2008)

Christian Wolff - Kompositionen 1950-1972 - performances by David Tudor, Cornelius Cardew, Frederic Rzewski, Keith Rowe, Biliana Voutchkova, and others (Edition RZ; 1956-2011/2011. Audio samples here.)

Jakob Ullmann - Fremde Zeit - Addendum (Edition RZ; 2012. Audio samples here.)
> Disappearing Musics; Solo I + II + III; Komposition für Streichquartett 2 - Pellegrini Quartett; Praha: Celetná - Karlova - Maiselova

Jakob Ullmann - Fremde Zeit Addendum 4 (Edition RZ; 2013. Audio sample here.)
> Solo III für orgel - Hans-Peter Schultz

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

Arnold Schoenberg - Violin Concerto - Isabelle Faust, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Harding; Verklärte Nacht - Isabelle Faust, Anne Katharina Schreiber, Antoine Tamestit, Danusha Waskiewicz, Christian Poltéra, Jean-Guihen Queyras (Harmonia Mundi; due Feb. 28, 2020)

Meara O'Reilly - Hockets for Two Voices (Cantaloupe Music; 2019)

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Live in Paris '19 (Flightless; 2020)

SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg - In memoriam: Michael Gielen (SWR Classic; 2019)
> Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 in A minor (two recordings, 1971 & 2013)

Víkingur Ólafsson - Johann Sebastian Bach (Deutsche Grammophon; 2018)

Playlist (The Shuddering Breath of Yesterday).

A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.
Published on National Sawdust Log.

Alex Dowling - Reality Rounds - Chris Douthitt, Alex Dowling, Emma O'Halloran, Annika Socolofsky, Pascal Le Boeuf (Carrier; due Jan. 31, 2020)

Chris Dingman - Embrace (Inner Arts; due March 6, 2020. Details here.)

Anthony Braxton - The Montreux-Berlin Concerts (Arista; 1977)

Ekmeles - A Howl, That Was Also a Prayer (New Focus; 2020)
> Taylor Brook - Motorman Sextet; Erin Gee - Three Scenes from SLEEP; Christopher Trapani - End Words

Anthony Braxton - Compositions Nos. 352 and 353, from 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (Firehouse 12; 2007)

Robert Ashley - eL/Aficionado - Thomas Buckner, Robert Ashley, Sam Ashley, Jacqueline Humbert (Lovely Music; 1995)

Allan Gravgard Madsen - Nachtmusik - Christina Åstrand, Per Salo, Danish National Symphony Orchestra/Ryan Bancroft; Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen - For Violin and Orchestra - Christina Åstrand, Danish National Symphony Orchestra/Nicholas Collon (Da Capo; 2019)

Brunhild Ferrari | Jim O'Rourke - Le Piano Englouti (Black Truffle; 2020)

Anthony Moore - Secrets of the Blue Bag (Polydor/Wah Wah; 1972/2019)

Cornelius Cardew - The Tiger's Mind - John Tilbury (Cubus; 2019. Audio samples here.)

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 1-9 - various artists (Spotify playlist; can't recall when I made it, sorry…)

Ash Koosha - 2025 (Realms; 2019)

Daniel Pioro - Dust (Bedroom Community; 2019)
> Valgeir Sigurðsson - Dust; Edmund Finnis - Elsewhere; Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber - Passacaglia; Oliver Coates - Dark Sky Community; Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending

Peter Ablinger - Voices and Piano - Nicolas Hodges (Kairos; 2011)

Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor - Sheku Kanneh-Mason, London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle (Decca; 2019)

Esa-Pekka Salonen - Cello Concerto - Yo-Yo Ma, Los Angeles Philharmonic/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Sony Clasical; 2019)

Michael Oesterle - Cello Concerto - Ariel Barnes, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra/Anne Manson (Manitoba Chamber Orchestra; 2019)

Rush - R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour (Anthem/Atlantic; 2005)

King Crimson - Guildhall, Preston, Nov. 30, 1972 (DGMLive; 2020. Audio samples here.)

Robert Fripp - The Kitchen, New York, NY, Feb. 5, 1978 (DGMLive; 2020. Audio samples here.)

Anastassis Philippakopoulos - piano works - Melaine Dalibert (Elsewhere; due Feb. 14, 2020)

Playlist (A Flourish of Ritual Activity).

A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.
Published on National Sawdust Log.

Ralph Vaughan Williams - A Pastoral Symphony; Symphony No. 4 - BBC Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion. Audio samples here.)

Jo Kondo - Works for Piano - Satoko Inoue (hat[now]ART; 2001)

Winfried Mühlum-Pyrápheros - Musica Nova Contemplativa (Experimentalplatte/Blume; 1970/2019)

Catherine Christer Hennix - Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku (Blank Forms; 1976/2019)

Ernest Hood - Neighborhoods (Thistlefield/Freedom to Spend; 1975/2019)

Celer - Future Predictions (self-released; 2020)

Steve Roach - First Days (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2019. Details here.)

Steve Roach - Skeleton Era, Vol. 1 (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2019. Details here.)

Steve Roach - Trance Textures (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2019. Details here.)

Milton Babbitt - Relata II; Jürg Frey - Orchester 2 - Windansea Symphony Orchestra/Erik Carlson (self-released; 2020)

Kate Carr - I’m Listening (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2020. Details here.)

Kate Carr - Overheard in Doi Saket (3 Leaves; 2014)

Kate Carr - The Long Now (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2020. Details here.)

Kate Carr - Tiny Portraits (Flaming Pines; 2016)

Kate Carr - Are You Before (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2020. Details here.)

Gabriella Smith - Number Nine - Latitude 49 (YouTube; 2018)

Gabriella Smith - Carrot Revolution - Aizuri Quartet (YouTube; 2018)

Gabriella Smith - Spring/Neap - PRISM Quartet (YouTube; 2018)

Gabriella Smith - Reflection Nebulae - Friction Quartet (YouTube; 2013)

Gabriella Smith - Quintet for String Quartet and Double Bass - Pacific Musical Society (YouTube; 2011)

Gabriella Smith - Huascarán - Latitude 49 (YouTube; 2016)

Gabriella Smith - Inyo - Friction Quartet (YouTube; 2014)

Gabriella Smith - Panitao - Bang on a Can All-Stars (from More Field Recordings) (Cantaloupe Music; 2017)

Gabriella Smith - Tumblebird Contrails - Nashville Symphony/Giancarlo Guerrero (SoundCloud; 2016)

Gabriella Smith - Loop the Fractal Hold of Rain (from Night Triptych) - Duo Noire (New Focus; 2018)

Gabriella Smith - the heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit - Jordan Dodson (SoundCloud; 2017)

Gabriella Smith - Kisiabaton - Ensemble39 (SoundCloud; 2017)

Gabriella Smith - Hexacorallia - Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra (YouTube; 2019)

Craig Shepard - On Foot - Christian Wolff, Jürg Frey, Antoine Beuger, Tobias Liebezeit, Marcus Kaiser, Katie Porter (Edition Wandelweiser; 2011. Details here.)

Craig Shepard - On Foot: Brooklyn - Katie Porter, Devin Maxwell, Jack Callahan, Erik Carlson, Nick Didkovsky, Dan Joseph, Larry Polansky, Mathew Schumer, Kristen McKeon, Erin Rogers (Edition Wandelweiser; 2014)

Anthony Braxton - Compositions Nos. 350 and 351, from 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006 (Firehouse 12; 2007)

Franz Schubert - String Quartet No. 13 in A minor (D. 804, "Rosamunde"); Quartettsatz in C minor (D. 703); String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat (D. 87) - Belcea Quartet (EMI/Warner Classics; 2002)

Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat (Op. 127) - Budapest String Quartet (Columbia Masterworks/Sony Classical; 1952/2018)

Richard Wagner/Lorin Maazel - The Ring without Words - Berlin Philharmonic/Lorin Maazel (EuroArts; 2001)

Ekmeles - A Howl, That Was Also a Prayer (New Focus; 2020)
> Taylor Brook - Motorman Sextet; Erin Gee - Three Scenes from SLEEP; Christopher Trapani - End Words

Playlist (A Bone to Pick with Time).

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

John Luther Adams - The Wind in High Places (Cold Blue; 2015)
> The Wind in High Places - JACK Quartet; Canticles of the Sky - Northwestern University Cello Ensemble/Hans Jørgen Jensen; Dream of the Canyon Wren - JACK Quartet

Oceans Roar 1000 Drums - Oceans Roar 1000 Drums (Sacred Realism; 2019)

Wolfgang von Schweinitz - Klang auf Schön Berg La Monte Young - Goeyvaerts String Trio (Louth Contemporary Music Society; 2019)

Wolfgang von Schweinitz - Plainsound Counterpoint; Catherine Lamb - Mirror - Frank Reinecke (Neos; 2015)

Forever House - Eaves (Infrequent Seams; 2018)

Mark-Anthony Turnage - Speranza; From the Wreckage - Håkan Hardenberger, London Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Harding (LSO Live; 2013)

Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs; Richard Wagner - Arias from Tannhäuser - Lise Davidsen, Philharmonia Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Decca; 2019)

Anna Meredith - FIBS (Moshi Moshi; 2019)

Matthew Shipp/Nate Wooley - What If? (Rogue Art; 2019. Audio sample here.)

Art Ensemble of Chicago - We Are on the Edge (Pi Recordings; 2019)

Lea Bertucci/Kyle Eyre Clyd - Lea Bertucci/Kyle Eyre Clyd (Ultraviolet Light; 2019)

Ellen Arkbro - Chords (Subtext; 2019)

Julianna Barwick - Circumstance Synthesis (RVNGIntl.; 2019)

Zosha Di Castri - Tachitipo (New Focus; 2019)
> The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named - Ekmeles; Cortège - Talea Ensemble/Lorraine Vaillancourt; Quartet No. 1 - JACK Quartet; Dux - Julia Den Boer; La forma dello spazio - International Contemporary Ensemble/Lorraine Vaillancourt; Tachitipo - Yarn/Wire

Bent Knee - You Know What They Mean (Inside Out; 2019)

Prince - 1999 (Super Deluxe Edition) (Warner Bros.; 1981-83/2019)

Thank You Scientist - Terraformer (Evil Ink; 2019)

black midi - Schlagenheim (Rough Trade; 2019)

Gum Takes Tooth - Arrow (Rocket Recordings; 2019)

Playlist (Lost in musing circumstances).

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

Roland Kayn - A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound (Frozen Reeds; 2017)

PAT (Jacolby Satterwhite & Nick Weiss) - Love Will Find a Way (Pioneer Works Press; 2019)

Bill Orcutt - Odds Against Tomorrow (Palilalia; 2019)

Nate Wooley - Seven Storey Mountain I (Important; 2009. Read more here.)

Nate Wooley - Seven Storey Mountain II (Important; 2011)

Nate Wooley - Seven Storey Mountain III & IV (Pleasure of the Text; 2013)

Nate Wooley - Seven Storey Mountain V (Pleasure of the Text; 2016. Read more here.)

Daniel Lentz - Ending(s) - Twilight String Orchestra/Nicholas Deyoe (New World; 2019. Audio samples here.)
> Continental Divide; Ending(s) - Fahad Siadat

Księżyc - Księżyc (OBUH/Penultimate Press; 1996/2013)

Księżyc - Rabbit Eclipse (Penultimate Press; 2016)

Jessica Ackerley - A New Kind of Water (self-released; 2019)

Claire Rousay - t4t (No Rent; 2019)

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra/Long Yu - Gateways (Deutsche Grammophon; 2019)
> Qigang Chen - Wu Xing (The Five Elements); La joie de la souffrance (The Joy of Suffering) - Maxim Vengerov; Fritz Kreisler - Tambourin chinois - Maxim Vengerov; Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances

Davíð Brynjar Franzson - Longitude - Ensemble Adapter (Bedroom Community; due Nov. 8, 2019. Audio sample here.)

Michael Pisaro - Achilles, Socrates, Diotima (The Poem of Names, No. 2) - INSUB Meta Orchestra (INSUB; 2019)

Magnus Granberg - Als alle Vögel sangen mein Sehnen und Verlangen - INSUB Meta Orchestra (INSUB; 2019)

Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis (Constellation; 2019)

Tuluum Shimmering - Blue Water Sunray (self-released; 2019)

William Basinski - On Time Out of Time (Temporary Residence; 2019)

James MacMillan - Miserere; The Strathclyde Motets; O bone Jesu; Tenebrae Responsories - The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (Coro; 2011)

Ted Hearne - Hazy Heart Pump (New Focus Recordings; 2019)
> For the Love of Charles Mingus – Miki-Sophia Cloud; The Answer to the Question That Wings Ask – Saul Williams, Mivos Quartet; Furtive Movements - Ashley Bathgate, Ron Wiltrout; Nobody's - Diana Wade; Vessels - Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, Miki-Sophia Cloud, Ted Hearne; Exposure - Argus Quartet

Yes - In the Present—Live from Lyon (Frontiers; 2011)

Grateful Dead - Miami Arena, Miami, FL, Oct. 26, 1989 (Archive.org; 1989)

Playlist (Coming around).

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

Harold Budd - This Is Harold Budd (Spotify playlist)

Danny Paul Grody - Sunrise, Looking East (Longform Editions; 2019)

Kajsa Lindgren - Undercurrents (Longform Editions; 2019)

Tangerine Dream - In Search of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973-1979 (Virgin; 2019)

Steve Roach - "The Beauty Relentless" from Bloom Ascension (Projekt; due Aug. 30, 2019)

Krístín Anna - I Must Be the Devil (Bel-Air Glamour; 2019)

Ahnnu - The Dreaming Arrow (Longform Editions; 2019)

Dead & Company - Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX, 12/02/17 (Los Muertos/Rhino; 2019)

75 Dollar Bill - WOOD​/​METAL​/​PLASTIC​/​PATTERN​/​RHYTHM​/​ROCK (Thin Wrist; 2016)

Dead & Company - Citi Field, New York, NY, June 15, 2018 (Nugs.net; 2018. Audio samples here.)

Primitive Motion - Cradle of the Horizon (Longform Editions; 2019)