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Radio Eclectus bids farewell to R. Murray Schafer, whose promotion of acoustic ecology influenced composers as diverse as John Luther Adams and Hildegard Westerkamp. We also honor the 50th anniversary of Iannis Xenakis's Persepolis, a precursor of today's noise and industrial music, which we demonstrate by juxtaposing it with offerings by Merzbow, Otomo Yoshihide, Xiu Xiu and Black Leather Jesus. Throughout the program we emphasize how the avant-garde's response to today's sensory overload often takes the form of music that's extremely soft and slow, or alternatively, music that's extremely loud and harsh.
We also have new releases to enjoy: Gabriel Prokofiev, Enno Poppe, Roger Reynolds, Elisabeth Harnik, Aloïs Yang, Three-Layer Cake and the duo of Lao Dan & Boyu Deng. We've even got an obscure late work by Hindemith that's just been recorded for the first time. Radical new music from the Northwest and beyond with host Michael Schell.
Annotated playlist & photo credits in Comments.
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Annotated playlist for show #95
Intro and SET 1: Avant-happenings [0:00]
1. [1:56] Gabriel Prokofiev: Isolation. From Breaking Screens (Melodiya, 2021) with Gabriel Prokofiev (electronics), OpensoundOrchestra, Stanislav Malyshev (conductor), Ilya Karpov (recording engineer)
2. [5:39] Gabriel Prokofiev: Green Into Red. From Breaking Screens (credits as above)
3. [8:07] Lao Dan, Deng BoYu: 1st Movement, The Wordless Ocean (excerpt). From TUTU Duo (NoBusiness, 2021) with 老丹 Lao Dan (alto saxophone, Chinese flute), 邓博宇 Deng BoYu (drums, percussion)
4. [16:12] Xïola Yin: Duplicated Duplication. From Self-Contained Illusion (The Peak) (Dinzu Artefacts, 2021) Aloïs with Yang AKA Xïola Yin
5. [20:32] Bernard Parmegiani: La roue Ferris. From L'Œuvre Musicale (INA-GRM, 2008). NOTE: Premiered August 26, 1971
6. [31:12] Three-Layer Cake: Luminous Range - Anxious Valve. From Stove Top (RareNoiseRecords, 2021) with Brandon Seabrook (guitar, banjo, tapes), Mike Watt (bass), Mike Pride (drums, marimba, glockenspiel, bells, organ, recording engineer)
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SET 2: R. Murray Schafer (1933–2021) [37:00]
1. [40:45] Elisabeth Harnik: Superstructure (excerpt). From Superstructure/Holding up a Bridge (Trost, 2021) with All Ears Area Ensemble: Elisabeth Harnik (piano), Petra Stump (clarinets), Krassimir Šterev (accordeon), Michael Moser (cello), Christian Wolfarth (percussion), Josef Novotny (electronics), Klaus Janek (double bass). NOTE: Recorded live in concert April 11, 2007 by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation at RadioKulturhaus, Vienna
2. [51:26] Roger Reynolds: Piano Etudes Nos. 4, 5, 2, 3. From Roger Reynolds at 85, Vol. 2: Piano Etudes (Mode, 2021) with Eric Huebner (piano)
3. [1:09:11] R. Murray Schafer: String Quartet No. 12. From String Quartets 8–12 (ATMA Classique, 2013) with Quatuor Molinari. NOTE: Composed 2012
4. [1:26:04] Voice break with R. Murray Schafer: Listen
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SET 3: Canada to Germany
1. [1:30:38] R. Murray Schafer: And Wolf Shall Inherit the Moon - Trumpet Aubade from Patria (Opening Day, 2000) with Stuart Laughton (trumpet)
2. [1:33:55] Enno Poppe: Feld. From Tonband (Wergo, 2021) with Yarn/Wire: Ian Antonio, Russell Greenberg (percussion), Laura Barger, Ning Yu (pianos). NOTE: Composed 2007/17
3. [1:57:52] Paul Hindemith: Mainzer Umzug (excerpts). From Mainzer Umzug ∙ Symphonische Metamorphosen (CPO, 2021) with Marie-Christine Haase (soprano), Alexander Spemann (tenor), Michael Dahmen (baritone), Rhineland Palatinate Youth Choir, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz, Hermann Bäumer (conductor). NOTE: Composed 1962, first recording
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SET 4: Persepolis at 50 [2:06:55]
1. [2:12:04] Iannis Xenakis: Persepolis (excerpts). From Persepolis (Karlrecords, 2018) remastered by Zeitkratzer sound engineer Martin Wurmnest and Rashad Becker. NOTE: Persepolis was premiered August 26, 1971 at the Persepolis ruins, Iran. C.f. https://tinyurl.com/SchellsPicks2018 on this recording
2. [2:25:22] Otomo Yoshihide: Untitled (remix of Xenakis' Persepolis). From Persepolis + Remixes Edition I (Asphodel, 2002)
3. [2:34:42] Merzbow: Untitled (remix of Xenakis' Persepolis). From Persepolis + Remixes Edition I (as above)
4. [2:41:44] Black Leather Jesus, Xiu Xiu: 8888434564. From Moira (Summer Interlude Records, 2021) with Angela Seo, Domokos Benczedi, Jamie Stewart, Kevin Novak, Richard Ramirez, Scott Kindberg, Sean Matzus, Thomas Puopolo (sounds)
5. [2:51:52] Outro
6. [2:56:26] Iannis Xenakis: Bohor (excerpt). From Electronic Music (INA-GRM/Electronic Music Foundation, 1997). NOTE: Realized 1962
Photo credits: Merzbow by Erin Altomare, Aloïs Yang by Wang-Yu.org, Iannis Xenakis via Les Amis de Xenakis, Enno Poppe via Ricordi, Lao Dan by Ahsan Lin/Bothbin, Bernard Parmegiani by Claudeanne37, Paul Hindemith playing viola by Rudolf Heinisch, Elisabeth Harnik by Bernhard Guenther, Xiu Xiu by Julia Brokaw, Gabriel Prokofiev by Nathan Gallagher, R Murray Schafer via the artist, Roger Reynolds by Malcolm Crowthers, Otomo Yoshihide by Hreinn Gudlaugsson.