Flotation Device celebrates Michael Nyman's 80th birthday with a mini-retrospective ranging from his famous film music through his more exploratory ensemble works. We contrast his exuberant postminimalism with the more austere loops and glitches of Bernhard Lang (via his new triple CD) and the maximalism of Nyman’s contemporary and compatriot Brian Ferneyhough (through our 50 years ago in the avant-garde feature). A more haunting kind of repetitive music is pursued by Joe Santa Maria and the Sound-In collective, while Adam Rudolph and David Leon assemble multicultural ensembles. Wayne Horvitz and Fred Frith deliver new solo improvisations, and Rudolf Eb.er, Alice Kemp and the Matthew Shipp Trio offer new concepts in ritual and piano trio performance. A preview of Joël-François Durand’s upcoming premiere with the Mivos Quartet by way of his new portrait album on Kairos records rounds out this eclectic program. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world.
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Flotation Device 2024-03-24: Annotated playlist by host Michael Schell
Intro and SET 1: Ab Uno, Multi [0:00]
1. [1:11] Sound-In: From One, Many. From Retrospection 2013–2017 (NiwoSound, 2023) with Paul H. Muller, Jim Goodin, Steve Moyes, Roger Sundström, Chris Vaisvil (musicians), Steve Layton (editing)
2. [6:11] Wayne Horvitz: Improvisation 2. From 11 Improvisations (Right Brain, 2024) with Wayne Horvitz (prepared piano), Daniel Guenther (recording engineer)
3. [8:12] David Leon: Infatuation Station. From Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic, 2024) with David Leon (soprano and alto saxophones, alto flute, piccolo), DoYeon Kim (gayageum, voice), Lesley Mok (drumset, percussion, glockenspiel), Ryan Streber (recording engineer)
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SET 2: Experimental Music: Minimalism and Beyond [15:12]
1. [18:02] Bernhard Lang: DW 16.4 'Songbook I.4' - Count 2 4. From Voice and Ensemble (Kairos, 2024) with Sarah Maria Sun (soprano), Soyuz 21: Sascha Armbruster (saxophone), Mats Scheidegger (electric guitar), Philipp Meier (synthesizer), João Carlos Pacheco (drums, percussion), Michael Krogmann (recording engineer)
2. [21:15] Bernhard Lang: DW 16.4 'Songbook I.4' - Another Door for Jenny. From Voice and Ensemble (credits as above)
3. [25:53] Wayne Horvitz: Improvisation 9. From 11 Improvisations (Right Brain, 2024) with Wayne Horvitz (piano), Daniel Guenther (recording engineer)
4. [29:17] Michael Nyman: Symphony No. 2 - IV. From Symphony Nos. 5 & 2 (MN, 2017) with World Orchestra, Josep Vicent (conductor). NOTE: Composed 2014
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SET 3: Nyman at 80 [35:46]
1. [38:46] Michael Nyman: In Re Don Giovanni. From Mozart 252 (MN, 2008) with Michael Nyman Band, Austin Ince (recording engineer)
2. [41:23] Michael Nyman: The Self-Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and her Omnipotence. From If (Signum, 2019) with Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Fretwork. NOTE: Composed 1992
3. [54:35] Outro with Henry Purcell: Music for a While
4. [58:51] Michael Nyman: Time Lapse. From Music for Peter Greenaway's film A Zed & Two Noughts (Virgin, 1985) with The Zoo Orchestra, Michael Nyman (harpsichord, conductor)
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SET 4: 50 years ago in the avant-garde [1:02:51]
1. [1:03:46] Adam Rudolph: Proto Zoa Gogo. From Timeless (Meta, 2023) with Adam Rudolph (keyboards, percussion, flutes, double reeds), Hu Vibrational: Kaoru Watanabe (nohkan flute), Eivind Aarset (guitar and electronics), Alexis Marcelo (Fender Rhodes, organ), Damon Banks (bass), Hamid Drake (drum set), James Dellatacoma (recording engineer)
2. [1:08:14] Fred Frith: Glass c/w Steel. From Guitar Solos (Caroline, 1974, reissued 2014 by Week-End Records as Guitar Solos/Fifty) with Fred Frith (guitar), David Vorhaus (recording engineer)
3. [1:13:44] Rudolf Eb.er, Alice Kemp: skinned alight. From Skinned Alight (Love Earth Music, 2023) with Rudolf Ebner AKA Rudolf Eb.er, Alice Kemp
4. [1:17:43] Joe Santa Maria: Pathways 2. From Echo Deep (Orenda, 2023) with Joe Santa Maria (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone saxes, piccolo, flute, clarinet, keyboards), Andrew Conrad (reeds), Dan Rosenboom, Brandon Sherman, Andrew Rowan (trumpets), Ryan Dragon, Julianne Gralle (trombones), Max Kutner (guitar), Lauren Baba (strings), David Tranchina (bass), Tim Carr (drums)
5. [1:20:36] Brian Ferneyhough: Missa brevis - Kyrie. From La terre est un homme (NMC, 2018) with Exaudi Vocal Ensemble, James Weeks (conductor), Tim Archer, Tom Parnell (recording engineers). NOTE: Composed 1966–9, premiered March 24, 1974 by le Chœur de la Radio d'Hilversum, Marinus Voorberg (conductor), Royan, France
6. [1:22:30] Brian Ferneyhough: Missa brevis - Agnus Dei. From La terre est un homme (credits as above)
7. [1:25:17] Brian Ferneyhough: Sieben Sterne (excerpt). From Passages_Übergänge (Orlando, 2021) with Samuel Cosandey (organ), Benoït Piccand (recording engineer). NOTE: Composed 1970, premiered March 27, 1974 by Bernard Foccroulle, Royan, France
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SET 5: Shipp, Frith and Durand [1:31:10]
1. [1:34:24] Matthew Shipp Trio: Non Circle. From New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk', 2024) with Matthew Shipp Trio: Matthew Shipp (piano), Michael Bisio (bass), Newman Taylor Baker (drums), Jim Clouse (recording engineer)
2. [1:41:22] Fred Frith: Unterwegs (for Roman). From Guitar Solos/Fifty (Week-End, 2024) with Fred Frith (guitar)
3. [1:45:11] Joël-François Durand: In the Mirror Land. From Geister (Kairos, 2014) with Constance Volk (flute), Katherine Jimoh (clarinet), Dan Nichols, Mark Alletag (recording engineers). NOTE: Composed 2005
4. [1:51:02] Outro with Joël-François Durand: Mundus Imaginalis
Photo credits: Joël-François Durand by Steve Korn, Michael Nyman by Fernando Aceves, Sarah Maria Sun by Rüdiger Schestag, Brian Ferneyhough by Agathe Poupeney, Joe Santa Maria via the artist, Fred Frith by Ray Smith, Matthew Shipp Trio (Newman Taylor Baker, Matt Shipp, Michael Bisio) by Anna Yatskevich, Wayne Horvitz by Michael Schell, Alice Kemp and Rudolf Eb.er by Julia Bauer, Bird’s Eye (David Leon, DoYeon Kim, Lesley Mok) via PostGenre