Tag: Phil Kline

American Contemporary Music Ensemble – Kindred Spirits in John Cage and Phil Kline, at Tank

Post author By Mike
Post date December 21, 2009

: Cover of John Cage (American Composers)

Finding connections between John Cage and Phil Kline, experimental composers from different generations and backgrounds, is not very hard. Cage, the Zen master whose chance operations loosened the strictures of contemporary music, surely provided an early model for the random serendipities of Mr. Kline’s subsequent boombox compositions like “Unsilent Night,” a seasonal processional that wound through Greenwich Village streets just over a week ago.

“Sensational” Phil Kline Daze DVD from Starkland Praised at New York Times, Stereophile, New York Magazine, WNYC (prweb.com)
#1 Amazon Bestseller: Phil Kline’s Daze from Starkland (netnewmusic.net)
Phil Kline at Brooklyn Academy of Music caps active 2009 (netnewmusic.net)

Tags Arts, Contemporary music, Greenwich Village, John Cage, Music, New York Times, Phil Kline, Zen

General

Newsbits

Post author By Mike
Post date December 12, 2009

: Image by Getty Images via Daylife

A short interview with Medeski, Martin and Wood has been posted.

John Zorn, Lou Reed, and Laurie Anderson will play next year’s Montreal Jazz Fest.

Theo Bleckmann has a new album of Charles Ives songs coming out.

Phil Kline‘s latest two releases are reviewed in the Chicago Reader.

Caustic Reverie is an ambient-drone artist with 15 albums available for free download.

“Sensational” Phil Kline Daze DVD from Starkland Praised at New York Times, Stereophile, New York Magazine, WNYC (prweb.com)
Earshot: Phantom Orchard + Peggy Lee & Saadet Türköz (waywardmusic.blogspot.com)
Firehouse 12 To Present Mauger October 2nd (improvisedcommunications.wordpress.com)
Music Review | Gavin Friday: The Road to Carnegie Hall Is Paved With Ambition and Weird Turns (nytimes.com)

Tags Arts, Chicago Reader, John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Music, Phil Kline, Theo Bleckmann

Performances Reviews

Ethel, Alarm Will Sound and Bang on a Can All-Stars Perform

Post author By Mike
Post date March 6, 2009

A review from NYTimes.com:

As a prelude, the idiosyncratic string quartet Ethel gave the premiere of Phil Kline’s “Space” as a free concert in the hall’s large new public area. The quartet’s players were deployed individually to the north, south, east and west of the restaurant and waiting area, and a loudspeaker in each corner carried the amplified, electronically processed sound of one musician. (The sound designer, Jody Elff, was given equal billing with Mr. Kline.)

Mr. Kline’s hypnotically attractive 45-minute work begins with the quartet playing a tremolando figure that gradually shifts to new harmonies and textures before moving through the lexicon of string ensemble effects. Along the way it explores sustained tones and lightly dissonant harmonies, with a bagpipelike timbre; pizzicato figures supporting soaring, lyrical viola and cello lines; and ornate violin solos bathed in tape delay that created an almost fugal illusion.

Music Review: Some Boundaries Are Broken, Others Are Defined (nytimes.com)
Do it yourself string quartet (netnewmusic.net)
The Pacifica Quartet at Wigmore Hall review (telegraph.co.uk)
Steve Reich, Glenn Kotche Perform at Alice Tully Hall Opening … – Nonesuch Records (netnewmusic.net)

Tags Alarm Will Sound, Bang on a Can, Ethel, Music, Phil Kline, String quartet, Viola, Violin

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