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Tag: Piano

  • Tiffany Lin: Piano Racket in Seattle

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    From WAYWARD MUSIC on March 13. 8:00 PM; $5 – $15 sliding scale donation at the door. Seattle pianist and toy pianist Tiffany Lin performs Piano Racket: Music for the Unconventional Piano, a concert featuring solo music for prepared piano, string piano, retuned piano, and toy pianos. The program features a double world premiere of…

  • Musique Machine Reviews

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    From Musique Machine: Various Artists – Favourite, Places Favorite Places is a compilation based on the idea of the artists choosing to represent in sound their favorite places. It’s the type of concept which sounds intriguing, but in practice is somewhat confining. The locations chosen by the artists are often surprising in their banality, and…

  • AMN Picks of the Week

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    Cover via Amazon Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez – Calibration (2007, free-form rock/fusion/psych) Omar Rodriguez-Lopez…

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    Andrey Kiritchenko (via last.fm) From Musique Machine: Merzbow – Dead Leaves Dead Leaves title may suggest an organic, melancholy and doomy outlook but the three tracks inside are quite the opposite- with each been a great long, jittering and shifting electro noise attacks which are splattered here and there with melodic hints, rhythmic chugs and…

  • Composers and Computers Work in Harmony at Georgia Tech

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    An article discusses Georgia Tech’s new computer music center. A glove that helps you learn to play piano, a robotic marimba player that can jam with your band, a program to turn your cellphone into a portable music mixer, and an aquarium that musically accompanies the fish. You are unlikely to encounter any of those…

  • The Bad Plus in St. Louis Reviews

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    Image by jerrroen via Flickr A recent show from The Bad Plus, gets some noise. The audience present for the 8:30 p.m. Bad Plus set last evening leaned more toward curious observers than diehard fans. It was difficult to suspect the sort of crowd that would take interest in the piano, bass, and drum trio,…

  • All About Jazz Reviews

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    Image via Wikipedia From All About Jazz: Paul Bley Barrage (ESP Disk) Reviewed by Lyn Horton 05-Jan-09 Alexander von Schlippenbach Piano Solo ’77 (FMP Records) Reviewed by Henry Smith 03-Jan-09 Avishai Cohen Flood (Anzic Records) Reviewed by J Hunter 03-Jan-09 Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths (Hatology) Reviewed by Troy Collins

  • Stanford Lively Arts Event: Songs of Ascension

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    Meredith Monk and others play at Stanford. Songs of Ascension BY MEREDITH MONK AND ANN HAMILTON featuring: Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble; Todd Reynolds Quartet and Guests; Ann Hamilton, visual media; members of the Pacific Mozart Ensemble October 18, 2008 Saturday / 8:00 pm Memorial Auditorium $25–60 (Adult) | $13–30 (Stanford Student) Commissioned by Stanford…

  • New World Records Releases

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    Image via Wikipedia New material from New World Records: September 2008 Michael Byron: Dreamers of Pearl Composer(s): Michael Byron Michael Byron (b. 1953) was a pupil of James Tenney, and later, of Richard Teitelbaum. The body of music he has composed over the past thirty years has been harmonically rich, rhythmically detailed, and increasingly virtuosic.…