Listen "Starting From Scratch"
Episode Synopsis
This week’s Relevant Tones focuses on composers who have tried to step outside the box, redefine their definitions of music, and start over without limitations. We’ll be examining the works of Alvin Lucier, Chris Preissing, James Tenney, Lou Harrison, and more.
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room (excerpt)
James Tenney: Cellogram, William Jason Raynovich, Cello
Lou Harrison: Cornish Lancaran, Musicians of the Gamelan Si Betty, Berkeley Chamber Singers
Colin McPhee: Tabuh-Tabuhan, Toccata for Orchestra
Eastman/Rochester Symphony Orchestra-Hanson
Harry Partch: Delusion and the Fury: A Ritual of Dream and Delusion (excerpt)
Christopher Preissing: Pales
Angela DiOrio, ClarinetLive in WFMT Studio
Steven Mackie: Indigenous instruments
Eighth Blackbird
Hosted by Seth Boustead
Produced by Jesse McQuarters
Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room (excerpt)
James Tenney: Cellogram, William Jason Raynovich, Cello
Lou Harrison: Cornish Lancaran, Musicians of the Gamelan Si Betty, Berkeley Chamber Singers
Colin McPhee: Tabuh-Tabuhan, Toccata for Orchestra
Eastman/Rochester Symphony Orchestra-Hanson
Harry Partch: Delusion and the Fury: A Ritual of Dream and Delusion (excerpt)
Christopher Preissing: Pales
Angela DiOrio, ClarinetLive in WFMT Studio
Steven Mackie: Indigenous instruments
Eighth Blackbird
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