Starting From Scratch

Relevant Tones

English - August 19, 2012 16:00 - 58 minutes - 80.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
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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