From gcremaschi at hotmail.com  Wed Jul  1 04:10:18 2009
From: gcremaschi at hotmail.com (George Cremaschi)
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 04:10:18 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] The Burt Ward Sessions (Zappa tracks)
In-Reply-To: <C6705025.ED5%gino@rastascan.com>
References: <C6705025.ED5%gino@rastascan.com>
Message-ID: <BLU136-W6D6B8F5F43489E819AB7BC12E0@phx.gbl>


If you go to the main page of this blog, http://nevergetoutoftheboat.blogspot.com, and scroll down a bit, there's an entry for a Beanbender's show that Henry Kaiser organized in 1998, an improv version of 'Peter and the Wolf'. It features, among others in a very oddball cast, and perhaps amusingly for some long-time subscribers to this list, Dan Plonsey, Damon Smith, and myself...!
-George


> From: gino at rastascan.com
> 
> http://nevergetoutoftheboat.blogspot.com/2009/05/burt-ward-mothers-of-invent
> ion.html
> 
> Thanks to HK for hipping me to this blog.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

_________________________________________________________________
Windows Live?: Keep your life in sync. 
http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_BR_life_in_synch_062009

From gino at rastascan.com  Wed Jul  1 11:21:51 2009
From: gino at rastascan.com (Gino Robair)
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:21:51 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Is Sarah Lockhart on vacation?
Message-ID: <C670F74F.F12%gino@rastascan.com>

Anyone know if Sarah from 21G is outta town? Jon and I have a couple of
questions for her...


From slusser at pixar.com  Wed Jul  1 21:14:18 2009
From: slusser at pixar.com (David Slusser)
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:14:18 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] The Burt Ward Sessions (Zappa tracks)
In-Reply-To: <C6705025.ED5%gino@rastascan.com>
References: <C6705025.ED5%gino@rastascan.com>
Message-ID: <CD41FEAC-46B3-4705-9752-72A3F514A16A@pixar.com>

On Jun 30, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Gino Robair wrote:

> Not sure why I thought of Slusser while listening to this, but  
> there ya go:
>
> http://nevergetoutoftheboat.blogspot.com/2009/05/burt-ward-mothers- 
> of-invent
> ion.html
>
> Thanks to HK for hipping me to this blog.


....hmm, more Boisen or Connah to me.


From weirdtones at yahoo.com  Wed Jul  1 21:17:26 2009
From: weirdtones at yahoo.com (Terrence McManus)
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 21:17:26 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [NewMusic] Terrence McManus/Scott Amendola Thursday Night
Message-ID: <585256.70570.qm@web84103.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi-
This is just a friendly reminder that Terrence McManus and Scott Amendola will be performing improvised duets tomorrow night(Thursday) at Bluesix Gallery, 9pm.
Bluesix Gallery 3043 24th st.

also this week on the Terrence McManus(NYC) Bay Area tour...

Terrence McManus/Phillip Greenlief Duo
Friday, 9pm
Flux 53 Gallery 5300-5312 Foothill Boulevard   Oakland, CA

Terrence McManus solo
7:30pm
Musician's Hall
116 9th St. SF

Terrence McManus solo
7:30pm(I think)
3111 Deakin St  Berkeley,

Terrence is avilable for lessons while in town!
website:
http://terrence-mcmanus.com




--- On Mon, 6/29/09, Matt Davignon <mattdavignon at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Matt Davignon <mattdavignon at gmail.com>
Subject: [NewMusic] 13 year-old kid with a walkman
To: "Bay Area New Music Discussion Group" <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Date: Monday, June 29, 2009, 4:53 PM

I thought this was a funny article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm

"It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to
the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook
the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser"

Matt Davignon
www.ribosomemusic.com
_______________________________________________
Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

From tim at perkis.com  Wed Jul  1 23:32:19 2009
From: tim at perkis.com (Tim Perkis)
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:32:19 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] The Burt Ward Sessions (Zappa tracks)
In-Reply-To: <CD41FEAC-46B3-4705-9752-72A3F514A16A@pixar.com>
References: <C6705025.ED5%gino@rastascan.com>
	<CD41FEAC-46B3-4705-9752-72A3F514A16A@pixar.com>
Message-ID: <4A4C5473.4020608@perkis.com>

nevergetoutoftheboat is great but be careful clicking their download 
links: for some reason he uses one of those vile download sites 
(sharebee) and if you make a habit of downloading stuff through that you 
will pick up some nasty virusy crapware

T


David Slusser wrote:
> On Jun 30, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Gino Robair wrote:
>
>   
>> Not sure why I thought of Slusser while listening to this, but  
>> there ya go:
>>
>> http://nevergetoutoftheboat.blogspot.com/2009/05/burt-ward-mothers- 
>> of-invent
>> ion.html
>>
>> Thanks to HK for hipping me to this blog.
>>     
>
>
> ....hmm, more Boisen or Connah to me.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
>
>   

From mattdavignon at gmail.com  Thu Jul  2 11:18:34 2009
From: mattdavignon at gmail.com (Matt Davignon)
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:18:34 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] This is NOT the list for gig postings
Message-ID: <c70e517b0907021118r4e26fffej66b53173c08ebb1e@mail.gmail.com>

Not to pick on the person who sent his gig posting this morning, but
it's happened a few times this week.

"newmusic" has 2 different email lists. This is the discussion list.
If you post gigs here, people will declare you to be a "sausage".
(It's a long story.)  It's probably better to not let people think you
have chunks of fat and seeds throughout your body, or that you're
surrounded by intestinal casing. That's not true, right? You're a
person, with hopes and dreams and feelings! With that in mind, please
post to the right list.

For events list info: http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusicevents
The email address: newmusicevents at music.mills.edu.

From bergmark1 at glocalnet.net  Thu Jul  2 14:31:38 2009
From: bergmark1 at glocalnet.net (Johannes Bergmark)
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:31:38 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] This is NOT the list for gig postings
In-Reply-To: <c70e517b0907021118r4e26fffej66b53173c08ebb1e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c70e517b0907021118r4e26fffej66b53173c08ebb1e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1FA23782-7787-4F01-8F25-5AF7EE07C9F7@glocalnet.net>

Sorry all, I'm guilty of this mistake (because of ignorance).
I now subscribed to the other list and promise to keep them separate  
in the future!
All the best, you Bay Area people.
Johannes Bergmark the sausage


2 jul 2009 kl. 11.18 skrev Matt Davignon:

> Not to pick on the person who sent his gig posting this morning, but
> it's happened a few times this week.
>
> "newmusic" has 2 different email lists. This is the discussion list.
> If you post gigs here, people will declare you to be a "sausage".
> (It's a long story.)  It's probably better to not let people think you
> have chunks of fat and seeds throughout your body, or that you're
> surrounded by intestinal casing. That's not true, right? You're a
> person, with hopes and dreams and feelings! With that in mind, please
> post to the right list.
>
> For events list info: http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusicevents
> The email address: newmusicevents at music.mills.edu.

-------------------------
http://bergmark.org
http://surrealistgruppen.org
http://fylkingen.se

From letucepry at yahoo.com  Thu Jul  2 15:49:16 2009
From: letucepry at yahoo.com (Ron Lettuce)
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:49:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [NewMusic] This is NOT the list for gig postings
In-Reply-To: <1FA23782-7787-4F01-8F25-5AF7EE07C9F7@glocalnet.net>
References: <c70e517b0907021118r4e26fffej66b53173c08ebb1e@mail.gmail.com>
	<1FA23782-7787-4F01-8F25-5AF7EE07C9F7@glocalnet.net>
Message-ID: <187673.61887.qm@web54303.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Ein bergmarker bitte mit senf, ist das als ein thuringer?




________________________________
From: Johannes Bergmark <bergmark1 at glocalnet.net>
To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2009 2:31:38 PM
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] This is NOT the list for gig postings

Sorry all, I'm guilty of this mistake (because of ignorance).
I now subscribed to the other list and promise to keep them separate? 
in the future!
All the best, you Bay Area people.
Johannes Bergmark the sausage


2 jul 2009 kl. 11.18 skrev Matt Davignon:

> Not to pick on the person who sent his gig posting this morning, but
> it's happened a few times this week.
>
> "newmusic" has 2 different email lists. This is the discussion list.
> If you post gigs here, people will declare you to be a "sausage".
> (It's a long story.)? It's probably better to not let people think you
> have chunks of fat and seeds throughout your body, or that you're
> surrounded by intestinal casing. That's not true, right? You're a
> person, with hopes and dreams and feelings! With that in mind, please
> post to the right list.
>
> For events list info: http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusicevents
> The email address: newmusicevents at music.mills.edu.

-------------------------
http://bergmark.org
http://surrealistgruppen.org
http://fylkingen.se
_______________________________________________
Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

From suki at zoka.com  Sun Jul  5 14:17:00 2009
From: suki at zoka.com (Suki O'Kane)
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:17:00 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Call for Artists: Aug 7 Best of the East Bay at OMCA
Message-ID: <a06240812c676c57d6d89@[192.168.0.8]>

illCorr has been asked to assemble outdoor projection with some 
opportunities for sound at the Oakland Museum of California during 
the August 7 Best of the East Bay event. Short notice. Eek. No money. 
I'm sorry. But you could receive East Bay Express advertising in 
trade. Not a Corridor, really. But we'll be there to take care of 
thangs.

explained, as best as I can ever do: 
http://www.illuminatedcorridor.com/callforartists.html
questions, proposals go to mailto:proposals at illuminatedcorridor.com

Details:
    Friday August 7, 2009
    Oakland Museum of California
    1000 Oak Street
    event is 5pm to midnight
    civil twilight is 8:39pm
    high traffic, live music, cash bars
    a people's celebration

The Call:
    artists residing or creating in east bay
    image
       live cinema
       traditional screening
       all formats
    sound
       live via web
       downloadable via podcast
    science
       interactive work that uses
       density, motion, and audience input
       as controllers/properties
    sites (check website for details)
       terrace 1.5
       west stairs rising from museum gardens
       passage to second level galleries
       james moore theater passage
       mobile projection
    constraints
       outdoors
       no tech from the hosts
       limited access to ac

For sure needing:

    six media artists for one-hour live sets
    (image/sound) that incorporate the
    environment in realtime

    two artist / artist teams for
    passage to second level galleries
    (90 minute sets image only)

    three artist / artist teams for
    west stairs from gardens
    (one hour sets, image only,
     audio will be overtaken by the
     adjacent live music stages)

    media editor to assemble screening reels

Opportunities may exist that are not listed here. Please share your 
thoughts on the matter right away:

      proposals at illuminatedcorridor.com
      your name
      your contact info
      what you wanna do
      urls of things you've done

Please give a shout by the end of the day Friday, July 10.

thanks, hope to hear from youse soon.


From damon at balancepointacoustics.com  Sun Jul  5 14:22:04 2009
From: damon at balancepointacoustics.com (Damon Smith)
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:22:04 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Call for Artists: Aug 7 Best of the East Bay at OMCA
In-Reply-To: <a06240812c676c57d6d89@[192.168.0.8]>
References: <a06240812c676c57d6d89@[192.168.0.8]>
Message-ID: <44BC6EB5-9025-4E34-AC3B-7E22316DB611@balancepointacoustics.com>

I would lobe to have some video, and I could also play.

Damon Smith
http://www.balancepointacoustics.com

Sent from my iPod

On Jul 5, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Suki O'Kane <suki at zoka.com> wrote:

> illCorr has been asked to assemble outdoor projection with some
> opportunities for sound at the Oakland Museum of California during
> the August 7 Best of the East Bay event. Short notice. Eek. No money.
> I'm sorry. But you could receive East Bay Express advertising in
> trade. Not a Corridor, really. But we'll be there to take care of
> thangs.
>
> explained, as best as I can ever do:
> http://www.illuminatedcorridor.com/callforartists.html
> questions, proposals go to mailto:proposals at illuminatedcorridor.com
>
> Details:
>    Friday August 7, 2009
>    Oakland Museum of California
>    1000 Oak Street
>    event is 5pm to midnight
>    civil twilight is 8:39pm
>    high traffic, live music, cash bars
>    a people's celebration
>
> The Call:
>    artists residing or creating in east bay
>    image
>       live cinema
>       traditional screening
>       all formats
>    sound
>       live via web
>       downloadable via podcast
>    science
>       interactive work that uses
>       density, motion, and audience input
>       as controllers/properties
>    sites (check website for details)
>       terrace 1.5
>       west stairs rising from museum gardens
>       passage to second level galleries
>       james moore theater passage
>       mobile projection
>    constraints
>       outdoors
>       no tech from the hosts
>       limited access to ac
>
> For sure needing:
>
>    six media artists for one-hour live sets
>    (image/sound) that incorporate the
>    environment in realtime
>
>    two artist / artist teams for
>    passage to second level galleries
>    (90 minute sets image only)
>
>    three artist / artist teams for
>    west stairs from gardens
>    (one hour sets, image only,
>     audio will be overtaken by the
>     adjacent live music stages)
>
>    media editor to assemble screening reels
>
> Opportunities may exist that are not listed here. Please share your
> thoughts on the matter right away:
>
>      proposals at illuminatedcorridor.com
>      your name
>      your contact info
>      what you wanna do
>      urls of things you've done
>
> Please give a shout by the end of the day Friday, July 10.
>
> thanks, hope to hear from youse soon.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

From damon at balancepointacoustics.com  Sun Jul  5 14:30:46 2009
From: damon at balancepointacoustics.com (Damon Smith)
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:30:46 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Call for Artists: Aug 7 Best of the East Bay at OMCA
In-Reply-To: <44BC6EB5-9025-4E34-AC3B-7E22316DB611@balancepointacoustics.com>
References: <a06240812c676c57d6d89@[192.168.0.8]>
	<44BC6EB5-9025-4E34-AC3B-7E22316DB611@balancepointacoustics.com>
Message-ID: <CFB69AC9-51CA-41D9-8ED2-8392C2C57428@balancepointacoustics.com>

Uh,  sorry!

Damon Smith
http://www.balancepointacoustics.com

Sent from my iPod

On Jul 5, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Damon Smith  
<damon at balancepointacoustics.com> wrote:

> I would lobe to have some video, and I could also play.
>
> Damon Smith
> http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> On Jul 5, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Suki O'Kane <suki at zoka.com> wrote:
>
>> illCorr has been asked to assemble outdoor projection with some
>> opportunities for sound at the Oakland Museum of California during
>> the August 7 Best of the East Bay event. Short notice. Eek. No money.
>> I'm sorry. But you could receive East Bay Express advertising in
>> trade. Not a Corridor, really. But we'll be there to take care of
>> thangs.
>>
>> explained, as best as I can ever do:
>> http://www.illuminatedcorridor.com/callforartists.html
>> questions, proposals go to mailto:proposals at illuminatedcorridor.com
>>
>> Details:
>>   Friday August 7, 2009
>>   Oakland Museum of California
>>   1000 Oak Street
>>   event is 5pm to midnight
>>   civil twilight is 8:39pm
>>   high traffic, live music, cash bars
>>   a people's celebration
>>
>> The Call:
>>   artists residing or creating in east bay
>>   image
>>      live cinema
>>      traditional screening
>>      all formats
>>   sound
>>      live via web
>>      downloadable via podcast
>>   science
>>      interactive work that uses
>>      density, motion, and audience input
>>      as controllers/properties
>>   sites (check website for details)
>>      terrace 1.5
>>      west stairs rising from museum gardens
>>      passage to second level galleries
>>      james moore theater passage
>>      mobile projection
>>   constraints
>>      outdoors
>>      no tech from the hosts
>>      limited access to ac
>>
>> For sure needing:
>>
>>   six media artists for one-hour live sets
>>   (image/sound) that incorporate the
>>   environment in realtime
>>
>>   two artist / artist teams for
>>   passage to second level galleries
>>   (90 minute sets image only)
>>
>>   three artist / artist teams for
>>   west stairs from gardens
>>   (one hour sets, image only,
>>    audio will be overtaken by the
>>    adjacent live music stages)
>>
>>   media editor to assemble screening reels
>>
>> Opportunities may exist that are not listed here. Please share your
>> thoughts on the matter right away:
>>
>>     proposals at illuminatedcorridor.com
>>     your name
>>     your contact info
>>     what you wanna do
>>     urls of things you've done
>>
>> Please give a shout by the end of the day Friday, July 10.
>>
>> thanks, hope to hear from youse soon.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
>> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
>> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

From matthew at matthewgoodheart.com  Sun Jul  5 17:07:35 2009
From: matthew at matthewgoodheart.com (Matthew Goodheart)
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 17:07:35 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Sunday's Flashback
Message-ID: <91807745-9256-4C66-B1B1-5811F53F223A@matthewgoodheart.com>

Just bumped into this transcription of a 1964 Bennington panel:  "The  
Shape of Jazz to Come" with Cecil Taylor (mostly), Louis Calabro,  
Frederick Koenig, Hall Overton, with LeRoi Jones in the audience among  
others. . .

http://www.mattweston.com/cecilpanel.html

so yummy


mg

Matthew Goodheart
composer ~ improviser ~ pianist
matthew at matthewgoodheart.com
http://matthewgoodheart.com
http://myspace.com/matthewgoodheart





From polly.moller at gmail.com  Wed Jul  8 13:45:11 2009
From: polly.moller at gmail.com (Polly Moller)
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:45:11 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] New music series in Birmingham, AL
Message-ID: <2eb068d40907081345k160170bdu4bc42da350ca89a4@mail.gmail.com>

For those of you hitting the road in the Southeast, our friend Andrew
Raffo Dewar has started up a series:

http://bhamexperiments.tumblr.com/

P.

-- 
-------------------------------------
Outsound New Music Summit 2009
Schedule:
http://www.outsound.org/summit/09/schedule_details09.html
Tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/61377
-------------------------------------

From pgsaxo at pacbell.net  Wed Jul  8 14:12:59 2009
From: pgsaxo at pacbell.net (Phillip Greenlief)
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:12:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [NewMusic] New music series in Birmingham, AL
Message-ID: <926355.30876.qm@web81405.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Yeah Andrew!

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 8, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Polly Moller <polly.moller at gmail.com> wrote:

For those of you hitting the road in the Southeast, our friend Andrew
Raffo Dewar has started up a series:

http://bhamexperiments.tumblr.com/

P.

-- 
-------------------------------------
Outsound New Music Summit 2009
Schedule:
http://www.outsound.org/summit/09/schedule_details09.html
Tickets:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/61377
-------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic


From praemedia at yahoo.com  Thu Jul  9 10:05:15 2009
From: praemedia at yahoo.com (Praemedia)
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 10:05:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [NewMusic] Can't say I disagree
Message-ID: <304177.67120.qm@web51609.mail.re2.yahoo.com>


http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/trent-manifesto-my-thoughts-what-do-newunknown-artist/

and I really hate agreeing with trent...


      

From damon at balancepointacoustics.com  Sat Jul 11 09:50:36 2009
From: damon at balancepointacoustics.com (Damon Smith)
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:50:36 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Two new albums from Balance Point Acoustics
References: <262333.24203.qm@web82015.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <29DE68C3-18B2-410E-BC25-5D1B7B42730E@balancepointacoustics.com>

If you would like a hard copy of either release please send a paypal  
for $15pp worldwide to damon at balancepointacoustics.com

Yclept BPA 014

Birgit Ulher, trumpet, radio, mutes, speaker
Ariel Shibolet - soprano sax
Adi Snir - tenor & soprano sax
Roni Brenner - guitar
Michel Mayer - guitar
Damon Smith - double bass, laptop
Ofer Bymel - drums

Recorded on March 12th, 2008 at HaTeiva, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel by  
Niv Karasenti.
Mixed & Mastered by Niv Karasenti at Tomix Studios, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Graphic design by Alan Anzalone
Cover art by Daniel Healey
Tray photo by Birgit Ulher
Liner note Excerpt:

"So, for me, what you hold in your hands is the witness of the  
gathering of three distinct communities that have joined forces to  
create a team that communicates and understands fluently?despite  
cultural differences. Israel, the Bay Area and Hamburg: coming  
together to form a unity. "  (Klaus Janek, for Yclept BPA 014, April  
5, 2009)

At emusic:
http://www.emusic.com/album/Birgit-Ulher-Yclept-MP3-Download/ 
11516195.html
At Itunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum? 
id=322047577&s=143441

+
Bpaltd404 - Where Endless Meets disappearing
Henry Kaiser
New solo guitar album by Henry Kaiser. It features beautifully played  
improvisations. Henry Kaiser is in top form and playing better than  
ever.



Damon Smith

http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
http://myspace.com/smithdamon
New solo project:
http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo





From damon at balancepointacoustics.com  Sat Jul 11 09:50:36 2009
From: damon at balancepointacoustics.com (Damon Smith)
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:50:36 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Two new albums from Balance Point Acoustics
References: <262333.24203.qm@web82015.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <29DE68C3-18B2-410E-BC25-5D1B7B42730E@balancepointacoustics.com>

If you would like a hard copy of either release please send a paypal  
for $15pp worldwide to damon at balancepointacoustics.com

Yclept BPA 014

Birgit Ulher, trumpet, radio, mutes, speaker
Ariel Shibolet - soprano sax
Adi Snir - tenor & soprano sax
Roni Brenner - guitar
Michel Mayer - guitar
Damon Smith - double bass, laptop
Ofer Bymel - drums

Recorded on March 12th, 2008 at HaTeiva, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel by  
Niv Karasenti.
Mixed & Mastered by Niv Karasenti at Tomix Studios, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Graphic design by Alan Anzalone
Cover art by Daniel Healey
Tray photo by Birgit Ulher
Liner note Excerpt:

"So, for me, what you hold in your hands is the witness of the  
gathering of three distinct communities that have joined forces to  
create a team that communicates and understands fluently?despite  
cultural differences. Israel, the Bay Area and Hamburg: coming  
together to form a unity. "  (Klaus Janek, for Yclept BPA 014, April  
5, 2009)

At emusic:
http://www.emusic.com/album/Birgit-Ulher-Yclept-MP3-Download/ 
11516195.html
At Itunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum? 
id=322047577&s=143441

+
Bpaltd404 - Where Endless Meets disappearing
Henry Kaiser
New solo guitar album by Henry Kaiser. It features beautifully played  
improvisations. Henry Kaiser is in top form and playing better than  
ever.



Damon Smith

http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
http://myspace.com/smithdamon
New solo project:
http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo





From damon at balancepointacoustics.com  Sat Jul 11 21:14:37 2009
From: damon at balancepointacoustics.com (Damon Smith)
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:14:37 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Two new albums from Balance Point Acoustics
In-Reply-To: <29DE68C3-18B2-410E-BC25-5D1B7B42730E@balancepointacoustics.com>
References: <262333.24203.qm@web82015.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<29DE68C3-18B2-410E-BC25-5D1B7B42730E@balancepointacoustics.com>
Message-ID: <3DC9F6DB-11DE-4D43-8866-074FD0EF2EFA@balancepointacoustics.com>

Some Youtube footage of the Yclept ensemble from this April:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmzg7Mrze24&feature=related

On Jul 11, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Damon Smith wrote:

> If you would like a hard copy of either release please send a paypal
> for $15pp worldwide to damon at balancepointacoustics.com
>
> Yclept BPA 014
>
> Birgit Ulher, trumpet, radio, mutes, speaker
> Ariel Shibolet - soprano sax
> Adi Snir - tenor & soprano sax
> Roni Brenner - guitar
> Michel Mayer - guitar
> Damon Smith - double bass, laptop
> Ofer Bymel - drums
>
> Recorded on March 12th, 2008 at HaTeiva, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel by
> Niv Karasenti.
> Mixed & Mastered by Niv Karasenti at Tomix Studios, Tel Aviv, Israel.
> Graphic design by Alan Anzalone
> Cover art by Daniel Healey
> Tray photo by Birgit Ulher
> Liner note Excerpt:
>
> "So, for me, what you hold in your hands is the witness of the
> gathering of three distinct communities that have joined forces to
> create a team that communicates and understands fluently?despite
> cultural differences. Israel, the Bay Area and Hamburg: coming
> together to form a unity. "  (Klaus Janek, for Yclept BPA 014, April
> 5, 2009)
>
> At emusic:
> http://www.emusic.com/album/Birgit-Ulher-Yclept-MP3-Download/
> 11516195.html
> At Itunes:
> http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?
> id22047577&s3441
>
> +
> Bpaltd404 - Where Endless Meets disappearing
> Henry Kaiser
> New solo guitar album by Henry Kaiser. It features beautifully played
> improvisations. Henry Kaiser is in top form and playing better than
> ever.
>
>
>
> Damon Smith
>
> http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
> http://myspace.com/smithdamon
> New solo project:
> http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
> NewMusic at music.mills.edu
> http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

Damon Smith

http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
http://myspace.com/smithdamon
New solo project:
http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo





From jfheule at gmail.com  Mon Jul 13 12:56:22 2009
From: jfheule at gmail.com (jacob felix heule)
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:56:22 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Gino Robair and Copy Lake at PMST
Message-ID: <9c5cfa860907131256n15c0970dj7d2ad573812bdb9e@mail.gmail.com>

some nice perspective on gino's solo set in SF on sunday. (forward from the
brutalsfx list.) if i get a chance, i'll write a mega-review of this
weekend's shows, because i heard a whole ton of good (and bad) music.

oh, as one would expect from youtube, the sound isn't half as beautiful as
it was in reality.

JFH

from Pharoah maybellines sunday

Copy Lake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRcRSuE_OfQ

Gino Robair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74tqj_cdI1Y

From gino at rastascan.com  Wed Jul 15 12:39:29 2009
From: gino at rastascan.com (Gino Robair)
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:39:29 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Meowsynth and Mellofan
Message-ID: <C6837E81.13BF%gino@rastascan.com>

Plug-ins for fans of cats and fans.
http://knobster.org/plugins/en/index.html


From mattdavignon at gmail.com  Wed Jul 15 12:48:14 2009
From: mattdavignon at gmail.com (Matt Davignon)
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:48:14 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] ads for cheese curry
Message-ID: <c70e517b0907151248t1aa794ffmaef6252bc3ee5e1c@mail.gmail.com>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnUulabg6ZY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn34uE-sm0k&feature=related

-- 
Matt Davignon
Tour! www.ribosomemusic.com
Rigs! www.youtube.com/user/ribosomematt

From jfheule at gmail.com  Wed Jul 15 17:31:43 2009
From: jfheule at gmail.com (jacob felix heule)
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:31:43 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] last weekend, so much music
Message-ID: <9c5cfa860907151731p1cdfd1e4kcbbf8bb4992c8372@mail.gmail.com>

I woke up Saturday at noon after two nights in a row of playing really
strenuous Ettrick sets at really late-starting, slow-moving,
not-home-until-3am rock shows. I immediately grabbed an apple and walked 5
blocks down the street to the Golden TrapperKeeper Lodge for Godwaffle Noise
Pancakes. It was only 5 minutes past noon, but My Daddy Ate My Eyes was
already playing (as verbally confirmed via Q&A with a pancake-eating in the
adjacent kitchen). Really pleasant music for waking up. A constant
mechanical metronome pulse underlaid some nice electronic music. I want to
say reminiscent of classic tape music, but I can't really remember what it
sounded like, other than that I was enjoying it a lot. I was the only person
sitting in the room with the musicians (actually right between them) and the
speakers (ditto), which is an unfortunate aspect of that performance space,
as the music sounded notably better than it did heard from the kitchen. The
musician sitting on the floor next to me was playing simple-but-effective
sounds on a processed guitar and a drum machine. The guy standing to my left
had the metronome standing on a hi hat, and some electronics. Pain for the
Party played similarly pleasant music with Max/MSP, accompanied by
ASCII/Walt Disney animations. 60s Residue was loud and active noise, very
choppy, kind of cartoonish. It went well with the video still being
projected. Barry Threw closed the show with some nice laptop ganulator
stuff. The set was cut short by some technical problem, which was too bad.
The watermelon was great, the pancakes have become thoroughly edible over
the years (though the last one or two I ate were too rubbery to cut with my
fork), and alas the coffee man didn't show up.

After making my own coffee at home and gathering my belongings, I walked to
Civic Center, hopped on BART and made my way to 21 Grand for the
Skronkathon. Right after Corpsevapor (Heule/Korber/Dryer) played, an
impostor set up his gear and played in place of some folks who had not shown
up. Really fucking loud noise generated by a turntable with a carving fork
in place of a tone arm, and a circular saw blade in place of a record. I
laughed as I retreated to the alley, and laughed even more when Tom Duff
revealed that the masked noise musician was crashing the show. Hanuman Zhang
played a pretty weird solo set with constant arrhythmic kick drum beats
accompanying and punctuating him haphazardly wailing on piles of garbage and
playing electronic toys through the PA. I'd like to see this guy at a future
Godwaffle or Pharaoh Maybelline's show. Z_Bug had interesting
instrumentation: 2 drum sets, 1 guy playing both bass guitar and Moog synth,
and 1 guy playing amplified shorts, or anyway a microphone amplified by a
small amp in his pocket which was audible primarily when he was making it
feedback. RTD3 was very good, as usual. Great sounds, great pacing, etc. You
can tell these guys are very comfortable with each other. David Michalak on
lap steel sat in on their last piece, and fit in really well, keeping things
pretty minimal. John Hanes & Steve Adams played a really nice laptop duo,
both using lloopp. The sound was so united it didn't feel much like a duo.
Electronic sounds mixed with warped drum samples, speaking, etc. PG13 was a
drum/guitar/alto sax rock trio ? very energetic, and made a lot of people
smile. sfSound played a really nice improvised set. The woodwinds in
particular were a very tight unit, and sounded great.
Baker/Djll/Hegelin/Stackpole played a really beautiful brass & gong drone
set that made me wonder about releasing a bootleg cassette and blowing the
minds of the masses of neo-hippy hipsters blissing out to ?non-playing
motherfuckers? attempting this same sort of thing. They broke out into other
sounds as well, but the long drone intro was what really did it for me. The
Robair/Neuberg electronics duo was a nice close to the night. Gino in
particular was getting a lot of great sounds out of his Blippoo box set-up.
I ate a couple great sausages in the alley, and maybe a half dozen
ass-kicking brownies.

Brutalsfx Fest #62 at Pharaoh Maybelline's Sound Trough No Toilet was a
natural continuation of Saturday's shows, sort of like a hybrid of the two.
I arrived as Copy Lake (the guitarist/drum machinist from My Daddy) was
soundchecking his watermelon. Hand in a sloppy hole with a contact mic
amplifying all sorts of slurpy sounds. I started snacking and opening
tightly sealed jars of pickled vegetables. Ninety seconds later, I turned
around and the set was over, Copy Lake was covered in fruit juice. I guess I
heard the sounds get louder for a half minute, but the set was damn short.
Sound check looked and sounded great, blinked and I missed the real show.
Gumball Rimpoche did some weird whining vocalizations over electronic
percussion. Donald the Nut started his set with a really nice acoustic
guitar trio, which didn't have any chance to shine after the singing
started. Circuit-bent SK-5 and other electronics by Anti-Ear really brought
a lot to the music. I'm glad his tiny amp was pointed straight at me since
he was being perhaps a bit overly polite with his volume level according
folks listening from the other end of the alley with the masses. Gino Robair
started his Blippoo Box bleeping through the mini-PA and started scraping
and hitting everything in sight. Highlights included the marimba-like wooden
fence, and the USPS mail crate sanded down on the pavement. Shifted more
attention to the electronic performance toward the end of the set. Really
great stuff. Fred Rinne's art hanging inside was cool too.

Just for the sake of completeness, I'll mention that I checked out the Upset
the Rhythm showcase at the Lab later that night. What a weird sounding room.

From aldentel at sbcglobal.net  Thu Jul 16 10:12:12 2009
From: aldentel at sbcglobal.net (A.L. Dentel)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:12:12 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] practice amp anyone?
Message-ID: <4A5F5F6C.7070500@sbcglobal.net>

Hello!

I know that someone out there has a little practice amp gathering dust 
in their basement that they would like to give me or sell for cheap. 
Anything will do. FYI, I'll be playing cello through it!

Thanks!
Ann


From pgsaxo at pacbell.net  Sat Jul 18 08:54:18 2009
From: pgsaxo at pacbell.net (Phillip Greenlief)
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:54:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [NewMusic] last weekend, so much music
Message-ID: <6304.6040.qm@web81404.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


I've been wanting to say kudos on the recent review/post. thanks for the words on all of that music!

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 15, 2009, at 5:31 PM, jacob felix heule <jfheule at gmail.com> wrote:

I woke up Saturday at noon after two nights in a row of playing really
strenuous Ettrick sets at really late-starting, slow-moving,
not-home-until-3am rock shows. I immediately grabbed an apple and walked 5
blocks down the street to the Golden TrapperKeeper Lodge for Godwaffle Noise
Pancakes. It was only 5 minutes past noon, but My Daddy Ate My Eyes was
already playing (as verbally confirmed via Q&A with a pancake-eating in the
adjacent kitchen). Really pleasant music for waking up. A constant
mechanical metronome pulse underlaid some nice electronic music. I want to
say reminiscent of classic tape music, but I can't really remember what it
sounded like, other than that I was enjoying it a lot. I was the only person
sitting in the room with the musicians (actually right between them) and the
speakers (ditto), which is an unfortunate aspect of that performance space,
as the music sounded notably better than it did heard from the kitchen. The
musician sitting on the floor next to me was playing simple-but-effective
sounds on a processed guitar and a drum machine. The guy standing to my left
had the metronome standing on a hi hat, and some electronics. Pain for the
Party played similarly pleasant music with Max/MSP, accompanied by
ASCII/Walt Disney animations. 60s Residue was loud and active noise, very
choppy, kind of cartoonish. It went well with the video still being
projected. Barry Threw closed the show with some nice laptop ganulator
stuff. The set was cut short by some technical problem, which was too bad.
The watermelon was great, the pancakes have become thoroughly edible over
the years (though the last one or two I ate were too rubbery to cut with my
fork), and alas the coffee man didn't show up.

After making my own coffee at home and gathering my belongings, I walked to
Civic Center, hopped on BART and made my way to 21 Grand for the
Skronkathon. Right after Corpsevapor (Heule/Korber/Dryer) played, an
impostor set up his gear and played in place of some folks who had not shown
up. Really fucking loud noise generated by a turntable with a carving fork
in place of a tone arm, and a circular saw blade in place of a record. I
laughed as I retreated to the alley, and laughed even more when Tom Duff
revealed that the masked noise musician was crashing the show. Hanuman Zhang
played a pretty weird solo set with constant arrhythmic kick drum beats
accompanying and punctuating him haphazardly wailing on piles of garbage and
playing electronic toys through the PA. I'd like to see this guy at a future
Godwaffle or Pharaoh Maybelline's show. Z_Bug had interesting
instrumentation: 2 drum sets, 1 guy playing both bass guitar and Moog synth,
and 1 guy playing amplified shorts, or anyway a microphone amplified by a
small amp in his pocket which was audible primarily when he was making it
feedback. RTD3 was very good, as usual. Great sounds, great pacing, etc. You
can tell these guys are very comfortable with each other. David Michalak on
lap steel sat in on their last piece, and fit in really well, keeping things
pretty minimal. John Hanes & Steve Adams played a really nice laptop duo,
both using lloopp. The sound was so united it didn't feel much like a duo.
Electronic sounds mixed with warped drum samples, speaking, etc. PG13 was a
drum/guitar/alto sax rock trio ? very energetic, and made a lot of people
smile. sfSound played a really nice improvised set. The woodwinds in
particular were a very tight unit, and sounded great.
Baker/Djll/Hegelin/Stackpole played a really beautiful brass & gong drone
set that made me wonder about releasing a bootleg cassette and blowing the
minds of the masses of neo-hippy hipsters blissing out to ?non-playing
motherfuckers? attempting this same sort of thing. They broke out into other
sounds as well, but the long drone intro was what really did it for me. The
Robair/Neuberg electronics duo was a nice close to the night. Gino in
particular was getting a lot of great sounds out of his Blippoo box set-up.
I ate a couple great sausages in the alley, and maybe a half dozen
ass-kicking brownies.

Brutalsfx Fest #62 at Pharaoh Maybelline's Sound Trough No Toilet was a
natural continuation of Saturday's shows, sort of like a hybrid of the two.
I arrived as Copy Lake (the guitarist/drum machinist from My Daddy) was
soundchecking his watermelon. Hand in a sloppy hole with a contact mic
amplifying all sorts of slurpy sounds. I started snacking and opening
tightly sealed jars of pickled vegetables. Ninety seconds later, I turned
around and the set was over, Copy Lake was covered in fruit juice. I guess I
heard the sounds get louder for a half minute, but the set was damn short.
Sound check looked and sounded great, blinked and I missed the real show.
Gumball Rimpoche did some weird whining vocalizations over electronic
percussion. Donald the Nut started his set with a really nice acoustic
guitar trio, which didn't have any chance to shine after the singing
started. Circuit-bent SK-5 and other electronics by Anti-Ear really brought
a lot to the music. I'm glad his tiny amp was pointed straight at me since
he was being perhaps a bit overly polite with his volume level according
folks listening from the other end of the alley with the masses. Gino Robair
started his Blippoo Box bleeping through the mini-PA and started scraping
and hitting everything in sight. Highlights included the marimba-like wooden
fence, and the USPS mail crate sanded down on the pavement. Shifted more
attention to the electronic performance toward the end of the set. Really
great stuff. Fred Rinne's art hanging inside was cool too.

Just for the sake of completeness, I'll mention that I checked out the Upset
the Rhythm showcase at the Lab later that night. What a weird sounding room.
_______________________________________________
Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic


From dmichalak at sbcglobal.net  Tue Jul 21 08:09:42 2009
From: dmichalak at sbcglobal.net (dmichalak)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:09:42 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Richard Waters On KUSF
References: <6304.6040.qm@web81404.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1766D1268CD041ABB2F4CF6695105B48@eyefull01>

Richard Waters inventor of the waterphone is on KUSF this morning @ 11:00. D.

From otis_mccoppin at yahoo.com  Tue Jul 21 10:26:47 2009
From: otis_mccoppin at yahoo.com (Otis McCoppin)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:26:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [NewMusic] Richard Waters On KUSF
In-Reply-To: <1766D1268CD041ABB2F4CF6695105B48@eyefull01>
Message-ID: <59798.26762.qm@web38305.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Awesome thanks! I love the waterphone, amazing instrument. 

See- 

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=161974581&albumID=491992&imageID=2658002



--- On Tue, 7/21/09, dmichalak <dmichalak at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: dmichalak <dmichalak at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [NewMusic] Richard Waters On KUSF
To: "Bay Area New Music Discussion Group" <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 8:09 AM

Richard Waters inventor of the waterphone is on KUSF this morning @ 11:00. D.
_______________________________________________
Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic



      

From pete at creepsville.com  Tue Jul 21 11:24:43 2009
From: pete at creepsville.com (Pete von Petrin)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:24:43 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Richard Waters On KUSF
In-Reply-To: <59798.26762.qm@web38305.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <59798.26762.qm@web38305.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4A6607EB.9000208@creepsville.com>

thank you for posting this - I won't be able to make the performance on
Saturday, so very cool to get to hear GItH w/ Mr. Waters.


> --- On Tue, 7/21/09, dmichalak <dmichalak at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Richard Waters inventor of the waterphone is on KUSF this morning @ 11:00. D.


From suki at zoka.com  Tue Jul 21 11:38:44 2009
From: suki at zoka.com (Suki O'Kane)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:38:44 -0800
Subject: [NewMusic] Production Artist Needed for TransBay Calendar
Message-ID: <20090721183844.77344.qmail@zoka.com>

listians,

        The printed Transbay calendar needs a volunteer production artist starting with the September 2009 edition. Would that artist be you? If so, please find me and I can set you up with the sitch.

details: 
formatting of text import from transbaycalendar.org
formatting of editorial content
prep of photos and artwork
monthly layout of printed transbay (a 4-8 page document) using the design tool of your choice (currently an inDesign CS3 doc)
delivery of hi-res/lo-res pdf files to printer and transbay archive, respectively, by 15th of each month

As usual, the Transbay also needs writers, editors, proofers, folders, stampers, distributors. Please get in where you fit in, and if you're not sure where that is exactly, check the staff page at http://transbaycalendar.org/contact.html or email me with any questions.


feel free to forward this to any likely suspects | thanks,
-s 



From ie at allwaysnorth.com  Tue Jul 21 17:21:47 2009
From: ie at allwaysnorth.com (Cheryl Leonard)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:21:47 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Free Tascam US-428 DAW USB controller
Message-ID: <1BB8542D-851E-42FC-B7E2-0961598B727D@allwaysnorth.com>

A friend gave me an old Tascam US-428 a while back, but I can't use  
it with my recording setup.

http://www.tascam.com/products/us-428;9,15,138,16.html

Anyone want this thing? I don't have any software or a power supply  
for it, but hey it's free! You will need to come pick it up in SF if  
you want it. Email me off list if interested.

Cheryl
ie at allwaysnorth.com

From slusser at pixar.com  Thu Jul 23 10:27:35 2009
From: slusser at pixar.com (David Slusser)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:27:35 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] WKCR playing Lacy
Message-ID: <B396A026-A389-4FB7-B406-8A4E92888249@pixar.com>

Happy Birthday, Steve!

www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr

From gino at rastascan.com  Thu Jul 23 17:17:28 2009
From: gino at rastascan.com (Gino Robair)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:17:28 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] New Music Box on Digital Downloads, CDs, distribution
Message-ID: <C68E4BA8.162E%gino@rastascan.com>

Part 3 of 3. Very interesting stuff here.
http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=6069


From magsatellite at yahoo.com  Sun Jul 26 05:00:16 2009
From: magsatellite at yahoo.com (J. Segel)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:00:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [NewMusic] score publishing, web publishing....
Message-ID: <744748.74134.qm@web45206.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>


hey, i have questions for anybody that knows about this sort of thing:
up 'til now, i have always just registered recorded music with BMI whenever a record/cd came out. the criteria for registering works with BMI, who ostensibly collect broadcast royalties (though also set the rate for artistic  royalties, etc) was that the works are being published/released on a commercial medium. 

so. one question is, what do we do about music we release only on the internets? i have a ton of as-yet-unregistered music now on http://jsegel.bandcamp.com  ...do we just assume that is a commercial release also and register it?

second, a friend of mine is publishing various composers' scores (which means selling pdfs of them from a webpage i guess) and i am readying a bunch of my chamber music for them to make available. what do i do about that? how does one do the royalty situation on written music? is the music only registered with a rights group if and when the pieces are recorded? should there be a royalty paid when a piece is performed (what do sfsound and such do?) how much do people usually charge for scores anyway...?


last question, m@: bass clarinet... better in treble or bass clef?




MAGNETIC --- Jonathan Segel 
magsatellite-yahoo(.)com <---> jsegel-magneticmotorworks(.)com
http://www.MagneticMotorworks.com


      


From weaselw at juno.com  Sun Jul 26 10:26:58 2009
From: weaselw at juno.com (weasel walter)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:26:58 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] score publishing, web publishing....
Message-ID: <20090726.103104.1256.13.weaselw@juno.com>

> last question, m@: bass clarinet... better in treble or bass clef?

bass clarinet is always written in treble clef, written a major ninth
higher than it sounds.

ww
____________________________________________________________
Get your dream car or truck. Click here.
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From pgsaxo at pacbell.net  Sun Jul 26 11:37:03 2009
From: pgsaxo at pacbell.net (Phillip Greenlief)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:37:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [NewMusic] score publishing, web publishing....
Message-ID: <460051.49023.qm@web81401.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


i copyright my compositions through my publishing, which is the same as when i release my stuff on a recording. yougo through the u.s. copyright office in wahongton d.c.

i think it best to continue to copyright everything, even if the music is only available via download. at least it is registered with your publishing and bmi...and it prooves it's yours. with all the varying forms of piracy, someone could download your stuff and broadcast it, use it in a movie, dance production, whatever, but you would maintain some sembence of ownership.

at least that's how i'm thinking about it these days. i'm curious to know if others have another opinion.
 

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 26, 2009, at 5:00 AM, "J. Segel" <magsatellite at yahoo.com> wrote:


hey, i have questions for anybody that knows about this sort of thing:
up 'til now, i have always just registered recorded music with BMI whenever a record/cd came out. the criteria for registering works with BMI, who ostensibly collect broadcast royalties (though also set the rate for artistic  royalties, etc) was that the works are being published/released on a commercial medium. 

so. one question is, what do we do about music we release only on the internets? i have a ton of as-yet-unregistered music now on http://jsegel.bandcamp.com  ...do we just assume that is a commercial release also and register it?

second, a friend of mine is publishing various composers' scores (which means selling pdfs of them from a webpage i guess) and i am readying a bunch of my chamber music for them to make available. what do i do about that? how does one do the royalty situation on written music? is the music only registered with a rights group if and when the pieces are recorded? should there be a royalty paid when a piece is performed (what do sfsound and such do?) how much do people usually charge for scores anyway...?


last question, m@: bass clarinet... better in treble or bass clef?




MAGNETIC --- Jonathan Segel 
magsatellite-yahoo(.)com <---> jsegel-magneticmotorworks(.)com
http://www.MagneticMotorworks.com




_______________________________________________
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NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic


From matt at sfsound.org  Sun Jul 26 11:59:34 2009
From: matt at sfsound.org (matt)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:59:34 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] score publishing, web publishing....
In-Reply-To: <20090726.103104.1256.13.weaselw@juno.com>
References: <20090726.103104.1256.13.weaselw@juno.com>
Message-ID: <07B95E56-C502-49D6-B622-2F8D8BEC9B2E@sfsound.org>

>> last question, m@: bass clarinet... better in treble or bass clef?
>
> bass clarinet is always written in treble clef, written a major ninth
> higher than it sounds.

*way* better in treble -- but definitely not "always" --

-- this klaus huber piece we are doing in 2 weeks on sfSound concert  
is in bassclef -- Lachenmann uses lots of bassclef too  -- maybe its  
more common in europe or something -- my little experience with 19th/ 
early 20th orchestra music was in bassclef  -- anyway its just another  
thing to mess with your brain so writing it in treble is much better  
for anyone who plays soprano Bb clarinet.


i'm no expert on this crap, so i probably shouldnt be saying anything  
here,
but AFAIK

bmi has nothing to do with commercial record or not -- it is just  
performance royalties -- all recorded music should fall under this

beyond performance rights (bmi), internet stuff could possibly require  
mechanical reproduction rights (is that "publishing" or?), and digital  
performance rights (soundexchange)

i also think there is a difference they make between  
"streaming" (closer to traditional radio ) and click-to-play (i.e.  
"downloaded" -- closer to traditional record sales) -- i'd be curious  
to know where borderline things like pandora (a personalized radio  
station that you can advance to next "song"), or archives of radio  
broadcasts, etc fall...


> i copyright my compositions through my publishing, which is the same  
> as when i release my stuff on a recording. yougo through the u.s.  
> copyright office in wahongton d.c.


-- i thought copyright defaulted to the creator and you didnt have to  
file anymore -- or at least no one can steal your copyright just  
because you didn't file



m@




From dmichalak at sbcglobal.net  Sun Jul 26 12:57:49 2009
From: dmichalak at sbcglobal.net (dmichalak)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:57:49 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Outsound New Music Summit
References: <20090726.103104.1256.13.weaselw@juno.com>
	<07B95E56-C502-49D6-B622-2F8D8BEC9B2E@sfsound.org>
Message-ID: <B8399B691E7A4B1AB4C673F1FF22BEEC@eyefull01>

A special thanks to Rent and all for a great festival. Nice to see that so 
many attended. The shows were quite long but people seemed to stick around 
'till the end.
I especially enjoyed ROVA's 1 piece 45 set on Wednesday and also NATTO with 
Kyle Bruckmann sitting in last night. D. 



From ava.mendoza at gmail.com  Sun Jul 26 16:09:49 2009
From: ava.mendoza at gmail.com (Ava Mendoza)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:09:49 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Outsound New Music Summit
In-Reply-To: <B8399B691E7A4B1AB4C673F1FF22BEEC@eyefull01>
References: <20090726.103104.1256.13.weaselw@juno.com>
	<07B95E56-C502-49D6-B622-2F8D8BEC9B2E@sfsound.org>
	<B8399B691E7A4B1AB4C673F1FF22BEEC@eyefull01>
Message-ID: <317505170907261609q160ac1ecvfe914b8b2ed2be71@mail.gmail.com>

hi,

anyone gots eli crews' email? email me offlist please if yes. thanks!

ava

From ava.mendoza at gmail.com  Sun Jul 26 16:11:35 2009
From: ava.mendoza at gmail.com (Ava Mendoza)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:11:35 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] eli crews' email?
Message-ID: <317505170907261611r4f00f993ma92ee7082188ecfd@mail.gmail.com>

hi,
anyone gots eli crews' email? email me offlist please if yes. thanks!

ava



-- 
www.myspace.com/avamendoza
www.myspace.com/mutesocialite
http://www.bayimproviser.com/avamendoza

From gino at rastascan.com  Sun Jul 26 17:51:45 2009
From: gino at rastascan.com (Gino Robair)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:51:45 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] score publishing, web publishing....
Message-ID: <C6924831.178B%gino@rastascan.com>

J. Segal asked:
<< one question is, what do we do about music we release only on the
internets >>

SoundExchange is one way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundExchange

It's highly controversial (Google it). But a friend of mine gets his music
played on satellite radio frequently, and he gets performance checks via
SoundExchange. But for those of us on the fringes, I don't know how well
we'd be tracked.

You'd THINK that with all this technology, some PRO entity could accurately
track all the micropayment potential when a piece by a small, indie artist
shows up on Pandora, etc. Hopefully some day...


From gino at rastascan.com  Sun Jul 26 17:53:36 2009
From: gino at rastascan.com (Gino Robair)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:53:36 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Free: paper LP inner sleeves
Message-ID: <C69248A0.178C%gino@rastascan.com>

I have dozens of these babies, all of them unused. They're yours for the
asking. Plain white, with a hole in the middle so you can see the LP label.

Just let me know off-line.


From pgsaxo at pacbell.net  Sun Jul 26 23:22:47 2009
From: pgsaxo at pacbell.net (Phillip Greenlief)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:22:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [NewMusic] greg burk tragedy
Message-ID: <461334.75285.qm@web81406.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


hey folks, 

i am sad to be the bearer of bad news, but our friend and journalist greg burk's daughter was murdered recently in los angeles. 

i'm passing this info on to you folks up here because i know that some of us have benefitted from greg's reviews, interviews, preview articles, etc. in the los angeles times, l.a. weekly, greg burk's metaljazz blog, etc. he is a beautiful human being and a tireless supporter of all things new music in los angeles - a mensch if there ever was, and i'm just shattered to read of this tragedy.

if you know greg and want to write and express your condolences, go for it. if you know him (or you don't) and want to send your thoughts but don't have his email address, write to me offlist and i'll pass it on.

here is the los angeles times article on her murder, looks like the lapd kind of made a mess of things on this one...

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-girl-killed26-2009jul26,0,2024771.story

From td at pixar.com  Mon Jul 27 10:14:30 2009
From: td at pixar.com (Tom Duff)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:14:30 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [NewMusic] Merce Cunningham dead at 90
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0907271010450.27139@marvin.dynamic.pixar.com>



http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-merce-cunningham28-2009jul28,0,548608.story

-- 
Tom Duff.  Made in Canada - Land of Free Cryptography.

From damon at balancepointacoustics.com  Mon Jul 27 10:39:44 2009
From: damon at balancepointacoustics.com (Damon Smith)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:39:44 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Merce Cunningham dead at 90
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0907271010450.27139@marvin.dynamic.pixar.com>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0907271010450.27139@marvin.dynamic.pixar.com>
Message-ID: <5357347D-1220-4F18-96F5-4D10101187A2@balancepointacoustics.com>

A loss for sure - he was a huge personal influence, but what an  
amazing life! He was doing great work right up to the end. I saw his  
company many times, it was always an incredible experience.
It is a sad time for dance with he and Pina Bausch both passing this  
year.

Damon Smith

http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
http://myspace.com/smithdamon
New solo project:
http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo





From pgsaxo at pacbell.net  Mon Jul 27 11:21:59 2009
From: pgsaxo at pacbell.net (Phillip Greenlief)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:21:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [NewMusic] Merce Cunningham dead at 90
Message-ID: <829161.78161.qm@web81404.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


a great creator, i also enjoyed several performances at zellerbach over the past few decades. amazing ideas, a great company of dedicated dancers, beautiful work that always challenged the trends in movement.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 27, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Damon Smith <damon at balancepointacoustics.com> wrote:

A loss for sure - he was a huge personal influence, but what an  
amazing life! He was doing great work right up to the end. I saw his  
company many times, it was always an incredible experience.
It is a sad time for dance with he and Pina Bausch both passing this  
year.

Damon Smith

http://www.balancepointacoustics.com
http://myspace.com/smithdamon
New solo project:
http://www.myspace.com/damonsmithsolo




_______________________________________________
Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic


From michaelz at zoka.com  Mon Jul 27 17:54:42 2009
From: michaelz at zoka.com (Michael Zelner)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:54:42 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] New Music Box on Digital Downloads, CDs, distribution
In-Reply-To: <C68E4BA8.162E%gino@rastascan.com>
References: <C68E4BA8.162E%gino@rastascan.com>
Message-ID: <p0624082fc693cefe0743@[192.168.0.2]>

On 7/23/09, Gino Robair wrote:

>Part 3 of 3. Very interesting stuff here.
>http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=6069


On a related note, in today's news:

>Apple Mixing Up A Tablet For 'Cocktail'
>
>Apple may be preparing to shake up the music industry again, this 
>time by introducing an interactive digital album that may or may not 
>be destined for a Steve Jobs-designed Apple tablet.
>
>The new album format, currently codenamed'Cocktail,' is designed to 
>deliver more than just music to consumers, with Apple and the four 
>major record labels hoping that customers will be drawn to features 
>such as photos, lyrics sheets, video clips and liner notes to 
>increase paid downloads. Apple is working with EMI, Sony Music, 
>Warner Music and Universal Music Group for a September launch of 
>Cocktail, according to a Reuters report.
>
>But as it did with the iTunes music store, Apple may also be 
>preparing to roll out a new piece of hardware for these new digital 
>downloads. Rumors about an Apple tablet have been circulating for 
>what seems like years.

Full story:
<http://www.crn.com/mobile/218600699>


MZ

--------------michaelz at zoka.com---
             Michael Zelner
---Oakland CA USA------------------

From jon_raskin at yahoo.com  Mon Jul 27 21:39:40 2009
From: jon_raskin at yahoo.com (Jon Raskin)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:39:40 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] George Russell
Message-ID: <002801ca0f3d$6b6ba980$4242fc80$@com>

Duck Baker reported that George Russell passed on Facebook.  Some nice clips
on youtube. This one is from Skies of America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHYOCOStIdQ

 


From slusser at pixar.com  Tue Jul 28 03:01:41 2009
From: slusser at pixar.com (slusser at pixar.com)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:01:41 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] George Russell
In-Reply-To: <002801ca0f3d$6b6ba980$4242fc80$@com>
References: <002801ca0f3d$6b6ba980$4242fc80$@com>
Message-ID: <fc6d033b63c6.4a6e6a15@pixar.com>

----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Raskin <jon_raskin at yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, July 27, 2009 9:39 pm
Subject: [NewMusic] George Russell

> Duck Baker reported that George Russell passed on Facebook.  Some 
> nice clips
> on youtube. This one is from Skies of America
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHYOCOStIdQ

I went through a lot of his clips just last weekend...probably something in the air.
The Orin Keepnews interview stuck with me, because even if the producer didn't
get all the music, it was Russell's self confidence that sold him on it.  Good reason
for the self confidence, though; the music is fantastic.  I mean that not only as a
superlative, but also because it invokes fantasy.  His earliest records, like Cubana Be/
Cubana Bop, and  A Bird In Igor's Yard were both primeval and out of this world.
I started collecting him early on, and his sound world really influenced me.  Jazz in the
Space Age (with the dueling pianos of Bill Evans and Paul Bley!), his Riversides, New
York, New York, the Miles/Konitz Ezz-Thetic and Odjenar, and Gil Evans version of
Stratusphunk are favorites that still appeal to me.

His Lydian Chromatic concept will probably be bandied about, generating more heat
than light, as usual.  I couldn't afford the whole book when I was studying, but I did
order the playing exercises.  I see it as a way of thinking, instead of some formula,
and have an inkling that it was related to the harmonic expansion that the flatted
fifth of Bop popularized.  The flatted fifth is enharmonically the same as the characteristic
raised fourth of the Lydian mode.  What it got me doing was thinking enharmonically
all the time.  When you think both A sharp and B flat when you play the note, there are
suddenly a lot more places to go.  (This can also enhance just hearing the note as a sound
and making decisions from that standpoint.)  I don't think you can make sense of a tune
like Coltrane's Giant Steps without thinking enharmonically.  While Giant Steps is formulaic,
George Russell's music doesn't sound written that way.  I think he was a genuinely inspired
composer.  (There's also a nexus to Ellington/Strayhorn and Sun Ra.)

From jon_raskin at yahoo.com  Tue Jul 28 05:25:17 2009
From: jon_raskin at yahoo.com (Jon Raskin)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:25:17 +0000
Subject: [NewMusic] George Russell
In-Reply-To: <fc6d033b63c6.4a6e6a15@pixar.com>
References: <002801ca0f3d$6b6ba980$4242fc80$@com><fc6d033b63c6.4a6e6a15@pixar.com>
Message-ID: <855298734-1248783784-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-542368899-@bxe1099.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>

I watched a performance of Billy the Kid, it was such a great piece of writing for improvisers. Fantastic lines and harmonies and sets of the soloists so well.  

As for the lydian concept, its value for me was the idea of vertical and horizontal approaches to playing. It opened up hearing different approaches to playing over changes and beyond- to realize this could applied to all manner of musical concerns.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

-----Original Message-----
From: slusser at pixar.com

Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:01:41 
To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group<newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] George Russell


----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Raskin <jon_raskin at yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, July 27, 2009 9:39 pm
Subject: [NewMusic] George Russell

> Duck Baker reported that George Russell passed on Facebook.  Some 
> nice clips
> on youtube. This one is from Skies of America
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHYOCOStIdQ

I went through a lot of his clips just last weekend...probably something in the air.
The Orin Keepnews interview stuck with me, because even if the producer didn't
get all the music, it was Russell's self confidence that sold him on it.  Good reason
for the self confidence, though; the music is fantastic.  I mean that not only as a
superlative, but also because it invokes fantasy.  His earliest records, like Cubana Be/
Cubana Bop, and  A Bird In Igor's Yard were both primeval and out of this world.
I started collecting him early on, and his sound world really influenced me.  Jazz in the
Space Age (with the dueling pianos of Bill Evans and Paul Bley!), his Riversides, New
York, New York, the Miles/Konitz Ezz-Thetic and Odjenar, and Gil Evans version of
Stratusphunk are favorites that still appeal to me.

His Lydian Chromatic concept will probably be bandied about, generating more heat
than light, as usual.  I couldn't afford the whole book when I was studying, but I did
order the playing exercises.  I see it as a way of thinking, instead of some formula,
and have an inkling that it was related to the harmonic expansion that the flatted
fifth of Bop popularized.  The flatted fifth is enharmonically the same as the characteristic
raised fourth of the Lydian mode.  What it got me doing was thinking enharmonically
all the time.  When you think both A sharp and B flat when you play the note, there are
suddenly a lot more places to go.  (This can also enhance just hearing the note as a sound
and making decisions from that standpoint.)  I don't think you can make sense of a tune
like Coltrane's Giant Steps without thinking enharmonically.  While Giant Steps is formulaic,
George Russell's music doesn't sound written that way.  I think he was a genuinely inspired
composer.  (There's also a nexus to Ellington/Strayhorn and Sun Ra.)
_______________________________________________
Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

From tedbrinkley at sbcglobal.net  Tue Jul 28 09:22:28 2009
From: tedbrinkley at sbcglobal.net (ted brinkley)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:22:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [NewMusic] George Russell
Message-ID: <642916.36076.qm@web82802.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

agreed (with your comments below) on all counts.
?Odjenar is a fantastic piece.?The cd re-issue of the riverside Ezz-thetic album has some never-before-heard takes.
i like to think of the LCC as "leading tones every which way...or voice leading run amok/maximizing its potential".
(There is a good live 1964 Newport JF sextet aircheck with John Gilmore/Sheila Jordan...pretty easy to find nowadays.)
--GC

--- On Tue, 7/28/09, slusser at pixar.com <slusser at pixar.com> wrote:

From: slusser at pixar.com <slusser at pixar.com>
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] George Russell
To: "Bay Area New Music Discussion Group" <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 3:01 AM

----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Raskin <jon_raskin at yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, July 27, 2009 9:39 pm
Subject: [NewMusic] George Russell

> Duck Baker reported that George Russell passed on Facebook.? Some 
> nice clips
> on youtube. This one is from Skies of America
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHYOCOStIdQ

I went through a lot of his clips just last weekend...probably something in the air.
The Orin Keepnews interview stuck with me, because even if the producer didn't
get all the music, it was Russell's self confidence that sold him on it.? Good reason
for the self confidence, though; the music is fantastic.? I mean that not only as a
superlative, but also because it invokes fantasy.? His earliest records, like Cubana Be/
Cubana Bop, and? A Bird In Igor's Yard were both primeval and out of this world.
I started collecting him early on, and his sound world really influenced me.? Jazz in the
Space Age (with the dueling pianos of Bill Evans and Paul Bley!), his Riversides, New
York, New York, the Miles/Konitz Ezz-Thetic and Odjenar, and Gil Evans version of
Stratusphunk are favorites that still appeal to me.

His Lydian Chromatic concept will probably be bandied about, generating more heat
than light, as usual.? I couldn't afford the whole book when I was studying, but I did
order the playing exercises.? I see it as a way of thinking, instead of some formula,
and have an inkling that it was related to the harmonic expansion that the flatted
fifth of Bop popularized.? The flatted fifth is enharmonically the same as the characteristic
raised fourth of the Lydian mode.? What it got me doing was thinking enharmonically
all the time.? When you think both A sharp and B flat when you play the note, there are
suddenly a lot more places to go.? (This can also enhance just hearing the note as a sound
and making decisions from that standpoint.)? I don't think you can make sense of a tune
like Coltrane's Giant Steps without thinking enharmonically.? While Giant Steps is formulaic,
George Russell's music doesn't sound written that way.? I think he was a genuinely inspired
composer.? (There's also a nexus to Ellington/Strayhorn and Sun Ra.)
_______________________________________________
Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

From jon_raskin at yahoo.com  Tue Jul 28 10:23:29 2009
From: jon_raskin at yahoo.com (Jon Raskin)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:23:29 +0000
Subject: [NewMusic] George Russell
In-Reply-To: <642916.36076.qm@web82802.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <642916.36076.qm@web82802.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <773604285-1248801676-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1293042471-@bxe1099.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>

I recently got the Ezz-thetic release and enjoyed the additional takes.  I like the leading tone analogy, leading where where it needs to go.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

-----Original Message-----
From: ted brinkley <tedbrinkley at sbcglobal.net>

Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:22:28 
To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group<newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] George Russell


agreed (with your comments below) on all counts.
?Odjenar is a fantastic piece.?The cd re-issue of the riverside Ezz-thetic album has some never-before-heard takes.
i like to think of the LCC as "leading tones every which way...or voice leading run amok/maximizing its potential".
(There is a good live 1964 Newport JF sextet aircheck with John Gilmore/Sheila Jordan...pretty easy to find nowadays.)
--GC

--- On Tue, 7/28/09, slusser at pixar.com <slusser at pixar.com> wrote:

From: slusser at pixar.com <slusser at pixar.com>
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] George Russell
To: "Bay Area New Music Discussion Group" <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 3:01 AM

----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Raskin <jon_raskin at yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, July 27, 2009 9:39 pm
Subject: [NewMusic] George Russell

> Duck Baker reported that George Russell passed on Facebook.? Some 
> nice clips
> on youtube. This one is from Skies of America
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHYOCOStIdQ

I went through a lot of his clips just last weekend...probably something in the air.
The Orin Keepnews interview stuck with me, because even if the producer didn't
get all the music, it was Russell's self confidence that sold him on it.? Good reason
for the self confidence, though; the music is fantastic.? I mean that not only as a
superlative, but also because it invokes fantasy.? His earliest records, like Cubana Be/
Cubana Bop, and? A Bird In Igor's Yard were both primeval and out of this world.
I started collecting him early on, and his sound world really influenced me.? Jazz in the
Space Age (with the dueling pianos of Bill Evans and Paul Bley!), his Riversides, New
York, New York, the Miles/Konitz Ezz-Thetic and Odjenar, and Gil Evans version of
Stratusphunk are favorites that still appeal to me.

His Lydian Chromatic concept will probably be bandied about, generating more heat
than light, as usual.? I couldn't afford the whole book when I was studying, but I did
order the playing exercises.? I see it as a way of thinking, instead of some formula,
and have an inkling that it was related to the harmonic expansion that the flatted
fifth of Bop popularized.? The flatted fifth is enharmonically the same as the characteristic
raised fourth of the Lydian mode.? What it got me doing was thinking enharmonically
all the time.? When you think both A sharp and B flat when you play the note, there are
suddenly a lot more places to go.? (This can also enhance just hearing the note as a sound
and making decisions from that standpoint.)? I don't think you can make sense of a tune
like Coltrane's Giant Steps without thinking enharmonically.? While Giant Steps is formulaic,
George Russell's music doesn't sound written that way.? I think he was a genuinely inspired
composer.? (There's also a nexus to Ellington/Strayhorn and Sun Ra.)
_______________________________________________
Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic
_______________________________________________
Bay Area New Music Discussion Group
NewMusic at music.mills.edu
http://music.mills.edu/mailman/listinfo/newmusic

From relijun at hotmail.com  Tue Jul 28 11:03:42 2009
From: relijun at hotmail.com (arrington de dionyso)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:03:42 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] 2nd Annual Low Clarinet Symposium
In-Reply-To: <773604285-1248801676-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1293042471-@bxe1099.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>
References: <642916.36076.qm@web82802.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<773604285-1248801676-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1293042471-@bxe1099.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>
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This isn't a funded gig, but just in case any one is traveling in the NW and is interested, we are holding the second annual Low Clarinet Symposium in Olympia, WA at NORTHERN, 321 East Fourth Ave, on Thursday August 13th. 

 

Each bass or contrabass clarinettist will perform a 10-20 minute solo, followed by a group improvisation including drums/percussion. 

 

This year's performers confirmed are: myself (Arrington de Dionyso), Jonathan Sielaff, Paul Hoskin, and Mark Kaylor (drums). 

 

Please contact me if you will be in the area and wish to perform. NO FUCKING BARITONE SAXES!!!! Must be clarinet family only. Alto clarinets are lame but we'll let you play for the sake of token diversity. Bass, contralto, or contrabass preferred. Home-made instruments that somehow "reference" the glory of the bass clarinet will be considered. 

 

thanks for reading, feel free to forward to anyone interested. 

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From jazzscribe at aol.com  Tue Jul 28 14:32:57 2009
From: jazzscribe at aol.com (jazzscribe at aol.com)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:32:57 -0400
Subject: [NewMusic] sublet?
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From: Andrew Gilbert

If anyone has (or knows of) an apartment or in-law sublet in West 
Berkeley for three or four weeks between Oct. 15-Nov. 30 please drop me 
a line at 510-527-2455...thanks, Andy


From slusser at pixar.com  Wed Jul 29 09:58:43 2009
From: slusser at pixar.com (David Slusser)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:58:43 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] Supervisor Chiu on making music
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In yesterday's SF Chronicle's Datebook section (7/28/09), San  
Francisco City Supervisor,
and president of the Board of Supervisors, David Chiu talked about  
his continuing
interest in playing his violin (classical and rock).

"Obviously, playing the violin was how I first learned to do anything  
in public, so that
was certainly helpful.  But more importantly, as someone who was  
never good enough
to be even a semi-regular soloist, I had to learn about how to play  
with others and
make music together.

Sometimes I think that as president of the board, my job is to bring  
the disparate
voices together when everyone's trying to play their own melodies.   
It may not
always be harmonious, but we do make our own kind of music here at  
City Hall."

From slusser at pixar.com  Wed Jul 29 16:01:28 2009
From: slusser at pixar.com (David Slusser)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:01:28 -0700
Subject: [NewMusic] George Russell music on WKCR
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George Russell music on WKCR

(if you don't mind Phil)