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Important Records

The Harmonic Series CD coverAvailable November 2009. 

'The Harmonic Series' is a compilation of musical works in Just Intonation created by three generations of contemporary composers who utilize this tuning system. This compilation was curated over the span of two years by Duane Pitre and will be available on Important Records in November 2009. The goal of this compilation and its accompanying liner notes is to educate listeners about the origins and use of Just Intonation, as well as to portray the unique beauty of this tonal “color palette,” which is heard by relatively few in the Western world and explored by even fewer.

Although all the artists on the compilation work within the avant-garde/experimental genre, each artist lends something unique to the collection, and each employs a different approach toward how to utilize Just Intonation. Within The Harmonic Seriesyou’ll find an array of instrumentation such as piano, cello, accordion, electronics, guitar, Ukelin, saxophone, violin, koto, and more.

The featured artists on The Harmonic Series are: Pauline Oliveros, Ellen Fullman, Charles Curtis, Michael Harrison, Greg Davis, R Keenan Lawler, Duane Pitre, Theresa Wong, and Zachary James Watkins. (Use the "Artist Profiles" links to learn more about these artists).

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Alicia Keys

Classy.
 
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Little Joy - Evaporar

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 lavajava soundtrack
more heavenly than the last.

  
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Little Joy - Shoulder to Shoulder - (UNPLUGGED)

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Jon Mueller recommends Peter Broderick

“4 Track Songs” by Peter Broderick

Early lo-fi classics from Peter Broderick.

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In just a few short years multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, composer and all round renaissance man Peter Broderick has shot from being a darling of the underground to something far more substantial. Constantly touring, Peter has accrued fans far and wide with his alluring folk songs and gorgeous post-classical compositions, but all this had to start somewhere.

A few years ago Peter was kind enough to send Type a package of all his material prior to writing ‘Float’. This came in the form of two CDRs, lovingly hand-labelled ‘4 Track Songs’. Recorded to tape using only a cheap microphone, Peter assembled these tracks as and when they came to his head. From delicate piano improvisations to fully fledged songs more reminiscent of ‘Home’ this is a charming and heart-warming portal into Peter’s early creative process. More than that though, these songs are so defiant in their hazy, lo-fi beauty that they stand on their own as pieces that can never possibly be repeated.


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Ennio Morricone?

Song at the end of the segment?

 

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The Clash

seriously

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Barbez - Corner of Time

this was good. reverse saw. sounded like Colleen.

Corner of Time

Dan Kaufman

04:39pm

Barbez


Barbez takes shape in a sunstruck phantasm; Kurt Weill swims the length of a still pond, underwater The Residents are refurbishing their home, Erik Satie descends from above to lie in the grass and sip seltzer. Shapes emerge from flowering trees and a Dionysian wedding dance ensues. Provoked by such musics as French musette, Argentine tango, post-war classical and pre-MTV punk, Barbez wrings these disparate worlds to form anew in the band's own soundscape.

The group began in 1997 with members whose backgrounds encompass jazz, classical, and rock [ ... ]

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John Adams - The Dharma at Big Sur

Friday, 28 August 2009

A guide for music played on WNYC-2

The Dharma at Big Sur

John Adams

03:06pm

Tracy Silverman, electric violin, Tracy Silverman, electric violi
BBC Symphony Orchestra
John Adams, conductor

This was great.  Lithe violin.

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willie

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