Where's the Beat

with Eliot Handelman

and Andie Sigler

Wednesdays 9-11 AM @ CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal

Playlists

2011 / 6 / 15

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More Composers!
  1. Brian Eno - Generative Music
  2. Hugh Levick - Bang for the Buck; Translation
  3. Christopher McLean - Bébelles
  4. Jean Piché - Musiques Virtuelles 1, 4
  5. Brian Eno - (more) Generative Music
  6. Jean Piché - Musiques Virtuelles 2
  7. Karen Power - Dan; old fashioned chocolate fondue fountain
  8. Lukas Ligeti - a hook in the sky
  9. Mramia - Beyond from mountains
  10. aarononeal1984.com - Lament for Strings and Harp
  11. Pat Metheny - Orchestrion
  12. Roger and Brian Eno - Keyboard Studies
  13. Marc Sabat - Erbsen 3

2011 / 6 / 1

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Omax: machine flavored comprovisation
  1. Hans Werner Henze - Sonatina 1947
  2. Jean Brice Godet - omax clarinet
  3. Hélène Schwartz - omax piano
  4. Mary - Earth Heartbeat
  5. Graham Breed - demonstration of magic temperament
  6. Easley Blackwood - 12 microtonal etudes for electronic music media, op.28 (Allegro Volando); Symphony #5, 1990, III
  7. Frederick Delius - A song before sunrise
  8. Wendy Carlos - That's Just It
  9. Mari Kimura and Dave Eggars - omax (Scientific American Article)
  10. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
  11. Giovanni Dettori - Lady Gaga Fugue
  12. J.S. Bach - Little Fugue
  13. Milton Babbitt - Philomel

2011 / 5 / 18

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  1. Yannis Kyriakides - pensioner_0496
  2. Anne H. Goldberg - Tableax Vivants, L'apres midi
  3. David Smooke - 21 miles to Coolville
  4. Paul Hindemith - Bassoon Sonata
  5. Toshio Hosokawa - Vertical Songs 1 (Toshio Suzuki, flute)
  6. Douglas Pew - Sinfonia Concertante
  7. Alan Silvestri - Back to the Future theme
  8. Robert Honstein - Fantasy Triptych; July Society
  9. Jonathan Price - The Blue Tiger
  10. Hannah Lash - Leave
  11. Richard Pinhas - Tranzition
  12. Marc Sabat - Erbsen 2; 1

2011 / 4 / 20

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We reviewed this article on musical expressiveness from the New York Times.

  1. Tristan Perich - 1-Bit Symphony
  2. Sofia Gubaidulina - Toccata-Troncata
  3. Rough Weather - Design for Small Spaces
  4. Daniel Neumann et al. - Frühjahrszug
  5. Carol Burnett - Feelings
  6. Mondo Vanilli - Love is the product (E. Handelman, lyrics)
  7. Beau Sievers - For assisted cellist
  8. Elliott Carter - FIgment #2: Remembering Mr. Ives (M. Heimovitz, cello)
  9. WFMU blog - The Barbershopper and His Voice
  10. WFMU blog - Masaru Sato - Listen Kurasawa
  11. Monty Adkins - Memory Box; Remnant
  12. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

2011 / 4 / 6

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Our guest was Edmund J Milly, composer in a new old style.

  1. JS Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, arranged for violin by Andrew Manze
  2. Alfred Schnittke - A Paganini
  3. Nick Didkovsky - Ice Cream Time (tracks 1-3)
  4. Charles Curtis - Ultra White Violet Light
  5. Samuel Barber - Sonata Op. 26, I (Horowitz)
  6. Edmund J Milly - Mass in a new old style: Kyrie, Gloria
  7. JP Reese - Eternal Day
  8. Edmund J Milly - Mass in a new old style (conclusion)

2011 / 3 / 23

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  1. Jean-Claude Risset - Little Boy
  2. Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima
  3. Jean-Claude Risset - Dialogues
  4. Freida Abtan - Mistah Kurtz; Orpheus in the Underworld
  5. Amon Tobin - Delpher
  6. David M Gordon - Friction Systems
  7. Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 9, Scherzo: Furtwangler, Sinopoli, Bernstein, Karajan

2011 / 3 / 9

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  1. Steven Mackey - Indigenous Instruments
  2. Rodney Sharman - Suspended Waltz
  3. Dennis De Santis - Strange Imaginary Remix
  4. Amon Tobin - Horsefish
  5. James Harley - aXis (NMC, Aitken)
  6. Iannis Xenakis - Akrata
  7. Howard Bashaw - Passacaglia quasi una fantasia; Seven Spheres (tapestry, legato, eclipsing)
  8. Paul Steenhuisen - Frank O Lunaire #10: Raub
  9. André Ristic - Sonate de Carnaval (ECM, Lacroix)
  10. Keith Hamel - Traces II
  11. Alessandro Bossetti - The Converstation 3

2011 / 2 / 23

Guest Genevieve Martin of La Nef.

  1. La Nef (André Hamel, composer) - Urnos: Victoire
  2. La Nef (André Hamel, composer) - Urnos: A la recherche des Urnossiens
  3. La Nef (André Hamel, composer) - Urnos: Naissance
  4. La Nef (André Hamel, composer) - Urnos: Immolation
  5. Rodion Shchedrin - Piano Concerto II (M.A. Hamelin)
  6. Hans Werner Henze - Tristan Präluden I
  7. Steffan Schleiermacher - At the deck table (for mechanical organ)
  8. James Rolfe - Freddy's Dead (for mechanical organ)
  9. Brian Current - Rounds (St. Lawrence String Quartet)
  10. Jörg Widmann - Arlecchino rabbioso for automaphonic barrel organ

2011 / 2 / 9

Guest D. Andrew Stewart. Farewell to Milton Babbitt.

  1. Milton Babbitt - Piano Concerto
  2. Joshua Feinberg - Enpreintes
  3. Helmut Lachenmann - Grido (Arditti Quartet)
  4. Hans Werner Henze - Versuch über Schweine
  5. D. Andrew Stewart - With Winds
  6. D. Andrew Stewart - Cyberain, uh-huh and bam
  7. D. Andrew Stewart - Sawdust (Penderecki Quartet)
  8. BeeGees - Stayin' Alive

2011 / 1 / 26

  1. Todd Levin- Blur (from Deluxe)
  2. Osvoldo Golijov - Aria from Oceana
  3. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz for iPhone
  4. Olle Cornéer and Martin Lübke - Harvest; Bacterial Orchestra #1; Public Epidemic
  5. Rolf Julius - Music für einen kleinen Raum
  6. Henrik Rylander - Walk-in-Sound
  7. Heart Chamber Orchestra
  8. Ray Kurzweil - I've got a secret
  9. Tan Dun - Eight memories in watercolor, Op.1 V
  10. Charles Griffes - Clouds
  11. Osvoldo Golijov - La Pasion Segun San Marcos
  12. Ennio Mazzon - Azura Allochiria part 2
  13. Kerkville - Vault
  14. Tzesne - La Carne
  15. Mechna/Orga 13:49
  16. Juliet Palmer - Stitch-She One Stitch
  17. J.K. Randall - Some Old Troubador Songs
  18. J.S. Bach - BWV 547 (Walcha)

2011 / 1 / 12

  1. Michael Daugherty - Metropolis Symphony I (Lex)
  2. Thomas Ades - Violin Concerto "Concentric Paths" I, II (Anthony Marwood)
  3. Art Tatum - Tiger Rag; Liza
  4. Thomas Ades - Violin Concerto "Concentric Paths" III (Anthony Marwood)
  5. Art Tatum - Tea for Two
  6. Thomas Ades - Three studies after Couperin: Les Tours de Passe-Passe
  7. Osvaldo Golijov - Oceana: 1. Call, 2. First Wave, 3. Second Wave
  8. Daft Punk - TRON overture; the Grid
  9. Osvoldo Golijov - Tenebraw (Kronos Quartet)
  10. Leroy Anderson - The Typewriter (Jerry Lewis)
  11. Stéphane Roy - Crystal Music
  12. Chilling Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House
  13. Thomas Ades - Powder Her Face (Suite): Finale, Waltz

2010 / 12 / 15

We went to see the new Raymond Scott documentary by his son Stan Warnow.

  1. Raymond Scott - Bumpy Weather Over Newark
  2. David Mahler - Wagnerian Opera
  3. Per Norgard - Violin Concerto (Helle Nacht) I
  4. John Cage - Party Pieces
  5. Ensemble Zwischentöne - I have nothing to say and I am saying it
  6. Marc Sabat - Erbsen 1, 2, 3
  7. Tiny Tim - All I Want for Christmas; Tiptoe Through the Tulips
  8. Anthony Braxton and Gerry Hemmingway - Invention 8107AM
  9. Amon Tobin - Kitchen Sink
  10. Tod Dockstader - 8 Electronic Pieces
  11. Steven Mackey - See Ya Thursday
  12. Otto Luening - The Bass With the Delicate Air
  13. Raymond Scott - Powerhouse (rehearsal); The Happy Whistler
  14. Gyorgy Ligeti - Violin Concerto: Praeludium, Aria, Hocquetus, Chorale
  15. Emilie something and Andrea Jane Cornell - bruit avant et plans de fond
  16. Tim Brady - Seconds; Liquid
  17. Aram Khachaturian - Adagio from Spartacus

2010 / 12 / 1

  1. Nick Didkovsky - Amalia's Secret
  2. Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1
  3. Claude Ballif - Un coup de dés
  4. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Mantra (at 45 rpm)
  5. Lainie Fefferman - Tekiah (Matt Welch, bagpipes); The Toronto Problem (Jack Quartet)
  6. Brad Garton - Counterdrift
  7. Luke Dubois - August 12
  8. Brad Garton - PianoPiano
  9. Luke Dubois - August 13
  10. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz - Turn Around, Bustle and Blaze
  11. Luke Dubois - September 10
  12. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Mantra (at 45 rpm)

2010 / 11 / 17

  1. Socalled - Figlude (Matt Haimovitz, cello)
  2. Wolfgang von Schweinitz - Mozart Variationen
  3. Ana Sokolovic - vez (Matt Haimovitz, cello)
  4. Walter Zimmerman - Phran
  5. Alvin Curran - Light Flowers, Dark Flowers
  6. Henryk Górecki - Symphony #3 (Sorrowful Songs); Piano Sonata
  7. Manuel de Falla - Ritual Fire Dance (Arthur Rubinstein, piano)
  8. Henryk Górecki - Symphony #2 (Copernican); Concerto for Harpsichord; Concerto for Piano and Strings; Kleines Requiem for a Polka; Tre pezzi in stilo antico
  9. Trevor Grahl - Metaxa
  10. Claude Ballif - Un coup de dés
  11. Ferde Grofé - Huckleberry Finn

2010 / 11 / 3

  1. Andrew Rudin - Kouros; Tragodie
  2. Tom Johnson - Nine Bells #1 and #2
  3. Chris Newman - Piano Sonata #6, part 1 (M. Finnissy, piano)
  4. George Gershwin / Michael Finnissy - Two Arrangements
  5. Chris Newman - Piano Sonata #6, part 2
  6. Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata #27 (Wilhelm Kempff)
  7. Stephane Roy - Trois petits histoires concrètes: Pythaghorizons
  8. National Exit Strategy - Wolfblitz/Broken Sleep
  9. Friendly Rich - Baba Yaga
  10. Modest Mussorgsky - Baba Yaga

2010 / 10 / 20

  1. Alex Mincek - Pendulum III; Double Concerto I
  2. Andrew Norman - Grand Turismo
  3. Clint Needham - Crossing Brooklyn Ferry; Circus Finale
  4. Cynthia Lee Wong - Piano Quartet
  5. John Luther Adams - For Lou Harrison #1
  6. Paul Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  7. Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre
  8. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Computer Games; Technopolis
  9. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Asadoya Yunta; Chain Music

2010 / 10 / 6

  1. Iannis Xenakis - Jonchaies
  2. Brian Current - For the Time Being
  3. Bryan Jacobs - Coloring Regret
  4. Iannis Xenakis - Lichens
  5. Howard Skempton - Catch
  6. Eliot Goldenthal - Batman; Fire Water Paper
  7. Fred Stiener - Perry Mason Theme

2010 / 9 / 22

Featuring the Australasian JTTP winners.

  1. Nic McConaughy - Single Origin
  2. Jack Hooker - Field Murmer
  3. Guido Ponzini - aghoris; awkward bear
  4. Jeremy Coubrough - The Spectre of The Delusion of The Fury
  5. Elodie Lauten - Tronic Involutions: Retreat
  6. Blake Johnston - Submerge
  7. Alexander Berne - Abandoned Orchestra: Plumescent
  8. Mark Oliveiro - In Maluga
  9. Amon Tobin - Bloodstone; Esther's; Keep Your Distance
  10. Alexander Berne - Abandoned Orchestra: Lustening
  11. Amon Tobin - The Killer's Vanilla

2010 / 9 / 8

JTTP winners of 2010! We chatted with Charles Quevillon, Adam Basanta, Guillaume Campion, Valérie Delaney, and Eldad Tsabary in the studio.

  1. Valérie Delaney — La cité de verre
  2. Guillaume Campion — Quadriforis
  3. Émilie Payeur — Triptyque
  4. Adam Basanta — a glass is not a glass
  5. Charles Quevillon — Au Boute

2010 / 8 / 25

The highlight of the show was Tobin Lippold's electrifying in-studio performance of an excerpt from his role as Wolf in R. Murray Schafer's "and wolf shall inherit the moon".

  1. Raymond Scott - The Happy Whistler (from Soothing Sounds for Baby)
  2. R. Murray Schafer - "and wolf shall inherit the moon" excerpt by Tobin Lippold
  3. Iannis Xenakis - Evryali
  4. R. Murray Schafer - String Quartet No. 1
  5. R. Murray Schafer - Wolf Music
  6. Richard Wagner - Prelude from Das Rheingold
  7. John Adams - Violin Concrto (Chloë Hanslip)

2010 / 7 / 28

  1. John Cage - 3 easy pieces
  2. Christian von Borries - Tannhauser in kabul
  3. Big Bunnies from Tarantula
  4. Marjorie Hess- About the Night (Alexander String Quartet)
  5. Bernard Herrmann - Psycho
  6. Iannis Xenakis - Mists
  7. Michael Edwards - Skin
  8. Raymond Scott - Powerhouse (The Philharmonicas)
  9. Charles Dodge - Violin Variations
  10. Edgard Varèse - Ionization (Slonimsky)
  11. Mauricio Kagel - rrrrr
  12. Christian von Borries - Peeping Around Corners (with Diedrich Diedrichsen)
  13. Paul Lansky - Threads (Yale Percussion)

2010 / 7 / 14

Special guest: composer Ben Shemie!

  1. Iannis Xenakis - A.R. for solo piano
  2. Ben Shemie - Heiroglyphs
  3. Ben Shemie - Foudroyé (excerpt)
  4. Hermeto Pascoal - (excerpt)
  5. Scott Johnson - How it happens (soliloqy) (Kronos Quartet)
  6. Zeroes - Arena
  7. Frank Zappa - Dangerous Kitchen
  8. Peter Ablinger - Morton Feldman (Nicholas Hodges)

2010 / 6 / 30

  1. Madelyn Byrne - Northern Flight
  2. Alban Berg - 3 Orchestral Pieces Op. 6 No.2 "Reigen"
  3. Ross Bolleter - Ruined Piano
  4. Jason Freeman - Compose Your Own
  5. Nintendo Violin
  6. Boston Pops - Super Mario
  7. Magnus Lindberg - Klavierstuck; Etude No. 2; Etude No. 1
  8. Glass Orchestra - Crinkle
  9. Howard Skempton - Images for Piano
  10. Cornelius Cardew - Piano Sonata No. 5
  11. Howard Skempton - Well, well, Cornelius

2010 / 6 / 16

Featuring participants in the ICMC UN-conference 2010.

  1. Judson
  2. Arne Eigenfeldt
  3. Miha Ciglar
  4. Mr. Daryn Bond of the Bond Institute
  5. Bill Dietz - Nocturne
  6. Freida Abtan
  7. Jascha Narveson
  8. Alexandre Torres Porres
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2009 / 12 / 30

  1. Naut Humon - Twinge of Lunge; Remembrance
  2. Maryanne Amacher - Plaything
  3. Darren Copeland - Reaching for Tomorrow
  4. Chilling Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House
  5. Raymond Scott - Hertz Theme; Secret Agent
  6. Eve Egoyan and David Rokeby - Surface Tension
  7. Alarm Will Sound - Cfern (Autechre)
  8. Autechre - Cfern
  9. Alarm Will Sound - Chamber Concerto (G. Ligeti)
  10. Julia Wolfe - Early that Summer
  11. Raymond Scott - Birdseed Special
  12. James Rolfe - Simon and Garfunkel and the Prophets of Rage
  13. Raymond Scott - Fiddle no Further
  14. Tim Brady - Strumming
  15. Thomas Ades - These Premises are Alarmed

2009 / 12 / 16

  1. Annie Gosfield - Nickolaievski Soldat; Freud
  2. W.A. Mozart - Don Giovanni
  3. Julia Wolfe - Dig Deep
  4. Dave Sanford - Scherzo Grosso (with Matt Haimovitz)
  5. Osvaldo Golijov -
  6. Juila Wolfe - Four Marys

2009 / 12 / 2

We discussed Glann Branca's New York Times article.

  1. Paul Dolden - Who Has the Biggest Sound
  2. Jean Papineau-Couture - Pièce Concertante #1 (Repliement)
  3. Glenn Branca - Symphony #2
  4. Frank Zappa - G Spot Tornado
  5. Paul Dolden - Who Has the Biggest Sound
  6. Glenn Branca - Symphony #5
  7. Theresa Transistor - Mois Multi 1
  8. Sergei Prokofiev - Der Böse Got und der Tanz der heidnischen Geister
  9. Dmitri Schostakovich - Polka und Galopp
  10. Ferde Grofé - Huckleberry Finn

2009 / 11 / 18

We discussed musilanguage, Vic Mizzy and Stuckism. Ben Shemie's opera Foudroyé is monday Nov 23rd, tues, 24th, thurs 26th and friday 27th; at école Nationale de Théatre, Montreal; FREE; call 514 842 -7954 poste 143 to reserve.

  1. György Ligeti - Lux Aeterna
  2. Stellari String Quartet - Merope
  3. Ben Shemie - Invisible Ink
  4. Vic Mizzy - The Ghost and Mr. Chicken; Green Acres; Addams Family
  5. Richard Barrett and Paul Obermeyer - FURT Limen I
  6. Veronica - Calyx; Wild Time
  7. Peter Ablinger - Weiss/Weisslich
  8. Benjamin Britten - Storm

2009 / 11 / 4

  1. Alarm Will Sound (Benedict Mason) - Jitterbug Méchanique; Disgraceful Bossanova with Lemurs
  2. Michael Gordon - Tinge
  3. Raymond Scott - Toy Trumpet
  4. Alarm Will Sound (Josquin des Pres) - Agnus Dei II, Missa L'Homme Armé
  5. Michael Gordon - Instrumental
  6. Raymond Scott - Egyptian Barn Dance
  7. Payton MacDonald - Welkin Swarm
  8. Alarm Will Sound (Conlon Nancarrow) - Study No. 3A for Player Piano
  9. Oscar Levant - Sonatina for Piano, mvt 1
  10. Theme for Paperboy
  11. Michael Gordon - My Frig
  12. Edgard Varèse (JB) - Ionazation
  13. Richard Strauss (Sinopoli) - Eine Alpensinfonie, storm
  14. Alarm Will Sound (Harrison Birtwistle) - Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum

2009 / 10 / 21

Funding drive time.

  1. Roland Kayn - Etarol
  2. Karl Aage Rasmussen - Strain
  3. Georges Forget - Orages d'acier
  4. Carleton Macy - Reflections: Invention
  5. David Rakowski - Track 9
  6. Carleton Macy - Reflections: Rainbow Etude
  7. Hayg Boyadjian - Sevan
  8. Binnette Lipper - Interludes: III Flight
  9. Delphine Measroch, Nicholas Bernier - Subaquatique
  10. Freida Abtan - Hereditary disorder
  11. Hanns Eisler or Theodor Adorno - String quartet
  12. Denys Bouliane - Concerto pour piano
  13. Ferde Grofé - Huckleberry Finn

2009 / 10 / 7

Guest: Louise Campbell.

  1. Geof Holbrook - Dragonfly on Bay Street
  2. Neil Middleton - Trio
  3. Flotilla - Prelude and Epilogue
  4. Philippe Leroux - Air (Louise Campbell, clarinet, Barah Héon-Morissette, percussion)
  5. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stimmung
  6. Erwin Schulhoff - Partita (1920)
  7. Alexander von Zemlinsky - Lyric Symphony, 1st mvt.

2009 / 9 / 23

JTTP winners were with us.

  1. Félix Lachance - Manège I (JTTP 5th place)
  2. Guillaume Barrette - Syncrétisme (JTTP 4th place)
  3. Christopher Mclean - Bébelles (JTTP 3rd place)
  4. Yota Kobayashi - Kakusei (JTTP 2nd place)
  5. Florian Hartlieb - Im vorderen Zimmer des hinteren Raums (DEGEM 1st place)
  6. Oliver Peters - Transkript 18 (DEGEM 2nd place)
  7. Alexander Schubert - Nachtschatten (DEGEM 3rd place)
  8. Nicolas Wiese - Vertikalzeit (DEGEM 4th place)
  9. Jonas Foerster - Echoes of Urban Life (DEGEM 5th place)
  10. Olivier Girouard - Suite_04 (JTTP 1st place)

2009 / 9 / 9

  1. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Telemusik
  2. David Teie - Monkey Music
  3. Mr Deaf Grapefruit Fitzright (aka Kevin Austin) - Fake Blues
  4. Henri Dutilleux - Ainsi la nuit (Arditti Quartet)
  5. Jean Barraqué - Sonate pour Piano (Pi-Hsien Chen)
  6. Cornelius Dufallo - Suite for electric violin, prelude
  7. Samuil Feinberg - Piano Sonata #6 (Christophe Sirodeau)
  8. Ferde Grofé - Huckleberry Finn
  9. William Walton - Portsmouth Point Overture

2009 / 8 / 26

Guest composer and percussionist Eric Derr.

  1. James Tenney - Arbor Vitae (Quatuor Bozzini)
  2. David Bowie - Sunday
  3. Nick Troop - David Bowie Ideal
  4. Elektrik Toboggan - track 1
  5. Geof Holbrook - Dragonfly on Bay Street
  6. Iannis Xenakis - Rebonds (Eric Derr)
  7. Eric Derr - I have elaborated... ; Four Sections

2009 / 8 / 12

Guests Yuki Isami, Lousie Campbell, Michel Frigon.

  1. Fred Steiner - Perry Mason Theme
  2. Terry Riley - A rainbow in curved air; Tread on the trail
  3. Gareth Loy - Nekyia
  4. Fred Steiner - Follow that Man
  5. Laurie Radford - Que la terre s'ouvre
  6. Yuki Isami - LIVE in studio, bamboo flute
  7. Michel Frigon - Axma
  8. René Orea Sanchez - Peruvian Saya
  9. Yuki Isami - LIVE in studio, bamboo flute

2009 / 7 / 29

We reviewed this article from PLoS One about the affect on the amygdala of music listening with eyes closed.

  1. Frank Zappa - Outside now, Again
  2. Michael Fiday - Automotive Passacaglia
  3. The Beatles - Revolution 9
  4. Alarm Will Sound - Revolution 9 (arr. Matt Marks)
  5. Frank Zappa - Jonestown
  6. Matt Marks - High Fructose; The Exaltation of Grace Budd
  7. Justin Rubin - Un temps calme
  8. Cornelius Dufallo - Introduction; Cosmic Clouds
  9. Dave Sanford + Pittsburgh Collective with Matt Haimovitz - Alchemy; V-Reel
  10. Anton Plate - You must finish your journey alone

2009 / 7 / 15

  1. Elliott Carter - Symphony of Three Orchestras
  2. Eldad Tsabary - Recurrent Lucid Nightmares (SONUS)
  3. Hans Tutschku - Die Zerschlagene Stimme
  4. Philippe-Aubert Gauthier - Fréquances Urbaines
  5. Montreal Genetic Laptop Orchestra
  6. History of Microsoft Windows Startup and Shutdown Sounds (youtube)
  7. Tres Dodecamut - Concierto Silencioso (Banda Municipal de Barcelona)
  8. Jean Derome - Tec(hno)tRonique; Plate-Forme Electorale
  9. Alice Ping Yee Ho - Evolving Elements: 1. Light
  10. Bernard Herrmann - Psycho
  11. Wilhelm Killmayer - Zittern und Wagen
  12. Qi Zhang / Sergei Prokofiev - "Ridiculous Fellows" from The Love for Three Oranges

2009 / 7 / 1

  1. George Gershwin - Concerto in F, 3rd mvt (Oscar Levant, piano)
  2. Mathieu Lévesque - vers l'exformance
  3. Oscar Levant - Piano Sonatina
  4. Robert Aitken - Keyar
  5. Oscar Levant - Piano Concerto
  6. Tony Cicoria (dude struck by lightning) - excerpts
  7. Lee Johnson - Greatful Dead Symphony: China Doll
  8. Erich Korngold - Violin Concerto, 3rd mvt (Jascha Heifetz, violin)
  9. Michael Torke - Rapture, 3rd mvt: Metal
  10. George Antheil - Archipelago

2009 / 6 / 17

  1. Harry Partch - Three Undergrads Become Transfigured in a Hong Kong Music Hall
  2. John Loughrey - Song for Mr. V
  3. Luciano Berio - Concertino
  4. JT von Falkenstein - 991hPa excerpt
  5. Sarah Peebles - The Curse of Border Vacuums
  6. John Oswald - Temperature (Beastie Shop Beach); Massive (Ozzie Osmond)
  7. Luciano Berio - Concerto for Two Pianos
  8. Igor Stravinsky - Feu d'artifice
  9. JT von Falkenstein - kmr
  10. Nicols Bernier / Simon Trottier - Racines

2009 / 6 / 3

  1. Don Erb - Spatial Fanfare; Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra (Stuart Dempster)
  2. Carly Simon / David Raksin - Laura
  3. Nicolas Bernier / Jacques Poulin-Denis - Etude #3
  4. Michael Gordon - Ball Breaker
  5. Meredith Monk - Scared Song
  6. Christian Nicolai - Taking the Bridge
  7. Pierre Desmarais - EnvironMentally Sound
  8. Risto Holopainen - Mechanical Magpies
  9. Gilles Gobeil - Le miroir triste
  10. John Carpenter - Halloween; Cubus
  11. Roland Kayn - Khyra 1

2009 / 5 / 20

  1. Lukas Ligeti - Pattern Transformation
  2. Michael Gordon - Trance
  3. Lukas Ligeti - Delta Space
  4. Michael Snow - Radio Solo #1
  5. Luciano Berio - A-Ronne #1
  6. Thomas Ades - Tevot
  7. György Ligeti - Lontano

2009 / 5 / 6

  1. Phil Glass - Koyaanisqatsi
  2. D. Andrew Stewart - Catching Air and The Superman
  3. Roland Kayn - Etarol
  4. David Rosenboom - Corona Dance; Desert Night Touchdown
  5. Nicole Lizée - This Will Not be Televised
  6. Sandeep Bhagwati - All Over Again
  7. Roland Kayn - Khyra 3

2009 / 4 / 22

John Rea was our guest. We talked about the fact that in the 80 years between the time of Beethoven and Webern there were vast musical transformations but now 100 years after Webern musical progess seems to have ceased.

  1. Pierre Boulez - Sonata #2
  2. Drew Krause and LEMURBots
  3. Detlev Müller-Siemens - cuts
  4. Nicole Lizée - Carpal Tunnels
  5. Nicole Lizée - This Will Not be Televised
  6. Dick Raaijmakers - Piano-Forte
  7. Tom Johnson - Rational Melodies XIV
  8. Anton Webern - Six Pieces for Orchestra op.6 (chamber version)
  9. The Bad Plus - Semi Simple Variaions (Milton Babbitt)
  10. The Bad Plus - Fém (Ligeti's Etude #8)

2009 / 4 / 8

  1. Léo Küpper - Electro-poem
  2. Ana Sokolovic - six voix pour sirènes
  3. Carl Nielsen - Sinfonia Espansiva (finale)
  4. Barry Schrader - Basilisks (from Bestiary)
  5. Rainer Wiens/Malcolm Goldstein - Duo from a performanec at Usine C
  6. Andrew Staniland - Devolution (from the CBC contest)
  7. Louis Dufort - Gen_3
  8. György Ligeti - Chamber Concerto (4th mvt)
  9. Marc-André Dalbavie - La Source d'un regard

2009 / 3 / 25

We checked out some online music collections: the Concordia Archival Project and the Ricardo Dal Farra Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection. Don't hesitate to write in and tell us what you think (about anything!)

  1. Léo Küpper - Innominé
  2. Mark Applebaum - Ferneyhaugh Remix (Affection Aphorism 1)
  3. Bruce Pennycook - Praescio III (extended harsichord, computer, midi synth)
  4. Vincent Ho - Nighthawks
  5. Alan Inkpen - Melody on Mars
  6. David Adamcyk - Les pampres de la tonnelle
  7. David Amram - Taxim (Travels for Trumpet and Orchestra)
  8. Léo Küpper - (title unknown) Extrait bande et basse
  9. Robert Ashley - Concrete (random excerpt)
  10. Antonio Russek - Zanfonietta

2009 / 3 / 11

  1. John Luther Adams - In the White Silence
  2. John Luther Adams - Dark Waves
  3. Nick Didkovsky - Ice Cream Time
  4. Göran Gamstorp - Growings
  5. Alexander Raskatov - Gebet; I will see a rose at the end of the path
  6. Aaron Jay Kernis - Second Symphony, mtv. #3 "Barricade"
  7. Paul Dolden - Physics of Seduction
  8. Nick Didkovsky - Amalia's Secret
  9. Göran Gamstorp - Growings (continued)

2009 / 2 / 25

Coming up this week: Musimars.

  1. Thomas Ades - Chamber Symphony
  2. Denys Bouliane - Piano Concerto
  3. Lee Johnson - Greatful Dead Symphony: Mountains of the Moon
  4. Tan Dun - A Symphony for YouTube
  5. Lejaren Hiller - Illiac Suite
  6. Ornette Coleman - Matador (from Sound Grammar)
  7. Michael Kamen - An American Symphony (from Mr. Holland's Opus)
  8. Eliot Britton - Sarge and the Swing Dance Apocalypse
  9. John Adams - Lollapalooza

2009 / 2 / 11

Our guest this week was conductor Véronique Lacroix. She'll be performing at the upcoming MNM festival.

  1. Raymond Scott - Sprite Ad
  2. FM3 - Buddha Machine
  3. Eliot Britton- Break Zero Hue
  4. Philippe-Aubert Gauthier - Fréquences Urbaines
  5. Philippe-Aubert Gauthier - New Noize for CWU's Demo "Untitled #1"
  6. Raymond Scott - Track 26
  7. Gabriela Ortiz - Estudios no identificados
  8. Michel Gonneville (M-A Hamelin, ECM) - Adonwe
  9. Michel Gonneville - Microphone Songs
  10. Classic Hits by Microsoft Songsmith (YOUTUBE) - Hotel California by the Eagles
  11. Classic Hits by Microsoft Songsmith (YOUTUBE) - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles

2009 / 1 / 28

Today our guest was Marie-Chantal Leclair of Quasar saxophone quartet. They will be playing saxophones as well as Roman organ pipes at the upcoming MNM festival. Concordia's Eucue series is this week.

  1. Tristan Murail - Vampire (Tim Brady, guitar)
  2. Larry Polansky - Four Voice Canon 23b (freeHorn canon)
  3. Michel Chion - Credo Mambo
  4. Francis Dhomont - Frankenstein Symphony
  5. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Telemusik
  6. Michel Chion - Dix-sept minutes
  7. Michel Frigon - Geyser Ghetto (Quasar)
  8. Jean-François Laporte - Procession (Quasar, Roman organ pipes)
  9. Luc Marcel - Mirroir des vents (Quasar)

2009 / 1 / 14

  1. Beatles / Peter Breiner - Yellow Submarine
  2. Isang Yun - Shao Yang Yin
  3. Raymond Deane - Apostille for organ
  4. Pierre Cochereau - Improvisation at Notre Dame
  5. Iannis Xenakis - Gendy3
  6. Tristan Murail - Mémoire, Érosion
  7. Tan Dun - Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra
  8. Luc Ferrari - Saliceburry Cocktail
  9. Sergei Prokofiev - Love for Three Oranges
  10. Aram Khachaturian - Gayaneh, Sabre Dance
  11. Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Militärmarsch
  12. Gunther Schuller - Little Blue Devil

2008 / 12 / 17

Today we talked about how Joe Satriani is suing Coldplay for "stealing" a tune of his. But they're not really the same tune.

  1. R. Murray Schafer - Flute Concerto (Robert Aitken, flute)
  2. Gary Lee Nelson - To the Edge
  3. Brian Eno - Music for Airports
  4. Dmitri Kourliandski - Happy Meal
  5. Jacob Kirkegaard - Labyrinthitis
  6. Philippe Hurel - Op. Cit.
  7. George Antheil - A Jazz Symphony
  8. Poul Ruders - Tundra
  9. Vernon and Burns - Torschlusspanik
  10. Frank Martin - Foxtrot

2008 / 12 / 3

Our guest this week was composer and McGill professor of Music Tech Sean Ferguson. Bonus tip for this week: the Contemporary Keyboard Society is playing in Montreal on the 12th and Toronto on the 14th, with several premieres by Canadians

  1. Phillipe Hurel - Tombeau in Memoriam Gérard Grisey
  2. Sean Ferguson - Apocryphal Graffiti
  3. Sean Ferguson - Ex Asperis

2008 / 11 / 19

Funding drive day! You can always donate to ckut at the ckut website.

  1. Wendy Carlos - Toccata and Fugue in B minor (Bach)
  2. Roland Kayn - Decollage
  3. Cornelius Cardew - Thälman Variations
  4. Hans Zimmer / James Newton Howard - Why so Serious? (from Dark Knight)
  5. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kathinka's Gesang (electronik version)
  6. Leo Küpper - Ways of the Voice
  7. Hans Zimmer / James Newton Howard - I'm not a hero (from Dark Knight)

2008 / 11 / 5

We had two guests: composer Eliot Britton, and flautist and Stockhausen expert Marie-Hélène Brault. Marie-Hélène Brault will be performing in the Stockhausen festival this week at Université de Montréal.

  1. Michael Daugherty - Metropolis (2nd mvt: "Krypton")
  2. Peter Breiner - Beatles go Baroque (A Hard Day's Night in the style of Vivaldi)
  3. Eliot Britton - Break Zero Hue (electronics only)
  4. Eliot Britton - Break Zero Hue (with trumpet and live electronics)
  5. Eliot Britton - Codex
  6. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kathinka's Gesang (Kathinka Pasveer, flute)

2008 / 10 / 22

Our guest was composer and flautist Robert Aitken.

  1. Soft Verdict - For Amusement Only (pinball machine music)
  2. Iannis Xenakis - Analogique A+B
  3. Kazimierz Serocki - Continuum pour percussion
  4. Robert Aitken - Plainsong (Aitken, flute)
  5. Robert Aitken - Icicle (Aitken, flute)
  6. Robert Aitken - Folia (Slowind Woodwind Quintet)

2008 / 10 / 8

Our guest today was composer Nicolas Gilbert who talked to us about the SMCQ and his own music, and also introduced us to the music of Dmitri Kourliandski.

  1. Francisco Lopez - TechnoCalyps
  2. Olivier Messiaen - Ile de feu 2 from Etudes de Rhythm, 1950 (Angela Hewitt, piano)
  3. Dmitri Kourliandski - Contra-relief
  4. Dmitri Kourliandski - Lacrimosa (Anatomy of Pain)
  5. Dmitri Kourliandski - Innermost Man
  6. Nicolas Gilbert - Reflexions Circulaires
  7. Jean Lesage - Quatuor II (performed by Quatuor Bozzini)
  8. Nicolas Gilbert - Fonctions Vitales: Respiration

2008 / 9 /24

  1. Raymond Scott - The Rhythm Modulator
  2. Howard Shore - Baboon Teleportation; Success with Baboon; Finale (from The Fly)
  3. Mauricio Kagel - Phantasie Fur Orgel mit Obbligati (Gerd Zacher, organ)
  4. Steven Stucky - Double Concerto; Fanfares and Arias for Wind Ensemble
  5. Ornette Coleman - Sleep Talking (from Sound Grammar)
  6. Richard Barrett - Furt
  7. Lee Johnson - Grateful Dead Symphony
  8. Gyorgi Ligeti - Volumina
  9. David Byrne - Knee Play #3
  10. Peter Breiner - Beatles go Baroque

2008 / 9 / 10

Guests: The winners of JTTP 2008 and Kevin Austin

2008 / 8 / 27

  1. Morton Feldman - Christian Wolff in Cambridge
  2. Morton Feldman - Chorus and Instruments II
  3. Dan Dediu - Bêtes Nostalguiques
  4. Paul Scriver - Golden Gate Redux
  5. Paul Scriver - In Pastures Green
  6. Myléna Bergeron - ?? ("promo")
  7. z'ev - Elemental Music Sub30B
  8. Charles Curtis - Ultra White Violet Light
  9. Erich Korngold - Violin Concerto (Jascha Heifetz, violin)
  10. Dan Dediu - The Grasshopper

2008 / 8 / 13

Our guest this week was drummer and composer Isaiah Ceccarelli. He's playing at Christ Church Cathedral at 7:30pm, August 14th, 2008, as part of Festival Jusqu'aux Oreilles. His album is called "lieux-dits".

  1. Iannis Xenakis - Theraps
  2. Georges Forget - Orages D'acier
  3. Isaiah Ceccarelli - Bèç (from lieux-dits)
  4. Isaiah Ceccarelli - Estaoubio pouri na repaousa’t roussi, minjo pa quan n’as
  5. z'ev - Elemental Music Sub30A
  6. James Dillon - Parjanya-Vata

2008 / 7 / 30

We discussed some of Alan Belkin's tips for composers.

  1. David Dunn - Autononous and Dynamical Systems
  2. Tod Dockstader - Eight Electronic Pieces
  3. Wilhelm Killmayer - Schumann in Endenich
  4. James Dillon - Traumwerk
  5. Jason Eckardt - After Serra
  6. (random monster piece)
  7. Alan Belkin - Symphonic Movement
  8. Mason Bates - Icarian Rhapsody
  9. Christopher Bailey - Towers
  10. Christopher Bailey - Walking down the hillside at Cortona and seeing its towers rise before me
  11. Christopher Bailey - Untitled (wondrous musique concrete)
  12. (random monster piece)
  13. Tod Dockstader - Eight Electronic Pieces (continued)
  14. Arthur Honegger - Pacific 231

2008 / 7 / 16

We discussed Norman Cook's "Tone of Voice and Mind."

  1. Harry Partch - Delusion of the Fury
  2. Raymond Scott - The Paperwork Explosion (instrumental)
  3. Ivy Egan - Meat Packing District Soundwalk
  4. Wende Bartley - Ocean of Ages Revealed
  5. Shane Turner - Dotted (from Bluebird)
  6. Jade Malek - A Radiance of Appearance
  7. Freida Abtan - The Works and Days of Hands
  8. Barry Schrader - Still Life 1, 2
  9. Michael Daugherty - Desi
  10. Bernd-Alois Zimmerman - Photoptosis
  11. Luciano Berio / Franz Schubert - D936a Rendering Andante
  12. Olivier Messiaen - Le Nombre Leger (Prelude 3) (Angela Hewitt, piano)

2008 / 7 / 2

Check out Clara the robot thereminist. Also, music to sleep to.

  1. Charles Ives - Circus Band
  2. League of Automatic Music Composers - Dense Drone
  3. Philip Corner - Round Sound
  4. Malcolm Goldstein
  5. Raymond Scott - Tenor Man's Headache (Raymond Scott Quintette of Concordia)
  6. Gilles Gobeil, Rene Lussier - Le contrat (1. Les ramparts)
  7. Louis Dufort - Grain de sable
  8. Cock Dynamics - Uncle Climax
  9. Wende Bartley - Ice Break
  10. Leonard Bernstein - Mambo
  11. Dmitri Shostakovich - Tahiti Trot ("Tea for Two" by Vincent Youmans)
  12. Wolfgang Rihm - Walzer 3
  13. Alberto Ginastera - Melambo
  14. Dmitri Kabalevski - Galopp
  15. Erwin Schulhogg - Waffentanz

2008 / 6 / 18

We discussed Canada's bill C-61 on copyright law. Notes and links here.

  1. Robert Rowe - Cigar Smoke (Esther Lamneck, clarinet)
  2. Zack Browning - Crack Hammer (E. Lamneck, clarinet)
  3. Olivier Messiaen - La Colombe (from Preludes 1928-9; Angela Hewitt, piano)
  4. Olivier Messiaen - Quatre Etudes de Rhythme, Ile de Feu 1 & 2 (1950)
  5. Milton Babbitt - Canonical Form (Augustus Arnone, piano)
  6. Milton Babbitt - My Complements to Roger (Augustus Arnone, piano)
  7. Luciano Berio / Franz Schubert - D936a Rendering Allegro
  8. Luciano Berio - Echoing Curves (Andrea Lucchesini, piano; London SO)
  9. Charles Ives - Yale-Princeton Football Game
  10. Dieter Schnebel - Mahler-Moment
  11. Heiner Goebbels - Notiz einer Fanfare
  12. Cort Lippe / Esther Lamneck - Trio for Clarinet and 2 Computers

2008 / 6 / 4

  1. Max Mathews - Bicycle Built for Two
  2. Alcides Lanza - Ec Phonesis
  3. Shane Turner - Squiggly Arc (from Bluebird)
  4. Shane Turner - Synchronous Cloudfare (from Bluebird)
  5. Igor Stravinsky - Greeting Overture
  6. Igor Stravinsky - Circus Polka
  7. Sandeep Bagwati - All over again
  8. Vladimir Ussachevsky - 2 sketches for a computer piece
  9. Shane Turner - Hard Chaconne
  10. Eldad Tsabary - Creatures of the Ice
  11. Alexander Mossolow - Die Eisengiesserei (the Iron Foundry)
  12. Vladimir Ussachevsky - Computer Piece #1
  13. Brian Cherney - String Quartet #5, interlude II
  14. Aaron Copland - Hoedown
  15. Bernd Alois Zimmerman - Kirmestaenze
  16. Annea Lockwood - A Soundmap of the Danube
  17. Sarah Peebles - Lift
  18. John Cage - Imaginary Landscape #1
  19. Ray Kurzweil - Cybernetic Poet
  20. Bernd Alois Zimmerman - Stille und Umkehr
  21. Vladimir Ussachevsky --

2008 / 5 / 21

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2008 / 4 / 23

Guests Michel Frigon and Kiya Tabassian

  1. Raymond Scott - Take me to your violin teacher; Ripples; Cyclic Bit; Cindy Electronium
  2. Bengt Hambraeus - Klockspel (alcides lanza, piano)
  3. Michael Oesterle - L'hiver monastique (Clemens Merkel, violin)
  4. Trevor Wishart - Sound Transformations
  5. Imagine F3 - Fossil Fuel Free
  6. Neil Middleton - Trio (performed by In Extensio)
  7. Kiya Tabassian (setar) and Ziya Tabassian (tombak) - Eveil (from the album "Mania")
  8. Constantinople - Hublot Bleu (from the album Ay!!Amor)

2008 / 4 / 9

Our guest on the show this week was composer James Galaty.

  1. Raymond Scott - IBM ad
  2. Raymond Scott - Sprite ad
  3. James Galaty - Body Talks
  4. James Galaty - Passacaille & Variations (Variation 1)
  5. Raymond Scott - Baltimore Gas & Electric co.

2008 / 3 / 26

Guest Tim Brady discussed music with us, and promoted his upcoming festival "VOYAGES: Montréal-NY" in Montreal, April 2-6. If you know how Raymond Scott's Electronium works, email us.

  1. Raymond Scott - Turkish Mish Mush
  2. Raymond Scott - Electronium
  3. John Oswald - Spectre
  4. Gavin Bryars - Marvellous Aphorisms
  5. Jim Horton - Finnish Hall (from "The League of Automatic Music Composers 1978-1983")
  6. Anna Sokolovic - Dances and Interludes (Brigitte Poulin, piano)
  7. Paul Frehne - Finnegan's Quark Revival (Brigitte Poulin, piano)
  8. Tim Brady - SCAT (performed by Topology)
  9. Lori Freedman - The Invitation

2008 / 3 / 12

We discussed the work of music theorist Dmitri Tymoczko. We also talked about the affective qualities of music, and tagged some music for a study.

  1. Denys Bouliane - Pour parer la parade
  2. Bengt Hambraeus (played by John Grew)- Basse et dessus de Trompette II
  3. Michael Nyman - Violin Concerto
  4. Ennio Morricone (played by John Zorn et al) - Duck, You Sucker
  5. Dmitri Tymoczko - Eggman Variations
  6. Michael Daugherty - Jackie O
  7. Maurice Duruflé (played by Virgil Fox) - Toccata
  8. Ralph Shapey - String Quartet #6
  9. Otto Joachim - 3 electronic sketches

2008 / 2 / 27

  1. Pierre Boulez - Incises
  2. Brian Ferneyhough - La terre est un homme
  3. Samuel Barber - Adagio
  4. Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen
  5. Orbital - Barber's Adagio
  6. John Usher - Baadcid_130
  7. Michael Daugherty - Jackie O
  8. Michael Daugherty - Asclepius Overture
  9. Elliott Carter - Holiday Overture
  10. Michael Daugherty - Violin Concerto

2008 / 2 / 13

  1. Katherine Norman - Losing it
  2. Raphael Neron-Baribeau - Toons
  3. Tan Dun - On Taoism
  4. John Corigliano - The Red Violin
  5. Osvaldo Golijov (Matt Haimovitz and John McLaughlin) - Oracion Lucumi
  6. Carl Stalling - Zoom and Bored
  7. Raphael Neron-Baribeau - Toons
  8. Anamanaguchi - Video Challenge; Airbase; Power Supply

2008 / 1 / 30

  1. Michael Torke - Rapture (mvt 1)
  2. Jefferson Friedman (student of John Corigliano) - from The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millenium General Assembly
  3. David Behrman - Interspecies SmallTalk
  4. Mason Bates (student of John Corigliano) - Icarian Rhapsody; Good People; Digital Loom
  5. Philip Corner - Concerto for Housekeeper
  6. Carl Stalling - Orchestral Gag
  7. Nico Muhly (student of John Corigliano) - It remains to be seen
  8. Pierre Boulez - Piano Sonata No. 3
  9. Nico Muhly - It goes without saying
  10. Michael Torke - Rapture (mvt 2)
  11. Carl Stalling - Marching Pink Elephants
  12. Elliot Goldenthal (student of John Corigliano) - Fledermausmarschmusik (from Batman Forever); The Entrapment (from Alien 3); Escape to Paris (from Interview with the Vampire)

2008 / 1 / 16

Guest this week: Chris Goddard, a composition student at McGill who is studying with Chris Paul Harman.

A listener called in to let us know that Laurie Anderson is now the first artist-in-residence at NASA

  1. Pascal Comelade - to be dammit ornette to be
  2. Burial
  3. Chris Goddard - Shades of Grey (for solo piano)
  4. Chris Goddard - Chance Encounters (for string quartet)
  5. Chris Goddard - Not forever on Earth (for solo soprano)
  6. Henri Dutilleux - Métaboles
  7. Richard Strauss - Heldenleben, Critics section
  8. Chris Goddard - Passacaglia
  9. Henri Dutilleux - Shadows of Time

2008 / 1 / 2

  1. Georges Montalba - Ritual Fire Dance (de Falla)
  2. John Adams - Roadrunner

    3. Electronic Music Vol. III: Musica Viva Prize Winners 2004-2006:

  3. Adrian Moore - Dreaming of the Dawn
  4. JOshua Goldman - Language
  5. Panayiotis Kokoras - Anechoic Pulse
  6. Pedro Almeida - la Rota
  7. Santiago Diez Fischer - Tynajas
  8. Ingrid Obled - Sije Regarde
  9. Manuella Blackburn - Causal Impacts
  10. Thomas Peter - neugut.rand

    11. --- end of Musica Viva Prize Winners ---

  11. Thomas Cahill-Jones - Bounce Eye (Study in Marbles)
  12. Natasha Barrett - Industrial Revelations
  13. Alva Noto

2007 / 12 / 19

  1. Gavin Bryars - Beatles
  2. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Stimmung
  3. Horrible Sounds (http://sound101.org)
  4. John Oliver - Give us Peace
  5. Edgard Varese - Tuning Up
  6. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Klavierstuck XIII
  7. Chiptune Music: Sabrepulse "White Tiger"; Postal_Market (http://blipfestival.org)
  8. Carl Stalling - Mouse-Taken Identity
  9. Dennis Bathory Kitsz - Six Senses of Twilight; Meta-dream once; Upreach Over Downslide (http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/365-2007.html)
  10. John Zorn - Cat O' Nine Tails
  11. Carl Stalling - Ghost Wanted
  12. Prokofiev - Classical Symphony, mvt.1
  13. Osvaldo Golijov - Last Round

2007 / 12 / 5

Guest Chris Paul Harman, composer and professor at McGill University.

2007 / 11 / 21

Very special guest: Jessica Phillips-Silver of BRAMS, the International Laboratory for Brain, Music, and Sound. We discussed many topics including music and the brain, the genetic basis of music, the importance of rhythm, physical movement and music, infants and music, animals and musc, the future of music...

  1. John Tavener - Thrinos for solo cello
  2. J.S. Bach - Art of Fugue, Contrapunctus I
  3. "Belly Dancing" music (?)
  4. Venezuelan music (?)
  5. Nina Simone - Four Women

2007 / 11 / 7

We talked about an article by Philippot, called "A propos d'algorithmes en composition musicale." We talked about shapes and patterns in music, and a caller asked us an excellent question: why doesn't music sound right when played backwards?

  1. Edgard Varèse - Tuning Up (1947, ed. Chou Wen-chung 1998)
  2. Milton Babbitt - Ensembles for Synthsizer
  3. Brad Garton - gods
  4. Detlev Mueller-Siemens - Algorithmische Skizzen; Phoenix I; Light Blue-Almost White
  5. Marc-André Dalbavie - Piano Concerto
  6. Louis Andriessen - Rosa: the death of a composer (libretto by Peter Greenaway)
  7. David Byrne - Social Studies (from Knee Plays)

2007 / 10 / 24

  1. Paul Lansky - Semi-Suite
  2. Györgi Ligeti - Concewrto for Cello and Orchestra
  3. Gordon Monahan - Theremin in the Rain
  4. Hans Tutschku - Zellen Linien
  5. Thierry Gauthier - Etude pour clavecin et oiseaux
  6. David Byrne - Junglebook; In the Future (from Knee Plays
  7. Masada String Trio - (track 9)

2007 / 10 / 10

Our guest was Walter Boudreau, with whom we discussed MNM's Vivier Concerts.

  1. Vladimir Ussachevsky - Creation, Prologue
  2. Raz Mesinai - Before the Law
  3. Ted Dawson - Concerto Grosso I (for tape)[1973-4 McGill Electronic Music Studio]
  4. Mike Gogins - csouns
  5. Anton Webern - Three pieces for cello and piano, op.11 (Siegfried Palm, cello)
  6. Arnold Schoenberg - Herzgewächse
  7. Czelslaw Nieman - Fatum; Pieczec; Proba ucieczki
  8. Claude Vivier - Siddartha
  9. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Mantra (Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky, piano)
  10. Claude Vivier - Wo bist du Licht

2007 / 9 / 26

Talked about David Huron's book "Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation." Also talked about Robert Smithson's "Minus Twelve."

  1. George Antheil - Sonata #3 III, "Diabolic Cartoon"
  2. Marc-Andre Dalbavie - Color
  3. Roger Reynolds - Coconino... a shattered landscape
  4. Prokofiev - Symphony #2, mvt 1
  5. Georges Forget - Requiem
  6. Brian Ferneyhough - O Lux
  7. George Rochberg - Trancendental Variations
  8. Xenakis - Khoai for harpsichord solo

2007 / 9 / 12

Discussion with JTTP 2007 winners: Dominic Thibault, Georges Forget, Thierry Gauthier, Olivier Girouard.

2007 / 8 / 29

Just another show. Piazzola, Golijov, etc.

2007 / 8 / 15

Guest: Scott Tresham, artistic director of Just qu'aux oreilles / Up to your ears festival.