From the New Sounds Live concert series, hear music recorded at the annual 2020 Bang on a Can PCF Concert in which brand new works are commissioned by the people, for the people – all part of the Ecstatic Music Festival's 10th Anniversary season on Jan. 28, 2020. (Note: this crowdfunded commissioning process is an ongoing partnership between audiences and Bang on a Can, which predates Kickstarter and has commissioned over 50 works for New York’s versatile chamber-electric band, Bang on a Can All-Stars.)
Hear world premieres ostensibly inspired by dance, or procrastinating on the topic and spawned by a deep dive about black holes by composer, drummer, and modular synth experimenter Qasim Naqvi, his piece, "Featureless." There's also a new avian multimedia piece by American composer and sound artist Amanda Berlind, who once worked in an ice cream shop, but it was too cold in there, so now she is a musician. Here is "Bird Chart" from Amanda Berlind on Vimeo:
Also, hear a newly-commissioned work, a piece of “dance music” by veteran American composer and sound artist Alvin Curran, who is a co-founder with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, a trombonist, a pianist, and a former student of Elliott Carter. It’s music in 4/4, ¾, and music out of time with Curran’s “Missteps (about 5 of them).” Listen to a now-classic work from 1997 by New York composer and sound artist Phil Kline. It's an episodic piece which used a little bit of game theory called “Exquisite Corpses,” and was his first fully-scored and notated work. Plus listen to music by Oscar and Golden Globe-winning Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and her work, “Illimani (a document of the stream of notes in my head whilst moving).”
Program #4331: NSL Boac PCF 2020 (First aired 2/20/2020)
ARTIST: Bang on a Can All-Stars
WORK: Amanda Berlind: Bird Chart [1:00]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live, Jan. 28, 2020, Merkin Hall
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: amandaberlind.com
ARTIST: Bang on a Can All-Stars
WORK: Qasim Naqvi: Featureless [10:01]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live, Jan. 28, 2020, Merkin Hall
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: qasim-naqvi.com
ARTIST: Bang on a Can All-Stars
WORK: Amanda Berlind: Bird Chart [4:15]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live, Jan. 28, 2020, Merkin Hall
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: amandaberlind.com
ARTIST: Bang on a Can All-Stars
WORK: Alvin Curran: Missteps (about 5 of them) [8:57]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live, Jan. 28, 2020, Merkin Hall
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: alvincurran.com
ARTIST: Bang on a Can All-Stars
WORK: Phil Kline: Exquisite Corpses [11:56]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live, Jan. 28, 2020, Merkin Hall
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: philkline.com
ARTIST: Bang on a Can All-Stars
WORK: Hildur Guðnadóttir: Illimani (a document of the stream of notes in my head whilst moving) [2:07]
RECORDING: New Sounds Live, Jan. 28, 2020, Merkin Hall
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: hildurness.com