#4563, Music in Alternate Tunings
Hear music in alternate tunings by American composer Dylan Mattingly which just premiered about two months ago, electro-acoustic work by experimental guitarist/composer Duane Pitre, and the late French-American composer Elodie Lauten (1950-2014.)
Dylan Mattingly, the American composer, cellist, and self-described Pacific Ocean enthusiast, is also the executive and co-artistic director of NY-based new-music group Contemporaneous. Listen to his work, Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (these are the tears of things), written for the LA Philharmonic New Music Group, calling for two harps and two alternately-tuned pianos, as played at the Ojai Music Festival.
Then, hear music by the late Elodie Lauten based on the Earth’s day/night cycle, and in non-Western tunings. It’s some of her “The Gaia Cycle,” made with a Proteus keyboard, which enabled the alternate tunings, recorded at WNYC in 1994. There’s also work by experimental composer and musician Duane Pitre, once guitarist with San Diego based post-hardcore band Camera Obscura. Hear “The Days Long” for justly tuned piano and electronics from his 2021 record, Omniscient Voices. And more. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4563, Music in Alternate Tunings (First Aired 11/18/2021)
ARTIST: Elodie Lauten
WORK: The Gaia Cycle, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: Live at WNYC, 11/1994
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The work appears on Tronik Involutions, OODiscs – OO 27 / Studio 21 - #7108
available at AppleMusic, Amazon.com, YouTube Music
ARTIST: LA Phil New Music Group: Emily Levin & Julie Smith Phillips, harps; Joanne Pearce Martin & Vicki Ray, pianos
WORK: Dylan Mattingly: Sunt Lacrimae Rerum [19:18]
RECORDING: Live, Ojai Festival 2021
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available
INFO: dylanmattingly.com | ojaifestival.org
ARTIST: La Monte Young
WORK: The Well-Tuned Piano, Part IV [3:52]
RECORDING: The Well-Tuned Piano
SOURCE: Gramavision 5 CD-set, #18-8701
INFO: Out of print. Info at melafoundation.org
ARTIST: Elodie Lauten
WORK: The Gaia Cycle, Parts 9 & 10 [11:29]
RECORDING: Live at WNYC, 11/1994
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The work appears on Tronik Involutions, OODiscs – OO 27 / Studio 21 - #7108
available at AppleMusic, Amazon.com, YouTube Music
ARTIST: Duane Pitre
WORK: The Days Long [8:53]
RECORDING: Omniscient Voices
SOURCE: Important Records
INFO: importantrecords.com | duanepitre.com
Watch "Sunt Lacrimae Rerum" by Dylan Mattingly, from Ojai 2021:
