#2293: Music in Suspended Time

Forget about the space-time continuum on this edition of New Sounds. Hear “Birds in Warped Time II” by Somei Satoh, featuring violinist Anne Akiko Meyers rendering the somewhat Japanese-sounding melody, still and spare over the repetitive piano. Also, listen to some of Morton Feldman's late masterpiece "Triadic Memories," slow-moving and mostly quiet piano music, raising awareness of the silence around it as much as it engages with sound. Pianist Louis Goldstein, on performing Triadic Memories, relates that “my own sense of time is stretched and tugged in ways I never before experienced.” Plus American composer Peter Garland’s work, "Walk In Beauty," written for pianist Aki Takahashi. The piece is based on the peyote chants of the American southwest and seems to have captured the sense of suspended time as well.

PROGRAM #2293 Music In Suspended Time (Mon. 6/7/2004)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Peter Garland	Walk In Beauty	Walk In Beauty, excerpt [1:30]	New Albion #052** www.newalbion.com*
Anne Akiko Meyers & Li Jian	Satoh, Debussy, Messiaen, Ravel, Takemitsu	Satoh: Birds In Warped Time II [10:30]	Avie #0024** www.anneakikomeyers.com*
Anton Batagov	Morton Feldman: Triadic Memories	Triadic Memories, excerpt [20:00]	Long Arms #03049. Russian release, www.longarms.net
Peter Garland	Walk In Beauty	Sones De Flor [15:00]	See above.

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