2-8-25 Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center - - Mad Libs: acoustic instrument & non-instrument

Greetings!

I treated this episode of PTE as if I were filling in required words needed to complete a Mad Libs, a word game that might be categorized as a phrasal template game. In order to create today's playlist, the compositions required the inclusion of an acoustic instrument & a non-instrument such as electronics, tape, digital delay, computer, etc. 

Enjoy!

Joel

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2-8-25 PTE Playlist: - Mad Libs: acoustic instrument & non-instrument 

 

• Kagemusha: for pipa and electronics - Ningxin Zhang - Musicworks #148 - Musicworks (2024)
• https://www.musicworks.ca/winners-2023-musicworks-electronic-music-composition 
  

 

• Dialogue I for voice and live electronics (2021) - improvisation by Kate Soper & Sam Pluta - The Understanding of All Things - New Focus Recordings (2022)
• https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-understanding-of-all-things

 

• Toccata for percussion and tape - percussion: Beverley Johnston / composer: Gary Kulesha - Alternate Currents - Centredisques (1992)
• https://beverleyjohnston.com/ 

 

• Talkback IV for piano and computer - piano: Kathleen Suppove / composer-electronics: Guy Barash - Eye To Ivory - Starkland (2019)
• https://starkland.org/catalog/st233/ 

 

• Coeur d'Orr for clarinet and two-channel tape, sculptor 
  Eric Orr - clarinet: Daniel Goode / tape - composer: Harold Budd - Frog Peak Music (2002)
• https://frogpeak.org/fpartists/fpgoode.html 
  

 

• Lonesome Dove - a true story, micro-opera for tenor saxophonist, watcher & portable darkness - tenor saxophone: Geoff Landman / watcher: Umber Qureshi / composer: Richard Cameron-Wolfe - Passionate Geometries - New Focus Recordings (2024)
• https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/passionate-geometries 

 

• Another Shore for celesta and digital delay - celesta and digital delay: Philip Schroeder - Cold Blue Two (an original anthology) - Cold Blue Music (2012)
• https://coldbluemusic.bandcamp.com/album/cold-blue-two-an-original-anthology 

 

• Heroin arranged by David Lang for cello, voice & electronics - cello: Maya Beiser / composer: Lou Reed - tranceclassical - Innova (2016)
• https://www.innova.mu/albums/maya-beiser/tranceclassical 
  

 

• Violin Phase (1967) for violin and pre-recorded tape - violin: Shem Guibbory / composer: Steve Reich - From The Kitchen Archives No. 2: Steve Reich & Musicians, Live 1977 - Orange Mountain Music (2005)
• https://stevereich.com/composition/violin-phase/ 

 

• Music for Player Piano (and computer) - James Tenney - Selected Works 1961-1969 - New World Records (2003)
• https://www.newworldrecords.org/collections/james-tenney/products/james-tenney-selected-works-1961-1969 

 

• Lowland Side (excerpt) - M.C. Schmidt - Batu Malablab Suite for Prepared Piano, Flute and Electronics - digital release (2014)
• https://matmos.bandcamp.com/album/batu-malablab-suite-for-prepared-piano-flute-and-electronics