Episode 12: Pushing The Envelope Podcast (6-17-10)

Greetings! I've been quite busy, to say the least.  Finished up my employment with the U.S. Census, purchased my books for school which starts in a couple of weeks and have started my reading in the glorious field of Speech/Language Pathology.  (A recommended course of action for those, like myself, have been out of the world of graduate academia since the 80's.) Arguably, more important, attending two wonderful shows at MASS MOCA featuring the Bang On A Can Summer Music Festival (http://bangonacan.org/summer_festival).  First was a celebration of International George Crumb Day which featured an afternoon gallery performance of "Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III)" for 2 pianos and 2 percussionists, followed by a concert performance which included Crumb's string quartet, "Black Angels". The following weekend was the 6 hour Bang On A Can Marathon.  Highlights for me included performances of:  Tom Johnson's, "Narayana's Cows",  Ted Hearne's, "Katrina Ballads",  Michael Gordon's. "Yo, Shakespeare", and Steve Reich's, "Double Sextet".  Should you have the opportunity to attend, it would certainly be worth your time.  (Here is a listing of the full summer festival performance schedule:  http://bangonacan.org/summer_festival/performance_calendar ) As always, please tell your friends about "Pushing The Envelope", the more subscribers, the merrier. (Don't forget to check us out on Facebook and MySpace.) Until next time, Take care, Joel Now onto this week's playlist: Episode 12:  Pushing The Envelope Podcast (6-17-10) Birds & Machines (machine suite) /Gen Ken Montgomery / Birds & Machines (1980 - 1989) / Pogus Productions (2010) http://www.pogus.com Track 1 / Green Flem / Unstable Hairy Back Melodies (2009) http://www.myspace.com/imgreenflem hommage / K. Leimer / degraded certainties / Palace of Lights (2010) http://www.palaceoflights.com Chole and the Pirates /  Soft Machine / NDR Jazz Workshop / Cuneiform Records (2010) http://www.cuneiformrecords.com Beautiful Pea Green Boat / Laurie Anderson / Bright Red Warner Brothers (1994) http://www.laurieanderson.com/projects/ Homespun (topophilia) / Alexander Baker / Deep Wireless 7: Radio Art Compilation New Adventures In Sound Art (2010) http://www.naisa.ca Where Is Home? / Viv Corringham / Deep Wireless 7: Radio Art Compilation New Adventures In Sound Art (2010) http://www.naisa.ca Barugon / Murder Lengendre / Collection Spine Punch Music (2009) http://www.myspace.com/murderlegendre (Re)Bound /Gray Code / Floating Point / Circumvention Music (2010) http://www.circumventionmusic.com Leaves Again / Jake Herzog / Patterns / Buckyball Records (2010) http://www.buckyballmusic.com Fades, Dissolves, Fizzles (1995) / Charles Dodge / A Retrospective (1977 - 2009) / New World Records (2010) http://www.newworldrecords.org My Dad Makes Robots / Jack Curtis Dubowsky  / Vocal Music / De Stijl Music http://www.destijlmusic.com The Super Thing / Devo / New Traditionalists Warner Bros. http://www.clubdevo.com/ Ashtray Man / Blue Sausage / Flight Of The Solstice Queens /  Zero Moon (2010) http://bluesausageinfant.com/ R.P.F. In Tuva (to Richard Feynman) / Gregg Bendian / Definite Pitch Aggregate Music (1994) http://www.greggbendian.com/page.cfm?content=disc_detail&id=13