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Robert Moran – Cabinet of Curiosities
Cabinet of Curiosities is a curious collection of seven compositions in which Dan Moore and Iowa Percussion realize the graphic percussion scores of Robert Moran. These works begin in 1964 and proceed through…
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Tropical Punch Tour: Bali Video 1
A small, tropical island measuring just 69 x 95 miles nestled between Java and Lombok in the vast archipelago of Indonesia, Bali is covered with lush jungles, rice terraces, mountains and beautiful beaches,…
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Oasis Quartet
Not to be confused with the rock band Oasis, whose music I’ve never heard but I’m sure I’d hate, the Oasis Quartet is kind of like a barbershop quartet, except they play saxophones…
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Thai Elephant Orchestra – Water Music
Elephants are among the largest, smartest and most majestic animals on the planet Earth. It’s about time someone recorded their jam sessions! While a lot of lesser human bands are often referred to…
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Newspeak – Sweet Light Crude
Just like Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies, Newspeak strikes oil with Sweet Light Crude, a dark, chocolately album that could easily keep a whole nation full of chamber rock lovers well lubricated…
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Victoire – Cathedral City
Victoire is a chamber rock ensemble founded way back in 2008 by New York composer Missy Mazzoli. Possibly named after a small, dusty town in a Southern California desert, Cathedral City fills a…
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Janus – I Am Not
I am not going to begin this review with the sentence, “I am not going to begin this review with the sentence.” Oops, I just did–twice. I am not even going to tell…
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Sarah Kirkland Snider – Penelope
No, silly, this album is not about Penelope Pitstop from Wacky Races, so sit down and stop yelling, “Yay!” It does, however, tell a story about another Penelope whose “husband appears at her…
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Mark Applebaum – The Metaphysics of Notation
Mark Applebaum’s The Metaphysics of Notation is a musical composition based on a purely graphic score with no written or verbal instructions. For a whole year, this document, which more closely resembles abstract…
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Iannis Xenakis at the REDCAT 2011
Los Angeles, California January 28-30, 2011 Friday, January 28, 2011 Presented by the Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology, the first night of this three-day festival kicked off in a surprising…
