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1. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 11, Concert 3: 02 "Melody Competition" by Evan Ziporyn [5.103% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 11, Concert 3: 02 "Melody Competition" by Evan Ziporyn Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 23 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Clarinetist and composer Evan Ziporyn presents “Melody Competition”, an electrifying piece incorporating the sounds and techniques of Balinese gamelan music and inspired by the west Balinese mebarung, a raucous "battle of the bands." A co-founder of New York's widely hailed Bang on a Can Festival, Ziporyn has written for the Kronos Quartet, pianist Sarah Cahill, the California EAR Unit, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, and the Orkest de Volharding. His collaborations include work with DJ Spooky, Paul Simon, cellist Matthew Shipp, and Trichy Sankaran. As a bass clarinetist, he has developed a distinctive set of extended techniques, which he has used in his own solo works and in works by David Land, Michael Gordon, and Martin Bresnick. Musical Selections: Melody Competition (2000) (22:30) / Evan Ziporyn Performers: Sō Percussion: Douglas ...

2. radiOM.org - Other Minds Festival OM 11, Concert 3: 01 “Strange and Sacred Noise” by John Luther Adams [5.093% Popularity: 0.00000]

Other Minds Festival: OM 11, Concert 3: 01 “Strange and Sacred Noise” by John Luther Adams Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 38 min Event Type: Music Program Origin: Other Minds Composer John Luther Adams presents the West Coast premiere of five movements from his “Strange and Sacred Noise”, an evening-length suite for percussion quartet in which Adams devotes each movement to various combinations of like instruments: "...dust unto dust..." is for snare drums; "clusters on a quadrilateral grid" invites the players to strike hair-raising simultaneous chords on multiple vibraphones; and "solitary and time-breaking waves" is scored for a battery of tom-toms. Living in the boreal forest near Fairbanks, Alaska, Adams has created a unique musical world grounded in the elemental landscapes and indigenous cultures of the North, exploring natural phenomena from the songs of birds to the complex nature of chaos, fractal geometry, and elemental noise. His book “Winter Music: Composing the North” was released b...