June 15th, The Fog with Pete Hartley

Today we have a special treat with Pete Hartley as our guest curator/DJ, an exile from as he calls it, the center of the Universe (otherwise known as Brighton). Having known Pete for some time now I've realized he has an amazing collection of music on just about every form of media I've ever heard of. So I've asked him to guest curate our program tonight and he's brought in a wonderfully eclectic selection. Hope you enjoyed it...and he even provided a very detailed playlist (yay!...er, don't expect this from me :)

Catch you next week with our final installment of string quartets featuring Brent Fariss and Travis Weller from Austin.

Bill

01. Hans Reichel & Eroc: Hattnatten [Return of Onkel Boskopp, Repertoire REP 4688]

02. Clara Rockmore & Nadia Reisenberg: The Swan (Saint Saens) [Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones book & cd 1-55961-482-X]

03. Luciano Berio / Cathy Berberian: Visage [Acousmatrix VII, BVHaast 9109]

04. Jocelyn Robert: Folie Culture [Folie Culture, ReR JORCD]

05. Anenzephalia: Induratio Penis Plastica [Lyse - Limited edition on 7” vinyl Tesco Corporatiom, Germany]

06. Conlon Nancarrow: Study #1 (Studies for Player Piano) [Sound Forms for Piano, New World 80203]

07. Ilhan Mimaroglu / Erdem Buri: Le Tombeau d’Edgar Poe [Electronic Music, Turnabout TV4004 LP]

08. Lol Coxhill: Wimbledon Baths [Coxhill/Miller, Cuneiform Rune 253/254]

09. Tod Dockstader: Electronic Piece #2 [Eight Electronic Pieces, Locust L36]

10. Pierre Henry: Baillement [Variations pour une porte … soupir, Philips 468523]

11. Elio Martusciello: Hommage à Pierre Schaeffer [Unoccupied Areas, ReR EMI]

12. Phil Dadson and From Scratch: Pacific 3-2-1 Zero [Gravikords, Whirlies, …]

13. Charles Amirkhanian: Just [10+2-12 American Text Pieces, Other Minds OM 1006]

14. László Moholy-Nagy: Möglichkeiten des Grammophone [Noises & Whispers in Avant-Gardes, catalog to exhibition, Valencia, 2004]

15. Pierre-Yves Martel: Eczema [Engagement & Confrontation, Ambiences Magnétiques AM 148] 1:50

16. Kurt Schwitters: Ursonate [DaDa > AntiDaDa > Merz, Sub Rosa SR195]

17. Coil: When the cocoon is finished, … [Plastic Spider Thing, Eskaton 30]

18. Talisker: Soldier’s Song [Dreaming of Glenisla, Caroline C1513 LP, about to be re-issued on CD?]

19. 7th Ragtime Band: Circus Girl (New York, 8.10.1897) [Berliner 87]

20. Thomas Dimuzio: Settlement (part one) [Headlock, ReR TD1]

21. Jean-Michel Jarre: Ethnicolor [Zoolook, Dreyfus EPC 488140]

22. Musci-Venosta: Mechanic soul vs. pathetic ambient [Water Messages on Desert Sand, RR C28]

23. Josep Maria Balanyà: Movement VII [Ultramarinos 451, New Contemporary Music NCM5]

24. Optrum: New Motor Head Banging & DC/DC [Improvised Music from Japan: 2004, book & 2CD 4-9902297-0-3]

25. Ferdinand Kriwet: JaJa [Hörtext II) part 2 [Siemens-Studio für elektronische Musik, Siemens Kultur Ptogramm]

26. Arkkon: Enveloping Blue Opening [Arkkon, Tonus Kosmetika TK 01]

27. Ramuntcho Matta: Just to be Clear [Pataphysics, book & CD, Sonic Arts Network, November 2005]

28. Wolf Pack: Chorus of 40 wolves (Point Barrow, Alaska) [Music of the Canids, with Science Year Journal 1973]

29. Professor Longhair: Tipitina [Atlantic R&B Volume 2, Warner 812277577 & The Cosimo Matassa Story, Properbox 129]

Junr 8, playlist

And we're back-again, and this week we return to string quartets. I haven't been able to make it through everything I wanted to but I'm going to give it this week and we will probably return after a break to explore some other material. I'd like to explore some Habenstock-Ramati, Cage, Brown, Wolf, Feldman, Wolpe, Young, and others in a future show, so stay tuned for that.

Tonight though, will be slightly more up to date pieces. Starting of with Amazing Grace arranged by Ben Johnston, and then a return to the concert give by the Imbroglio String Quartet featuring the works of Thomfaricraw (myself and two other Austin based composers, Brent Fariss, and Clark Crawford), followed by a piece for computer and string quartet by Claire M Singer. And much more. Hope you enjoy, and stay tuned for some interesting shows over the next few weeks as I have some guest curators bringing in their own selections!

Bill

• Ben Johnston, Amazing Grace, Kronos Quartet, White Man Sleeps

• Untitled Improvisation, Imbroglio String Quartet, Austin New Music Co0p, www.newmusiccoop.org

• Claire M Singer, 4:8:1 (String Quartet and Laptop Performer), Unreleased, http://www.myspace.com/clairemsinger

• Clark Crawford, http://www.cadaocao.com/, String Quartet #2, Imbroglio String Quartet, Austin New Music Co0p, www.newmusiccoop.org

• Brent Fariss, http://www.spectralhouse.com/, Quiet Fugal States (excerpt), Imbroglio String Quartet, Austin New Music Co0p, www.newmusiccoop.org

• Bill Thompson, String Quartet no. 1, www.billthompson.org, Imbroglio String Quartet, Austin New Music Co0p, www.newmusiccoop.org

• Bill Thompson, Tapu'at (excerpt), www.billthompson.org, unreleased

June 1st, a listen again...

Hi all,

I'm sure you noticed if you tuned in that June 1'st show was a prerecord. An emergency trip south prevented me from hosting a live one, but I hope you enjoyed the show as it was one of my favourites as far as music goes. We'll be back to another installment of string quartets when we return on 8th. Here's the playlist:

david lee meyers, environs 2, resonance v9 cd track 1
nicolas collins, second state, resonance v9, track 8
nicolas collins, ei loop, handmade elect. music
nicolas collins, it was a dark and stormy night, handmade elec. music
andy keep, my laptop colony-colony in my laptop, handmade elec. music
david first, tell tale 2.1, handmade elec music
david tudor and john cage, untitled and mesostics, resonance cd, track 3
matt rogalsky, tudor loops, resonance cd, track 4
david behrman, players with circuits, handmade elec. music
john bowers, study one for victorian synthesizer, handmade elec. music
toshi nakamura, nimb #19-2, resonance v9, track 9
collin olan, rec 01, handmade elec music
yasunao tone, imperfection theorem of silence, handmade elec. music
toshi nakamura and billy roisz, avva, youtube,
christian terstegge, ohrenbrennen, handmade elec. music
billy roisz, bed and breakfast http://gnu.klingt.org/04_sounds.html
billy roisz, lanzoratte, http://gnu.klingt.org/04_sounds.html
billy roisz, aeroflot, http://gnu.klingt.org/04_sounds.html
alvin lucier, music for gamelon intruments, microphones, amplifiers and loudspeakers, resonance v9, track 11 excerpt

May 25th, Playlist, Ameriocan String Quartets

Tonight we're exploring more string quartets, but specifically American String quartets, and string quartets from America that treat each voice or instrument within the quartet as a unique entity...

And so to begin, just as an appetizer, we played

Charles Ives, Scherzo for String Quartet, Arditti USA Quartets

and then dove into our theme with these little ditties:

Charles Ives, String Quartet No 2. Ives: the Two String Quartets by The Julliard Quartet (Columbia)
Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet 1931, Ruth Crawford Seeger Portrait, (Deutsche Grammophon)
Elliot Carter, String Quartet No. 2, Elliott Carter: The Four String Quartets, The Julliard Quartet
John Cage, Music for Four, The Arditti String Quartet: John Cage, The Complete String Quartets

May 18 Playlist: String Quartets

Tonight's program, and probably for those for the next few weeks, will be all about String Quartets. Early on in my composing career, I went through a massive string quartet fetish phase where I sought out every string quartet that I could find that was worth listening to. I listened to Beethoven's, Bartok's, Shostakovitch's, Schoenberg's, Webern's, Bergs (Lyric Suite anyway), then came across the New York School's work (OK, that's a bit of a lie as I actually started with them and worked backwards and sideways, but more on that later)....of course I discovered Scelsi, Xenakis, Penderecki, Estrada, Pape, Saariaho, and others too. Oh, and let's not forget Ives, Cowell, Carter, Crawford-Seeger, and all the other Yanks as well!

So, we will be listening to many (not all, just not that many weeks in a year I'm afraid) of these over the next few weeks. If you're into string quartets, May and June are your months on the Fog!

1. John Zorn, Forbidden Fruit, on Kronos: Winter Was Hard.
2. Earle Brown, String Quartet No. 1., on Earle Brown DVD: Chamber Works
3. Kaija Saariaho, Nymphea: Jardin Sectret III, on Arditti String Quartet from Scandinavia
4. Bill Thompson, String Quartet No. 1., played by Imbroglio String Quartet, Unreleased
5. Live At Axiom 2002, Track4, String Trio (James Alexander, Brent Fariss, Travis Weller), Unreleased
6. Gerard Pape, Le Fleuve du desir 1994, Ardititi String Quartet, on Electroacoustic Chamber Works
7. Julio Estrada, , on Arditti String Quartet Edition No 27-Julio Estrada
8. Live At Axiom 2002, Track4, String Trio (James Alexander, Brent Fariss, Travis Weller), Unreleased

May 11th, Playlist

Tonight is all about vinyl...well, except for the first tracks to make up for my Jerry Lewis-esque mistake for playing the wrong cd at the end of last weeks program...so here goes...the actual sound art remixes from the bridge recordings of last weeks show to start and then some old school vinyl from Greece, Romania, and elsewhere.

Kent Macpherson, Matinkaari, London Uk, Singing Bridges Vibrations: Variations
Karl Muller, when Bridges Remix: Traversing the Gap, Singing Bridges Vibrations: Variations
Roger Mills, Limbo in Lausitz, , Singing Bridges Vibrations: Variations
Francisco Lopez, Untitled #168, Singing Bridges Vibrations: Variations
Jani Christou, Praqxis for String Orchestra and Piano, Edition RZ 1006
Iancu dumitrescu, Cogito: Trompe-L'Oeil, Edition RZ 1001
Horatiu Radulescu, Astray fur 6 Saxophone and Sound Icon, Edition RZ 1007
Luigi Nono, A Carlo Scarpa, Edition RZ 1004
Luigi Nono, A Pierre, Edition RZ 1004

Thanks for checking out the show...next week, who knows...but thinking about Ives maybe. Tune in and find out!

Bill

May 4 Playlist

Hi everyone,

Tonight's program will focus loosely on phonography and composition. For those of you unfamiliar with phonography, there's a good site and a great yahoo group you should check out here: http://www.phonography.org/ and http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/phonography/

There are also a few sites (actually many) where you can listen to some phonography, but one particularly interesting one is soundtransit where you can actually plan a journey across the world via field recordings: http://soundtransit.nl/book/about.html

I also hosted phonography concert when I first moved to Aberdeen and most of the concert can be listened to on my site here: http://www.billthompson.org/phonography.htm

And finally, a home-grown hybrid, Aberdeen's own Pete Stollery has an interesting site where he recorded his favourite sounds around the Aberdeenshire area and put them on an online map you can visit and listen to here: http://www.petestollery.com/ (click on the link for Gordon Soundscape)

Ok, and now onto the show:

Bernd Schurer, track 1, Construction Sonar, track 1
Luigi Archetti, Trans, Construction Sonar
Bernd Schurer, tracks 2-21, Construction Sonar
Dalduin, Creative Construction Tunnel Session, Construction Sonar
Monolake, Drift, Construction Sonar
Bernd Schurer, tracks 22-44, Construction Sonar
Fennesz, Construction, n68, Construction Sonar
Chris Knapp, koi feeding, phonography comp 1
Toy Bizarre, Kdi Dctb 130, phonography comp 1
Yannick Dauby, bird sanctuary, phonography comp 1,
Yannick Dauby, rain-reconstructed, phonography with compositions
Bill Thompson, xmas '99 (edit), phonography with compositi0ons
Toy Bizarre, Kdi Dctb 053b, phonography with compositi0ons Jodi Rose, Anzac Bridge, Sydney Australia, Singing Bridges Vibrations: Variations
Jodi Rose, My Thuan Bridge mecong Delta Vietnam, Singing Bridges Vibrations: Variations
Jodi Rose, Erasmus Bridge, Rotterdam Holland, Singing Bridges Vibrations: Variations
Jodi Rose, Millennium Bridge, London Uk, Singing Bridges Vibrations: Variations
Sawako, Yukidoke, phonography with compositions
Josh Russell, Hospital Death, phonography with compositions