Avant Garde composition from mid 20th Century New Yorker Earle Brown. Performed by Dustin Donahue

Earle Brown - Four Systems (Clip)

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Atlas Eclipticalis/Winter Music – Atlas Eclipticalis (for up to 86 instruments), performed here by a chamber ensemble of flute, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, harp, violin, and violoncello, is coupled with Winter Music (for 1 to 20 pianos), performed here by two pianos. Electronics are also engaged using random processes similar to Cage’s Cartridge Music. Page 3 of the four-page Atlas Eclipticalis score was used for all parts, giving a performance length of 20 minutes and 45 seconds. Each page has five systems (lines). Space horizontally equals time. Each system took 4 minutes and 10 seconds to complete in this performance.

Atlas Eclipticalis

Earle Brown - December 1952 [Kammerensemble AdHoc]

Percussionist Dustin Donahue talks about his love for John Cage, Earle Brown and more. Performance with Donahue and flutist Rachel Beetz at Mengi on January 22nd 2016. 

Percussionist Dustin Donahue on John Cage, Earle Brown and open scores

Earle Brown November 1952

Some Aspect of Water

Skin

Kaidan/怪談

Kissing Rosy in the Rain

Outside Laughing

Leaving Today

Third movement from Song of Thirteen Moons

Atlas Eclipticalis

John Bickerton