So mesmerized right now. This is really fantastic :)

Silence is an endangered species, says Gordon Hempton. He defines real quiet as presence — not an absence of sound, but an absence of noise. The Earth, as he knows it, is a "solar-powered jukebox." Quiet is a "think tank of the soul." We take in the world through his ears.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/last-quiet-places/4557

[Unedited] Gordon Hempton with Krista Tippett

Super-sneaky rough preview of the new Cyanotype album. Download the full, mastered album at cyanotype.bandcamp.com.

Laurent Estoppey, saxophones
Chris Eubank, cello
Chris Robinson, baritone saxophone
Dan Ruccia, viola

Recorded in glorious binaural sound by Dan Lilley

Gravity Wave Generator

Performed Summer, 2016 as part of the Bang on a Can Summer Music Fest at Mass MOCA

Lisa Perry, soprano
Ken Thomson, conductor

The goat scratches so much it can’t sleep 
The pot fetches water so much it breaks 
You heat iron so much it reddens 
You hammer it so much it cracks 
A man’s worth so much as he’s esteemed 
He’s away so much he’s forgotten 
He’s bad so much he’s hated 
We cry good news so much it comes.

You talk so much you refute yourself 
Fame’s worth so much as its perquisites 
You promise so much you renege 
You beg so much you get your wish 
A thing costs so much you want it 
You want it so much you get it 
It’s around so much you want it no more 
We cry good news so much it comes.

You love a dog so much you feed it 
A song’s loved so much as people hum it
A fruit is kept so much it rots 
You strive for a place so much it’s taken
You dawdle so much you miss your chance 
You hurry so much you run into bad luck 
You grasp so hard you lose your grip 
We cry good news so much it comes.

You jeer so much nobody laughs 
You spend so much you’ve lost your shirt
You’re honest so much you’re broke
“Take it” is worth so much as a promise 
You love God so much you go to church 
You give so much you have to borrow 
The wind shifts so much it blows cold 
We cry good news so much it comes.

Prince a fool lives so much he grows wise 
He travels so much he returns home 
He’s beaten so much he reverts to form 
We cry good news so much it comes.

HAMMER So Much It CRACKS

Recording of La Monte Young's "Poem For Tables, Chairs, Benches, etc." (1960) done by the University of South Carolina Experimental Music Workshop in September of 2013 in Columbia, SC.

Poem For Tables, Chairs, Benches, etc.

Performed by the Imani Winds (Valerie Coleman, Toyin Spellman-Diaz, Mark Dover, Jeff Scott, Monica Ellis) and the University of South Carolina wind quintet (Jennifer Parker-Harley, Rebecca Nagel, Joseph Eller, Michelle Smith, Michael Harley) at a Southern Exposure New Music Series concert on October 28, 2016. The archival recording of "All the pretty horses" is from the John and Ruby Lomax Southern Mosaic Collection.

Dapplegray

Sample from "Resonant Spaces: Bell Tower, November 2017," installation for Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival, November 3-4, 2017.

More information:
http://www.timfeeney.com/third-practice-festival-november-2017

A Stroll Around Westhampton Lake and the Greek Theatre

An excerpt from the premiere of The Living Form Contains Its Own History performed by wild Up, conducted by Christopher Rountree, at the Noon To Midnight Festival, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, November 2017.

Audio courtesy of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

The Living Form Contains Its Own History (Excerpt)

Snippet from "A Known Unknown", a 60-minute piece composed by Jordan Dykstra. Performed by Teodora Stepančić (piano, electronics, objects), Martin Lorenz (percussion, objects), and Assaf Gidron (electronics, objects). Released on June 8, 2018 by Editions Verde as a 21-page printed score plus CD. Available at www.editions-verde.com

A Known Unknown

Jordan Dykstra - "A Known Unknown" (EV007), snippet

to make a prairie

drift fields [2012] for vibraphone (with digital playback)

performed by Ian Antonio and Sam Pluta of the Wet Ink Ensemble

Each of the six notes played by the vibraphone is doubled by a slightly-detuned sine tone, creating complex patterns of interference.

drift fields

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