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Joined August 2023
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‘SATURN RETURN’ (2023) by @tezchaix for solo piano, 18x24” hand-drawn with graphite.
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In 1966, Cathy Berberian composed her first musical work, Stripsody, for solo voice. Stripsody explores the onomatopoeic sounds of comic strips illustrated by Roberto Zamarin, conveying a succession of engaging vignettes. A radical paradigm shift in composition during the 1960s.
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Phillips - Ornamentik (1968) "Ornamentik" was written at the request of the American trombonist Stuart Dempster who asked for a piece that would suggest, within the character of a sustaining instrument, various provocative challenges to corner him into inventing new sounds.
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Fred Frith - Bricks for Six (1992) Frith's 1992 album Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire comprised a series of performances from graphic scores that were photographs of inanimate objects, including stone pavings, brick walls, windows, stacks of logs and high-tension wires.
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John Cage - Aria (1958)
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Phillips - Ornamentik (1968) "Ornamentik" was written at the request of the American trombonist Stuart Dempster who asked for a piece that would suggest, within the character of a sustaining instrument, various provocative challenges to corner him into inventing new sounds.
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Various music scores of Tom Phillips (1937-2022)
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Cardew - "Treatise" (1963-1967) One fragment of the 193-page with no instructions. This means every performance of the piece is different.
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John Cage - Aria (1958)
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Krzysztof Penderecki - Polymorphia (1961)
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György Ligeti - Artikulation (1958) Score for Listening: Rainer Wehinger Video credits: Donald Craig
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Various music scores of Tom Phillips (1937-2022)
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Tom Phillips - Six of Hearts (1991) #musicnotation #graphicscore #graphicnotation
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which combines with cross-cultural musical journeys. Listen to the full performance at; Alim Qasimov, @HsnSnlndrc , Rauf Islamov, Michel Godard - A Trace of Grace (2019) youtu.be/cHkXM-i_1MU?si=2eiC…
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Although every bit of this performance is unbelievable, this moment to me is out of this world. Having an improvisatory nature, this performance clearly demonstrates exceptional technical ability and emotional richness, +
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Demonstration of the divison of octave in 24 unequal parts in Turkish Makam Music by Tanburi Cemil Bey. Rehber-i Mûsikî, Tanburi Cemil Bey (1904)
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