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Not so much Japanese Ensembles, but both Chaya Czernowin and Richard Barrett have written works for chamber ensembles that include Japanese instruments. Several of Barrett's works (I believe both Opening of the Mouth and Negatives ) include parts for koto, and Chaya Czernowin has written a fantastic...

Chaya Czernowin's three discs on MODE.

http://www.moderecords.com/profiles/chayaczernowin.html

Here's a sample from Maim: http://vimeo.com/8770045

Can tickets be bought online, or only at the door?

In line with suggestions of writings by composer's about their own work (Xenakis, Feldman etc.), Peter Ablinger's website has some fantastic texts on his own work that provide plenty of very rich food for thought: http://ablinger.mur.at/

This evening: Peter Ablinger- 33-127 for electric guitar and CD [Mode] Seth Josel, electric guitar http://www.moderecords.com/catalog/images/206ablinger.jpg Brian Ferneyhough- Terrain/no time (at all)/La Chute d'Icare/Incipits/Les Froissenments d'Ailes de Gabriel [Kairos] Elision Ensemble http://www...

Christian Wolff- Tilbury Pieces/Snowdrop

Salvatore Sciarrino- Piano Works

Tristan Murail- Winter Fragments

This morning, several intensive listens to Michael Von Biel's first two string quartets from the Edition RZ cd of his work.

Axel Dorner- Sind



Really excellent album. Stunningly beautiful in places I think.

Earlier today:

Peter Brotzmann- Machine Gun



Now:

Variety of free downloads from compost and height.

Wow, that's a lotta notes.. how about the complete works of Ferneyhough to wash it down with? Heh. I'm currently making my way through Uncommon Ground: the Music of Michael Finnissy . Just catching up on some of the listening relevant to the last few chapters. Such an exciting and varied body of wo...

So far today: Richard Barrett- Vanity http://www.compositiontoday.com/images/nmc_covers/nmcd041.jpg Michael Finnissy- Red Earth http://www.compositiontoday.com/images/nmc_covers/nmcd040.jpg Michael Finnissy- Piano Concerto No. 4 http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Mar02/finnissy_verd...

Michael Finnissy- Verdi Transcriptions (book2)

A long evening of score copying, accompanied by:

Axel Dorner- Sind
Olivier Messiaen- Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus (Steven Osbourne-piano)
Luc Ferrari- Far-West News Episodes 2 and 3
Jamie Coleman/Grundik Kasyansky/Seymour Wright- Control and its Opposites

Graham Halliwell/Lee Patterson- Terrain

recent listening: Further recordings of La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura. Arditti, Merkel, Kremer, and Mellinger. I saw the piece live on Sunday. It was spectacular. Very different experience seeing it live. A little short (closer to the Kremer recording) at just over 35 minutes. Very differe...

Both the Irvine Arditti and the Clemens Merkel recordings of La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura yesterday and today. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/3186KTZQG7L._SL500_AA240_.jpg http://www.wandelweiser.de/ewre/index-Dateien/image135.jpg This piece is being performed by David Bowlin (viol...

One of my favourites. Such excellent instrumentation. Fantastic sound.

And I believe there was also a cd released on Tzadik documenting that improv session. I think its called The Sugar Factory.