Steve Smith
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Grateful Dead – Road Trips, Vol. 4, No. 4: Spectrum 4.6.82 (Grateful Dead) Cory Smythe – Pluripotent (Bandcamp) Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Motion Sickness of Time Travel (Spectrum Spools, via MOG) Sam Rivers, Dave Holland and Barry Altschul – Reunion: Live in New York (Pi Recordings; due Sept. 25) Sun Cycles / Inez…
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Live preview: 2NE1Prudential Center; Aug 17Time Out New York, Aug 16–22, 2012 How and when South Korea’s pop-music industry began to insinuate itself in the U.S. isn’t altogether clear, but mounting evidence indicates that K-pop, a polyglot sound purveyed by a swelling stream of slick, energetic boy bands and girl groups developed by entertainment megacorps…
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Pauline Oliveros at the Bang on a Can Marathon, by Jennifer Taylor/The New York Times "Strange Sounds Led a Composer to a Long Career"The New York Times, August 12, 2012 Profiling the composer, improviser and teacher Pauline Oliveros for The New York Times was an incredible privilege; the only problem is that it…
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To mark the 70th birthday of the brilliant drummer, bandleader and composer Jack DeJohnette, a quick post featuring two somewhat offbeat videos, since you've probably seen a lot of Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett footage elsewhere. First, my favorite of DeJohnette's original compositions, "Silver Hollow" (not "Hallow," as the clip is labeled), recorded in 1978…
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Abul Mogard – Abul Mogard (VCO Recordings) Jonas Reinhardt & Abyss of Fathomless Light – Rusting Cyphers of a Forgotten Sky (VCO Recordings) Alexandre Navarro – Sketches (Constellation Tatsu) Hakobune – The Cowboy Across the River (Constellation Tatsu) Billy Gomberg – Into the Fade (Constellation Tatsu) Cankun – Idle (Constellation Tatsu) Melissa Stylianou – Silent…
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International Contemporary Ensemble, by Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times International Contemporary Ensemble at Rose Theater, August 5, 2012The New York Times, August 7, 2012 An amazing performance by the International Contemporary Ensemble, whose performances at the Mostly Mozart Festival this year mark the start of a tenth-anniversary season chock-full of musical marvels and…
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Phil Kline's dreamcitynine, by Richard Termine/The New York Times Phil Kline's dreamcitynine at Lincoln Center, August 3, 2012The New York Times, August 6, 2012 You can still hear the 60 stories Phil Kline commissioned for dreamcitynine, his intriguing and impressive tribute to John Cage (and to Indeterminacy in specific), at Lincoln Center through…
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The consistently excellent mostly-cassettes label Hooker Vision has posted excerpts from its late August tape batch on Soundcloud. Grab yourself an earful.
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Caroline Chin and Brian Snow, by Richard Termine/The New York Times Caroline Chin and Brian Snow at Spectrum, July 31, 2012The New York Times, August 2, 2012 Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home for intimate concerts enjoyed with friends old and new. That's been the operative assumption behind countless salons, soirees…
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Shen Tiemei and Jiang Qihu, by Ruby Washington/The New York Times Feng Yi Ting at the Lincoln Center FestivalThe New York Times, July 28, 2012 "…a brilliant morsel of theatrical art, flamboyantly conceived and compellingly staged." Sometimes, ebullience trumps eloquence. Anyway, there is one performance of Guo Wenjing's fabulous 45-minute opera remaining, tonight…
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Last night at Roulette, Jeremiah Cymerman, Mario Diaz de León and Toby Driver shook the walls with arcane music and occasionally lacerating volume as BloodMist, a new project that had its debut after several days of workshops. More thoughts to come; for now, more poor iPhone photographs.
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Derek Rogers – Saturations (Greenup Industries) Derek Rogers – Informal Meditations (No Kings) Derek Rogers – Peripetia (A Beard of Snails) Rolling Stones – Tokyo Dome (Live, 1990) (Rolling Stones Archive) Nathan McLaughlin – Echolocation #6 (SicSic) Bad Rep – Chicago Slime (Housecraft) Rambutan – Silver Pharmacy (Anathema Sound) Godseye – Bad Blood (Rocket Machine)…
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A bit of late-breaking news here: Conrad Schnitzler, the influential, prolific German electronic-music pioneer who was an early member of Tangerine Dream and a founder of Kluster, and who passed away in August 2011, is the subject of CON-Mythology, an ambitious week-long tribute that starts today in New York City. Included among the festival's events…
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Eglise Gutierrez, by Gabe Palacio/The New York Times I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Caramoor International Music FestivalThe New York Times, July 23, 2012 Seeking objective truth in reviews of live events is always a fascinating prospect. In this review, I'm very keen on Eglise Gutiérrez, more moderate but still positive on…
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Those who've read this blog on a more than occasional basis since it started know that in the last six years I've written here far less than I used to, for fairly obvious reasons. The posting went down still more a few years later, also having to do with taking on more professional responsibilities. None…
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Rumble…crackle…snap…ping. Stay tuned.
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Blair McMillen at BargemusicThe New York Times, December 6, 2011 Alex Ross has a report on Blair McMillen's previous performance of Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories at Bargemusic, presented in July.
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