National Sawdust Log
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The first recording I was moved to listen to in 2018 is Hidden, a new Wergo album featuring two dynamic, disparate compositions by Chaya Czernowin. Adiantum Capillus-Veneris (2015-16) is a three-part composition designated "for voice and breath" – the first and second parts involving amplification, the last adding electronics – performed with intimacy and vitality here
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Photographs courtesy of Joda Clément Originally published by National Sawdust Log on Dec. 15, 2017 I've always listened to a lot of what might be termed electronic music, but I haven't always felt especially comfortable writing about it. Evaluating music in print can be challenging under the best of circumstances, given the intrinsic subjectivity of
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Vanessa Rossetto (Image: Matthew Revert) Vanessa Rossettoerased de kooning + rocinanteBandcamp; DL only Originally published by National Sawdust Log, May 5, 2017 Everything that’s erased leaves its trace of its passage behind: a point as familiar to the manuscript recyclers of antiquity for whom the term palimpsest was coined to modern-day digital data-recovery sleuths. We learn
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An occasional tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears lately. Richard Wagner – Die Walküre – Matthias Goerne, Michelle DeYoung, Stuart Skelton, Heidi Melton, Petra Lang, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra/Jaap van Zweden (Naxos) <a href="http://tonkatsurecords.bandcamp.com/album/lark-city">Lark City by Skylark Quartet</a> Skylark Quartet – Lark City (Tonkatsu) <a href="http://fabricarecords.bandcamp.com/album/same-animal-different-cages-vol-2-solomonos-for-analog-synthesizer">Same Animal, Different Cages Vol.
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An occasional tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears lately. <a href="http://jonathanfinlayson.bandcamp.com/album/moving-still">Moving Still by Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defense</a> Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defense – Moving Still (Pi Recordings; 2016) Chöying Drolma & Steve Tibbetts – Chö (Rykodisc; 1997) Mayhem – De Mysteriis dom Sathanas (Century Black; 1994) Laraaji – Ambient
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An occasional tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears lately. Linda Catlin Smith – Memory Forms (Artifact Music; 2001) > Among the Tarnished Stars – The Burdocks; Through the Low Hills – Andrew Smith, Stephen Clarke; Knotted Silk – Stephen Clarke, Arraymusic/Henry Kucharzyk; With Their Shadows Long – Marc Sabat, Stephen
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Photograph: Paola Prestini, by Brigitte Lacombe Originally published by National Sawdust Log on Oct. 3, 2016 When I first met with composer Paola Prestini just over three years ago to discuss her dreams, plans, and goals for the wide-ranging arts venue, incubator, and accelerator that would become National Sawdust, she expressed her conviction that journalism
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Originally published by National Sawdust Log on Sept. 30, 2016. David Lang: the loser Presented by BAM Next Wave FestivalHoward Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NYReviewed on Sept. 9, 2016 By Steve SmithPhotographs: Richard Termine If you’ve followed the career of David Lang, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and co-founder of the revolutionary
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