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Program Notes:
(running time – approx. 30 min.)

1. “Electric Counterpoint – Fast” 4:39
by Steve Reich
Steve Reich 1965-1995
Nonesuch

2. “1-100 (faster decay)” 13:41
by Michael Nyman
Decay Music
Obscure Records

3. “Four of One of Another” 11:26
by Mary Ellen Childs
Kilter
XI Records

 

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Program Notes:
(running time – approx. 34 min)

1. “She (Really) Had To Go”
by John Morton
Sonogram
Innova

2. “Canto Ostinato – Section 20″
by Simeon ten Holt
Simeon ten Holt: Complete Piano Works
Brilliant Classics

3. “Finalbells”
by Eric Richards
The Bells Themselves
New World Records

 

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Program Notes:
(running time – approx. 35 min)

1. “Esztergom to Keselyüs” 10:00
by Annea Lockwood
A Sound Map of the Danube
Lovely Music

2. “The Philospher’s Hand” 5:51
by Terry Riley
Requiem for Adam
Nonesuch

3. “Crossings – String Quartet No. 4 (Amazing Grace)” 10:34
by Ben Johnston
Ben Johnston: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3, 4 & 9
New World Records

4. “Flying” 7:50
by Christopher Roberts
Trios for Deep Voices
Cold Blue Music

 

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If you hooked this kind of thing up to Partch’s chromelodeon, you might get an even more scarily accurate rendering.

(Edit: A great article on this invention by Create Digital Music as well.)

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The Crash Ensemble starting off … by crashing. Maybe they should’ve put that on the Reich Remixed album.

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