resource guide 24: Tom Johnson

reference:
Editions 75

interviews and talks:
December 1975
September 1981
April 1987
June 1997
May-July 1999
April 2003
March 2007
2011
2011
November 2012
December 2012
December 2012
Conversations avec Tom Johnson

articles:
Almost Nothing
Explaining my Music: Keywords
Found Mathematical Objects
I Want to Find the Music, Not Compose It
Minimalism in Music: in search of a definition
Music Metaphysics
Musical Questions for Mathematicians
Networks
On Form
Perfect Rhythmic Tilings
Self-Replicating Loops
Some Observations on Tiling Problems
Tiling in my Music
Tiling the Line in Theory and in Practice

books:
Imaginary Music

Looking at Numbers

Self-Similar Melodies

The Voice of New Music

pieces:

Action Music IV (1968)

Scene For Piano And Tape (1969)
YouTube

Spaces (1969)
YouTube

An Hour For Piano (1971)
disc disc YouTube YouTube Spotify YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube Vimeo

L’Opéra de quatre notes [The Four Note Opera] (1972)
YouTube YouTube comment

Failing, A Very Difficult Piece For Solo String Bass (1975)
YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube

60-Note Fanfares For Four Antiphonal Trumpets (1976)

Private Pieces (1976)
openbook

Shaggy Dog Operas (1978)
comment

Trinity (1978)

Monologue For Tuba (1978)

Dragons in A (1979)

Eight Patterns For Eight Instruments (1979)
YouTube play

Nine Bells (1979)
play YouTube image

Triple Threat (1979)

Doublings for Double Bass (1980)

Movements (1980)

Rational melodies (1982)
disc disc disc disc YouTube YouTube

Harpiano (1982)

Counting Duets (1982)
YouTube YouTube YouTube YouTube

Self-Portrait (1983)

Predictables (1984)

Sopranos Only (1984)

Voicings (1984)

Tango (1984)
disc openbook

Bedtime Stories (1985)
disc disc YouTube YouTube SoundCloud

Talking (1985)

Infinite melodies (1986)
Spotify

Piano Problems (1986)

Melodie De Six Notes, Pour Orgue (1986)

Chord Catalogue (1986)
disc disc YouTube Spotify SoundCloud openbook

Eggs And Baskets (1987)
disc play

Music For 88 (1988)
disc YouTube SoundCloud Spotify

Riemannoper (1988)

Music And Questions (1988)

Counting Keys (1982-1989)
disc

Narayana’s Cows (1989)
disc YouTube YouTube Spotify

Deux cents ans (1989)

Alexandrins pour guitare (1989)

Symmetries (1981-90)
disc

Un’Opera Italiana (1991)

Maximum Efficiency (1991)
SoundCloud

Bonhoeffer Oratorium (1988-1992)
disc play comment

Einstimmiger Polyrhythmus (1992)

Le choeur (1993)
play

Sequenza minimalista (1993)

Septapede (1973-1993)

Composition With Descending Chromatic Scales In Eight-Voice Canon Played In Three Ways, Separated By Two Piano Interludes, Which Bring The Music Back Up To Its Starting Position (1993)

Formulas for string quartet (1994)
play

Study for Player Piano #1 (1994)
YouTube

Cosinus For Piano (1994)

Trigonometry (1996)
image

Descent (1996)

Simultaneous Progressions (1996)

Recycled Ostinato (1996)

Full Rotation Of 60 Notes Through 36 Positions (1996)

Automatic Music (1997)
comment

Canon for Six Guitars (1998)

La vie est si courte (1998)

Two Curves (1998)

Loops for orchestra (1999)

Music with mistakes (1993-1999)

Organ And Silence (1999)
disc Spotify

32 Breaths (2000)
disc openbook

Kientzy Loops (2000)
disc Spotify comment

Wesley’s Challenge (1982-2001)

Galileo (2001)
image

Arpeggios for Guitar (2002)
YouTube

Organ And Silence For Piano (2002)
disc

1 2 3 (2002)

Combinations for string quartet (2003)
play comment

Tilework series (2002-5)
disc disc disc YouTube play YouTube play YouTube SoundCloud

Radio pieces (1984-2004)

Same or different (2004)

360 chords (2005)

Kleine Choräle für kleines Klavier (2005)

Block Design for Piano (2005)
disc YouTube

Trio (2005)
play comment

Kirkman’s Ladies (2005)
disc YouTube comment

844 Chords (2005)
disc YouTube

Septet (2007)
comment

Networks (2007)

Vermont Rhythms (2008)
disc comment

Squares: didactic music for a solo instrument (2008)
disc play

Twelve (2008)

55 Chords (2009)

Mocking (2009)
comment

Septet II (2009)

Septets [I to V] (2007-2010)

Ecoutez le temps (2010)

Orgelpark Color Chart
disc YouTube SoundCloud

Dialogues (2011)

Falling Thirds with Drum (2011)

Three notes for 3 jugglers (2011)
Vimeo

Dropping Balls (2011)

BACK & FORTH (2012)
comment

Tick Tock Rhythms (2012)

Clarinet Trio (2012)
play

Shake Up (in preparation)

finds (10)

1) Philip Thomas has started a wonderful blog at his site called For Pianist: Reflections on interpretation and performance.

articles now up:

Feldman and his search for a notation.
Playing Tim Parkinson’s music
Vessels and the sensuality of touch

2) Tim Rutherford-Johnson has written a really insightful review of the new Laurence Crane CD release, which I also completely love. More information on the CD, including two other deeply considered pieces of writing about it by Michael Pisaro and Jesse Goin and links to several YouTube extracts, is at its Another Timbre page. And there is a substantial interview with Crane here. My suggestion: buy the CD set now and read all the other material as you wait for it to arrive. International shipping is quite reasonable from AT, and there are lots of other great releases you might want to include as well. (More on some of those later, I hope.)

3) Pianist: Pieces is a new CD set of Christian Wolff’s solo piano music, recorded by Philip Thomas.

4) Erstwhile Records has a sale running through July 31st:

to celebrate Erstwhile’s 15 year anniversary, all single disc Erst titles are on sale for $10 apiece with purchase of one or both of the new double CDs. this offer is good through July 31

The two double CDs are Jürg Frey/Radu Malfatti-II and Kevin Drumm/Jason Lescalleet-The Abyss

 

resource guide 23: Tim Parkinson

reference:
untitled website
Sound and Music
music we’d like to hear
Parkinson Saunders

articles and books:
A Clear Apparance
Fantastical Zoology
Playing Tim Parkinson’s Music
The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music

Tim Parkinson, Counterpoints, May 1999
Zeitmaschinen, Dissonanz, August 2003

interviews:
2003
July 2010 1 / 2
2014

pieces:

two piano piece (1994)

flutes (1994)
play

piano piece (1995)

piece for organ (1995)

piece for octet (1995)

two piano piece 1995 (1995)

vibraphone piece (1996)

quartet (1996)

(untitled tape installation) for 3 tape recorders (1996)

sextet (1996)
play

quintet (1997)

both (1997)

aufGeltwartenlieder (1997)

piano piece (1997)

bed (1997)
play

august (1998)
play

violin and piano piece (1998)
play

any (1998)
YouTube

quartet (1998)

straw dogs (1998)
play

untitled (1998)
play

quartet (1999)

violin piece (1999)
play

umbrellagoatfishoctopus (1999)

fellaheen (1999)

asdfghjkl (1999)

untitled two pianos (1999)
play

untitled quartet (2000)
play

four pieces (2000)
play

untitled violin and piano (2000)
SoundCloud play

three pieces (2000)
play

untitled flute and piano (2000)
play

40 Trinder Road (2000)

eight violins (2001)
play

untitled quartet (2001)

ten brass (2001)
play

piano piece october 2002
SoundCloud play

piano piece september 2002

untitled cello and piano (2002)
SoundCloud play

untitled quintet (2002)
play

string quartet (2002)
play

untitled winter 2002
play

viola piece (2003)
play

clarinet and words (2003)
disc play

trombone and piano piece (2003)
play

untitled installation (for Sound 323) (2003)
disc play

piano piece (2003)

two cardboard boxes (2003)
openbook play

septet (2004)
play

untitled (2004a)

untitled (2004b)

untitled (2004c)
play

untitled (2004d)

cello piece (2004)
disc

harp piece (2005)
play

double quartet (2005)
SoundCloud play

sextet (2005)
play

sixty eight sounds for Welborne (2005)
play

piano piece (2006)
disc play

violin piece (2006)
play

quartet (2006)
YouTube YouTube YouTube play

trio (2007)
play

orchestra piece (2007)
SoundCloud YouTube play

septet (2007)
SoundCloud play

piano piece (2007)
disc

quartet for the right hand (2007)

three pieces (2007)

trio with objects (2008)
play

three music boxes (2008)
play

orchestra piece (2008)

string quartet (2008)

clarinet, violin and piano piece (2008)

violin and piano piece (2009)
play

orchestra piece (2009)

/2009/ (collaboration)
melodica and percussion
CD book
play

string trio (2010)

symphony (2010)

blank pages (2011)

song for many (2011)
YouTube YouTube play

flute and bass (2011)

snare drum (2011)
play

songs 2011 (2011)
SoundCloud SoundCloud Vimeo Vimeo play disc

trio (2011)

concerto (2012)

chorus and orchestra (2012)

ensemble (2012)
SoundCloud SoundCloud play

songs 2012

orchestra piece 2012

string quartet 2013

time with people – an opera in 8 scenes (2013)
Vimeo Vimeo
ensemble 2013

piano piece 2013