New Music America: The Secret History of Music of the Eighties

November 3, 1985 New Music America Los Angeles day 4

L. Young ● Zazeela ● Dia ● Cloud ● Alves ● Beck ● Bourland ● Gilbert ● Lesemann ● Schrader ● Cal E.A.R. Unit ● La Barbara●Stalvey●Otto●Mosko●Deiheim + Horowitz ● Peppe ● Stone ● Smith ● Subramaniam

Nov 03, 2023

New Music America Los Angeles 1985 - day 4

LaMonte Young w/ Marion Zazeela, Alex Dia and David Cloud Radio premiere of The Well-Tuned Piano (81 x 4 6:15:27 - 11:08:00 PM NYC)

William Alves Redundant I

Stephen David Beck HeavenMusic

Roger Bourland In the Stars

Harry Gilbert Tapestry 5:3

Frederick Lesemann Mesita Dreams

Barry Schrader Lost Atlantis (2 pieces)

California E.A.R. Unit

Joan La Barbara: A Rothko Study (1985)

Dorrance Stalvey: Pound Songs (1985)

Peter Otto: Precision Bearings (1985)

Stephen L. Mosko: Indigenous Music II (1980-1984)

Sussan Deiheim and Richard Horowitz Desert Equations, Azax/Attra, Never Tech No Foreign Answer

Michael Peppe So?, The News, Information Whiteout

Carl Stone Shibucho

Chas Smith Nakadai, The Judas Within

L. Subramaniam Quartet Kriti, Raga Malika

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LaMonte Young w/ Marion Zazeela, Alex Dia and David Cloud Radio premiere of The Well-Tuned Piano (81 x 4 6:15:27 - 11:08:00 PM NYC)

Radio capture on a slightly untuned radio recorded at the Park Plaza Hotel

Young, LaMonte w/ Marion Zazeela, Alex Dia and David Cloud at KPFK studios

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Downloadable version here:

The actual work as it made it to a five-vinyl recording three years later:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Tuned_Piano

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William Alves: Redundant I

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Stephen David Beck: HeavenMusic

Program notes:

HeavenMusic (1985) was written on the Synclavier II, using the Script programming language and processed with an Ursa Major digital reverberation unit.
"The title comes from the image of lying on one's back and staring into the heavens, watching the clouds and stars pass overhead, sifting through the abstract shapes to find smaller, more intriguing forms, sifting again finding even smaller forms, and watching them transform through and into different states."

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Roger Bourland: In the Stars

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Harry Gilbert: Tapestry 5:3

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Frederick Lesemann: Mesita Dreams

Program notes:

Frederick Lesemann is a Los Angeles composer whose works have been performed in Los Angeles, New York, Washington, San Francisco, Boston and other cities.
Recent works include "Three Songs of Li Yu" for tenor and chamber ensemble (1981-82), "Doubles" for chamber ensemble (1983-84), and the tape piece "Metakinetic Invention" (1984).
Perhaps his most interesting title is the 1966 "If executed perfectly it will unexpectedly rain." Lesemann's "Mesita Dreams" will be heard in the USC outdoor electronic tape concert, which he has organixerd for New Music America.

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Barry Schrader: Lost Atlantis (2 pieces)

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California E.A.R. Unit

Rand Steiger, conductor/percussion; Dorothy Stone, flute; James Rohrig, clarinet; Gaylord Mowrey, piano; Arthur Jarvinen, percussion; Amy Knoles, percussion; Robin Lorentz, violin; Erika Duke, cello

with Joan La Barbara, soprano; Stephen L. Mosko, conductor; Stuart Horn, oboe; Eric Kinsley, piano/electric organ

Joan La Barbara: A Rothko Study

I’m not too sure whether this recorded work Rothko is related to A Rothko Study as it is credited as having been composed in 1986; nonetheless, worth hearing again in any context.

Dorrance Stalvey: Pound Songs (1985)

April; 2. Awpia; 3. The Tree; 4. Paracelsus in Excelsis; 5. Coda

Peter Otto: Precision Bearings (1985)

Stephen L. Mosko: Indigenous Music II (1980-1984)

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Sussan Deiheim and Richard Horowitz Desert Equations; Azax/Attra, Never Tech No Foreign Answer

The October 5 substack post (paygate free) includes a link to the Relâche recording of that year’s concert. These are the tracks performed in Los Angeles as they appeared on disc:

2023 note: she’s got a new movie that just came out, directed by Godfrey Reggio and original score by Philip Glass

https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/once-within-a-time-review-godfrey-reggio-1234915461/

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Michael Peppe: So?, The News, Information Whiteout

Michael Peppe May 1985

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Carl Stone: Shibucho

David Grimes and Lee Majors with John Oswald, then Gordon Monahan with Carl Stone - cbc national FM radio program from 1985 - overall festival view

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"Carl Stone practices his Publison, a digital-delay device, for at least an hour every day and is undoubtedly the fastest man alive at the console.
He has coaxed more rhythms out of old Motown records than Rambo has killed Vietnamese, and he'll do it again with his Shibucho (on November 3 as one performer in the "LA Theatre Presents..." program downtown).

- Jonathan Gold preview in L. A. Weekly