Kyle Gann's PostClassic Radio

Microtonalists:

Kyle Gann has been adding more microtonal music to his Live365 radio
station: PostClassic Radio. See the playlist at
http://www.kylegann.com/postclassicradio.html or listen to the music
at http://www.live365.com/stations/kylegann . He has included some Ben
Johnston, Neil Haverstick, James Tenny, and graciously included my
Resolution in Blue in the rotation. Give it a listen!

He describes the station on his weblog at
http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic

"the diversity is pretty remarkable, far greater than you'd get from
any similar roster of recent orchestral commissions. There is much
postminimalism, much totalism, but other things that don't fit,
including quite a bit of atonal music .... A lot of music with pop
influences, and a lot of music with no pop influences at all, mostly
American but some from Finland, Korea, Holland, Japan, Italy, Russia,
and other countries. I recently wrote that the typical prize-winning
Uptown orchestra piece is brief, hyperactive, filled with rhythmic
momentum, tonal but not too tonal, and dotted with splashes of
orchestral color. The "typical" Postclassic Radio piece, if there is
one, is precisely the opposite: long, often nearly motionless,
extremely tonal or at least limited in pitch content, and
monochromatic. No wonder these composers don't fill their bios with
prizes they've won."

Prent Rodgers
Music that's "Fake but Accurate"

Congratulations man! Well-deserved. Now he just
needs to feature you in a piece!

jeff

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Prent Rodgers"
<prentrodgers@c...> wrote:
> Microtonalists:
>
> Kyle Gann has been adding more microtonal music to his Live365 radio
> station: PostClassic Radio. See the playlist at
> http://www.kylegann.com/postclassicradio.html or listen to the music
> at http://www.live365.com/stations/kylegann . He has included some Ben
> Johnston, Neil Haverstick, James Tenny, and graciously included my
> Resolution in Blue in the rotation. Give it a listen!
>
> He describes the station on his weblog at
> http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic
>
> "the diversity is pretty remarkable, far greater than you'd get from
> any similar roster of recent orchestral commissions. There is much
> postminimalism, much totalism, but other things that don't fit,
> including quite a bit of atonal music .... A lot of music with pop
> influences, and a lot of music with no pop influences at all, mostly
> American but some from Finland, Korea, Holland, Japan, Italy, Russia,
> and other countries. I recently wrote that the typical prize-winning
> Uptown orchestra piece is brief, hyperactive, filled with rhythmic
> momentum, tonal but not too tonal, and dotted with splashes of
> orchestral color. The "typical" Postclassic Radio piece, if there is
> one, is precisely the opposite: long, often nearly motionless,
> extremely tonal or at least limited in pitch content, and
> monochromatic. No wonder these composers don't fill their bios with
> prizes they've won."
>
> Prent Rodgers
> Music that's "Fake but Accurate"