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Scordatura Ensemble Asked whether he would describe his music as "Sound for the sake of sound," James Tenney (1934-2006) replied, "It's sound for the sake of perceptual insight－some kind of perceptual revelation." This release aptly demonstrates Tenney's deep exploratory fascination with the nature and potentialities of aural perception. His attraction...
The Barton Workshop, James Fulkerson, Frank Denyer, co-directors James Tenney (1934–2006) was one of the most versatile figures in contemporary American music. Apart from creating a large, wide-ranging, and fascinating body of compositions, more than a hundred of them, he was one of the key music theorists of the late...
James Tenney: Selected Works 1961-1969
The work of James Tenney (1934-2006) as a composer, theorist, performer, and teacher, is of singular importance in American music of the past four decades. This recording is a reissue of the 1992 Frog Peak/Artifact CD, the first recorded collection of James Tenney's music of the 1960s. Many of the pieces...
James Tenney: Changes - 64 Studies for 6 Harps
Alison Bjorkedal, Ellie Choate, Elizabeth Huston, Catherine Litaker, Amy Shulman, Ruriko Terada, harps; Nicholas Deyoe, conductor Changes: 64 Studies for 6 Harps (1985) is a large-scale work that combines and connects many of James Tenney's (1934-2006) most important theoretical and musical ideas, including gestalt segregation principles and complex intonation systems....
The Barton Workshop: Jos Zwaanenburg, flutes; Alex Geller, cello; Nina Hitz, cello; Marieke Keser, violin; Jacob Plooij, violin; Judith van Swaaij, cello; Elisabeth Smalt, viola; John Anderson, clarinets; Gertjan Loot, trumpet; Krijn van Arnhem, bassoon, contrabassoon; Frank Denyer, melodica; Charles van Tassel, baritone; Theo van Arnhem, contrabass; Jos Tieman, contrabass;...
John Melby: Concerto for Violin, English Horn, & Tape; James Tenney: Saxony
Gregory Fulkerson, violin; Thomas Stacy, English horn; David Liptak, conductor; David Mott, saxophone“As a composer, I have a certain aversion to providing program notes about my pieces, a feeling which is shared by many, although certainly not all, of my colleagues. I feel that such notes often do more harm...
Seth Josel, guitarEvery composer, every listener to music—intent or casual— has to come to terms with the guitar. As the sonic flesh of Western popular music for much of the last half century, it is simply inescapable: there are few places left so remote that the sound of the guitar...
Flute Music by Johanna Beyer, Joan La Barbara, Larry Polansky, James Tenney, and Lois V Vierk Margaret Lancaster, flutes; with Beth Griffith, soprano (Have Faith!)/Larry Polansky, electric guitar; Matthew Gold, marimba, percussion (Io and Piker, track 9) ”Margaret Lancaster has burst onto the scene as our leading proponent of the...
James Tenney on Theoretical Tradition and Visual Perception (video)
Oral History of American Music Interviewee: James Tenney Interviewer: Gayle Young Date: June 10-12, 1988 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
I’ve created this list in the midst of slogging through the annual year-end process of proclaiming my favorite releases of the previous 12 months, which only reinforces how arbitrary and fleeting these things are. There are countless gems in the New World catalog, and on another day, I might have...