The Attic - Composer's Corner

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Composer's Corner podcast by The Attic

Episodes

  1. 12/03/2016

    12. Alice Coltrane

    Alice Coltrane, born McLeod, was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, and composer. One of the few harpists in the history of jazz, she recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse! Records and Universal Distribution.

    2h 2m

  2. 11/01/2016

    11. Octavian Nemescu

    Octavian Nemescu is a composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, electroacoustic, multimedia, metamusic, imaginary and ritual works that have been heard throughout Europe and elsewhere. Throughout many years, from his youth, he contributed decisively to the development of the avant-garde in Romanian music. Nemescu and his colleagues launched the spectral current in Romanian music (Illuminations for orchestra 1967), with an orientation towards the usage of the ison (drone).

    33 min

  3. 30/11/2015

    10. Pete Namlook

    A prolific producer of electronic music for more than two decades, Frankfurt born Peter Kuhlmann was one of the most influential figures of electronic and ambient music, with a significant - if not radical - contribution to this colorful and often misunderstood music genre. Namlook is Koolman spelled backward.

    3h 45m

  4. 25/10/2015

    09. Costin Miereanu

    Costin Miereanu was born in Bucharest in 1943, but naturalized French citizen in 1977. Miereanu evolved his compositional style featuring a sensuous sonic fabric by combining Satie's techniques with an abstraction of Romanian traditional music. Many of his complex and often virtuoso works include visual components.

    1h 37m

  5. 22/06/2015

    08. Ornette Coleman

    Ornette Coleman was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of an album released in '61. Coleman was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (genius grant) in 1994. His album Sound Grammar received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music. Ornette Coleman has sadly passed away on June 5, 2015, at 85.

    1h 2m

  6. 09/06/2015

    07. Iancu Dumitrescu

    Iancu Dumitrescu began composing his mature works in the early 1970s. In 1976 he founded the Hyperion Ensemble, described as "a multimedia group dedicated to experimental music". Several of Dumitrescu's early works for solo contrabass were recorded by the noted avant-garde bassist Fernando Grillo. Dumitrescu describes his music as "acousmatic", but disclaims a relationship with the Acousmatic music of French musique concrete pioneer Pierre Schaeffer. He accepts the "spectralist" label, though he distinguishes his work from some others in the spectral school in that it is not serial.

    1h 15m

  7. 13/05/2015

    06. Adrian Enescu

    One of the most important contemporary composers from Romania, Adrian Enescu played a vital role in the music development of the '70s and '80s. Enescu composed over the years music for ballet in Italy, China and Australia, music for the stage in Romania, Netherlands, Belgium, Japan, Australia, Canada, Columbia and Costa Rica and music for more than 60 Romanian films. He also pioneered the local electronic scene during the 1970s-80s and has released notable albums such as 'Basorelief' and the 2 volume 'Funky Synthesizer' LP. He is the producer behind many famous Romanian pop albums and released his own music under his name and also under the Stereo moniker (together with Romanian singer Crina Mardare), being one of the first disco projects made in Romania.

    1h 11m

  8. 22/04/2015

    05. Sun City Girls

    Sun City Girls was an American experimental rock band, formed in 1979 in Phoenix, Arizona and disolved in 2007. Sun City Girls consisted of Alan Bishop (bass guitar, vocals), his brother Richard Bishop (guitar, piano, vocals), and Charles Gocher (drums, vocals).

    1h 18m

  9. 02/02/2015

    04. Aphex Twin

    Brussels based DJ SoFa selects some of his old time favourite tracks by Aphex Twin which were made available for download recently and knits them together in a mix for The Attic.

    57 min

  10. 12/01/2015

    03. Philip Glass

    The Attic presents a music promenade in the enormous universe of American composer Philip Glass.

    59 min

  11. 03/01/2015

    02. Moondog

    The Attic presents a short music close up upon the career of American composer, musician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments Moondog.

    1h 1m

  12. 21/12/2014

    01. Sun Ra

    The Attic dives deep into the complex universe of Sun Ra.

    57 min
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