Steve Reich in Conversation with Mohsen Mostafavi

Mr. Steve Reich (New York, 1936) will speak about his work and play sample recordings from his oeuvre, especially WTC 9/11 (2009), and he and Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design, will have a public conversation.From his early compositions in taped speech It’s Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966) to his digital video opera Three Tales (2002, with video artist Beryl Korot), Steve Reich has evolved a distinctive style marked by simple melodies and pronounced rhythm, repetition, and variation. His music has sources in the Western Classical tradition but also in non-Western and vernacular structures, harmonies, and rhythms. His work has been performed widely and he has received numerous commissions from prestigious institutions. Among other distinctions, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Commandeur de l’ordre des Arts et Lettres. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2009, for Double Sextet.

Composers’ Rooms: No.32 Hector Parra

BBC RADIO 3/ Sara Mohr-Pietsch heads to IRCAM in Paris to visit Hector Parra

CD - Orquesta Nacional de España / RADIO CLÁSICA / El mundo de la fonografía (1)

El mundo de la fonografía
28.03.2015

Presentado y dirigido por: José Luis Pérez de Arteaga 

Un veterano programa que, centrado en el área del sonido grabado, pasa revista a novedades discográficas, producciones históricas, y a conmemoraciones y efemérides, siempre evocadas a través de registros fonográficos.

CD - "conciertos para acordeón y orquesta"

- Ramon Lazkano: Itaun

- Gabriel Erkoreka: Akorda

Orquesta Nacional de España

Iñaki Alberdi, acordeón

Nacho de Paz, dirección

El mundo de la fonografía - 28/03/15

Hommage à Edgard Varèse (1965)

Hommage à Edgard Varèse (1965, 66 minutes)

With Marcel Duchamp, Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Hermann Scherchen, André Jolivet, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Boulez, Konstantin Simonovic, Bruno Maderna, Ferdnand Ouellette, and the voice of Varèse. "Deserts" in rehearsal with Domaine Musicale Orchestra conducted by Bruno Maderna. "Ionisation" (complete) with Ensemble Instrumentale de Musique Contemporaine de Paris conducted by Konstantin Simonovic.

Between 1965-68, composer Luc Ferrari collaborated with director Gérard Patris on a series of filmed intimate portraits of great musicians, “Les Grandes Répétitions” (The Great Rehearsals), which were broadcast on French TV. They are remarkable not only for their exceptional content, but also for their creative, dynamic camera work and playful juxtaposition of music and talk. Truly unique and enjoyable period documents.

Hommage à Edgard Varèse became a tribute to Varèse, who died shortly before filming began. A distinguished group of friends and colleagues speak of Varèse, along with spoken comments from Varèse himself. Simonovic conducts a complete Ionisation in a fascinating “period” performance and Bruno Maderna directs an illuminating rehearsal of Déserts as Marcel Duchamp listens and comments from New York City.

Interview with Iannis Xenakis (in Greek with FR subtitles)

Iannis Xenakis (Braïla, 1922 - Paris, 2001)

William Malloch on Silvestre Revueltas

KPFK - 04.04.1967

William Malloch

A program prepared by KPFK music director, William Malloch, on the orchestral music of Silvestre Revueltas (Durango, 1899 - México D.F., 1940), the colorful Mexican composer. Malloch illustrates the composers tendency to orchestrate Mexican folk music and compares two performances of Sensemayá in which the tempos of the piece varies dramatically. Also included is the broadcast of a rare recording of a lengthy suite compiled by the conductor Jose Limantour, from Revueltas music to the film La Noche de los Mayas.

Harry Partch - Music Studio (1958)

Harry Partch (Oakland, 1901 - Encinitas, 1974)

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Mikrophonie 1 - Film 1966

performed by: Aloys Kontarsky, Alfred Alings, Harald Boje, Johannes G. Fritsch and Karlheinz Stockhausen
directed by: Francois Béranger

Mauricio Kagel - Ludwig Van (1969) [Sub Fra, Eng, Esp]

Soon after May 1968, Mauricio Kagel, an Argentinian musician, launched himself into film making. "Ludwig van" is the first of his productions.

The black and white film is intentionally dislodged, disturbed, disrespectful, even aggressive.

Here, there is no story. The film is constituted of a series of scenes, without connection between them. At the start we are in the presence of a half deaf Beethoven, represented in a subjective way, so that the spectator becomes the composer. Thus we tour the places where Beethoven lived: his desk, covered entirely with pieces of music; his cellar, storeroom filled with bottles of wine; his hay loft, where he stacks the scores of composers of the XIX and XX centuries; his bathroom, in which the bathtub is full of busts of... Beethoven, which we take one after the other.

The tone is striking: not a documentary reportage, not a biographical film or anecdote, Kagel provokes us, takes us by surprise, irritates us.

Then, we are present, in the confusion, at a laughable televised dispute over Beethoven and his music; an evaluation of his physical capacities, morales and phsychies of the music of Beethoven on the performers (this part is one of the more humorous); in one interview, in a field, of a descendant of Beethoven...

There are many other scenes, which cover subjects such as the hearing of the composer, the analysis of his skull, the course of musical television, the analysis of the texts of Beethoven (notably his conversation notebooks), etc.

The film ends at the zoo, by the scenes presenting the animals in the most stupid attitudes possible, indeed even scatological.

The music of Beethoven is reviewed with talent by Mauricio Kagel.

Entrevista a José Manuel López-López

MÚSICA VIVA - 01.03.2015
Radio Clásica (RNE) / Eva Sandoval

Entrevistamos a uno de los compositores españoles más reconocidos y personales de la actualidad: José Manuel López López (Madrid, 1956). Junto a él realizamos un perfil de su lenguaje compositivo, de su estética, de sus influencias y de sus búsquedas sonoras actuales. Nos detuvimos con especial interés en sus más recientes proyectos: un documental dirigido por Eusebio Lázaro, el doble CD-DVD La Grande Cèleste con el videoartista Pascal Auger, grabación con obras para percusión de Miquel Bernat y su grupo Drumming y conciertos en París de su obra MetroVox dedicada a Xenakis. Escuchamos un fragmento de su Trío III y de VibraZoyd para vibráfono y electrónica. 

    Entrevista a José Manuel López López

Entrevista a Iñaki Alberdi y Nacho de Paz

MÚSICA VIVA - 01.03.2015
Radio Clásica (RNE) / Eva Sandoval

Presentamos el último disco de la Orquesta Nacional de España que ha sido dedicado a la creación actual española: "Conciertos para acordeón y orquesta", con Iñaki Alberdi como solista y con Nacho de Paz en la dirección. Junto a estos dos protagonistas del disco recordamos la primera vez que trabajaron juntos y nos contaron todos los detalles de la grabación del disco y de cada una de las obras: "Concierto para acordeón y orquesta" de Jesús Torres, "Memoria del blanco" de José M. Sánchez-Verdú, "Itaun" de Ramón Lazkano y "Akorda" de Gabriel Erkoreka.

Entrevista a Iñaki Alberdi y Nacho de Paz