Two American Mavericks
Robert Worby explores the music of James Tenney and Pauline Oliveros, both born in the 1930s in the American South West, and both pioneers in tape music.
Robert Worby explores the music of James Tenney and Pauline Oliveros, both born in the 1930s in the American South West, and both pioneers in tape music who developed their own musical characters while ignoring the rules. Including an archive interview with Tenney, who died in 2006, and a conversation with Oliveros recorded at the Deep Listening Retreat she led in Devon.
Opening collage contains excerpts from 'Ione' by Oliveros and 'Koan' by Tenney.
(Full details of these pieces below)
Tenney: Collage no.1: Blue Suede Shoes (3:30)
(tape music)
From the album: James Tenney: Selected Works 1961- 1969
CD: New World Records 80570
Oliveros: I of IV (excerpt) (4:05)
(electronic music)
From the album: Pauline Oliveros - Electronic Works 1965 + 1966
CD: Paradigm Discs PD 04
Tenney: Chorale (3:50)
Clemens Merkel (violin)
Eve Egoyan (piano)
大象传媒 recording at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2008
Oliveros: Ione (17:40)
Pauline Oliveros (accordion)
Stuart Dempster (trombone and didgeridoo)
From the album Deep Listening
CD: New Albion NA 022 CD
Tenney: Koan (20:06)
Quatuor Bozzini
大象传媒 recording at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2008
Oliveros: Poem of Change (10:21)
Pauline Oliveros (voice, accordion)
From the album: Lesbian American Composers
CD: CRI CD 780
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