Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center

Episode 8: Pushing The Envelope Podcast (4-29-2010)

Greetings!
Funny how the "real world" (i.e. dazzling the world as a census taker) has a way of getting in the way of important stuff, like posting the next installment of "Pushing The Envelope"  Well...here it is, with more catch up episodes to come.  Enjoy!
Note:  Due to a minor technical glitch, all the music is in place, but mysteriously, I do not reappear after the second set to back announce the set, so please refer to the playlist for info on all the music played.
Pushing The Envelope Playlist 4-29-2010
Nightwatching - cello & voice: Theresa Wong - Earthmusic: 10 Years of Meridian Music: Composers In Performance - Innova (2010)
http://www.theresawong.org/ or http://www.innovarecordings.com/artist1.asp?skuID=384
Music for Alpha Waves, Assorted Percussion, & Automated Coded Relays - Alvin Lucier - Imaginary Landscapes: New Electronic Music (compilation) - elektra/nonesuch (1989)
http://alucier.web.wesleyan.edu/index.html
Terrain - composer: Brian Ferneyhough / violin: Irvine Arditti w/ ASKO Ensemble - Fourth String Quartet; Kurze Schatten II; Trittico per g.s.; Terrain - Disques Montaigne (2003)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Ferneyhough
Stumpside - Rasputina - Thanks For The Ether - Columbia (1996)
http://www.myspace.com/rasputina
The Well Oiled Mobius Strip - Random Touch - Through The Lens of the Other Dimension - Token-Boy Records (2010)
http://www.randomtouch.com/releases_open.php?rid=12
End Credits (Long Version) - Michael Boddicker - The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension (1984)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Buckaroo_Banzai_Across_the_8th_Dimension#Soundtrack
Good Intentions Paving Co. - Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me - Drag City (2010)
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13960-have-one-on-me/
Bridges Burned - Paranoid Motives - Disruptive Potential - Paranoid Foundation (2010)
http://paranoidfoundation.blogspot.com/2010/03/next-release-paranoid-motives-17th-may.html Head Count - ROVA & Nels Cline Singers - The Celestial Septet - New World Records (2010)
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=83684
Interlude from "Orphee" (Act II, Scene 5) - Philip Glass - Symphony No. 2 - Nonesuch (1998)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAmANnGkLzM Al Gharaniq II:}{:Fracture IV - Anti-Social Music - Fracture: The Music of Pat Muchmore - Innova (2010)
http://www.antisocialmusic.org/default.html
Trance - Steve Kuhn - Trance - ECM (1974)
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=18807

Episode 7: Pushing The Envelope Podcast (4-22-2010)

Greetings from the wilds of Connecticut!!
Well...you folks are accomplishing the "mission" of spreading the PTE word quite effectively.  As of this morning, there are 199 subscribers to our humble little podcast.  You have my sincere thanks and I hope you're enjoying what you hear.  As always, if you have any comments or suggestions, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Until next time,
Take care!
Joel
Pushing The Envelope Playlist 4-22-10
Vida De Lujo - Ernesto Diaz-Infante / Manuel Mota / Gino Robair / Ernesto Rodrigues - Our Faceless Empire - Pax Recordings (2010)
http://www.paxrecordings.com/
One Voice Imagining - Jeffrey Roden - Bridge To The Other Place - The Big Tree Music (2008)
http://www.thebigtreemusic.com/
Hinge: Spiral - Christopher Burns and Christopher Froh - Triptych - Innova (2010)
http://innova.mu/notes/761.htm
Curriculum Vitae - Lukas Foss - Curriculum Vitae - New World Records (2010)
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=84046
Starless & Bible Black - King Crimson - Starless & Bible Black - Atlantic (1974)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starless_and_Bible_Black
No One Receiving - Brian Eno - Before & After Science - EG (1977)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_and_After_Science
Music Is Math - Boards of Canada - Geogaddi - Warp (2002)
http://www.boardsofcanada.com/discography.html
Track 4 - Gen Ken Montgomery / CONrad Schnitzler - GenCon Duets - GD Stereo (2010)
http://www.gdstereo.com/recordings/
Miles Away - The Freight Elevator Quartet - Becoming Transparent - Caipirinha Music (2000)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freight_Elevator_Quartet
Kindness - Todd Rundgren - Second Wind - WB (1991)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Wind
Cumulus - Joe Frawley - Left Cincinnati - Joe Frawley Music (2010)
http://www.joefrawleymusic.info/audio.htm
Shadows Of - Gong - Gazeuse - Virgin (1976)
http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/display.php?rev=gong-gaz

Episode 6: Pushing The Envelope (4-14-10)

Greetings!
Here's a bonus sized PTE from last week thanks to an opportune afternoon fill-in.  As always, spread the word and feel free to let me know what you think about the show and the music.
Til next time,
take care.
Joel
Pushing The Envelope (Chelsea fill-in)  4-14-10
Holland Point Music for soprano sax & marimba - composer: Ron Hannah / sax: William H. Street - Westwind: Canadian Music For Saxophone - Eclectra (2007)
http://www.music.ualberta.ca/wstreet.cfm
Freshwater Hydra - Matt Davignon - Living Things - Edgetone Records (2010)
http://www.edgetonerecords.com/catalog/4097.html
Main Titles / Overture - Louis and Bebe Barron - Forbidden Planet strk. - GNP Crescendo Records (1956)
http://therisingstorm.net/electronic-pioneers-louis-bebe-barron-forbidden-planet/
The Machineries of Joy - HB3 - Studies For Traps & Piccolo - Zegnotropic (2010)
http://www.hb3.com/
Miracle In The Bazaar - Todd Rundgren - Acapella - Rhino (1985)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cappella_album
Soup - Can - Ege Bamyasi - Mute (1972)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ege_Bamyasi
Canon For Three - composer/piano(s): Anthony Genge - Opus 108 (2008)
http://www.anthonygenge.com/anthony_Genge_CD.html
The Words Are Like Leaves - Kaipa - In The Wake of Evolution - Inside/Out (2010)
http://www.myspace.com/kaipa
Sound & Vision - Mask - Technopia - Repertoire Records (2009)
http://www.myspace.com/maskuk
Heartland - Ekstasis - Wake Up & Dream - CyberOctave (1998) Fermet's Last Theorem - UEM (Urban Electronic Music) - Science Can't Explain It - self-release (2009)
http://www.redlinepark.com/release/19/
Clever Use of Shadows - Nathan Mahl - Clever Use of Shadows - Mahl Productions (1998)
http://www.myspace.com/nathanmahl
Noise Is the Price We Pay for Signal - Virgil Moorefield - Distractions on the way to the King's Party - Cuneiform (1994)
http://www.virgilmoorefield.com/index.html
Suite from "The Crazies" - Mark Isham - mp3 download from: http://www.isham.com/
HiLoFi - composer: Tony Blomdahl / tuba: Kjetil Myklebust - Electric Tuba - C-Y Contemporary (2009)
http://www.c-y.se/CDdetail.php
Prelude - Tom Heasley - On The Sensations Of Tone - Innova (2002)
http://tomheasley.com/about.html