Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left Center

Greetings!
I've been quite busy, to say the least.  Finished up my employment with the U.S. Census, purchased my books for school which starts in a couple of weeks and have started my reading in the glorious field of Speech/Language Pathology.  (A recommended course of action for those, like myself, have been out of the world of graduate academia since the 80's.)
Arguably, more important, attending two wonderful shows at MASS MOCA featuring the Bang On A Can Summer Music Festival (http://bangonacan.org/summer_festival).  First was a celebration of International George Crumb Day which featured an afternoon gallery performance of "Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III)" for 2 pianos and 2 percussionists, followed by a concert performance which included Crumb's string quartet, "Black Angels".
The following weekend was the 6 hour Bang On A Can Marathon.  Highlights for me included performances of:  Tom Johnson's, "Narayana's Cows",  Ted Hearne's, "Katrina Ballads",  Michael Gordon's. "Yo, Shakespeare", and Steve Reich's, "Double Sextet".  Should you have the opportunity to attend, it would certainly be worth your time.  (Here is a listing of the full summer festival performance schedule:  http://bangonacan.org/summer_festival/performance_calendar )
As always, please tell your friends about "Pushing The Envelope", the more subscribers, the merrier. (Don't forget to check us out on Facebook and MySpace.)
Until next time,
Take care,
Joel
Now onto this week's playlist:
Episode 12:  Pushing The Envelope Podcast (6-17-10)
Birds & Machines (machine suite) /Gen Ken Montgomery / Birds & Machines (1980 - 1989) / Pogus Productions (2010)
http://www.pogus.com
Track 1 / Green Flem / Unstable Hairy Back Melodies (2009)
http://www.myspace.com/imgreenflem
hommage / K. Leimer / degraded certainties / Palace of Lights (2010)
http://www.palaceoflights.com
Chole and the Pirates /  Soft Machine / NDR Jazz Workshop / Cuneiform Records (2010)
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com
Beautiful Pea Green Boat / Laurie Anderson / Bright Red Warner Brothers (1994)
http://www.laurieanderson.com/projects/
Homespun (topophilia) / Alexander Baker / Deep Wireless 7: Radio Art Compilation New Adventures In Sound Art (2010)
http://www.naisa.ca
Where Is Home? / Viv Corringham / Deep Wireless 7: Radio Art Compilation New Adventures In Sound Art (2010)
http://www.naisa.ca
Barugon / Murder Lengendre / Collection Spine Punch Music (2009)
http://www.myspace.com/murderlegendre
(Re)Bound /Gray Code / Floating Point / Circumvention Music (2010)
http://www.circumventionmusic.com
Leaves Again / Jake Herzog / Patterns / Buckyball Records (2010)
http://www.buckyballmusic.com
Fades, Dissolves, Fizzles (1995) / Charles Dodge / A Retrospective (1977 - 2009) / New World Records (2010)
http://www.newworldrecords.org
My Dad Makes Robots / Jack Curtis Dubowsky  / Vocal Music / De Stijl Music
http://www.destijlmusic.com
The Super Thing / Devo / New Traditionalists Warner Bros.
http://www.clubdevo.com/
Ashtray Man / Blue Sausage / Flight Of The Solstice Queens /  Zero Moon (2010)
http://bluesausageinfant.com/
R.P.F. In Tuva (to Richard Feynman) / Gregg Bendian / Definite Pitch Aggregate Music (1994)
http://www.greggbendian.com/page.cfm?content=disc_detail&id=13

Greetings!
Featured in this week's podcast are a number of tracks from one of my favorite releases in 2010, Joe Frawley's latest, "Left Cincinnati".  I am pleased to let you know that on July 15th, Joe will be my guest on "Pushing The Envelope", live in the studio, where we will discuss and play his music in addition to letting Joe spin music that he has found influential to his own artistic development.
Please join us, streamed live, on Thursday, July 15th from 8 to 10 PM, EST.  http://www.whus.org
Any questions?  Please let me know!
Joel
Episode 11: Pushing The Envelope Podcast (5-27-2010)
Mysteries Of Love - Stomu Yamashta's Go - Go Too - One Way Records (1977)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomu_Yamashta
Polarity - composer: Kathy Jackanich / ensemble: Zeitgeist - In Bone-Colored Light - Innova (2010)
http://innova.mu/artist1.asp?skuID=402
The Golden Needle - A Produce - Slumberland (episode one) - Waveform (1997)
http://www.answers.com/topic/a-produce
The Crypt / The Death - composer: Philip Feeney / Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra, cond. John Pryce-Jones - Dracula (Ballet In 3 Acts) - Naxos (1996)
http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.553964&catNum=553964&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English#
Plain Yellow Dress / Left Cincinnati / Secretary in Slowmo - Joe Frawley - Left Cincinnati - Joe Frawley Music (2010)
http://www.joefrawleymusic.info/
Norway - Centenaire - Centenaire - Chief Inspector (2007)
http://www.centenaire.net/
On Planet X - David Garland - "Control Songs" - Review Records (1997)
http://www.davidgarland.com/controlsongs.html
Space - Blue Sausage Infant - Flight Of The Solstice Queens - Zero Moon (2010)
http://www.zeromoon.com/?p=276 or http://www.bluesausageinfant.com/discography.html
Different Trains for string orchestra & pre-recorded performance tape - composer: Steve Reich / Orchestre National De Lyon, cond. David Robertson - Naive (2004)
http://www.stevereich.com/
Returning to a Place We've Never Been - Sandor Szabo / Kevin Kastning - Returning - Greydisc (2010)
http://www.kevinkastning.com/

Greetings!
This week's show has a bit more of a jazz/fusion bent to it due to the fact I grabbed the bag of CDs I would normally take to do a fill in for someone else's show.  You could do worse.... ;>p
'Til next time,
Take care.
Joel
Pushing The Envelope Playlist (5-13-2010)
A Love Supreme (Alternate - Take 2) - Carlos Santana / Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - Love Devotion Surrender - Columbia / Legacy (1973)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Devotion_Surrender
Down the Road / Link 3a - Soft Machine - NDR Jazz Workshop - Cuneiform Records (1973/2010)
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/softmachine.html
Inner Flames - KBB - Proof of Concept - Musea/Poseidon (2007)
http://tsuboy.internet.ne.jp/kbb/index-e.html
Stories To Tell - Stanley Clarke feat. Allan Holdsworth - If Only This Bass Could Talk - Portrait (1988)
http://www.answers.com/topic/if-this-bass-could-only-talk-1
Gravity Waves - Chris Brown / Pauline Oliveros - Music In The Air - Deep Listening (2010)
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5763
The Agonist - Dave Halverson - Apothecary Charms - Lucid Moon Child Music (2008)
http://www.davehalverson.com/
Distant Saxophones - Jan Steele - Voices & Instruments - Obscure (1976)
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/11/jan-steele-john.html
Sonata (1957) - composer: Ezra Sims / cello: Ted Mook / piano: Eric Moe - Musing And Reminiscence - New World Records (2010)
http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=84351
For That Which Was Living, Lost - Ellen Rowe Quartet - Wishing Well - PKO Records (2010)
http://www.ellenrowe.com/records.html

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

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

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