{"id":913,"date":"2009-07-14T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=913"},"modified":"2009-12-31T02:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T02:11:00","slug":"all-kinds-of-awesome-ashley-maxfield-riley-and-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/07\/all-kinds-of-awesome-ashley-maxfield-riley-and-young.html","title":{"rendered":"All Kinds of Awesome: Ashley, Maxfield, Riley, and Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve probably said it before somewhere, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/other_minds\">Other Minds Archive<\/a> is an invaluable treasure trove of recordings of the musical avant-garde for the past 50 years or so; and it keeps on getting better.  I was stoked when I checked the updates today to find they&#8217;ve just uploaded:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Terry Riley performing his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/P_RIL_TER_01\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Two Piano Pieces<\/span><\/a> (1958-59) &#8211; this is Riley before he became the hippieish minimalist of <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/06\/update-in-c.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">In C<\/span><\/a>, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A Rainbow in Curved Air<\/span> etc.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/P_MAX_RIC_01\">Three pieces<\/a> by Richard Maxfield: <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Amazing Grace<\/span> (1960), <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Structures<\/span> for 10 wind instruments (1951), and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Piano Sonata No.2<\/span> (1949). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dramonline.org\/albums\/oak-of-the-golden-dreams-works-by-richard-maxfield-and-harold-budd\/notes\">Maxfield<\/a> was a brilliant composer who has fallen into obscurity since his early death. Best known for his electronic music, his body of work for conventional instruments has gone largely unheard.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/P_ASH_ROB_02\">Early music<\/a> by Robert Ashley: <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Fourth of July<\/span> (1960) and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Heat<\/span> (1961) for tape, and the piano sonata <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Christopher Columbus crosses to the New World in the <\/span>Ni\u00f1a<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">, the <\/span>Pinta <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">and the <\/span>Santa Maria<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> using only dead reckoning and a crude astrolabe<\/span> (1959-61).  Ashley&#8217;s reputation rests on his <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/05\/in-presence-of-greatness-part-2-robert.html\">extraordinary series of operas<\/a> begun in the late 1960s, so this is a rare glimpse into his early work.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">La Monte Young&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/AM_1975_03_15\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">B Flat Dorian Blues<\/span><\/a> (1963) &#8211; a chunk of Young playing sopranino sax, backed by Tony Conrad, John Cale, Angus MacLise, and Marian Zazeela.  This program also includes one half each of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewire.co.uk\/articles\/192\/\">Black Record and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Dream House<\/span><\/a> albums.  Somewhere in the Archive is a radio broadcast of the rest of the Black Record.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Young&#8217;s music is notoriously hard to find, and apart from <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Amazing Grace<\/span> I don&#8217;t think any of the pieces by the other composers has been made available anywhere before. So yeah, I&#8217;m stoked.<\/div>\n<p>More details about these recordings, and access to other materials, can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/radiom.org\/\">radiOM.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve probably said it before somewhere, but the Other Minds Archive is an invaluable treasure trove of recordings of the musical avant-garde for the past 50 years or so; and it keeps on getting better. I was stoked when I checked the updates today to find they&#8217;ve just uploaded: Terry Riley performing his Two Piano [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/2208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}