Sound Propositions – Details, episodes & analysis

Ukrainian Field Notes - 16 October 2024 - with the North Azovian Greek NGO Надазовські греки

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

Tracklist

Folk Group Fos - Bugdanku

Sartanskie Samotsvety ensemble - Of, mana, vay!

Nadiia Kalus - Ditty (udrama) "Ela miia kamiia"

Bir Taifa group - Dushenkalar

Bir Taifa group - Chikhmakh Khirimda

Vasyl Tanacha - track 9 (button accordion)

Suren Voskanian, Yaryna Dron, Andrii Levchenko - Vari-ava

Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 September 2024 - with Whaler

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

tracklist:

• NINA EBA - DOVES (Whaler Remix)
• Whaler - Unity
• Whaler - Tanok
• Whaler - Underwater
• Whaler - Викид
• Potras23 - Kotuky (feat. Sofia Leshyshak)
• Whaler - The Event Horizon
• Whaler, Хор "Осоння" - В темную нічку
• Група Б - Нічні кімнати

Ukrainian Field Notes - 20 March 2024 with Iryna Lobanok and Mariana Bondarenko (Ukrainian Institute)

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

tracklist:

Hidden Element x Floex - Yellow Ribbon

DZ'OB Ft. Mattia Prete - Zamovliannia

Pokaz Trio - Song Of Sirens (Live at Bimhuis Amsterdam)

SI Process - Rukh

Vadim Neselovskyi - Odesa Railway Station

Blooms Corda - Пісня про війну

Ihor Tsymbrovsky - Brilliant Small Poetry

This episode of Sound Propositions features scholars Kerry O’Brien and Will Robin, editors of the recent anthology On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement. Described as a historical source reader, the book compiles over 100 primary sources retelling the story of minimalist music from the 1950s to the present. Sources include liner notes, interviews, journalism, manifestos, and other material organized chronologically and thematically, with introductory essays from the editors. Not a simple revisionist history seeking to expand the canon, let alone an attempt to dethrone the “Big Four” composers, On Minimalism nonetheless radically reconsiders the scope of minimalist music. In some ways the book is a restorative history, following the offshoots of musical practices that had once been described as “minimalist,” beginning with non-western music and modal jazz in the 1950s up to drone rock and techno of the present. We discuss the influence of Ravi Shankar, why the Coltranes were minimalists, the Julius Eastman revival, and much more.

Read more at A Closer Listen

—-Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

Ukrainian Field Notes - 21 February 2024 - with Polje

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

tracklist:

Wiseword.Nidaros - Лев

Polje - Maliunok

Polje - Pa

Polje - Yasne Mi

Polje - Wall of Sirens

Arthur Mine - Helicopter Theme

Bayraktar - Ukrainian War Song

Вічний Ґандж - Комарик

Polje - Janmarko

Read more at www.acloserlisten.com

Having first captured our attention with Monolithic Nuance (2018) for Longform Editions, Megan Mitchell’s Cruel Diagonals has continued to impress with each new work. With Fractured Whole, she set herself the task of producing an album using nothing but her voice as raw material. While she deserves recognition as a gifted vocalist, she deserves at least as much praise for her production work, alchemically transmuting her voice into a wide range of instruments and textures. In this episode, she discusses the production challenges posed by Fractured Whole, her background in musical theatre, her work with the feminist archive Many Many Women, and much more.

Read more at www.acloserlisten.com

TRACKLIST

ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)

Cruel Diagonals - “Penance” (Fractured Whole, Beacon Sound, 2023)

INTRO

Cruel Diagonals - “Monolithic Nuance” (Monolithic Nuance, Longform Editions, 2018)

Mika Vainio - “Se On Olemassa (It Is Existing)” (In The Land Of The Blind One​-​Eyed Is King, Touch, 2003)

Matthewdavid - “Phased Moon” (Mycelium Music, Leaving, 2023)

Cruel Diagonals - “Monolithic Nuance” (Monolithic Nuance, Longform Editions, 2018)

Cruel Diagonals - “Render Arcane” (Disambiguation, Drawing Room Records, 2018)

Cruel Diagonals & Jon Carr - “Fall Back Into Earth” (Fall Back Into Earth, 2022)

Asmus Tietchens - “Club of Rome” (The Emergency Cassette Vol. 2, Los Angeles Free Music Society, 1981)

Faust - “Why don’t you eat carrots?” (Faust, Polydor, 1971)

Can - “One More Night” (Ege Bamyasi, Liberty, 1972)

Demdike Stare - “Black Sun” (Voices of Dust, Modern Love, 2010)

Andy Stott - “Luxury Problems” (Luxury Problems, Modern Love, 2012)

Porter Ricks - “Biokinetics 2” (Biokinetics, Chain Reaction, 1996)

Anne Gillis - “A6” (Monetachek, Rangehen, 1985)

Techno Animal - “Bionic Beatbox (Tortoise version)” (Techno Animal Versus Reality, City Slang, 1998)

Cruel Diagonals - “Intuit Sensate [edit]”  (Fractured Whole, Beacon Sound, 2023)

Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis - “Lear” (Deep Listening, New Albion, 1989)

Eliane Radigue - “L'​Î​le re​-​sonante (2000)” (L'​Î​le re​-​sonante, Shiiin, 2005)

Annea Lockwood - “For Ruth” (T​ê​te​-​à​-​t​ê​te by Ruth Anderson & Annea Lockwood, Ergot, 2023)

Petr Kotik – S.E.M. Ensemble – Many Many Women – Part 13 (That being uncovered) (Many Many Women, Labor, 1981)

Cruel Diagonals - “Fluvial” (A Dormant Vigor, 2021)

Laurie Spiegel - “Three Sonic Spaces II” (Unseen Worlds, Scarlett/Infinity, 1991)

Lana Del Rabies - “Grace the Teacher (Cruel Diagonals remix)” (Becoming Everything: STREGA BEATA Remixed, 2024)

Cruel Diagonals - “Live in Los Angeles - March 2023 pt.1” (Live in Los Angeles, March 2023, Beacon Sound, 2023)

Cruel Diagonals - “Vestigial Mythology (remix)” (Live in Los Angeles, March 2023, Beacon Sound, 2023)

Cruel Diagonals - “Vestigial Mythology” (Fractured Whole, Beacon Sound, 2023)

Andy Stott - “Submission” (We Stay Together, Modern Love, 2011)

Andy Stott - “Promises” (It Should Be Us, Modern Love, 2019)

Luc Ferrari - “Music Promenade” (Music Promenade / Unheimlich Sch​ö​n, Recollection GRM, 2019)

Cruel Diagonals - “Soporific Return” (Disambiguation, Drawing Room, 2018)

Cruel Diagonals - “Decimated Whole” (Fractured Whole, Beacon Sound, 2023)

Pauline Oliveros, Roscoe Mitchell, John Tilbury, Wadada Leo Smith - “Part III [Encore]” (Nessuno, I Dischi Di Angelica, 2016)

Demdike Stare - “We have already died” (Elemental, Modern Love, 2012)

Can - “Call Me” (Saw Delight, Mute/Spoon, 1977/1991)

Silent Servant - “Violencia” (Violencia, Sandwell District, 2008)

Realivox Ladies (2015)

Bjork - “It’s Not Up To You” (Vespertine, Polydor, 2001)

Pauline Oliveros - “Sound Patterns” (Extended Voices, Odyssey, 1967)

Maxwell - “This Woman’s Work” (Now, 2001)

Richard Maxwell - “Pastoral Symphony” (An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Volume 5, 2008)

Cruel Diagonals - “Live in Los Angeles - March 2023 pt.2”

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Sound Propositions produced by ⁠⁠Joseph Sannicandro⁠⁠.

Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 January 2024 - with ummsbiaus and Difference Machine

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

tracklist:

ummsbiaus and Difference Machine: торований шлях
ummsbiaus: Lichylnyk
Difference Machine: боротьба за вбивство / боротьба за виживання
ummsbiaus and Difference Machine: коло зачароване
ummsbiaus: Hypnagogia

Ukrainian Field Notes - 15 November 2023


Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

Tracklist:

Andriy Kiritchenko - Eyes of Exiles

Roman Khropko - Kyiv 17.04.22

Roman Khropko - The Moment Of Unity (Sympathetic Mix)

Myroslav Protsan - Ravens On The Cemetery

Myroslav Protsan - Very Old Piano Improvisations

Anthony Junkoid - Drum Vision

Nightcourier - Temnivody

Lena Mirzakh - A Little Interlude

Kadaitcha - Seed

Katarina Gryvul - Zemlya

58918012 - 7e3422

Patrick Nickleson is the author of The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art, Music, and Historiography in Dispute, an academic study that radically reconsiders the origins and boundaries of musical minimalism. Uninterested in searching for the earliest work of musical minimalism, or even in doing the admittedly necessary work of expanding the canon to include lesser known but equally important figures, Nickleson instead underscores a different set of shared traits that he sees in (early) minimalism: the importance of collective authorship, often collaborating in a form of “bandness”; the priority of recording to tape over written scores; and distinguishing between “(early) minimalism” and the later canonization of Minimalism as we know it since the early 1980s. In addition to the book, we discuss searching for obscure records online, our shared love of Constellation Records, and the influence of Tony Conrad.

Read more, including a tracklist, at www.acloserlisten.com

TRACKLIST

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - “Steve Reich”

SP INTRO

John Cale - “Terry’s Cha-Cha”

[Glenn] Branca - “Lesson No. 3 (Tribute To Steve Reich)”

Terry Riley - “[Excerpt]”

Steve Reich - “Pulses (2)” 

Philip Glass - “Part 5 (Beginning)”

Rhys Chatham & His Guitar Trio All-Stars - “Guitar Trio Pt. 1, Buffalo”

Glenn Branca - “Structure”

Tony Conrad - “Tony Conrad  April 1965”

Angus MacLise / Tony Conrad - “Untitled (recorded October 18, 1968 at Tony Conrad's apartment)”

La Monte Young - “Pre-Tortoise Dream Music”

Tony Conrad - “The Heterophony Of The Avenging Democrats, Outside, Cheers The Incineration Of The Pythagorean Elite, Whose Shrill Harmonic Agonies Merge And Shimmer Inside Their Torched Meeting House [excerpt]”

Tony Conrad with Faust - “From The Side Of Machine”

John Coltrane - “Africa”

GENG PTP - “(alice coltrane)”

Dickie Landry - “Kitchen Solos”

Eliane Radigue - CHRY-PTUS (Version 2006, Giuseppe Ielasi)

Morton Feldman - “Page 1, System 1, Measure 1”

John Coltane (McCoy Tyner solo) - “Naima [excerpt]”

Observer All Stars and King Tubby - “Rebel Dance”

Philip Glass - “Two Pages (For Steve Reich)”

Albert Ayler - “For John Coltrane”

Radiohead - “How To Disappear Completely”

Godspeed - “Deathkamp Drone"

Nicholas Papador and the University of Windsor Percussion Ensemble - "Stasis"

The Noiseborder Ensemble - [Improvisation on A-Ha’s "Take on Me"]  (Live at Media City, Windsor ON, 2009)

The Dream Syndicate with La Monte Young - “Day Of The Holy Mountain (excerpt 2)”

Jon Gibson - “Cycles” (

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - “Fuck Off Get Free (For The Island Of Montreal)”

Ornette Coleman - “Friends and Neighbors (instrumental) / “Friends and Neighbors (vocal)”

Rhys Chatham - “Two Gongs (1971)”

La Monte Young - “B Flat Dorian Blues 19 X 63 (5th day of the Hammer)”

Terry Riley /  Don Cherry “Descending Moonshine Dervishes”

Sonic Youth - “Pendulum Music (Steve Reich, 1968)”

Tony Conrad - “ten years alive on the infinite plain (#1)” [Live at the Kitchen, 1972]

Tony Conrad, “Four Violins (1964)”

Henry Flynt - “You Are My Everlovin”

Catherine Christer Hennix - “The Electric Harpsichord [excerpt]” 

Raven Chacon -  “Singing Toward The Wind Now / Singing Toward The Sun Now” 

Angus MacLise / Tony Conrad / John Cale - “Trance #2”

John Cale - “A Midnight Rain of Green Wrens at the World's Tallest Building”

Angus MacLise / Jack Smith / Tony Conrad - S.O.S. (Ca. 1968)

Mt. Zion - “side one _ sow some lonesome corner so many flowers bloom”

Angus MacLise - “Tunnel Music #2” [1965]

John Cale / Tony Conrad / Angus MacLise / La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela - “Inside the Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day of Niagara”

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Sound Propositions produced by ⁠Joseph Sannicandro⁠.

Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 October 2023 - with Igor Yalivec, Revshark, Waveskania, Difference Machine, Natalia Tsupryk, YLOI and Andrii Kunin

Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re

Tracklist:

Gamardah Fungus - Vega

Revshark - Restricted Areas

Waveskania - Essential

Difference Machine - Повідь

Natalia Tsupryk - beyond the cemetery wall

YLOI - UAV Hunting

Andrii Kunin - threshold