Christian Wolff ~ Exercise 15

[@mike8015]

"Exercise 15" was made out of and invites transformations or transcriptions. It's for piano or ad hoc instrumental arrangement. Its material is from a 1920s song "Union Maid" (as I found it in Edith Fowke and Joe Glazer's collection "Songs of Work and Protest") by Woodie Guthrie using an earlier popular song tune. The tempo of the music is not specified. Sometimes it's played rather fast, as the original tune probably was, sometimes at a deliberate, 'prosaic' tempo. Here it's in a slow motion as though under a temporal microscope, which to my ears makes it somehow new (extensive change of quantity bringing about a change of quality)".-Christian Wolff

[@PolkRidgeAesthete]

I'm more drawn to Wolff than ever with the experience of this vast, wispy swath of radiance!

[@theclarinetjooddsandends3753]

there's a deep tranquility in this music which amazes me. and thé colors !

[@c.l.huebsch1311]

This is released on edition Wandelweiser and performed by the group "Post No Bills", Tom Lorenz - Percussion, Ole Schmidt - Bass Clarinet, Royer Schleisiek - Piano, Carl Ludwig Hübsch - Tuba, Chris Weinheimer - Flutes

[@ThefactoryMediaGroup]

Intense, suspenseful, the environment feels interesting. This is art!

[@pelodelperro]

Yes.

[@victorchatz9424]

Impressively great. One of the best art findings of the period to me. At least Schnittke's level if not the higher.

[@newagetapes]

This feels like a spiritual awakening

[@andymorphic67]

keeping hope alive

[@JafuetTheSame]

love these consonances

[@jpb10]

Amazing channels btw.

[@larbado9575]

Mi mente quedó en suspenso cuando escuché esto. No era posible hacer nda más.

[@prahamusic0194]

Na toto treba nervy nielen ako poslucháč, ale aj ako interpret. Inak cítim v tejto muzike aj akýsi pokoj potrebný pre dnešnú rýchlu dobu.

[@jeffschornack3519]

Thanks for posting

[@jeffschornack3519]

I've often listened to this piece in the middle of the night when everything is silent.

[@Kinopanorama1]

+Jeff Schornack Obviously you are sleep deprived.

[@jeffschornack3519]

Ha!

[@colinhowells]

In case anyone's wondering I believe this to be the Post No Bills ensemble's performance from 2005 (EWR 0409)

[@qbus7633]

Wonderful Music. And excellent performance as well Dummies don't live here - go listen HOUSE MUSIC instead.

[@MUSIC-mf1wl]

I know haha It was a 'long day'. Thank you...

[@damjanjovicin]

Can you please give me some information about the performers? Thanks

[@MrJurg96]

Bass Clarinet, Edited By - Ole Schmidt Composed By - Christian Wolff Executive-Producer - Antoine Beuger Flute [Bass], Transcription By, Edited By [Transformation By] - Chris Weinheimer Layout - Daniel Bechem Piano, Edited By - Robert Schleisiek Transcription By, Edited By [Transformation By] - Post No Bills Tuba, Recorded By - Carl Ludwig Hübsch Vibraphone - Tom Lorenz Source: www.discogs.com/Christian-Wolff-Post-No-Bills-Exercise-15/release/2430402

[@rogerantonybennett5272]

I think Cage did some Feldmanesque things after Morton died. Benita Marcos... C.Wolff was always lurking in the background. Earle Brown is perhaps the forgotten figure (Novarra etc) today. Even LaMonte Young pops up today as a sparkling hippy. Cardew was a different & dangerous cause... How did all this music change. Terry Jennings anybody ?

[@jacquesdeville1819]

I didn't think that a human being could name that music !

[@Kinopanorama1]

+Jacques Deville Perfect analysis. It's random sounds composed by 2 arachnids copulating.

[@schwarzegeometrie4034]

bob

[@ernstallgemein379]

Hi, MUSIC? Could you tell me where you took the image from? / who painted it...

[@rogerantonybennett5272]

Could that be Mark Tobey? Or Ad Reinhardt in an early MT moment?

[@academyrecords3313]

Which performance is this? Any release information would be appreciated.

[@conceptualsoundproductions3516]

I am not sure about this interpretation. I am not familiar with this particular score, but there is usually an element of surprise in Christian Wolff, which seems kind of drowned in slowness here (?)

[@MUSIC-mf1wl]

The tempo is deliberately unspecified, as are the instruments.

[@conceptualsoundproductions3516]

of course, I thought so. but this interpretation seems to explore the limits in terms of tempo.

[@MUSIC-mf1wl]

If I remember correctly Mr. Wolff considered this recording (paraphrase) as looking through a microscope,..

[@sakalees1439]

Hmm...finding every moment, each vibration, each shaping, each elongation and each dissipation, a surprise in this rendition. Or, an ongoing series of surprises within each surprise...

[@CousinBen1]

Hi. Thanks for uploading. I just wondered what exact album this was from? Thanks

[@johnnyecho]

you can find this on Wandelweiser records - www.wandelweiser.de/_e-w-records/_ewr-catalogue/ewr0409.html

[@bBelaAlice]

Thanks. What's the Artwork sir?

[@hectornavarroagullo580]

Norman Lewis www.google.es/search?q=norman+lewis&client=ms-android-bq&prmd=inv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiRkNmq1fLKAhUBbhoKHZ0PDoYQ_AUIBygB&biw=360&bih=559#imgrc=YN0Sd45bFDDpwM%3A

[@aurahyel4700]

+bBelaAlice An electron microscope enlargement of Wolff's scheisse.

[@johnshaughnessybass]

+Aura Hyel We get it - You like vanilla music. There are plenty of John Tesh and Yanni fans out there, so you don' have to feel so threatened because you play everything in C major.

[@Kinopanorama1]

+Aura Hyel A good comment. Thanks.

[@Kinopanorama1]

+johnshaughnessybass She does not play in C-major. Most everything is in F#-major or e-minor. Perhaps you can count up the #s.

[@jpb10]

*Christian ;)

[@katzokramer]

algorithm

[@MegaCirse]

Un peu redondant et convenu mais pas désagréable pour autant. On a entendu pire dans un univers musical souvent lénifiant, répétitif et martelé, filtré jusqu’à la névrose par des radios de chapelle.

[@truthlivingetc88]

thy spark redunderance in the face of the non

[@jacquesdeville1819]

I think that Varese had melodic ideas, like Pierre Henry, here nothing, nothing, nothing and it lasts more than one. hour. Bye bye !

[@Kinopanorama1]

+Jacques Deville I totally agree with you.

[@johnappleseed8369]

you've made huge discovery, wow

[@etiennelassal2149]

Bye bye ans never come back

[@aurahyel4700]

Anyone who is influenced by Morton Feldman is obviously tone deaf.

[@alexreik424]

you obviously brain dead

[@philipconnelly1505]

Tell me you don't know anything about Wolff without telling me you don't know anything about Wolff. Cage and Feldman were heavily influenced by Wolff, despite Wolff being the youngest of the three. Feldman said that: "Christian Wolff’s early music, his development, the suggestions in all his work, have continually haunted my thinking."