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Ridgewood Radio features concert recordings by adventurous bands and experimental musicians and restored archival tapes from private and institutional collections captured at venues large and small across the five boroughs of New York. It is produced by David Weinstein and Outpost Artists Resources operating out of the Ridgewood section of Queens, NY, where you'll find more yellow bricks than on the road to Oz and the cemetery of your choice is never more than a few blocks from home.

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Favoriting July 18, 2018: The Prepared Piano

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The Prepared Piano, artists exploring the underbelly of the ivory juggernaut,
with John Cage & James Tenney, Hauschka, Tangerine Dream,
Toshiro Mayuzumi, Denman Maroney & Hans Tammen,
and Stephen Scott’s Bowed Piano Ensemble.

Artist Track Album Label Year Comments
Brian Eno  Little Fishes   Favoriting Another Green World  EMI / Virgin  1975  Yes, there is prepared piano in there. 
Malawi Mouse Boys  Kulira Kwambewa (The Crying of the Mouse)   Favoriting Forever is 4 U  Omnivore Records  2016  Ridgewood Radio Theme https://lovesupportunite.org 

Music behind DJ:
Angelo Badalamenti 
The World Spins (edit)   Favoriting
Floating Into The Night 
Warner 
1989 
The Badalamenti/David Lynch vehicle for Julee Cruise, shamelessly edited for David W chitchat. 
Hauschka  La Seine   Favoriting The Prepared Piano  Karaoke Kalk  2005  Hauschka, aka Volker Bertelmann, also of the hip-hop duo God’s Favorite Dog, has championed prepared piano techniques throughout his career. 
Toshiro Mayuzumi  Pieces for Prepared Piano and Strings (Finale)   Favoriting Pieces for Prepared Piano and Strings  First Edition  2004  Mayuzumi (1929-97) the first Japanese composer to create works of musique concrète and electronic music, composed 1957, Louisville Orchestra with Benjamin Owen. 
Denman Maroney & Hans Tammen  Mad Rhyme   Favoriting Arson  Out Now Recordings  2014  Maroney, hyperpiano; Tammen, endangered guitar, with guitar and piano sound processing 
 
Stephen Scott  Entrada   Favoriting The Bowed Piano Ensemble  YouTube  1999  Performed at Packard Hall, Colorado College. Lovely video shows all the action. 10 players bowing, plucking, hammering clustered around a single piano. 
Tangerine Dream  Rubycon, Part 1   Favoriting Rubycon  Virgin Records  1975  Edgar Froese - mellotron, guitar and VCS 3 synthesizer; Peter Baumann - organ, EMS Synthi A, electric piano (Fender Rhodes) and prepared piano; Christopher Franke - double Moog synthesizer, Synthi A, organ, modified Elka organ and prepared piano. 
 
John Cage/James Tenney  Sonatas & Interludes   Favoriting Sonatas & Interludes  hat[now]ART  2012  Recorded in the studios of KPFK, Los Angeles on July 18, 2002. Composed in 1946–48. Pianist Tenney has earned a place in the constellations for about a hundred other reasons, and this delicious realization adds another sparkle. 


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
fred:

Good afternoon David, Ruth and Ridgewood listeners
@David: You should check out Sophie Agnel's work if you get the chance
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
fred:

It is happening again
Avatar 3:04pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever Wed. 5-7pm ET):

Sounds yummy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
Webhamster Henry:

Well this sounds like fun!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
Webhamster Henry:

There's a good Sonatas and Interludes done by Joshua Pierce, whose done a lot of Cage work.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
listener james from westwood:

In since the start but hey-hey-helloing now!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
david w:

Welcome Fred and Ken and Henry and James and all.... I'm certain to hear about other great pieces and recordings that use prepared piano. Let's find as many as we can!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
Webhamster Henry:

There's a Cage Trust endorsed Prepared Piano sampled instrument from Big Fish Audio, in case you don't have room for one, and a box of preparations and instructions.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
david w:

Henry, that is so tempting. And interesting that it got endorsed!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
Webhamster Henry:

I was a little involved with Kevin Hobby's Hyperpiano project: wound strings are precisely unwound to achieve a desired partial structure:
www.youtube.com...
Avatar 3:14pm
geezerette:

Hello, David, Ruth, Ridgewoodians and properly prepared pianos.
Ears open!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
fred:

I'm pretty sure The World Spins isn't from 1970: I wasn't born then, and I was in college when Twin Peaks blew my mind
Avatar 3:17pm
geezerette:

"endangered guitar" :)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
david w:

Thanks, Fred. Fixed.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
david w:

Hello Gzette! These two have great titles and blurbs about their music, which I always admire.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
Webhamster Henry:

As you can hear in this Maroney/Tammen cut, there are few devices called "Hyperpiano". I think Tod Machover probably has one too.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
david w:

Good point, Henry. That term was a little too low hanging to stay fresh forever.
Avatar 3:30pm
geezerette:

Entrada, beautiful. Also great title.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:40pm
Webhamster Henry:

The Una Corda piano by David Klavins is a lightweight piano that only has one string per note (usual pianos double and triple and quadruple them up), and has a "tone modulator" that presses felt on the strings.
www.klavins-pianos.com...
Avatar 3:44pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever Wed. 5-7pm ET):

Sigh, I haven't remixed Tangerine Dream in months!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:46pm
listener james from westwood:

No-bod-y beats the Tanj! Nobody beats the Tanj!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
david w:

That Klavins piano is gorgeous!
Avatar 3:49pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever Wed. 5-7pm ET):

Hmm, that's got a sound from Pink Floyd's "Echoes"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:49pm
david w:

And here enters the Tangerine piano!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:49pm
melinda:

hi friends!
Avatar 3:50pm
northguineahills:

First Tang album I got!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:51pm
david w:

Melinda! Welcome! Join the romp.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:52pm
fred:

I never got Tangerine Dream, but this is pretty good
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:53pm
david w:

Aged well yes?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:54pm
fred:

It is happening again, It is happening again
Avatar 3:55pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever Wed. 5-7pm ET):

This is what happens when I don't use real words
Avatar 3:59pm
geezerette:

Clicked the Rubycon.
Tenney & Cage dear to my heart.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:59pm
david w:

I have nothing to think and I am thinking it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:00pm
david w:

Thanks geez, I did think you would like this batch.
Avatar 4:01pm
geezerette:

:D
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:02pm
melinda:

I clicked the rubycon too.
Avatar 4:03pm
geezerette:

that gamelan sound...
Avatar 4:03pm
geezerette:

Hey Melinda!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:10pm
david w:

Cool, Melinda. I did not immediately love this piece, being more attracted to their wilder stuff. But it is quite thoughtfully made.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:12pm
fred:

This is delightful
Avatar 4:14pm
geezerette:

I love the silences.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:15pm
david w:

Tenney seems to get the instrument to ring more than some of the other recordings (many that I adore). One magic hour. Enjoy.
Avatar 4:15pm
geezerette:

There's time for the sounds to register.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:19pm
Webhamster Henry:

Yes, this is a really delicate version.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:20pm
Webhamster Henry:

Maybe you can do a Tenney show featuring the wide range of his work.
Avatar 4:21pm
geezerette:

Webhamster, great idea.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:21pm
david w:

I'd love to do a Tenney show, specially if I could get Larry Polansky down here to tall the backstory.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:22pm
david w:

er *tell
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:22pm
david w:

Can't talk, can't type, can't think. Mustn't think!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:28pm
Sem:

Immersed in the show to just below my nose holes. Having a wonderful time, thanks DW, and all at Ridgewood Radio-worxs.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:29pm
david w:

Nice image, Sem. Maybe you can breathe through your ears?
Avatar 4:33pm
northguineahills:

Also have this Cage/Tenney (busy painting the office.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:34pm
fred:

That farmers' market is going to get unexpectedly interesting produce, Sem
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:36pm
david w:

I saw that, ngh. You are getting new digs. Congrats!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:43pm
david w:

I only noticed after this started playing that it was recorded on July 18. That is today's date!
Avatar 4:46pm
geezerette:

!!! :D
Avatar 4:47pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever Wed. 5-7pm ET):

unthinkunthinkunthink
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:50pm
Webhamster Henry:

Synchronicity!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:50pm
listener james from westwood:

Oh, that was great to hear in full.
Avatar 4:51pm
geezerette:

That was gorgeous. Thanks so much, David.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
Webhamster Henry:

Thanks David! #mykindofmusic
  4:54pm
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wow thanks for the cage / tenney sonatas... what a fab preformance and recording!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:55pm
david w:

Thanks to all of you, very satisfying day.
Avatar 4:55pm
geezerette:

L James,hiya!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
listener james from westwood:

Hey there, geezerette!
Avatar 4:57pm
geezerette:

How's your summer?
Avatar 4:58pm
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever Wed. 5-7pm ET):

Up next: "A weekly touchstone of unreality amid hard reality." Hypnotic blend and comforting shapeless wordthoughts. Come on this dazzling journey, and let your earsmindheart be lost and found.
Come over to the playlist! wfmu.org...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:00pm
listener james from westwood:

Thanks, David and Ruth!
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