Sad news from Crouton Music:

After 10 years and over 40 releases, Crouton will be closing. There are many people who without their help, none of this would have been possible. Even those simply reading these messages took part in something that consumed a big part of my life, and for that, I thank you. Those that supported the label by buying releases, I can’t thank you enough, and hope you’ve enjoyed them as much as I have.

Coming up at Muse Creative Workspace:

Richmond, VA Saturday, December 6 2008 at 7pm at MUSE CREATIVE WORKSPACE—6N 19th Street.

Tzadik recording artist Christopher Adler and “Metasax” inventor Matthew Burtner meet together for the first time for an exclusive Richmond Muse Creative Workspace performance. The Adler/Burtner “Wired Encounter” will feature computer-mediated improvisations and composed sound art works for piano, saxophone and computers. A $10 donation at the door.

Award winning concert music composers, Adler and Burtner are also widely regarded as virtuosic performers. Among numerous collaborations and recording projects, they have appeared in concerts with improvisers such as Fred Frith, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, Mark Dresser, Vinny Golia, Gustavo Aguilar, Luke DuBois, and Brian Osborn.

Jamie Baum’s performance at Firehouse 12 is reviewed.

Flutist Jamie Baum returned to her home state Friday for an exultant performance at New Haven’s Firehouse 12. The Fairfield native led her septet on an alluring voyage through a musical landscape teeming with possibilities.

Baum’s compositions often draw upon modern classical music and advanced jazz concepts for inspiration. Despite their lofty origins, her pieces sounded playful and punchy, thanks to the admirable improvisatory skills of her band mates.

Abop TV offers a number of free music videos.

Tone Generation is an early electronic music podcast. Example programs below are available.

Programme 1: Great Britain
Music by: Desmond Briscoe, Daphne Oram, Desmond Leslie, Tristram Cary, Roberto Gerhard, Fred Judd and Malcolm Clarke.
Programme 2: France
Music by: Pierre Schaefer, Iannis Xenakis, Luc Ferrari, Pierre Henry with Michel Colombier and with Spooky Tooth, Ivo Malec and Bernard Parmegiani.
Programme 3: Germany
Music by: Walter Ruttman, Oskar Sala, Herbert Eimert, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Gyorgy Ligeti and Kraftwerk.
Programme 4: Italy
Music by: Luigi Russolo, Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, Luigi Nono, Vittorio Gelmetti and John Eaton.
Programme 5: Holland and Belgium
Music by: Henk Badings, Henri Pousseur, Ton Bruynel, Leo Kupper, Tom Dissevelt and Kid Baltan.
Programme 6: Scandanavia
Music by: Rune Lindblad, Karl Birger Blomdahl, Ralph Lundsten, Else Marie Pade, Erkki Kurenniemi and Arne Nordheim.
Programme 7: Eastern Europe
Music by: Edward Artemiev with Yuri Bogdanov, Eugeniusz Rudnik, Bohdan Mazurek, Josef Malovec, Miloslav Istvan, and Ivan Patachich.
Programme 8: USA
Music by: Louis & Bebe Barron, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Milton Babbitt, Morton Subotnick, Haig Mardirosian, Raymond Scott and Gil Melle.
Programme 9: Canada
Music by: Hugh le Caine, Phillip Werren, Barry Truax, Norman McLaren and R. Murray Schafer.
Programme 10: Southern Hemisphere
Music by: Toru Takemitsu, Akira Miyoshi, Bruce Clarke, John Crocker, John Rimmer, Jose Vicente Asuar and Jorge Antunes.
Programme 11: Expo 58
Music by: Edgard Varese, Iannis Xenakis, Henk Badings, Herbert Eimert, Wlodzimierz Kotonski and Henry Jacobs.
Programme 12: The RCA Synthesizer
Music by: Otto Leuning, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Milton Babbitt and Charles Wuorinen.

From All About Jazz:

18-Nov-08 Arild Andersen
Live at Belleville (ECM Records)
Reviewed by John Kelman

18-Nov-08 Satoko Fujii / New York Big Band
Summer Suite (Libra Records)
Reviewed by Budd Kopman

17-Nov-08 Rob Mazurek
Rob Mazurek’s excellent adventures in Brazil and France
Reviewed by Mark Corroto

17-Nov-08 Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra
We Are MTO (MOWO! Inc.)
Reviewed by Mark Corroto

17-Nov-08 Kirk Knuffke Quartet
Bigwig (Clean Feed Records)
Reviewed by Martin Longley

16-Nov-08 Matthew Shipp
Matthew Shipp: Multiplication Table, Abbey Road Duos, Un Piano & Cosmic Suite
Reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk

16-Nov-08 Taylor Ho Bynum
Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths (Hatology)
Reviewed by Robert Iannapollo

16-Nov-08 Paolo Angeli / Evan Parker / Ned Rothenberg
Free Zone Appleby 2007 (Psi)
Reviewed by Martin Longley

From Portland’s Wayward Music:

THU. 11/20 - Duo Juum: Conjuration of the Memory (Hugo Solis, piano & electronics; Gabriella Villa, viola, voice, text)

FRI. 11/21 - Gust Burns, new compositions for large chamber ensemble

SAT. 11/22 - Steve Scribner, contempo classical

From Dusted:

Artist: J Spaceman and Matthew Shipp
Album: SpaceShipp
Label: Treader
Review date: Nov. 18, 2008

Artist: Richard Pinhas and Merzbow
Album: Keio Line
Label: Cuneiform
Review date: Nov. 14, 2008

Artist: Sun Ra
Album: Secrets of the Sun
Label: Atavistic
Review date: Nov. 10, 2008

Scheinman is profiled.

Petrolia, Calif., is the westernmost town in the continental U.S., and lies along the biggest stretch of undeveloped coastline in the Lower 48. An outpost of the notorious Humboldt County, Petrolia was once, as the name suggests, an oil town, as well as a settlement for miners, loggers and fishermen. But when those resources began to dry up, it became what Petrolia native Jenny Scheinman calls “a pot town,” with a population of some 300 “back-to-the-lander hippie people who moved there in the ‘70s.” Scheinman, who happened to grow up in the westernmost house in Petrolia, which for much of her childhood was without electricity, says her hometown is about an hour’s drive from the nearest town.

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Lukas Ligeti is interviewed.

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