http://newdissonance.com Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:38:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Keep up with New Dissonance on Twitter: @NewDissonance HERE Follow Ben Johnston news, performances, clips, etc., as well as other happenings from the New Music world. http://newdissonance.com/2012/02/03/twitter/ A video I prepared for Ben's lecture at Eastman last year: http://newdissonance.com/2012/01/23/ben-johnston-from-helmholtz-to-harry-partch/ Lots to look forward to this year:  Premieres of Ben Johnston's music, an exciting (unreleased) schedule at Microfest, new videos and recordings, lots of John Cage centenary celebrations/performances, and the Kepler Quartet rehearsing and recording the last in the cycle of Ben's string quartets, Nos. 6, 7, 8. http://newdissonance.com/2012/01/15/2012/ Leigh Cross is a music enthusiast, scholar, and instrument builder whom Ben and I had the pleasure of meeting last year at a colloquium at Wright State. Leigh has designed and built a proportional pitch keyboard based on Ben Johnston's fifty-three note, expanded just intonation scale as described in Ben's ... http://newdissonance.com/2011/08/21/leigh-cross-keyboard/ http://newdissonance.com/2011/02/25/promo-video-for-new-kepler-cd/ Here is Steve Smith's flattering New York Times review of the new recordings by the Kepler Quartet of Ben Johnston's String Quartets Nos. 1, 5, and 10. http://newdissonance.com/2011/02/22/ny-times-review-ben_johnston/ And they are quite positive: Frank Oteri's piece for New Music Box can be found here. Another review from the blogosphere is here. http://newdissonance.com/2011/02/17/ben-johnston_reviews/ The Kepler Quartet's new album featuring premiere recordings of Ben Johnston's 1st, 5th, and 10th String Quartets is available now on New World Records. Thanks to the quartet members: Sharan Leventhal, Eric Segnitz, Brek Renzelman, and Karl Lavine, for all the sacrifice and hard work they put in to make these ... http://newdissonance.com/2011/01/20/newcd/ A classic documentary on American composer John Cage (1912-1992). "American Masters" John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It (1990) Vivian Perlis (writer) TV Series: "American Masters" (1983) Original Air Date: 17 September 1990 Country: UK 55 min The player will show in this paragraph var s1 = new SWFObject('http://ubu.artmob.ca/video/flash/player-viral.swf','player','464','283','4'); s1.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); s1.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always'); s1.addParam('flashvars','file=http://ubu.artmob.ca/video/flash/Cage-John_American-Masters-Nothing-To-Say.flv'); s1.write('preview'); http://newdissonance.com/2010/03/31/john-cage-documentary/ Ben Johnston on meeting John Cage and their subsequent work together. http://newdissonance.com/2010/03/29/ben-on-working-with-john-cage/