From The Kitchen Archives - New Music New York 1979

Track Listings
Disc: 1

1. Dance No. 4 (Philip Glass)

2. Do You Be (Meredith Monk)

3. Criss Cross (Jon Gibson)

4. Where We Are (Garrett List)

5. Schoolwork (Gordon Mumma)

6. The Kim and I (George Lewis)

7. Five Orchestral Pieces for Opus Tree (Michael Nyman)

8. The Tuning Meditation (Pauline Oliveros)

Disc: 2

1. Secret Songs (Tom Johnson)

2. Secret Songs (Tom Johnson)

3. Secret Songs (Tom Johnson)

4. Dream Song/Vision Chant (Charlie Morrow)

5. Exchanges (Barbary Benary)

6. Four Arthurs/Two Octaves and a Fifth (Phill Niblock)

7. Touch Tones (David Behrman)

8. Solo (Joel Chadabe)

9. Untitled Pieces (Tony Conrad)

10. Untitled for Solo Voice (Charlemagne Palestine)

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Founded in 1971 by video artists Woody and Steina Vasulka, The Kitchen is internationally known as a leading center for video, music, dance, performance, new media and literature. The first institution to focus exclusively on cutting-edge, multidisciplinary works, it has been a powerful force in shaping the cultural landscape of this country. Over the last thirty years The Kitchen has documented every one of its performances with video and/or audiotape. However, in recent years much of this documentation, primarily recorded on what are now obsolete formats, began deteriorating. In 1999, under the leadership of Executive Director Elise Bernhardt, and with the dedication of The Kitchen9s Board of Directors and the help of numerous donors, The Kitchen began an initiative to catalog and re-master its extensive collection of 3600 videotapes. In the fall of 2001, an additional trove of audio recordings from the 1970s was discovered. While these tapes promised rare and exciting music by such artists as John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and David Tudor (in the first box alone!), none of this material could be accessed without proper cleaning and re-formatting and the funds and facilities to do so. A recent collaborative partnership with The Looking Glass Studios and Philip Glass9 label, Orange Mountain Music, has allowed for the restoration of a number of audio reels. This work has been done with the goal of producing a series of CDs, From The Kitchen Archives, with New Music, New York 1979 as the first release. This 2-disc set offers re-mastered recordings from the landmark New Music, New York: A Festival of Composers and their Music, held at the Kitchen9s 484 Broome Street space in SoHo from June 8-16, 1979. The festival, which set a standard for new and contemporary music, paved the way for New Music America, the annual event that emerged the following year in Minneapolis and ran in various cities until 1990. Now 25 years later, these recordings are an invaluable time-capsule, a privileged view/listen into a historic event, initially heard by only a few hundred people. Beyond their historic value they offer brilliant and exciting music by composers now considered masters of the genre, as well as remarkable performances by figures nearly forgotten. While many recordings from the festival could be restored, several gaps remain: concerts that were either not recorded or whose tapes vanished into the ether of the last 25 years. That said, we feel extremely fortunate to be able to release New Music, New York 1979 as our first CD in a series that promises to make available more lost treasures from The Kitchen Archives, uncovering the origins of new music today.

Tracks:

Dance No. 4 (Philip Glass)
Do You Be (Meredith Monk)
Criss Cross (Jon Gibson)
Where We Are (Garrett List)
Schoolwork (Gordon Mumma)
The Kim and I (George Lewis)
Five Orchestral Pieces for Opus Tree (Michael Nyman)
The Tuning Meditation (Pauline Oliveros)

Tracks:

Secret Songs (Tom Johnson)
Secret Songs (Tom Johnson)
Secret Songs (Tom Johnson)
Dream Song/Vision Chant (Charlie Morrow)
Exchanges (Barbary Benary)
Four Arthurs/Two Octaves and a Fifth (Phill Niblock)
Touch Tones (David Behrman)
Solo (Joel Chadabe)
Untitled Pieces (Tony Conrad)
Untitled for Solo Voice (Charlemagne Palestine)
Drumming, Part One (Steve Reich)

Album Description

Founded in 1971 by video artists Woody and Steina Vasulka, The Kitchen is internationally known as a leading center for video, music, dance, performance, new media and literature. The first institution to focus exclusively on cutting-edge, multidisciplinary works, it has been a powerful force in shaping the cultural landscape of this country. Over the last thirty years The Kitchen has documented every one of its performances with video and/or audiotape. However, in recent years much of this documentation, primarily recorded on what are now obsolete formats, began deteriorating. In 1999, under the leadership of Executive Director Elise Bernhardt, and with the dedication of The Kitchen9s Board of Directors and the help of numerous donors, The Kitchen began an initiative to catalog and re-master its extensive collection of 3600 videotapes. In the fall of 2001, an additional trove of audio recordings from the 1970s was discovered. While these tapes promised rare and exciting music by such artists as John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and David Tudor (in the first box alone!), none of this material could be accessed without proper cleaning and re-formatting and the funds and facilities to do so. A recent collaborative partnership with The Looking Glass Studios and Philip Glass9 label, Orange Mountain Music, has allowed for the restoration of a number of audio reels. This work has been done with the goal of producing a series of CDs, From The Kitchen Archives, with New Music, New York 1979 as the first release. This 2-disc set offers re-mastered recordings from the landmark New Music, New York: A Festival of Composers and their Music, held at the Kitchen9s 484 Broome Street space in SoHo from June 8-16, 1979. The festival, which set a standard for new and contemporary music, paved the way for New Music America, the annual event that emerged the following year in Minneapolis and ran in various cities until 1990. Now 25 years later, these recordings are an invaluable time-capsule, a privileged view/listen into a historic event, initially heard by only a few hundred people. Beyond their historic value they offer brilliant and exciting music by composers now considered masters of the genre, as well as remarkable performances by figures nearly forgotten. While many recordings from the festival could be restored, several gaps remain: concerts that were either not recorded or whose tapes vanished into the ether of the last 25 years. That said, we feel extremely fortunate to be able to release New Music, New York 1979 as our first CD in a series that promises to make available more lost treasures from The Kitchen Archives, uncovering the origins of new music today.

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1. Dance No. 4 (Philip Glass)
2. Do You Be (Meredith Monk)
3. Criss Cross (Jon Gibson)
4. Where We Are (Garrett List)
5. Schoolwork (Gordon Mumma)
6. The Kim and I (George Lewis)
7. Five Orchestral Pieces for Opus Tree (Michael Nyman)
8. The Tuning Meditation (Pauline Oliveros)

1. Secret Songs (Tom Johnson)
2. Secret Songs (Tom Johnson)
3. Secret Songs (Tom Johnson)
4. Dream Song/Vision Chant (Charlie Morrow)
5. Exchanges (Barbary Benary)
6. Four Arthurs/Two Octaves and a Fifth (Phill Niblock)
7. Touch Tones (David Behrman)
8. Solo (Joel Chadabe)
9. Untitled Pieces (Tony Conrad)
10. Untitled for Solo Voice (Charlemagne Palestine)