Floating Lounge On-Demand: Charmaine Lee (video)

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It didn’t surprise us at all that improvisor/vocalist Charmaine Lee showed up to deejay The Floating Lounge on July 1st with waaaay more music than we could ever hope to squeeze into 90 minutes. She’s like that…bold, inexhaustible, and boiling with creativity. Charmaine has been an important mentor to us as we swim out further into the inky waters of improvisation, and our collaboration on our upcoming record – Experiments in Living – is easily on of the most cool, most scary things we’ve ever attempted. We know you’ll get lit up both by her exuberance and her playlist, so dig in!

CHARMAINE'S PLAYLIST

* denotes tracks we ran out of time for last night....bonus!

Luciano Berio Sequenza III https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGovCafPQAE

Erin Gee Mouthpiece I (2000) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f76Hb6wV4oA


PHRASING AND LINE DEVELOPMENT

Cecil Taylor - Indent (1973) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOtMTgYCgTY

Evan Parker - The Snake Decides (1986) https://youtu.be/xXUAX-gBEY0

* Henry Fraser - your soul is the size of a thread (2018) https://henryfraser.bandcamp.com/track/your-soul-is-the-size-of-a-thread



FORM

Eric Wubbels - the children of fire come looking for fire (2012) https://soundcloud.com/eric-wubbels/album-preview-the-children-of-fire-come-looking-for-fire-12

* Bryan Jacobs - Dis Un Il Im Ir https://soundcloud.com/bryanjacobs-1/dis-un-il-im-ir

SOUND/AESTHETIC 

Robert Ashley (1930) - Automatic Writing (1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh_TC8j_JkE

Andrea Pensado - Without Knowing Why (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbztuglWap4

* Earle Browne - Octet No. 1 (1953) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTxX-7EAn94

SICKNESS - PostRock Harsh Electronic DSP (2004) https://youtu.be/bVKVUrsQqV4

SOPHIE - Lemonade (2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdLvp630plc

Floating Lounge On-Demand: George Lewis (video)

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Anyone who knows (or knows of him) could have predicted it, but George Lewis’s Floating Lounge listening party appearance on June 10th (2020) was off the charts amazing. With a stack of primo recordings set to melt brains, George treated his playlist as a kind of sonic autobiography. Below is the video of this unforgettable event. Just know that you are very likely to discover your new favorite music here…

Check out the links below to chase down the music, books, and references George shared that night. Enjoy!

Here is George's playlist for your deep pleasure. We’ve provided YouTube and Spotify links where we could find them, but you also might find them on other streaming services. Also, please note that some of these were not played during the show for sake of time, but we include them here anyway.

PART 1 

  • John Coltrane: Naima (1959, performance 1966) (Youtube) 

  • Anthony Braxton: N-M488-44M-Z [Composition 6 D], for trio (1968) (Youtube) 

  • Alvin Singleton: Mestizo II, for orchestra (1970)

  • Roscoe Mitchell: Nonaah, for alto saxophone (1972, performance 1976) (Spotify)

  • Muhal Richard Abrams: Roots, for piano (1975) (Youtube) 

PART 2 

  • David Behrman: On the Other Ocean (1977) (Youtube) 

  • Richard Teitelbaum:  Blends (1977, performance 2002) (Youtube) 

  • Kees van Baaren: Musica per Orchestra (1966)

  • Misha Mengelberg: Mooche Mix (1990) (Youtube) 

  • Louis Andriessen:  De Tijd, for large ensemble (1980) (Youtube) 

PART 3

  • Carola Bauckholt: Zugvo?gel, for reed quintet (2011) (Youtube)

  • Bernhard Gander: o? , for mixed quintet (2005)

  • Franck Bedrossian: Charleston (2005-07) for fifteen instruments (Youtube)

  • Chaya Czernowin: String Quartet (1995) (Youtube) 

  • Akiko Yamane: Dots Collection No 6, for orchestra (2010) (Youtube) 

And here are a few links for things that came up in the course of the conversation:  

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