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Spotlight on Prepared Pianos
January 18, 2004

Ferrante and Teicher - Orchids in the Moonlight - Soundblast: The Sound of Tomorrow - Westminster

Henry Cowell - Aeolian Harp and Sinister Resonance/The Banshee - Piano Music - Smithsonian Folkways - performed by Cowell
C - Henry Cowell - Ostinato Pianissimo - Concert Percussion for Orchestra - Mainstream

John Cage - Sonatas XIV, XV, XVI - Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano - CRI - performed by Maro Ajemain
John Cage - Dance 3 for 2 prepared pianos - 3 Dances and 4 Organs - Angel - Michael Tilson Thomas and Ralph Grierson, pianos

John Cage - A Book of Music pt. 1 - Sonatas and Interludes and A Book of Music - Tomato - Joshua Pierce and Maro Ajemain, pianos
John Cage - Bacchanale - Music for Keyboard 1935 - 48 - Columbia - Jeanne Kirstein, piano
John Cage - Primitive - Pianos and Voices - Koch - Anthony De Mare, piano
John Cage - The Perilous Night pt. 1 - The Perilous Night and Four Walls - New Albion - Margaret Leng Tan, piano

C - Lou Harrison - May Rain - Prepared Piano: The First Four Decades - MHS - Joan La Barbara, voice; Richard Bunger, piano
Arthur Berger - Three Pieces for Two Pianos - Music of Arthur Berger - CRI - Paul Jacobs and Gilbert Kalish, piano
Francois Tusques - Hon - dat - Le Piano Prepare - Le Chant du Monde - Francois Tusques
C - Ge Gan-ru - Gu Yue (Ancient Music) I, II, and III - Sonic Encounters: The New Piano - Mode - Margaret Leng Tan, piano

C - August Wegner - Something for Flute and Piano - Prepared Piano: The First Four Decades - MHS - John Heitmann, flute; Delores Stevens, piano
Frederick Lesemann - Nataraja - for Ralp Grierson - TownHall - Ralph Grierson, piano
David Macbride - From Without (Conundrum 2) - In Common - Innova - Davide Macbride, piano; Benjamin Toth, timbrack

C - Denman Maroney - Par 3 - Absolution - Enja
David Maranha - Piano Suspenso (excerpt) - Piano Suspenso - Sonoris
Stephen Scott - Rainbows 2 - New Music for Bowed Piano - New Albion

Roger Miller with Larry Dersch - Binary Mechanics (Oct. 4, 10:37pm) - The Binary System Live at the Idea Room - SST
Aphex Twin - Taking Control - Druqks - Warp/Sire
Flying Lizards - Money - mp3
C - Ferrante and Teicher - African Echoes - The Ernie Kovacs Record Collection
Ferrante and Teicher - Brazil - Soundblast - Westminster
Ferrante and Teicher - Mississippi Boogie - Soundproof - Westminster

Francois Tusques - N'oubliez pas la basse - Le Piano Prepare

notes:

-this was inspired by seeing margaret leng tan perform the john cage sonatas and interludes in october 2003.

-interesting finds of the day: francois tusques, stephen scott, gen ge-ru

-thanks to thomas of the worried waltz for providing many of these recordings 
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