Speed Dating

Featuring

Mark Applebaum
Eduardo Leandro
Takao Hyakutome
Terry Longshore
Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players
Southern Oregon University Percussion Ensemble

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Composer Biography

Mark Applebaum is also an accomplished jazz pianist who performs internationally with his father, Bob Applebaum, in the Applebaum Jazz Piano Duo.

Compositional Technique

In "Skeletons in the Closet," the computer randomly selects samples or silences for each of the eight synthesizers, and the rhythmic relationships and durations between outbursts are also randomized.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Mark Applebaum's compositions often challenge conventional musical boundaries, including works for three conductors and no players, a concerto for florist and orchestra, and pieces for instruments made of junk.

Compositional Technique

The piece "Skeletons in the Closet" uses eight classic analog synthesizers from the 1980s, which were neglected for decades before being used for this recording.

Composer Biography

Mark Applebaum, the composer, is the Leland & Edith Smith Professor of Music at Stanford University and studied composition principally with Brian Ferneyhough.

Compositional Technique

The piece "Clicktrack" uses click tracks made of recited text, recorded by the ensemble members themselves, to direct the rhythms of twelve percussionists.

Compositional Technique

The text recited in the click tracks for "Clicktrack" is a "sonnagram" by flarf poet K. Silem Mohammad, which is an anagram of Shakespeare's Sonnet 3.