Extended Techniques

Extended Techniques is a podcast about contemporary music that features deeply researched stories about lives, philosophies and creative work of the most inspiring musicians of our time.

Episodes

Episode #6 Archeological Operas of Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko

April 16, 2024 • 60 mins

This episode presents an overview of major works by award-winning composer duo Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko, the creators of 12 operas and the founders of Opera Aperta – a laboratory of experimental opera in Kyiv. Plunging into their unique archeological process of creation, we position their work alongside music and ideas of major 20th – 21st century artists and thinkers: Richard Foreman, David Lynch, Jorge Louis Borges, Umb...

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Episode #5 Valentyn Silvestrov’s Endless Melodies and the “End of History”

December 29, 2022 • 49 mins

“I think that creativity, which is evidence of the artistic path, is not merely a set of examples of different stages of development; rather, it transcends the temporary cultural situation in some mysterious way – this is the hope of every author.” Ukrainian composer Valentyn Silvestrov (b. 1937) wrote this in a letter to a friend in 1978, and his creative work indeed exemplifies the balance between timeliness and timelessness that...

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Episode #3 The Ah of Steve Dalachinsky

October 22, 2019 • 24 mins

This episode is a tribute to an award-winning downtown New York free-jazz poet and concert aficionado, Steve Dalachinsky. It features Dalachinsky’s studio and concert recordings with Thurston Moore, Tom Surgal, Vito Ricci, Vernon Reid, Matthew Shipp, Aaron Novik, Please the Trees, Pasquale Cangiano, Asiff Tsahar and Marcos Campello, and an interview with one of his publishers, Matvei Yankelevich. Find the complete playlist and not...

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Episode #2 The Voices of Phil Minton

November 4, 2012

In this episode we present selected works of British singer, trumpeter and composer Phil Minton, with a focus on his extended vocal techniques: from freely improvised abstract pieces for solo voice, unusual renditions of classical and jazz repertoire, avant-garde compositions inspired by Daniil Harms and Joseph Brodsky works to choral work based on the letters of Ho Chi Minh. Find the complete playlist and notes for this show at e...

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Episode #1 John Cage: A Liberator of Sound

September 4, 2012

In the first episode of Extended Techniques podcast we cover contribution of John Cage to extending timber and compositional techniques: using any object to make music, development of new percussion instruments, prepared piano and electronics; invention of chance procedure and indeterminancy. Following foreword to Silence, we talk about John Cage and his ideas in the way that exemplifies them. Find the complete playlist and notes...

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Extended Techniques

Episodes

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Episode #3 The Ah of Steve Dalachinsky

Episode #2 The Voices of Phil Minton

Episode #1 John Cage: A Liberator of Sound

Popular Podcasts

Episode #6 Archeological Operas of Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko

Episode #5 Valentyn Silvestrov’s Endless Melodies and the “End of History”