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# No Sounds Are Forbidden

Listening to the Avant-Garde

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- [The Death of Europa: The Rise and Fall of the Inter-War Avant-Garde](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/podcasts/the-death-of-europa/) - The infamous "bathroom scene" from the premiere of Paul Hindemith's opera Hin und Zurück at the Kroll Opera in Berlin, in 1929. Click play for the ninth episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. Host Matthew Friedman explores the adventurous, and often chaotic street-level avant-garde of Central Europe between the World Wars. In Berlin, Prague, and Vienna,
- [Among the Ruins: The Rebirth of Europe’s Avant-Garde](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/podcasts/among_the_ruins/) - Henri Pousseur, David Tudor, Heinz-Klaus Metzger, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Pierre Boulez at Darmstadt in 1956 In the eleventh episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden, host Matthew Friedman explores how European composers built a new avant-garde, virtually out of nothing after the Second World War. Growing out of the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music,
- [Soir d’Hiver: The Spectacular Modernist Christmas SPECTACULAR!](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/podcasts/soir-dhiver-the-spectacular-modernist-christmas-spectacular/) - We're back with our tenth episode. Musicologist Jill Rogers (University College Cork) joins host Matthew Friedman for a holiday special exploring how modernist and avant-garde composers have marked Christmas in their music since the early 20th century. Whether mobilizing patriotic sentiment in 1914, or trying to find a space for the sacred in the rubble of
- [Episode 11 Playlist](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/playlists/episode-11-playlist/) - Olivier Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du temps, Gil Shaham (violin), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Jian Wang (cello), and Myung-Whun Chung (piano). Deutsche Grammophon CD ‎– 289 469 052-2. Pierre Boulez, Piano Sonata No. 1, Boulez: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3, Idil Biret. Naxos ‎CD – 8.553353. Pierre Boulez, Le Marteau Sans Maître, Le Marteau
- [Confronting Tonality](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/more/essays/confronting-tonality/) - I came to avant-garde art music fairly early (and fairly easily), through the soundtrack album for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and my friendship with Robert Kermode. Robert had similarly obscure interests, and we played a game of trying to find the most jarring, “out there” music. We attended free concerts of contemporary music
- [Moondrunk: Pierrot Lunaire at the Edge of Modernity](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/podcasts/moondrunk-pierrot-lunaire-at-the-edge-of-modernity/) - The ensemble following the premier performance of Pierrot Lunaire in 1912. Albertine Zehme is at center, with Schoenberg to her right. Click play for the first episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. "Moondrunk: Pierrot Lunaire at the Edge of Modernity" starts at the beginning -- or a beginning -- of the avant-garde, when Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire shocked the music world, and
- [Order From Chaos: Modernism and Rationality in 12 Tones](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/podcasts/order-from-chaos-modernism-and-rationality-in-12-tones/) - Modernists in exile in America. From left to right: Violinist Rudolf Kolisch, conductor George Szell, Max Horkheimer, violinist Felix Khuner (squatting), Arnold Schönberg, Hanns Eisler, an unidentified person, and pianist Eduard Steuermann. Click play for the second episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. “Order From Chaos: Modernism and Rationality in 12 Tones,” explores the radical conservatism of Arnold
- [Listening in the Dark: The Avant-Garde at the Movies](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/podcasts/listening-in-the-dark-the-avant-garde-at-the-movies/) - The soundtrack album for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) stimulated unprecedented interest in adventurous avant-garde music, and sold 500,000 copies within a year. Click play for the third episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. “Listening in the Dark: The Avant-Garde at the Movies.” Host Matthew Friedman explores the intimate connections between avant-garde music and cinema. Since the early days
- [The Tale of the Tape: The First Electronic Music Revolution](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/podcasts/the-tale-of-the-tape/) - The San Francisco Tape Music Center in 1964. From left to right: Tony Martin, Bill Maginnis, Ramon Sender, Morton Subotnick, and Pauline Oliveros. Click play for the fourth episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. Host Matthew Friedman explores the impact of magnetic tape recording technologies on avant-garde composers, and on the birth of electronic music. This episode
- [Space Explorations: Avant-Garde Music in Three Dimensions](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/podcasts/space-explorations/) - Click play for the fifth episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. Host Matthew Friedman explores how avant-garde composers rediscovered the spatial nature of sound in the 20th century, and explored the three-dimensional implications of their music. This episode features music by Charles Ives, Erik Satie, Edgard Varese, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, David Tudor, and Henry
- [Synthetic Sound: The Second Electronic Music Revolution](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/podcasts/synthetic-sound-the-second-electronic-music-revolution/) - Click play for the sixth episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. Host Matthew Friedman explores sound synthesis, and how the invention of the electronic synthesizer inspired avant-garde composers, and transformed how listeners listened to music. This episode features music by Milton Babbitt, Morton Subotnick, Charles Wuorinen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Raymond Scott, Gershon Kingsley, Tangerine Dream, Brian
- [Music of Changes: Cage, Chance Operations, and Indeterminacy](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/podcasts/music-of-changes/) - The "New York School" in 1962: Christian Wolff, Earle Brown, John Cage, David Tudor, and Morton Feldman. Click play for the seventh episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. Host Matthew Friedman explores the profound impact of the work and ideas of John Cage on the American avant-garde. Seeking to liberate sound from the restraints of conventional music,
- [In Phase/Out of Phase: The Radical Simplicity of Minimalism](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/podcasts/in-phaseout-of-phase-the-radical-simplicity-of-minimalism/) - Click play for the eighth episode of No Sounds Are Forbidden. Host Matthew Friedman explores the American avant-garde's turn to minimalism in the late 1960s and 1970s. Launched as a critique of modernist intentionality, and the complexity of 20th century music, minimalist pioneers like Terry Riley and Steve Reich drew on diverse sources, from Asian and African music,
- [From the Bins: Three West Coast Composers](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/more/reviews/from-the-bins-three-west-coast-composers/) - I had just paid for an armful of LPs at Iris Records, my local vinyl emporium in Jersey City's Village. I was turning to leave when Steve, sitting behind the stacks of records crowding around the cash, stopped me. He pulled a record from the pile “This just came in,” he said with that slightly
- [I Remember: The Music of the Holocaust](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/more/essays/i-remember-the-music-of-the-holocaust/) - The Auschwitz II-Birkenau main guard house, "the gate of death." At the end Viktor Ullmann's The Emperor of Atlantis, Kaiser Uberall accepts his fate: he will be the sacrifice which will restore the balance of life and death that his own arrogance and brutality so tragically upset. It is one of the most powerful moments in 20th
- [Episode 4 Playlist: The Tale of the Tape](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/playlists/episode-4-playlist-the-tale-of-the-tape/) - Pierre Schaeffer, Cinq Etudes de Bruits The French Avant-Garde in the 20th Century, LTM Recordings ‎– LTMCD 2571 Halim El-Dabh, Wire Recorder Piece An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music Vol. 4, Sub Rosa ‎– SR250 Otto Luening, Low Speed Pioneers Of Electronic Music, New World Records ‎– 80644-2 Halim El-Dabh, Leiyla
- [Rites of Spring: The Concert Season at the End of the World](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/more/essays/rites-of-spring/) - Nicholas Roerich's costumes for Le Sacre du Printemps Outrage flooded into the aisles of the Théâtre des Champs Elysées on the night of 29 May 1913, and spilled into the streets of Paris's 8e Arrondissement. The premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps, a new ballet staged by Sergei Diaghilev's Les Ballets Russes, with choreography by
- [Episode 2 Playlist: Order From Chaos](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/playlists/episode-2-playlist-order-from-chaos/) - Arnold Schoenberg, Five Piano Pieces, Op. 23, Walzer, Peter Hill Berg/Schoenberg/Webern: Piano Music, Naxo – 8.553870 Igor Stravinsky, Octet, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Stravinsky: Shadow Dances, Deutsche Grammophon – 453 458-2 Arnold Schoenberg, Variations for Orchestra, Variation 1, BBC Symphony, Pierre Boulez Pierre Boulez conducts Schoenberg, Sony Classical ‎– 88765429572 Anton Webern, String
- [Episode 3 Playlist: Listening in the Dark](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/playlists/episode-3-playlist-listening-in-the-dark/) - Gyorgy Ligeti, Requiem, Hessian Radio Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Michael Gielen LigetI: Requiem/Aventures/Nouvelles Aventures, ‎WERGO – WER 60045-50 George Antheil, Ballet Mécanique, Ensemble Modern Fighting the Waves: Music of George Antheil, BMG Classics ‎– 09026-68066-2 John Cage, Works of Calder II, Giancarlo Simonacci John Cage: Complete Music for Prepared Piano, Brilliant Classics ‎–
- [Episode 5 Playlist: Space Explorations](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/playlists/episode-5-playlist/) - Giovanni Gabrieli, Magnificat a 14, Taverner Choir, London Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, Andrew Parrott Giovanni: Symphoniae Sacrae II, L'Oiseau-Lyre ‎– 475 9113 Georg Philipp Telemann, Tafelmusik - Tafelmusik Suite In E Major, Rondeau, Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel Tafelmusik, Archiv Produktion ‎– 427 619-2 AH4 Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question, The Cleveland Orchestra,
- [Episode 6 Playlist: Synthetic Sound](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/playlists/episode-6-playlist-synthetic-sound/) - Excerpts, Narrated by John Preston The Sounds and Music Of The RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer, RCA Victor Red Seal ‎– LM-1922 Bernard Hermann, Prelude and Outer Space The Day the Earth Stood Still Soundtrack, Twentieth Century Fox Film Scores ‎– 07822 11010 Heitor Villa Lobos, Aria from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, Clara Rockmore (Theremin) Clara
- [Summer Hiatus](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/more/news-and-announcements/summer-hiatus/) - With summer coming to an end, and the new academic term in the offing, I will be taking a short break in the last few days of Summer. No Sounds Are Forbidden will return in September with new episodes, including a look at the postwar European avant-garde's efforts to wrestle with the Holocaust, and reinvent European
- [Avant-Garde Holiday SPECTACULAR!](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/more/news-and-announcements/avant-garde-holiday-spectacular/) - After a much-longer than expected hiatus, No Sounds Are Forbidden will return on 18 December for a very special Avant-Garde Holiday Spectacular that will be, well… spectacular! With special guest Dr. Jill Rogers of University College Cork, Matthew Friedman will explore how the most adventurous composers of the 20th and 21st centuries celebrated the holidays
- [Why “Avant-Garde?”](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/uncategorized/why-avant-garde/) - There are those awkward moments – first dates, first grad school seminars, standing around at a conference mixer uncomfortably trying to find something to talk about not related to work or politics – when the question of musical taste invariably arises: “So what kind of music do you like to listen to?” I ask this
- [Episode 1 Playlist: Moondrunk](http://nosoundsforbidden.org/uncategorized/episode-1-playlist-moondrunk/) - Arnold Schoenberg, String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10, IV - Entrückung (Sehr Langsam), New Vienna String Quartet, with Evelyn Lear The Complete String Quartets, Philips Classics ‎– 289 464 046-2 Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire, Part I, Anja Silja, with the 20th Century Classics Ensemble, directed by Robert Craft. Pierrot Lunaire/Herzgewächse/Four Orchestral Songs/Chamber Symphony No.

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