Flotation Device 2024-10-13 - Wayne Horvitz interviewed

A Wayne Horvitz interview and a Louis Andriessen premiere, what more could you want? Maybe a brief history of conduction, a Seattle Symphony preview, plus a helping of Braxton, Frey, Webber and Courvoisier? We've got it all in this podcast as Wayne joins us to talk about What’s Going On: Conduction, Improvisation, and the Culture of Structure, a series of concerts co-presented by Earshot Jazz Festival and dedicated to the music of Sun Ra, Julius Hemphill and Butch Morris. Andriessen is represented by his final composition in its first recording, which reveals the composer's evolution from brash minimalism to nostalgic neoclassicism. We also check out Bent Sørensen’s disorienting Trumpet Concerto preparatory to its US premiere, enjoy Quatuor Bozzini's traversal of a new string quartet by Jürg Frey, revisit a unique trio recording by Anthony Braxton with Wadada Leo Smith and Richard Teitelbaum, and compare the latter to Anna Webber’s simple trio and Sylvie Courvoisier’s solo piano.