Sock Monkey
Classical
| Oct 2008
Reviews
Wedge
Reviewed 2009-07-18
Reviewed 2009-07-18
From a Stanford professor: Modern classical music with a sense of fun and quite a few pieces in a fast-moving but spare vein, quite action-packed. Mostly acoustic instruments in small groups, but some electronics apply on 8-10 and there's also the homemade mouseketier on 1.
1- Hard-edged, cartoony brass. Quiet percussion interludes for sound-sculpture: wooden sounds, twangy sounds, rattling.
2- Barking horns again, some strings as well. Sparse but active feel.
3- Percussion: rolling and dynamic. Ends quietly.
4- Stabbing percussion and piano, squawking clarinet. Abstract and fast-moving.
5- Sounds mostly improvised. Abstract criss-crossings of piano, flute, trumpet, with some pecking unison lines later
6- Mozart classical that gets increasingly weird and loud (but stays flowery). Crazy prepared piano stuff.
7- Solo trumpet, perky and dynamic.
8- Fast, active. Heavy in violin (lots of bow bouncing & other tricks) and bass clarinet.
9- Slow, dramatic washes of electronics.
11- Quiet electronics rustling; pecking, peppery piano comes in after a couple minutes
12- The lone orchestral piece. Busy and multifaceted, it slows down after a brisk start but still gives the feeling of a lot going on.
1- Hard-edged, cartoony brass. Quiet percussion interludes for sound-sculpture: wooden sounds, twangy sounds, rattling.
2- Barking horns again, some strings as well. Sparse but active feel.
3- Percussion: rolling and dynamic. Ends quietly.
4- Stabbing percussion and piano, squawking clarinet. Abstract and fast-moving.
5- Sounds mostly improvised. Abstract criss-crossings of piano, flute, trumpet, with some pecking unison lines later
6- Mozart classical that gets increasingly weird and loud (but stays flowery). Crazy prepared piano stuff.
7- Solo trumpet, perky and dynamic.
8- Fast, active. Heavy in violin (lots of bow bouncing & other tricks) and bass clarinet.
9- Slow, dramatic washes of electronics.
11- Quiet electronics rustling; pecking, peppery piano comes in after a couple minutes
12- The lone orchestral piece. Busy and multifaceted, it slows down after a brisk start but still gives the feeling of a lot going on.
Recent airplay
Variations On Variations On A Theme By Mozart (2006)
Music Casserole — Nov 16, 2013
On The Nature Of The Modern Age
Brownian Motion — Sep 16, 2009
Martian Anthropology 9
Memory Select - w/The Bad Plus — Sep 11, 2009
Variations On Variations On A Theme By Mozart
Memory Select - Joe Maneri Edition — Aug 28, 2009
Theme In Search Of Variations I
Vicodin Music — Aug 28, 2009
Entre Funerailles I [Brian McWhorter, trumpet]
Jena & Gomorrah (sub) — Aug 18, 2009
Charting
2009-07-19 — 2009-09-20
Classical/Experimental
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Sep 20 | 1 |
| Sep 13 | 1 |
| Aug 30 | 2 |
| Aug 23 | 2 |
| Aug 16 | 1 |
| Jul 26 | 2 |
Track listing
| 1. | Magnetic North (2006) | ||
| 2. | The Composer's Middle Period (2007) | ||
| 3. | Theme In Search Of Variations I (2004) | ||
| 4. | Theme In Search Of Variations Ii (2007) | ||
| 5. | Theme In Search Of Variations Iii (2008) | ||
| 6. | Variations On Variations On A Theme By Mozart (2006) | ||
| 7. | Entre Funerailles I (1999) | ||
| 8. | Martian Anthropology 7?8?9 (2006) | ||
| 9. | On The Nature Of The Modern Age (2005) | ||
| 10. | Sock Monkey (2007) |