Michael Gordon

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Gene Takes a Drink 00:00 Tools
Timber: Part I 08:33 Tools
1/1 (arr. M. Gordon) 08:33 Tools
Timber (Hauschka Remix) 08:33 Tools
Industry 10:25 Tools
Yo Shakespeare 10:45 Tools
Tinge 03:53 Tools
Clouded Yellow (Bill Frisell Remix) 03:53 Tools
Timber (Sam Pluta Remix) 04:01 Tools
Light Is Calling 07:11 Tools
Clouded Yellow 05:22 Tools
Weather One 20:28 Tools
My Frig 05:02 Tools
Instrumental 04:52 Tools
Trance: Trance 1 03:48 Tools
Clouded Yellow (David Harrington Remix) 03:48 Tools
Receiver 04:42 Tools
Timber (Fennesz Remix) 04:36 Tools
Idle 05:15 Tools
Imreadywhenyouare 05:22 Tools
Decasia: Part I 13:16 Tools
For Madeline 07:52 Tools
Trance: Trance 4 06:18 Tools
Sonatra (Equal Temperament) 08:37 Tools
Trance: Trance 2 00:30 Tools
Weather Four 15:46 Tools
Potassium 09:04 Tools
Timber: Part II 12:11 Tools
Soundtrack 23 04:01 Tools
Trance: Trance 3 13:54 Tools
London 11:35 Tools
Timber: Part V 07:01 Tools
Timber: Part III 07:10 Tools
Timber (Jóhann Jóhannsson Remix) 07:10 Tools
The Sad Park: Pt. 1, Two Evil Planes Broke in Little Pieces and Fire Came 07:36 Tools
Trance: Trance Drone 07:45 Tools
Weather Three 12:17 Tools
Weather Two 14:03 Tools
Trance: Trance 5 - 09:04 Tools
Timber: Part IV 13:02 Tools
Borinage 08:02 Tools
Timber (Oneohtrix Point Never Remix) 07:45 Tools
Arles 08:16 Tools
Trance: Trance 5 09:04 Tools
All Vows 04:36 Tools
Trance 1 08:37 Tools
Beijing Harmony 13:31 Tools
The Sad Park: Pt. 2, There Was a Big Boom and Then There Was Teeny Fiery Coming Out 05:57 Tools
Decasia (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
The Sad Park: Pt. 4, And All the Persons That Were in the Airplane Died 05:57 Tools
Rushes: (Part 1) 08:37 Tools
The Sad Park: Pt. 3, I Just Heard That on the News That the Buildings Are Crashing Down 08:33 Tools
Exalted 05:57 Tools
Trance 2 06:49 Tools
Dystopia (Live) 04:36 Tools
ACDC 09:47 Tools
Part II 12:11 Tools
Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony: Pt. 1 (Live) 13:31 Tools
Excerpt One 13:16 Tools
Timber (Ikue Mori Remix) 13:31 Tools
I Buried Paul 09:43 Tools
Trance 4 07:23 Tools
Timber (Tim Hecker Remix) 09:47 Tools
The Hague: Part II 09:43 Tools
The Hague: Part I 13:31 Tools
Excerpt Two 09:03 Tools
St. Remy 13:31 Tools
Timber (Squarepusher Remix) 03:48 Tools
He Saw a Skull 03:48 Tools
Tree-Oh 05:57 Tools
Trance 3 07:01 Tools
Excerpt Three 07:36 Tools
Decasia: Part III 07:37 Tools
Decasia: part 2 09:03 Tools
Rushes: (Part 2) 04:36 Tools
Excerpt Four 15:39 Tools
Part IV 13:01 Tools
Excerpt Five 04:36 Tools
Sonatra (Just Intonation) 13:16 Tools
The Crystal Ship 07:36 Tools
Timber (Greg Saunier remix) 03:48 Tools
Decasia (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
Excerpt Six 12:28 Tools
Decasia: Part V 04:36 Tools
Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony: Pt. 2 (Live) 03:48 Tools
Rushes: (Part 3) 04:36 Tools
Decasia (Part 3) 00:00 Tools
Decasia (Part 6) 00:00 Tools
Riders on the Storm 00:00 Tools
The Unchanging Sea 03:54 Tools
Decasia (Part 5) 00:00 Tools
Timber (HPRIZM/High Priest of APC Remix) 04:10 Tools
Decasia (Part 4) 00:00 Tools
Natural History (Live) 03:48 Tools
Timber (Ian Williams Remix) 04:10 Tools
Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony: Pt. 3 (Live) 06:18 Tools
Part I 08:33 Tools
Timber (Live) 06:18 Tools
Trance Drone 08:33 Tools
Decasia: Part II 00:30 Tools
Gotham: Part I 07:29 Tools
Timber (Mira Calix Remix) 04:10 Tools
Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony: Pt. 4 (Live) 04:10 Tools
The Low Quartet 08:20 Tools
Acquanetta (Chamber Version): Introducing Acquanetta 08:20 Tools
Decasia: part 1 13:16 Tools
Magical Feeling 00:00 Tools
Dystopia 12:29 Tools
Decasia: Part VI 08:36 Tools
Rushes, Pt. 2 01:00 Tools
XY 17:39 Tools
Magic Feeling 03:48 Tools
(purgatorio) POPOPERA 00:30 Tools
Sound 04:02 Tools
Part VI 12:29 Tools
Every Stop on the F Train 01:00 Tools
Trance 5 06:18 Tools
Decasia: Part IV 13:54 Tools
Love Is in the Air 04:10 Tools
Decasia: part 6 03:48 Tools
Painkiller 07:45 Tools
Rushes part 1 04:10 Tools
Decasia: part 5 06:18 Tools
Strange Quiet 13:54 Tools
Rushes part 2 04:10 Tools
Timber Remixed: Part I 08:36 Tools
Acid Rain 07:45 Tools
Strange Quiet: Part I 05:28 Tools
Four Kings Fight Five 23:21 Tools
Decasia: part 4 04:10 Tools
Decasia: part 3 04:10 Tools
Rushes, Pt. 1 01:00 Tools
Part III 07:10 Tools
The Peninsula 07:10 Tools
River 00:30 Tools
Thou Shalt!/Thou Shalt Not! 08:36 Tools
Part 1 23:21 Tools
Banks Of The Deep End 05:55 Tools
Docile 05:55 Tools
3. I Buried Paul 04:43 Tools
Rushes part 3 07:45 Tools
Part 2 04:43 Tools
Rest on the Wake 04:43 Tools
Part V 13:30 Tools
24 Hours 07:45 Tools
Delivery Boy Biography 07:45 Tools
Blue Flag 07:45 Tools
Horizon 07:45 Tools
The Hague Part I 09:04 Tools
Trance 5, part 1 07:29 Tools
Turn Out the Lights 05:34 Tools
Soulfood Man 07:45 Tools
Trance 5, part 2 06:18 Tools
Part 4 09:04 Tools
Rushes, Pt. 3 03:21 Tools
Gotham: Part II 07:22 Tools
Feeling of Love 03:39 Tools
Part 3 08:36 Tools
The Teacher 08:36 Tools
The Hague Part II 07:22 Tools
Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony - Part 1 20:36 Tools
Timber - Part I 08:36 Tools
Love Is What You Make It 04:11 Tools
Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony: Pt. 1 07:22 Tools
Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony: Pt. 2 07:29 Tools
Outside Out 08:36 Tools
Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony: Pt. 3 07:12 Tools
Blue Mix 07:22 Tools
Gatekeeper 07:22 Tools
Couch Lady 07:22 Tools
Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony - Part 2 01:00 Tools
Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony - Part 3 18:32 Tools
Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony: Pt. 4 07:12 Tools
Gordon: Weather One 20:36 Tools
Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony - Part 4 18:32 Tools
Gotham: Part III 03:54 Tools
The Beltless Buckler 07:22 Tools
Admoop 07:22 Tools
Timber 03:21 Tools
Take Me Out 20:36 Tools
Trance 03:28 Tools
Major Minor 20:36 Tools
Steel Bones 20:36 Tools
Timber - Part III 07:12 Tools
Bone Delay 07:12 Tools
Where Is The Love 07:12 Tools
Take Me Out, Pt. 2 07:12 Tools
I Don't Want to Lose Your Love 03:21 Tools
All About You 18:32 Tools
Low Quartet 05:28 Tools
Acquanetta (Chamber Version): Conceal Me 05:28 Tools
Susani (Vom himmel hoch) 03:21 Tools
Track Drone 18:32 Tools
Gordon: Weather Four 15:49 Tools
Thou Shalt! - Thou Shalt Not! 01:00 Tools
Holy Green Fields 01:00 Tools
Take Me Out (Outro) 01:00 Tools
Exit Wound 01:00 Tools
The Lesson 01:00 Tools
Rushes 05:28 Tools
Keeping It Real 01:00 Tools
Acquanetta (Chamber Version): The Mood 01:00 Tools
Thou Shalt!/Thou Shalt Not! (1983) 18:32 Tools
Pillow Talk 03:28 Tools
Five-Year Old Old Man 03:28 Tools
Gordon: Weather Two 14:06 Tools
AC/DC 03:21 Tools
Acquanetta (Chamber Version): Who Am I Today? [Mad Scientist] 03:21 Tools
Ready and Waiting for You 04:11 Tools
Reggae Music 03:28 Tools
Hello Rock 'n Roll 03:28 Tools
Rushes, part 2 03:56 Tools
Trance I 03:54 Tools
Gordon: Tinge 03:54 Tools
Decasia 03:54 Tools
Acquanetta (Chamber Version): Please Don't Take My Brain [Brainy Woman] 03:54 Tools
Trance 4 (single version) 03:54 Tools
Acquanetta (Chamber Version): Beautiful Monster 03:54 Tools
Men's Room Wall 03:11 Tools
The Light Of Dark 03:11 Tools
Ballbreaker 13:31 Tools
Unrequited 03:21 Tools
Gotham, part 1 03:21 Tools
Now You Know 03:21 Tools
Gordon: Light Is Calling 04:06 Tools
Nobody Else But You 04:06 Tools
Acquanetta (Chamber Version): Well Done! Let's Take Five [Shadows and Light] 04:06 Tools
Gordon: Weather Three 12:20 Tools
Gordon: Instrumental 05:28 Tools
Come Around and Give Me Your Love 03:46 Tools
Strollin' 03:21 Tools
Weather One. Part VI 05:28 Tools
Rewriting Beethoven's 7 - Part 1 03:46 Tools
Weather One. Part IV 05:28 Tools
Rumble and tumble 03:21 Tools
Keep me in the Basement 03:21 Tools
Rushes, part 1 03:56 Tools
Calipso 03:56 Tools
Timber - Part II 12:13 Tools
Rushes (excerpt) 03:52 Tools
Gordon: Idle 13:31 Tools
Icebreaker: 'Trance I' 04:06 Tools
Acquanetta (Chamber Version): Celluloid World 04:06 Tools
Acquanetta (Chamber Version): Gown, Gloves, Mask [The Experiment] 04:06 Tools
What Am I to Say 04:46 Tools
Feelings of Love 04:10 Tools
Slowly 04:10 Tools
Reggae Magic 04:46 Tools
Weather One. Part III 13:31 Tools
Struggling 03:46 Tools
Weather One. Part I 13:31 Tools
No Way No How 03:46 Tools
World Go Slow 03:46 Tools
01 Tinge 03:56 Tools
Rushes, part 3 03:56 Tools
Over The Moon 04:19 Tools
Four Kings Fight Five (1988) 23:31 Tools
Decasia, Pt. 1 04:19 Tools
Timber - Part IV 13:04 Tools
Timber - Part V 13:31 Tools
Gordon: My Frig 03:52 Tools
Gordon: Receiver 03:52 Tools
Sentence 04:10 Tools
Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony Pt. 1 03:52 Tools
The Low Quartet (1986) 04:10 Tools
Acquanetta (Chamber Version): Inside This Costume 04:10 Tools
Everything or Nothing 03:52 Tools
Strange Quiet: Part I; Part II 03:52 Tools
Timber, Part 1 03:52 Tools
I've Been A Fool 03:52 Tools
Rewriting Beethoven's 7 - Part 2 03:52 Tools
Weather One. Part II 07:29 Tools
Part 5 13:31 Tools
Nobody But You 03:52 Tools
LIvin' Like a Hurricane 13:31 Tools
Draggin' My Butt 13:31 Tools
Mine, All Mine 03:56 Tools
Settin' My Nutrition Right 03:56 Tools
Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony 03:56 Tools
You're the Only One for Me 04:10 Tools
1 Weather One 20:33 Tools
Gordon: Imreadywhenyouare 04:10 Tools
Gordon: Sound 04:10 Tools
Weather One. Part V 04:10 Tools
No Tomorrow 04:10 Tools
Daybreak 04:10 Tools
London Town 04:10 Tools
Acid Rain (1986) 13:31 Tools
Take It to the Lord 13:31 Tools
The Sad Park - Part 4 13:31 Tools
The Sad Park - Part 3 13:31 Tools
The Sad Park - Part 2 13:31 Tools
The Sad Park - Part 1 13:31 Tools
Clouded Yellow (arr. Bill Frisell) 13:31 Tools
Water Wheel 03:52 Tools
"Part 3" from Rushes 03:52 Tools
Anger Management 03:52 Tools
No to Reason Why 03:52 Tools
Rewriting Beethoven's 7 - Part 3 03:52 Tools
Martin 03:52 Tools
Trance 5 - 07:29 Tools
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Michael Gordon is a contemporary American composer who was born in Florida in 1956 and grew up in Nicaragua and an Eastern European community in a jungle on the outskirts of Managua. His music is an outgrowth of his experience with underground rock bands in New York City and his formal training in composition at Yale where he studied with Martin Bresnick. Tuneful, rhythmic and raw, Gordon has embraced elements of dissonance, minimalism, modality and popular culture in what has been considered by some people as a bold and direct sound. Since 1991 he has worked extensively with video. His work Van Gogh Video Opera, a collaboration with video-artist Elliott Caplan, was premiered to critical acclaim in New York in 1991 and received its European premiere in Vienna in 1992. Other works with Caplan include Grand Dairy, based on a diner on New York's Lower East Side, which was produced in Vienna in 1996 and Weather (German Tour 1997), in which the 16 string players of Ensemble Resonanz perform on a vertical stage surrounded by video panels. The recording of Weather is available on Arthrob/Nonesuch. Gordon is one of the founders and artistic directors of New York's Bang on a Can Festival, alongside fellow composers Julia Wolfe and David Lang. He has collaborated with them on several projects. The opera The Carbon Copy Building, a collaboration with comic book artist Ben Katchor, received the 2000 Village Voice OBIE Award for Best New American Work, a projected comic strip accompanies the singers, interacting with each other so that the frames fall away in the telling of this story. Gordon, Wolfe and Lang have subsequently collaborated on the 'oratorio' Lost Objects, the recording of which was released in summer 2001 (Teldec New Line). Their latest project is Shelter, a multi-media work that was commissioned by the ensemble musikFabrik and features the ethereal Scandinavian vocalists Trio Mediaeval in a staged spectacle that, in the words of librettist Deborah Artman, "evokes the power and threat of nature, the soaring frontier promise contained in the framing of a new house, the pure aesthetic beauty of blueprints, the sweet architecture of sound and the uneasy vulnerability that underlies even the safety of our sleep." Shelter was premiered in Köln in Germany in spring 2005, and received its US premiere in November 2005. Both Shelter and Carbon Copy Building were staged by New York's Ridge Theater, in collaboration with Laurie Olinder (visual graphics), Bill Morrison (film-maker) and Bob McGrath (director), with whom Gordon has often worked. The opera Chaos, with libretto by Matthew Maguire premiered at The Kitchen in New York in autumn 1998 with stage direction by Bob McGrath. The work, which opened to rave reviews and packed houses, is a fast paced science fiction spectacle in 25 short scenes. Decasia, a large-scale symphony with projections, commissioned by the Europäischer Musikmonat 2001 for the Basel Sinfonietta, was also staged by the Ridge Theater. The orchestra sits on a triangular pyramid structure that surrounds the audience, whilst Bill Morrison's film of black and white 'found' footage in various states of deterioration is projected onto scrim draping the structure. The ensuing Bill Morrison film, Decasia, cut to Michael Gordon's complete score, was shown at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and has been screened at film festivals worldwide. A further collaboration with Ridge Theater, Gotham, a commission from the American Composers Orchestra, incorporates film, projections, lighting and an orchestra of 35 musicians to explore the 'other' New York City. Again directed by Bob McGrath, the work premiered at Carnegie's Zankel Hall in February 2004 with the American Composers Orchestra and combines Bill Morrison's stunning archival and original footage of New York with Laurie Olinder's photographic projections of the urban landscape. He has worked extensively with London's Icebreaker. His work Yo Shakespeare was recorded by Icebreaker on their debut Argo/Decca recording Terminal Velocity, recently re-released by Cantaloupe Music. Gordon's work Trance was written for Icebreaker with the additional component of eight brass players. The 52-minute work was also originally recorded for Argo and was released in the autumn of 1996; a new re-mixed version is subsequently on Cantaloupe. Link was written for the group in 1998, in collaboration with David Lang, as a complementary piece to Yo Shakespeare and Lang's Cheating, Lying, Stealing for a new ballet by Ashley Page for The Royal Ballet in London, subsequently revived by Page at Scottish Ballet. May 2004 saw the release of Light Is Calling (Nonesuch), an album of tracks created with producers R. Luke DuBois and Damian le Gassick, and scored for a small ensemble of musicians (most notably Todd Reynolds on violin) with complex electronic arrangements orchestrated by DuBois and le Gassick. He has since collaborated with DuBois extensively on the electronic backing arrangements for subsequent pieces, including All Vows for cellist Maya Beiser (2006, for which DuBois also served as a video artist), Sad Park for the Kronos Quartet (2006), and the opera What to Wear?, libretto by Richard Foreman (2006). Gordon's music has been presented at the Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, The Kitchen, the Kölner Philharmonie, the Royal Albert Hall, the Bonn Oper and the Jewish Museum in Vienna; at the Rotterdam, Edinburgh, St. Petersburg, Holland, Adelaide, Huddersfield, Settembre Musica and Dresden music festivals; in the choreography of Eliot Feld, the Royal Ballet, emio greco/pc, Heinz Spoerli and other dance companies; and as a featured artist in the repertoires of Ensemble Modern and the Kronos Quartet. The 2003-04 season saw seven concerts of Gordon's music in New York alone including three world premieres and three American premieres, most notably the world premiere of Gotham at Carnegie's Zankel Hall and the American premiere of Weather by Ensemble Resonanz at Columbia University's Miller Theater. Recent commissions have been supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, the BBC Proms, The Siemens Kulturprogram, BAM's Next Wave Festival and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival. In 1997 he worked with playwright Anna Deavere Smith on House Arrest, First Edition, which premiered at the Arena Stage Theater in Washington, DC. He is published by Red Poppy, a division of G. Schirmer. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.