Playlist.

A weekly tally of memorable things Steve Smith has stuck in his ears.

Spotify jukebox does not correspond precisely with the selections listed, but maintains the playlist’s continuity and personality.

Martin Siewert/Martin Brandlmayr – Too Beautiful to Burn (Erstwhile; 2003)

MIMEO/John Tilbury – The Hands of Caravaggio (Erstwhile; 2002)

Jim O’Rourke – Steamroom 37 (Steamroom; 2017)

James Tenney – Postal Pieces – The Barton Workshop (New World; 2004)
> Maximusic; Swell Piece; A Rose Is a Rose Is a Round; Beast; Swell Piece #2; Having Never Written a Note for Percussion; Koan; For Percussion Perhaps, Or… [Night]; Swell Piece #3; Cellogram; August Harp

Alvin Lucier – Wind Shadows – The Barton Workshop (New World; 2005)
> In Memoriam Stuart Marshall; 40 Rooms; In Memoriam Jon Higgins; Letters; Q; A Tribute to James Tenney; Bar Lazy J; Fideliotrio; Wind Shadows

Clara Iannotta – Al di lá del bianco – Amy Advocat, Sound Energy (YouTube; 2017)

Clara Iannotta – Intent on Resurrection – Spring or Some Such Thing – Ensemble Intercontemporain/Matthias Pintscher (from A Failed Entertainment, Edition RZ; 2016)

Clara Iannotta – Limun – Barbara Maurer, Melise Mellinger (from A Failed Entertainment, Edition RZ; 2016)

Clara Iannotta – Àphones – Orchestre des Élèves du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris/Tito Ceccherini (from A Failed Entertainment, Edition RZ; 2016)

Clara Iannotta – Dead Wasps in the Jam-jar – Yuki Numata Resnick (from For Ko, Innova; 2016)

Clara Iannotta – Il colore dell’ombra – Longleash (from Passage, New Focus; 2017)

Clara Iannotta – Dead Wasps in the Jam-jar ii – Münchener Kammerorchester/Clemens Schuldt – (Soundcloud; 2016)

Clara Iannotta – paw-marks in wet cement (unfinished) – Wilhem Latchoumia, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain/Daniel Kawka (Soundcloud; 2017)

Rain Tree Crow – Rain Tree Crow (Virgin; 1991)

Thurston Moore & Umut Çaglar – Dunia (Astral Spirits; 2017)

Arash Akbari – The Rest Is Silence (Unknown Tone; 2017)

Anthony Burr/Charles Curtis – Alvin Lucier (Antiopic; 2005)
> Alvin Lucier – In Memoriam Jon Higgins; On the Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon; Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas Part III Number 11; Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas Part I Number 1; Charles Curtis; In Memoriam Stuart Marshall; Music for Cello with One or More Amplified Vases

Antoine Beuger – Sixteen Stanzas On Stillness And Music Unheard – Greg Stuart (L’innomable; 2013)

Keith Rowe/Toshimaru Nakamura – Weather Sky (Erstwhile;

Steve Good – 間 (self-released; 2017)

King Crimson – Palace Theatre, Waterbury, CT, May 6, 1973 (DGMLive; 2017)

Paul Motian with Bill Frisell and Joe Lovano – Time and Time Again (ECM; 2007)

Gavin Bryars – Three Viennese Dancers (ECM New Series; 1986)
> Prologue – Pascal Pongy, Gavin Bryars, Charles Fullbrook; String Quartet No. 1 (“Between the National and the Bristol”) – Arditti String Quartet; First Viennese Dance (“M.H.”); Epilogue – Pascal Pongy, Gavin Bryars, Charles Fullbrook

Codona – The Codona Trilogy (ECM; 1979-83/2008)

Grateful Dead – Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, Washington, D.C., July 12 & 13, 1989 (Grateful Dead/Rhino; 1989/2017)

Modelbau – Radiance (Glistening Example; 2017)

First House – Eréndira (ECM; 1986)

Roscoe Mitchell Note Factory – Far Side (ECM; 2010)

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