Ep. 4 – Furniture Music

I’m excited to share a new mix I’ve curated with dublab for the organization’s upcoming event Sleepless: The Music Center After Hours at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. This set traverses many eras, weaving together decades in an exhibition of classical ambient music’s various roots and branches. From the awesome folks at dublab: “Travel through the Light Lock corridor as it is transformed by a dublab produced soundtrack of “furniture music.” Considered as the origins of ambient music and coined by French composer Erik Satie, this soundtrack along with lighting inspired by the work of James Turrell will be the perfect passage between the Grand Stern Hall and the Founders Room.” Tracklist below. Overture: Claude Debussy – Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun: Très Modéré (Herbert Von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker) (c. 1894) First Movement: Frédéric Chopin – Nocturne No. 11 in G minor Op. 7 No. 1 – Andante sostenuto (Nelson Freire, piano) (c. 1840), Erik Satie – Gnossienne No. 5 (Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano) (c. 1889), John Cage – In a Landscape (c. 1948), Max Richter – Written on the Sky (c. 2004), Sylvain Chauveau – Nuage II, Nuage III (c. 2007), David Lang – Memory Pieces: III. Wed (Lisa Moore, piano) (c. 2005), Erik Satie – Trois Gymnopédies (Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano) (c. 1888), Arvo Pärt – Spiegel Im Spiegel (Angèle Dubeau, violin; La Pietà orchestra with piano) (c. 1978), Federico Mompou – Mùsica Callada, Cuaderno Uno (Herbert Henck, piano) (c. 1974), Ólafur Arnalds – Romance (c. 2009), Nils Frahm – Over There, It’s Raining (c. 2013), Jóhann Jóhannsson – Melodia(III) (c. 2008), Erik Satie – Vexations (Excerpt) (Ars Nova Ensemble) (c. 1894), Toru Takemitsu – Uninterrupted Rest I-II (Yuji Takahashi, piano) (c. 1973), Hauschka (Volker Bertelmann) – Alma (c. 2008), John Cage – Dream (Hildegard Kleeb, piano; Roland Dahinden, trombone) (c. 1948), Erik Satie – Gnossiennes No.1-4 (Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano) (c. 1890-91), Federico Mompou – Mùsica Callada, XXIII. Calme-XXIV. Moderato (Herbert Henck, piano) (c. 1974), Hauschka (Volker Bertelmann) – Early in the Park (c. 2010) Second Movement: Greg Haines – Two Rotations (c. 2011), Bang On a Can All-Stars – 1/1 (c. 1978, Brian Eno/Robert Wyatt; arr. Michael Gordon), Olivier Messiaen – Fête des Belles Eaux (Ensemble d’Ondes de Montreal, ondes martenot) (c. 1937), Arnold Schoenberg – III. Farben (from Five Orchestral Pieces) (Berliner Philharmoniker) (c. 1909), Gustav Mahler – Adagietto: Sehr Langsam (Gunther Herbig, conductor) (c. 1902), Kronos Quartet – Spem in Alium (c. 1570, Thomas Tallis), Erik Satie – Tapestry of Wrought Iron (Ars Nova Ensemble) (c. 1917), Max Richter – Sunlight (Louisa Fuller, violin) (c. 2006), Arthur Russell – Tower of Meaning – 2 (c. 1981), Brian Eno/Johann Pachelbel – French Catalogues (Variation on the Canon in D Major) (c. 1975; c. 1696) Finale: Gavin Bryars – Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Excerpt) (c. 1971), Morton Feldman – Rothko Chapel: V (c. 1971)