Jonathan Marmor: Recent Episodes
Jonathan Marmor
Andreas made an audio recording in the Swedish forest of a Capercaillie cock, a giant grouse bird. This music plays on the accelerating clicking sounds the Capercaillie makes, by layering 5 repeating copies of the sample that gradually come into phase.
Many repeating copies of a sample from the 1989 PBS Nova TV program "Strange New Science of Chaos" (https://youtu.be/eJAs9Qr359o?t=53m20s) gradually go out of phase with each other, resulting in humorous robot music.
September 2003. Tune by Jonathan, written on Mike Fink's piano while house sitting. Guitar played by Jeff Eliassen. Bass played by Jonathan.
The only known recording of me playing tabla solo.
It's a tape recording from a recital I gave at the end of my 3rd year at CalArts, in the Gamelan Room. I'm accompanied by John Bergamo's drum machine playing a standard tabla solo accompaniment melody that keeps time for the soloist, called a lehara or nagma. I take it at a really conservative tempo, and even so I'm playing quite loose, which is, I guess, a good thing, except for the obvious mistakes.
Somewhere there is a photo of me sitting on the floor of my Grandma Fay's living room demonstrating tabla to my baby nephew Zac, surrounded by family, with a wall covered in family photos behind me. I'm wearing a button up shirt and tie, and I have dyed fluorescent yellow hair -- which I dyed to match the walls of the apartment I was living in. On the photo print I wrote in Wite-Out "May 9" to advertise this concert. Wish I could find that funny photo.
The Harmonic Series Of Transpositions Of A Twelve Tone Row Going Out Of Phase With Each Other by Jonathan Marmor
John Heitzenrater: Bassoon, Percussion Jonathan Marmor: Tape Recorder, Percussion November 22, 1997
On March 2nd, 1996 Rudi put on a concert in his basement. The band he had with Ari, Ben, and Laurence played. Was that Fast Orange? Maybe Max played some records. And I played this. We were kids.