This music is in the process of being documented on five Cds on Umlaut Records, with extensive liner notes by the composer. The first release of the series will be out in January 2014.
Since the cycle has been completed, Ensemble Hodos performs a more condensed overview of Corner's music in one evening of music, entitled Life Work: A Unity. The program aims to show the diversity of approaches that is central to Corner's work, and to put in light the variety of influences that nourished is life and music at different periods.
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program of the five past concerts
may 1st 2011, Paris
1. culture (tradition ; assimilation) 1950-1959
Flux & Form #6, 8, 10 (1958-60)
Flux & Form #2 with Pieces for String Instruments #4
Pieces for String Instruments #3 & 7 (1958)
Seven Joyous Flashes (1958)
Two-Parts Monologues #3 (1957)
guest: Geneviève Foccroulle, piano
october 15th 2011, Paris
2. the world (graphic innovations & indeterminacy) 1960-1975
Exquisitely Sloppy OM
Punkt
Outbreak on the Dancefloor
Straight
pulse (no pulse)
D major chord of the Chopin prelude... as a revelation
Crash Actions
guest: Philip Corner, piano
june 16th 2012
3. mind (instruction pages with examples ; precisions added to freedom) 1972-1989
Gamelan Concert!O
Two French Tritone Dominants... as a revelation
Gamelan S/D
Gamelan Delicate Computations
Gamelan Brossa
guests: Philip Corner, piano ; Michel Vogel, percussion
october 27th 2012
4. body (breakthrough to conscious spontaneity) 1989-1999
Suite in Series
Two Microtonal Memories
Circle
guests: Philip Corner & Phoebe Neville, synthesizer
january 27th 2013
5. spirit ; soul (integration & synthesis) 1999-
!Silence!
Meta-Meta-Meta Hodos (dedicated to Ensemble Hodos)
Chancebeats
Spit that Fire! (the real fugal flight)
Gamelan Dua-Uni (2=1)
Petite fantaisie sur "Les Barricades Mystérieuses" de François Couperin
guests: Philip Corner & Michel Vogel, percussion