Mark Applebaum - Sock Monkey

Sock Monkey, the follow up to 2004's Catfish (Tzadik), and the latest of a whole string of albums on Innova, starts off with a fine example of Applebaum's exuberant postmodernism, in the form of Magnetic North (2006), a 14-minute adventure scored for brass quintet and percussion with occasional interpolated cadenzas from an additional soloist, in this case Applebaum himself on his self-designed mouseketier (an electroacoustic sound sculpture incorporating amplified bits of junk and toys, whose already strange sounds are further transformed electronically).

1. Magnetic North - 2006 (14:18)

brass quintet, percussion, soloist

Meridian Arts Ensemble

Mark Applebaum, solo mouseketier sound-sculpture



2. The Composer’s Middle Period - 2007 (3:25)

oboe, bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, cello

sfSound

Christopher Jones, conductor



3. Theme in Search of Variations I - 2004 (3:46)

percussion trio

Florian Conzetti, Christopher Froh, Terry Longshore, percussion

Christopher Jones, conductor



4. Theme In Search of Variations II - 2007 (4:39)

clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, cello

sfSound



5. Theme In Search of Variations III - 2008 (4:33)

flute, trumpet, piano, percussion

Beta Collide



6. Variations on Variations on a Theme by Mozart - 2006 (6:09)

18 prepared pianos

Mark Applebaum, prepared piano



7. Entre Funérailles I - 1999 (2:21)

solo trumpet

Brian McWhorter, trumpet



Martian Anthropology 7, 8 & 9 - 2006 (14:03)

8. Martian Anthropology 7 4:21

9. Martian Anthropology 8 4:39

10. Martian Anthropology 9 5:03

crackleboxes, samplers, electric guitar, bricolage drumset, violin, bass clarinet

Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band



11. On the Nature of the Modern Age - 2005 (8:53)

piano duo & live electronics

duo runedako



12. Sock Monkey - 2007 (9:22) Sorry! This track has an error and it is not available. Sorry!

Stanford Symphony Orchestra

Jindong Cai, conductor