Form without a fixed frame
Across the session, different practices meet: composed miniatures, extended vocal work, percussive focus, damaged instruments and electronic sustain. The shared thread is careful placement rather than a common style.
Typecast 39 · Listening session
Composer Mix
A deliberately wide-ranging session from percussionist Jon Mueller, moving through vocal, percussion, orchestral and electronic work with an ear for structure, space and repetition.
Listening notes
A sequence of distinct compositional worlds
The session is not organised around a single genre or period. Instead, it follows a sense of flow: pieces with strong internal movement, unusual instrumental colour and a lasting capacity for attentive listening.
- 01
Georges Gurdjieff / Thomas de Hartmann
A selection from the Oriental Suites, chosen for its poised movement and the clear relationship between melody, pulse and imagined dance.
- 02
Fritz Hauser
A percussion work marked by restraint and expressive detail, where precision leaves room for a vivid physical presence.
- 03
Anton Batagov
Music from The Wheel of the Law, with a small group of instrumental elements weaving around one another in a long, balanced continuum.
- 04
David Hykes
A Harmonic Choir selection that treats the voice as a finely textured instrument, revealing close detail in sustained vocal sound.
- 05
Katharina Klement
A piece from Beton, included as an early point of connection with Klement's work and its distinctive attention to material and form.
- 06
Ross Bolleter
Music made with weathered pianos whose altered condition becomes part of the composition's colour, resonance and timing.
- 07
David First
A sustained electronic work selected for its place beside the session's longer tones and slowly changing acoustic detail.
- 08
Roger Doyle
A favourite selection from The Ninth Set, bringing a focused electronic atmosphere to the latter part of the sequence.
- 09
Robert Haigh
A calm closing work from Juliet of the Spirits, chosen for its melodic clarity and quietly resolving character.
How this typecast unfolds
- Begin with melodic and movement-led works.
- Move into percussion, voice and unusual instrumental textures.
- Stay with the long tones and shifting details in the later selections.
- Let Robert Haigh's closing piece settle the sequence.
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