Time is completely variable, as Einstein theorized, and as these miniatures prove. In this episode of American Highways, pianist Guy Livingston brings us some of the shortest music ever written.

Some are pieces that attempt to stretch time out beyond their tiny length, others bring us into new worlds. Most are from Guy Livingston’s CD entitled “Don’t Panic” for solo piano.

AMERICAN HIGHWAYS #96 SHORT CUTS (the shortest music)

Theme Music:

Jan Jeroen (J.J.) Spijkervet & Immersive Sound

“American Highways” Jingle

Sounds About Right

composed for Concertzender

Ned McGowan

Pneumatic Screed Extension Handle Cover

Hexnut

Karnatic Lab KLR 013

George Antheil

Antheil: Six Little Pieces For String Quartet (1931)

Allegro

Del Sol Quartet

Other Minds (distr Naxos) OM1008-2

William Bolcom & Arnold Weinstein

Surprise!

Bengt-Ake Lundin & Malena Ernman

BIS ‎– BIS-CD-1154

Henry Cowell

What’s This (First Encore to ‘Dynamic Motion’)

Amiable Conversation (Second Encore)

Henry Cowell, piano

Smithsonian Folkways

Guy Livingston

Antheil’s Dream

Guy Livingston, electronics

Unpublished

Charles Ives

Mirage

Ann Street

Antoine Palloc & Rayanne Dupuis

SOUPIR Editions (S221)

William Bolcom

Songs To Dance –

I Am Not Free

This is a Face

Since I Have

William Bolcom, piano; Carole Farley soprano

Naxos 8.559249

Ned McGowan

Tools –

Hexnut

Pneumatic Screed

Hexnut Ensemble

Karnatic Lab KLR 013

Charles Ives

Maple Leaves

Remembrance

Antoine Palloc, piano; Rayanne Dupuis, soprano

SOUPIR Editions (S221)

Martin Fondse

Extra Time, The 60 Seconds Way

VII. Country Life

III. Time to Make a Difference

V. Chrono Logic

Toonzaal

Amstel Quartet

AR 009

Ned McGowan

Tools – Pneumatic Screed Extension Handle

Hexnut Ensemble

Karnatic Lab KLR 013

traditional

Mantchieche

Jean-Emile Biayenda

ARB Music 3597496936427

David Robbins/Marc Blitzstein

Let’s Do Something

David Campbell, Steven Tyler, Erin Hill, Dan Jenkins

RCA Victor 09026-63577-2

Jonathan Norton 59” of Piano

Alan Shockley cold springs branch, 10 p.m.

Moritz Eggert Hämmerklavier XI

Derek Bermel MEDITATION

Tuyet A. Tran Tonal Imagery

Fritz Lauer Slusha, for C.E.

William Bolcom A 60-second Ballet (for chickens)

Joshua Cody Two-Chord Warp

Joanna Bailie GIRO 1

Martial Robert 1’ de Tonio Kröger

Patricia Elizabeth Martinez Absolutis-s

Riccardo Vaglini PASSATEMPO

Gene Pritsker im afraid you might ask for a fragment of my soul

Newt Hinton Nakano-ku (à S.D.)

Ketty Nez Moondrunk

Patrick Cahallan xxx.rhapsody

Yoichi Togawa prelude 1

Barbara Engel Punch and Judy’s Waltz

Joseph Butch Rovan Miro Sketch: Mostly Yellow

Frederick Frahm Sonata Moirai

Victor Ekimovsky Jenseits des Guten und des Bösen

Alper Maral Verschiebung

Stéphane Leach Piano Piece for Guy

Ketzel Cotel piece for paws

Vanessa Lann DD (Double D)

Walter Haven Minute Rice

Giovanni Mancuso Saltarello for Guy

Sergio Pallante Polis

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