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SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century
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| SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century | ||
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| Studio album by Sonic Youth | ||
| Released | November 16, 1999 | |
| Recorded | March – August 1999 | |
| Genre | 20th century classical music | |
| Length | 105:42 | |
| Label | SYR | |
| Producer(s) | Sonic Youth | |
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| Sonic Youth chronology | ||
 Silver Session for Jason Knuth (1998) |
 SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century (1999) |
 NYC Ghosts & Flowers (2000) |
SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century is a double album of covers of Avant-garde recordings by Sonic Youth and collaborators.
Contents |
- "Edges" (Christian Wolff) – 16:03
- "Six (3rd Take)" (John Cage) – 3:03
- "Six for New Time" (Pauline Oliveros) – 8:06
- "+-" (Takehisa Kosugi) – 7:01
- "Voice Piece for Soprano" (Yoko Ono) – 0:17
- "Pendulum Music" (Steve Reich) – 5:55
- "Having Never Written a Note for Percussion" (James Tenney) – 9:09
- "Six (4th Take)" (John Cage ) – 2:10
- "Burdocks" (Christian Wolff) – 13:12
- "Four6" (John Cage) – 30:01
- "Piano Piece #13 (Carpenter's Piece)" for Nam June (George Maciunas) – 3:58 (This piece is literally piano keys being nailed down one by one - the disc contains a Quicktime of one performance of the piece.)
- "Pièce enfantine" (Nicolas Slonimsky) – 1:28
- "Treatise (Page 183)" (Cornelius Cardew) – 3:25
- The first disc contains a Quicktime video of a performance of "Piano Piece #13 (Carpenter's Piece)," which shows Sonic Youth nailing piano keys down, one by one.
- The recordings were also released on vinyl as a double album with a slightly different order of the tracks, this is due to the side length constrains of the LP format.
Sonic Youth: Kim Gordon / Lee Ranaldo / Steve Shelley / Thurston Moore with: William Winant / Jim O'Rourke / Takehisa Kosugi / Christian Wolff / Christian Marclay / Coco Hayley Gordon Moore / Wharton Tiers
Produced by Sonic Youth with William Winant and Jim O'Rourke recorded and mixed March-August 1999, NYC Recorded by: Wharton Tiers with Luc Suer Mastered by Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound Graphics: Chris Habib