Ecstatic Music Marathon: Part 2
This second installment of the Ecstatic Music Festival Marathon showcases Bang On A Can All-Stars past and present; Vicky Chow, Ashley Bathgate and Lisa Moore alongside the NOW Ensemble, Corey Dargel,...
View ArticlePlays Well With Others
When discussing the behavioral patterns of the composer phylum, one often differentiates between solo fliers and school swimmers. Another way for these creatures organize themselves, however, is in...
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Jordi Savall's 'The Borgia Dynasty'
The Borgias, the famously sinister Spanish noble clan who ruled Renaissance Rome and the Catholic Church, have been part of popular culture for centuries. But they’re now having a moment: Showtime...
View ArticleNew Wave, Old School
Our live chat with The Chiara Quartet's Rebecca Fischer and Jonah Sirota begins Monday at 10 a.m. | Sign up for a reminder now. Duality drives a lot of today’s composers. On the one hand, they continue...
View ArticleNew Music Ensembles
For this New Sounds, we'll hear new releases from the New York-based collective NOW Ensemble and the sax foursome, the PRISM Quartet. Three of NOW's founding members are composers, including Judd...
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Don't Mess Up. Listen to This.
Listen to Chiara Quartet, NOW Ensemble and Matmos share a concert bill that spans the outer reaches of haunting string quartets, groovy electronic experimentalism and instrumental chamber pop...
View ArticleDowntown, Then and Now
Take a dip into minimal hypnotic music with something from composer/professor (theory and history of sound!) Anthony Moore and composer/artist Alexis Georgopoulos, who goes by “Arp.” Moore was...
View ArticleExtended Play with JACK Quartet, Imani Winds, Dither, and NOW Ensemble
The ferociously fearless JACK Quartet hosted Extended Play, SONiC's all day marathon of New Music featuring some of the most innovative ensembles New York City has to offer. The nine hour extravaganza...
View ArticleJudd Greenstein: Pulsating Complexity with Indie-Classical Populism
Few composers personify New York's young new-music scene in quite the same way as Judd Greenstein. As a composer, he has been commissioned by the ETHEL string quartet and by the Minnesota Orchestra....
View ArticleAwake with NOW Ensemble, Chiara and Matmos
On May 6, 2011, the NOW Ensemble, Chiara Quartet and Matmos celebrated two CD releases with a performance at the Greenwich Village venue, (le) Poisson Rouge. Join us this Thursday at 7 pm to hear the...
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Ecstatic Music Festival: Dan Deacon with NOW Ensemble & the Calder Quartet
The celebrated New York-born composer and electronic musician Dan Deacon returns to the Ecstatic Music Festival following last year’s sold-out collaboration with So Percussion. This time around, Deacon...
View ArticleListen Now: Dan Deacon, NOW Ensemble and Calder Quartet
On Tuesday, March 20 at 7:30 pm ET, Q2 Music and New Sounds Live present a live audio webcast of composer and indie heavyweight Dan Deacon from Merkin Concert Hall's Ecstatic Music Festival. Following...
View ArticleLive from Ecstatic Music 2012: Dan Deacon, Part 1
For this New Sounds program, we’ll listen to some more highlights from the New Sounds Live concert series at Merkin Hall, collaborating with the 2012 Ecstatic Music Festival. Hear Dan Deacon’s...
View ArticleLive from Ecstatic Music 2012: Dan Deacon, Part 2
For this New Sounds program, we’ll listen to part two of the New Sounds Live/Ecstatic Music Festival concert with Dan Deacon. Hear Deacon’s “An Opal Toad with Obsidian Eyes,” as an entire movement of...
View ArticleGuitars Plus
On this New Sounds, listen to pieces combining guitar(s) and strings with quasi-orchestral sounds, including a preview of the forthcoming record by guitar virtuoso Kaki King (pictured left), that...
View ArticleNew Music Ensembles
For this New Sounds, we'll hear new releases from the New York-based collective NOW Ensemble and the sax foursome, the PRISM Quartet. Three of NOW's founding members are composers, including Judd...
View ArticleMissy Mazzoli's Song from the Uproar
This audio is no longer available.Listeners familiar with the music of composer Missy Mazzoli are unlikely to be shocked by her latest CD, Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle...
View ArticleLive from Ecstatic Music 2012: Dan Deacon, Part 1
For this New Sounds program, we’ll listen to some more highlights from the New Sounds Live concert series at Merkin Hall, collaborating with the 2012 Ecstatic Music Festival. Hear Dan Deacon’s...
View ArticleLive from Ecstatic Music 2012: Dan Deacon, Part 2
For this New Sounds program, we’ll listen to part two of the New Sounds Live/Ecstatic Music Festival concert with Dan Deacon. Hear Deacon’s “An Opal Toad with Obsidian Eyes,” as an entire movement of...
View ArticleNew Music Ensembles
For this New Sounds, we'll hear new releases from the New York-based collective NOW Ensemble and the sax foursome, the PRISM Quartet. Three of NOW's founding members are composers, including Judd...
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