A video opera featuring bugs, ghosts, planes, water, bees, moons, suburbs, sounds, falls, woods, bricks, spies, ash, dogs… Created by Allison Clendaniel and James Young Commissioned by the High Zero Foundation as part of Red Room in Your Room
Documentaire réalisé par Dorian Supin sur Arvo Pärt en 2002. Il propose portrait du compositeur s’étendant sur trois ans, montrant les répétitions, les rencontres, l’ordinaire d’un créateur. Site officiel d’Arvo Pärt : http://ow.ly/LlHX301SYNL. Mise en ligne par Arthur Yasmine, poète vivant. → chaîne youtube principale : http://ow.ly/ZRqCW
Meditatio Synzygia is a concert meditation that peers through the intersections where science and art meet. From the ancient Greek, “suzugos” meaning “yoked together”, syzygy has been referred to as a “union of opposites.” In this fixed media electroacoustic composition, the similarities that bind seemingly opposite elements are examined; consonance and dissonance, drone and chime, […]
Steve Reich, called “our greatest living composer” by the New York Times, discusses his career and the current state of contemporary classical music with Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Justin Davidson, of New York magazine. The conversation will be preceded by a performance by Reich and friends of Reich’s famous Clapping Music and Mallet Quartet. A […]
The 2013 performance of Rasmus Zwickis Last Symphony, with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra and Baldur Brönnimann. Actress: Gry Guldager Slowmotionperformer: Martin Fayard Gammelgaard 1st Violin: Julie Eskær Kreeta-Julia Heikkilä Ivar Bremer Hauge Marianne Sørensen Walter Gaffron Niels-Ulrik Sahl Christensen Monika Malmquist Larsen Patricia Mia Andersen 2nd Violin: Christine Enevold Tino Fjeldli Peter Piotr Gasior […]
Premiere. Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Eckehard Stier, with Sally-Anne Russell (alto). Words by Panni Palasti. This film was made as part of the Resound project at SOUNZ, with funding from NZ On Air. Audio kindly supplied by Radio New Zealand Concert. For programme note, composer biography, score sample, performance history and more, visit http://sounz.org.nz/works/show/21262
Selected songs from the premiere performance by Jenny Wollerman (soprano), Karen Batten (flute/piccolo) and Emma Sayers (piano) at the Adam Chamber Music Festival, Nelson, New Zealand, Waitangi Day 2013. This film was made as part of the Resound project at SOUNZ, with funding from NZ On Air. For programme note, composer biography, score sample, performance […]
Performed by Stroma (conductor Hamish McKeich) at the Hunter Council Chamber, 1 September 2013. Audio by Thomas Voyce. This film was made as part of the Resound project at SOUNZ, with funding from NZ On Air. For programme note, composer biography, score sample, performance history and more, visit http://sounz.org.nz/works/show/19362
Performed by Gao Ping (piano) and the New Zealand String Quartet at “Journey to the East – Concert Two” – 5 October 2013, Hunter Council Chamber, Victoria University of Wellington. Audio recorded by Radio New Zealand Concert. This film was made as part of the Resound project at SOUNZ, with funding from NZ On Air. […]
World premiere performance, by Bella Hristova (violin) and the Southern Sinfonia (conductor Tecwyn Evans) at the Dunedin Town Hall, 31 May 2014. Audio recorded by Radio New Zealand Concert.
Performed by the Auckland Chamber Orchestra (musical director Peter Scholes) with Ben Hoadley, bassoon at the Raye Freedman Centre, Auckland, 23 November 2014. Audio provided by Radio New Zealand Concert.
A full length documentary about the Low Noise2 exhibition at Toi Poneke Gallery (February-March 2015). Featuring interviews with artists Jason Wright (curator), Richard Robertshawe, Mo H. Zareei, Paul Mathews, Blake Johnston and Timothy J. Barraclough. Original concept and audio post-production by Jason Post. Film made by Chris Watson for the Resound project at SOUNZ, funded […]
Performed by the Auckland Philharmonia, conductor Garry Walker with solo violinist Ilya Gringolts at the Auckland Town Hall, 19 February 2015. Audio recorded by Radio New Zealand Concert.
Joo Won performs his electroacoustic solo set consisting of pieces for toy instruments, no-input mixer, custom synthesizer, computer, and slinky. Retrace Toccata Fireflies and Cicadas Introvert Large Intestine Elegy Performed at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as part of the 2015 New Music Gathering
Cornelus Cardew opus magnum’s Treatise. As i prepared it for a concert in 2013 and needed something to take care of the page turning , i got the idea to use Metasynth to hear how it can sound. After some plug in effects i got this monstruous piece, surely the harshest i ever compose. Main […]
New Thread Quartet’s premiere performance of Ben Hjertmann’s commissioned piece “Sunstruck” on Sept 28, 2014. This project was supported by New Music USA. http://www.newthreadquartet.com/ Sunstruck is an expansive work focused on intuition. The piece was composed freely at the piano in its entirety before the editing process began, in order to preserve the initial intuitive […]
→ WATCH THIS ON BR.TV: http://bit.ly/1IzJkpl → SUBSCRIBE TO BOILER ROOM: http://bit.ly/1bkrHWL This winter, we broadcast a very special performance from Manchester’s Albert Hall with Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and the prodigiously talented soloists of the London Contemporary Orchestra. Keen to reimagine the limitations of traditional classical concerts, Greenwood and the LCO invited the audience to […]
Welcome by New Music Gathering Co-Founders: Lainie Fefferman Daniel Felsenfeld Mary Kouyoumdjian Matt Marks Greeting from San Francisco Conservatory of Music President David H. Stull Keynote Address Claire Chase
World premiere performance of “Cinquillamente” by José Guillermo Puello at the International Flute Symposium in Morgantown, West Virginia. July 2013. The Fourth Wall, hybrid arts ensemble Hilary Abigana, flute C. Neil Parsons, bass trombone Greg Jukes, percussion www.thefourthwallensemble.com
“A profile of composer Steve Reich, a leading creator of stripped-down, “minimal” music. The program explores how Reich’s music eventually became accessible to the musical audience at large. Included are interviews with the composer himself, and contemporaries, and also performances of some of his works.”
The La Jolla Symphony presents the North American premiere of Philip Glass’ Cello Concerto. In addition to the dynamic performance, this program features comments from renowned cellist Wendy Sutter, conductor Steven Schick, and the composer himself. [2/2008] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 13829]
Opera audiences are well acquainted with all manners of intrigue — whether political, romantic or psychological. The exciting American composer Nico Muhly is updating that paradigm to the 21st century with his opera Two Boys. This work, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, is loosely based on a true story from the 1990s, just at the […]
Soundstreams presented this work at ‘The Music of Arvo Pärt’ concert that took place on October 1, 2013 at Koerner Hall in Toronto (Canada) and was performed by Choir 21, Virtuoso String Orchestra and Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor). In an interview in Toronto in the 1980’s, Pärt shared his personal definition of minimalism as the process […]
This documentary shows Arvo Pärt at home with his family and working in his study. He is interviewed/provides voiceover in Estonian/Russian with subtitled English translations. Concert rehearsals (The Hilliard Ensemble/ Western Wind Choir/Paul Hillier) (unknown Finnish choir & orchestra/Eri Klas) and a studio session (Arvo Pärt: Yamaha DX7 keyboard, Jan Garbarek: tenor saxophone & Manfred […]
Robert Black, Bass Guitar | Vicky Chow, Piano | David Cossin – Drums | Derek Johnson, Guitar | Mark Stewart – Guitar | Evan Ziporyn – Piano The Bang on a Can All-Stars perform Steve Reich’s complete 2×5.
Directed by Robert Withers. 1979, 25 min. A re-creation for film of Meredith Monk’s seminal dance/theater work incorporating film and original music, voice, guitar, and audiotapes. Originally performed in 1966, Judson Memorial Church, New York. Festival International du Jeune Cinema, France, 1980 Dance on Camera Festival, 1979
City Life – STEVE REICH performing by ENSEMBLE MODERN conducting BRAD LUBMAN visuals TEMPORARY SPACE DESIGN [www.temporaryspacedesign.com] 9. FESTIVAL SACRUM PROFANUM 2011
Details on how to get your own New York School of Synthesis Ts here: http://www.matrixsynth.com/2013/11/ne… Details & All Parts to Intro to Synthesis: http://www.matrixsynth.com/2012/01/in… Part 3 of an introduction to synthesis by Dean Friedman back in the day. When he’s not twiddling LFO knobs and envelope sliders, Dean’s an indie recording artist with a slew […]
Details on how to get your own New York School of Synthesis Ts here: http://www.matrixsynth.com/2013/11/ne… Details & All Parts to Intro to Synthesis: http://www.matrixsynth.com/2012/01/in… Part 2 of an introduction to synthesis by Dean Friedman back in the day. When he’s not twiddling LFO knobs and envelope sliders, Dean’s an indie recording artist with a slew […]
Details on how to get your own New York School of Synthesis T-shirt here: http://www.matrixsynth.com/2013/11/ne… Details & All Parts to Intro to Synthesis: http://www.matrixsynth.com/2012/01/in… Also see: The Yamaha DX7 II FD D Video Manual by The N.Y. School of Synthesis here: http://www.matrixsynth.com/2013/12/th… An introduction to synthesis by Dean Friedman back in the day. When he’s […]
It Is Time, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for composer Steve Mackey and the four-member ensemble So Percussion, engages our perception of time and our desire to control and manipulate it. When performed live, the concert includes projected films and staging for the musicians created by director Mark DeChiazza. In this video, DeChiazza interprets So Percussion’s […]
www.dalniente.com A cornerstone of the 2012-13 season, Dal Niente presented the Chicago premiere of Haas’ In Vain on February 28, 2013 at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, a work regarded by many to be the first musical masterpiece of the 21st century. Inspired in part by the composer’s discontent toward far-right political victories […]