Boston based RAHA Duo (violist Amelia Hollander Ames and keyboardist Elaine Rombola Aveni perform Emily Koh's "{plithe" off of their debut July 2024 release, "Swirl"
Koh focuses on the tactile mechanism of sound production on both toy piano and viola. Gestures that initially call the listener’s attention to the physicality of the instruments gradually increase in density.
Harpist Ben Melsky performs Yi-Ting Lu's "Half Decorations" from her May 2024 debut release "An Unopened Seashell"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkI7RkQ0uYY
In performance, the harpist gradually adorns their instrument with Christmas ornaments that function as preparations on the strings, adding timbral variety and an aleatoric element to the performance
Thank you Michael Schell and Sequenza21 for featuring releases from Kate Soper, Wet Ink Ensemble and Ekmeles vocal ensemble in this 2024 roundup
It’s been a somber year, with wars, conflicts, and intractable cultural and political divisions weighing on the lives and thoughts of many, including those with an investment in Western art music. I’ll endeavor to assess the situation not only musically, but also against the backdrop of a serious de
Paul Pinto 's haunting "I pass'd a church" from The Rhythm Method's excellent June 2024 release "Pastorale"
New England Public Media has produced a special feature on John Aylward's two works for stage, Oblivion and Angelus, both released as audio recordings on New Focus. The show, hosted by John Voci, will air and livestream this Sunday at 7PM EST. link to the online stream below, also may be available on NEPM or other NPR affiliates closer to you for the radio broadcast.
https://www.nepm.org/classical/2024-01-10/oblivion-angelus-the-music-of-john-aylward
Oblivion explores the afterlife, in all its spiritual, mythological, and existential aspects. It’s a story of displacement that's part Dante, part David Lynch. Inspired by a Paul Klee painting, Angelus explores the human condition through various cultural histories and the words of a variety of writers.
Vocal music by Jeffrey Gavett, Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau, Aaron Jay Myers, Caroline Shaw, Vid Smooke, Annika Socolofsky, Curtis Stewart & Gayle Young - featuring Sarah Albu, Byrne:Kozar:Duo, Latitude 49, Roomful of Teeth & more - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (7/24/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org
#Radio #Streaming #Boston #ModernClassical #VocalMusic
@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers @NewFocusRecordings @NeumaRecords
Check out Jeremy Shatan @anearful podcast on Spotify, this episode feat. new releases from Claire Chase and Julia Werntz
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1RARgNsVGfC46QGUJuKa1M?si=JBviuh_zTKy3g1k-zKWOgw
Listen to this episode from Discover Music with AnEarful on Spotify. Keep up with all my activities here. The playlist for this episode is here. This is only a selection of the goodness I heard in June 2023, including: Live Reviews: Live Log 2023: MATA Rocks Roulette Live Log 2023: Florist For The Trees Live Log 2023: Geese On The Hudson Albums Matthew Herbert - The Horse Claire Chase - Density 2036 Part VI Part VII Part VIII Julia Werntz - Someone Who Love You Throws Me At You Lawrence Brownlee - Rising Symphony Of Northwest Arkansas - New Canons The Cry - The Cry Ben Carey - Metastability Arthur King - Changing Landscapes (Zompopa) Jeffrey Silverstein - Western Sky Music Anna St. Louis - In The Air Big Blood - First Aid Kit Youth Lagoon - Heaven Is A Junkyard Hand Habits - Sugar On The Bruise Thanks for listening - please rate, review, and share. Much appreciation to all the labels and artists for the use of their music. The interstitial tracks are all from 1984 and are by me, a Casio keyboard, and a Roland drum machine, or my bass and drum machine with Andy Gilchrist on guitar. Thanks as always to The Droplets (Holly Miranda, Amb. Parsley, and Chris Maxwell) for my theme song. Keep up with Eye Knee Records here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeremy-shatan/message
Composer Eric Richards approached listening as an embodied activity, an amalgamation of the auditory, psychological, and emotional experience we have hearing artistic sound. This album, produced by loadbang’s Andy Kozar and Ekmeles’ Jeffrey Gavett, features several of Richards entrancing chamber works performed by Ekmeles, loadbang, Gavett, and Kozar as well as a host of New York based freelancers, and shines a light on a composer whose poetic approach to compositional, observation, and technology has been widely overlooked previously.
8 track album
Out now —
Scott L. Miller: Coincident
A collection of works exploring the potential of telematic collaboration (musicians playing together via remote technology) and graphic score notation
Featuring performances by the Zeitgeist and No Exit ensembles, spoken word poet and performer Joseph Horton, and Miller himself on electronics, Coincident is a continuation of Miller's restless creativity in mining the possibilities afforded by innovations in technology in music
Alley Stoughton