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Category: On the Beat
1 June 2021
–>Seungmin Cha<–
Loop-Based Music
I first met Seungmin Cha back in 2010, a Daegeum (Traditional Korean Bamboo Flute) player who was visiting New York as a recipient of a government funded cultural exchange grant. I had attended her …
16 May 2021
Greenbaum & Wolpe have much in common.
Here they are, side by side. Grateful to Momenta String Quartet for caring for this music.
Greenbaum
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry–
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvl-fO9qVqI
Wolpe
String …
9 March 2021
Do you like your authenticity plain or with tinctures?
–spices, bitters, memories of ornamentation, of styles?
—As always—click and listen. Don’t read!—
Above–a Bernard Maybeck building. Maybeck’s work …
5 March 2021
RSF/Marsyas is hoping to include this on an upcoming release of music by David Loeb.
Gaunkyo
for sho and viol quartet
In Gaunkyo David Loeb combines the Japanese shō with archaic Western string instruments–viols. Likewise, modal melodies and …
3 March 2021
We’re exploring the great work of pianist/composer Robert Helps
So grateful to Jay Source and Andrea Lodge for this performance of the masterpiece, A Mixture of Time. As is so often the case, a composer’s guitar piece is the …
19 November 2020
Migratory V and SoundScore Present
M u s i c - i n - t h e - T i m e - o f - C o v i d-19
Molly Morkoski performs
Nocturne in the Age of Covid-19
by Gary Philo
GARY PHILO, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, grew up in Yorktown Heights, NY, …
12 November 2020
Flat Earth & Aggregates
(wonky, for musicians, but not wonky enough for theorists)
In the early 16th Century Magellan circumnavigated the globe. At around the same time, musicians navigated the circle of fifths. During the few moments when the US …
12 November 2020
November 12, 2020 Dan Lippel & New Focus Records produces a recording of Charles Wuorinen’s Electric Quartet (2013)
Dan Lippel, Oren Fader, John Chang and William Anderson, guitars
Ryan Streber, producer/engineer – Oktaven Studios, Mount …
