Mixtapes
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Eighth Blackbird's Rough-and-Ready Free-for-All
Grammy-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird keeps a busy concert schedule, including premieres from Aaron Jay Kernis, Bryce Dessner and Steve Mackey in 2013 alone. Listen to their "free-for-all" Mixtape.
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Mark Dancigers with Music that Moves
Composer and electric guitarist Mark Dancigers is Artistic Director of the New York-based NOW Ensemble. His Mixtape includes music by Paul Lansky, Jan Gabarek as well as fellow composer-guitarist Steven Mackey.
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Olga Bell with Music that Challenges
Composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Olga Bell has collaborated with Osvaldo Golijov, Philip Glass and the hip hop group Das Racist. Bell appeared as part of last weekend's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry festival at BAM.
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Julia Holter: Music to Hear Now
Today's mixtape comes courtesy of Los Angeles-based experimental singer/songwriter Julia Holter, a featured artist in this week's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, a festival that blurs the boundaries of indie rock and contemporary classical music.
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Adams to Zappa with Richard Einhorn
Alongside concert works like Voices of Light: The Passion of Joan of Arc, Richard Einhorn's credits include scores for Emmy and Academy Award winning films. Hear his Mixtape.
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Grooves, Pulses/Florals and Lines with Vicky Chow
A fixture in New York's new-music scene, pianist Vicky Chow has worked with a formidable and varied roster of composers and performers. Her mixtape includes favorites from Florent Ghys, Donnacha Dennehy, Nik Bartsch and more.
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Rocking Hard and Subverting Expectations with Dan...
With commissions from the Kronos Quartet and the Minnesota Orchestra and an upcoming Carnegie Hall premiere, composer Dan Visconti is impressively busy. Hear his Mixtape.
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Attacca Quartet Presents Music for Your Next Car Ride
The Attacca Quartet recently released its debut album of John Adams's complete string quartets with a performance featuring the composer himself. Here the ensemble presents a Mixtape of favorite car ride music.
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The Symbiosis of Composer and Performer According to...
Evan Ziporyn has written for Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, Kronos Quartet and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. He cofounded the Bang on a Can All-Stars and is the founder of Gamelon Galak Tika. His Mixtape celebrates the duality of composer and performer.
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Sarah Kirkland Snider: A Smattering of Notes and Rhythms
Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider has worked with a who's-who of the new-music world, including ACME, Roomful of Teeth, Signal and NOW Ensemble. She also a cofounder of New Amsterdam records. Last month, her song cycle Unremembered premiered at the Ecstatic Music Festival.
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Accounting in Reverse with Jayson Greene
Jayson Greene has an omnivorous musical appetite. Managing Editor for eMusic and a writer for Pitchfork and the Village Voice, he's also a classically trained musician. His mixtape stretches from Debussy to Suzanne Ciani and Elliott Carter.
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A Tribute to My Teachers
Composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel has worked with diverse cross-section of the new-music community, including Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Mos Def and eighth blackbird. His Mixtape is a tribute to his teachers which include Louis Andriessen and Henri Dutilleux.
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Marvin Lin on the Proliferation of Electrical Currents
Marvin Lin is the editor-in-chief of the webzine Tiny Mix Tapes. His Mixtape tours the history of electronic music, from Duchamp to Matmos.
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In the Hot Zone with Jack Quartet
Jack Quartet has become somewhat of a lynchpin of New York City's burgeoning new-music scene. Jack offers an hour of music by friends, colleagues and their own violinist Christopher Otto.
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'And Then It Hit Me...' by Andrew Norman
Pulitzer Prize finalist Andrew Norman was a featured composer for the New York Philharmonic's CONTACT! series. His Mixtape features music that blew him away on the first listen.
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Melissa Smey and the Composers of Miller Theatre
Melissa Smey is the Director of the Miller Theatre at Columbia University. Her Mixtape includes several composers from the venue's Composer Portrait series, which begins its spring season on February 9.
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Order Never Mattered: Andy Akiho
The music of rising composer Andy Akiho has been performed by Eighth Blackbird, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Ethel String Quartet. His mixtape features pieces from Debussy to Feldman.
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Feast of Music's Mixed Bag
Peter Matthews is the founder of Feast of Music, a blog covering live music in New York City. His genre-spanning Mixtape includes music by Adams, Coltrane, Messiaen and Muhly.
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New York, Mid-Winter with Laurie Spiegel
Since the reissue of her seminal 1980 debut album "The Expanding Universe," computer music pioneer Laurie Spiegel has enjoyed a resurgence of attention. She offers music for the season on this week's Mixtape.
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Nils Frahm's Music For The End Of The World
Delicate and introspective, the music of Nils Frahm carries a certain chilled, wintery character. For his Mixtape, the pianist-producer offers a playlist of post-holiday music taken from his vinyl collection.
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Transcendent Music with Paul Lansky
In addition to his landmark work in computer music, the composer Paul Lansky has worked with So Percussion, David Starobin and the Brentano String Quartet.
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A Baroque Minimalism with Gregory Spears
Composer Gregory Spears has collaborated with So Percussion, Eighth Blackbird and JACK quartet among others. His Mixtape illustrates his fascination with the parallels between early and contemporary music - a juxtaposition in his own music.
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Christopher Tignor's Portrait of a 20-Something Kid
Composer/violinist Christopher Tignor has worked with a healthy cross section of the new-music community, from Brooklyn Rider string quartet to the string orchestra A Far Cry. He also leads the bands Slow Six and Wires Under Tension.
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Steven Schick on New Noise and Old Friends
A founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars and red fish blue fish, percussionist Steven Schick is currently Artist in Residence with the International Contemporary Ensemble.
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Paul Corley on Landscapes and Ambiences
Composer and sound recordist Paul Corley released his debut album "Disquiet" earlier this month on Iceland's Bedroom Community label.
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Beyond the Limits of Language with John Supko
Combining electronics and found sounds with more conventional orchestration, the music of John Supko often carries an otherworldly quality. Not surprisingly, his Mixtape features music with similar qualities.
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The Women Behind Maya Beiser
Cellist Maya Beiser has dedicated her career to pushing the limits of her instrument's repertoire, working with a diverse array of collaborators, from Tan Dun to Brian Eno, Steve Reich and Mark O'Connor.
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Roomful of Teeth and The World's Oldest Instrument
This Mixtape comes from conductor, singer and composer Brad Wells, who founded the a cappella octet Roomful of Teeth in 2009 with the intention of updating vocal music with a 21st Century bent toward technique and eclecticism.
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A Dialogue Between Human and Automatic Performers
Argentinian-born composer and conductor Sebastian Zubieta is currently the music director at Americas Society, an organization dedicated to education, social change and cultural dialogue in and between the Americas.
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Kevin Puts on Different Ways to Perceive Beauty
The winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for his opera Silent Night, composer Kevin Puts shares his mixtape, which includes pieces by Steve Reich, John Adams, Michael Torke and other composers.
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Face the Music's Peripatetic Playlist
Kaufman Center's Face the Music is an "alt-classical" ensemble of more than a hundred talented teenagers under the direction of conductor Jenny Undercofler. Listen to their mixtape.
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The Bedroom Community of Iceland's Valgeir Sigurosson
Composer, producer and founder of Iceland's Bedroom Community record label, Valgeir Sigurosson has become a lynchpin for Iceland's indie rock and classical scenes. He shares his Mixtape.
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Eric Jacobsen's Rainy Day Mixtape
A member of Brooklyn Rider string quartet, The Knights, Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project and Mark O'Connor's String Quartet, cellist and conductor Eric Jacobsen has recorded works by everyone from Jimi Hendrix and Osvaldo Golijov to Shostakovich.
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The World of Music: David Harrington's Mixtape
For this week's mixtape violinist David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet offers a playlist that?jumps freely across time periods and continents, from Eric Satie to Nam June Paik to traditional Scandinavian folk music.
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Listen: Unreleased Philip Glass Mixtape
Richard Guerin of Philip Glass's Orange Mountain Music label culls an hour of unreleased Glass, from a four-guitar arrangement of the composer's third string quartet to a student work from his days with Nadia Boulanger to a sneak peek at his Symphony No. 10.
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Really Old & Really New with Scott Johnson
This week's mixtape comes courtesy of guitarist and composer Scott Johnson who has, for the last 30 odd years, explored the parallels of speech and music while straddling the worlds of popular and classical music.
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'Melody Tucked Within Textures' with Anna Clyne
This mixtape comes from the Chicago Symphony's composer-in-residence Anna Clyne, who has been commissioned by ETHEL, Metropolis Ensemble, London Sinfonietta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, among others.
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B-Hold the B-Sides with Corey Dargel
Brooklyn-based composer Corey Dargel presents a collection of compositions by a cross-section of contemporary composers that are either out of print or have never been commercially released.
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Bruce Brubaker's Choice of the Unexpected
On Wednesday at 3 pm, new-music pianist Bruce Brubaker offers an hour of music ranging from Meredith Monk to Missy Mazzoli to Django Reinhardt's Quintette du Hot Club de France.
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Involuntary Songs with Bill Bragin
Declared "one of the most influential figures in the New York live-music business" by The New York Times, Bill Bragin is the director of public programming at Lincoln Center. Bragin presents a playlist that runs from contemporary classical to world music, post-rock and beyond.
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Music for an Anxious and Materialistic Week
Brooklyn-based composer-pianist Timothy Andres has carved himself a formidable niche in New York's new-music scene. For this week's mixtape, he offers a summertime playlist that ranges from Schumann to Squarepusher.
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Temporal Juxtapositions with Francesco Tristano
In this week's episode of Mixtapes, provocative pianist Francesco Tristano assembles an hour of music from Desprez to Alvin Curran that charts his eclectic musical trajectory.
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Brad Lubman: Cutting a Playlist Four Ways
Composer and conductor Brad Lubman, music director of the ensemble Signal, has worked with everyone from the Los Angeles Philharmonic to the Chicago Symphony to Steve Reich and Musicians.
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Andrew McKenna Lee: Reconciling a Myriad of Influences
Composer Andrew McKenna Lee has composed works for groups like the Brentano String Quartet, eighth blackbird and the Los Angeles Philharmonic but he's also jammed with rock legends such as Billy Idol and former Sex Pistols?guitarist Steve Jones.
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Eric Huebner Presents Modern Classics of Avant-Garde...
Today's mixtape comes courtesy of Eric Huebner, pianist for the New York Philharmonic and assistant professor of music at the University at Buffalo, and includes music by Bill Evans, John Cage and Roger Reynolds.
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Johann Johannsson
Today's mixtape comes courtesy of Icelandic composer?Johann Johannsson.
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Anna Thorvaldsdottir
This week's Q2 Music Mixtape comes courtesy of Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir, whose debut record Rhizoma was released late last year on Innova. Tune in for a playlist that ranges from Kaija?Saariaho to Japanese composer pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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Rhys Chatham Presents Composer/Trumpet Players
Today's mixtape comes courtesy of composer, guitarist, and trumpet player Rhys Chatham.
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Julia Holter: Music to Hear Now
Today's mixtape comes courtesy of Los Angeles-based experimental singer/songwriter Julia Holter, whose recent album Ekstasis is itself as much "new music" as it is "indie rock."
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Ross Simonini: Music that Defines and Undefines "New...
This week's mixtape comes courtesy of Ross Simonini, interviews editor for The Believer magazine and member of the band NewVillager.
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Peter Broderick Spins Arvo Part, Brian Eno and More
Today's mixtape comes courtesy of Berlin-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick.
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Dither: Toggling Improviser, Composer, and Interpreter
Listen to the latest by New York guitar quartet Dither.
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Steve Smith on Headstrong Ideas and Sonic Gateway Drugs
Today's mixtape comes courtesy of Steve Smith, music editor at Time Out New York and classical music critic for the New York Times.
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