Peter Kerkelov describes a recent work ~ Talking about improvisation and chance here I provide a link to my latest composition "Two Symphonies and Postumus" for string quartet. For creating this piece I was inspired by the sound of wind chimes. Not only by their fragile, ringing sound but also by the idea of random … Continue reading New Voice: Peter Kerkelov
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New Voice: Matthew Ricketts
Matthew Ricketts describes a recent work ~ A recent work is Women Well Met (2013) for vocal sextet, premiered last November by the uncannily gifted Ekmeles Ensemble. The text (by Lauren J. Rogener) concerns different portraits and sculptures of women at the Metropolitan Museum, incidentally one of my favorite places here in New York City. BIOGRAPHY … Continue reading New Voice: Matthew Ricketts
Composer Profile: Vladimir Hirsch
Website | Facebook | Soundcloud | YouTube Vladimir Hirsch (born July 3, 1954, Czechoslovakia, today Czechia) is an avant-garde composer, instrumentalist and sound experimenter, integrating contemporary classical, industrial and dark ambient music. His compositional style is characterized by poly-modal and poly-microtonal architectonics, the usage of a wide range of modern technologies to enhance sonic means … Continue reading Composer Profile: Vladimir Hirsch
Composer Profile: Simon Steen-Andersen
Website Simon Steen-Andersen (b. 1976) is a Berlin-based composer, performer and installation artist, working in the field between instrumental music, electronics, video and performance within settings ranging from symphony orchestra and chamber music (with and without multimedia) to stagings, solo performances and installations. The works from the last 6-7 years concentrates on integrating concrete elements … Continue reading Composer Profile: Simon Steen-Andersen
New Voice: Karl Henning
Website | Soundcloud Karl Henning studied clarinet, conducting and orchestration with Nancy Buckingham Garlick, conducting and theory with Jack Russell, and composition with Jack Gallagher, Paul Schwartz, Judith Shatin, Walter Ross, Louis Andriessen and Charles Wuorinen. Karl's formal study resulted in a B.Mus. with a double major in composition and clarinet performance at the College of Wooster … Continue reading New Voice: Karl Henning
Johannes Maria Staud ~ One Movement and Five Miniatures
Publisher's Biography http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FaFqshsg3k This work took as its point of departure the challenge of using the ‘early music’ instrument, the harpsichord, alongside the ‘new music’ instrument, the computer. In the course of composition it became clear that this was not a question of a reciprocal demarcation of boundaries between these two spheres, but rather of their … Continue reading Johannes Maria Staud ~ One Movement and Five Miniatures
New voice: Adam Scott Neal
Adam Scott Neal describes a recent work ~ Tidal (2012) is a work for piano and fixed media. The fixed media portion was made in Pure Data with filtered noise. The tones play chords from upper partials of the harmonic series (based on the piano's low C). When these chords are in equal temperament, they match … Continue reading New voice: Adam Scott Neal
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