Layale Chaker & Sarafand Inner Rhyme Flying Lotus Flamagra Shafiq Husayn The Loop Kaytranada Bubba Anne-Sophie Mutter / John Williams Across the Stars Anderson .Paak Ventura Caroline Shaw / Attacca Quartet Orange Solange When I Get Home James Tenney Changes: 64 Studies for 6 Harps Dwight Trible Mothership Honourable mention: Marvin Gaye You’re the Man
Category: Postclassical
aix
aix (“waters”), for two pianos, is a short study in rising and falling patterns, with alternating chordal and canonic textures. The primary melodic shape, an ascending seventh followed by a descending second, is heard in several of my piano pieces of this period. Composed and recorded 2004, Korg 01/WFDRestored from playback on the original device,… Continue reading aix
5 Questions to Errollyn Wallen
My interview for I Care If You Listen.
1994+25: Exoplanet
“Exoplanet” (1994) was commissioned by choreographer Dave Wilson for the student dance ensemble at McMaster University. Musically, it is a kind of postlude to the score for the dance suite “Land of the Living,” which I composed for a festival performance in Lyon several weeks before. I had intended to release both scores as part… Continue reading 1994+25: Exoplanet
5 Questions to Niloufar Talebi and Aleksandra Vrebalov about Abraham in Flames
My interview for I Care If You Listen.
21C Music Festival 2019
My review for I Care If You Listen.
5 Questions to Bushra El-Turk
My interview for I Care If You Listen.
Best of 2018
Brandon Coleman Resistance Tigran Hamasyan For Gyumri Zaki Ibrahim The Secret Life of Planets The Internet Hive Mind JACK Quartet Everything That Rises (John Luther Adams) Kuniko Drumming (Steve Reich) Kukuruz Quartet Julius Eastman Piano Interpretations Kendrick Lamar/Various Artists Black Panther: The Album Kelly Moran Ultraviolet Georgia Anne Muldrow Overload Steve Reich/International Contemporary Ensemble/Colin Currie Group Pulse/Quartet Esperanza Spalding… Continue reading Best of 2018
5 Questions to Susanna Mälkki (Principal Guest Conductor, LA Phil)
My interview for I Care If You Listen.
5 Questions to Sophia Subbayya Vastek (pianist, multidisciplinary artist)
My interview for I Care if You Listen.