Photo and video highlights from New Music 101: Intro to Electronica are now live on the site, including behind-the-scenes photos from Le Poisson Rouge and full-length videos of the world premiere performance of Street Prayer, Jenny Lin's encore performance of Morning Tale, and Jakub Ciupinski's demonstration series Music from Air, his gesture-controlled system built out of two theremins and a laptop. Here's one of the demos:



You can also explore our archived concerts in our new photo and video galleries... an endless supply of inspiring musical works from the past three years!

Special thanks to our creative team: Sabrina Asch, Gareth Paul Cox, Kyrié Cox, Jim Larson, and Ryan Streber.

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One of the highlights of our upcoming concert, New Music 101, is a segment we're calling "Composing and Cocktails." Here's how it works. Music "waiters" (composer Jakub Ciupinksi and conductor Andrew Cyr) will greet you with an iPhone that serves as a real-time composition system, networking wirelessly to Metropolis Ensemble musicians on laptops.

Jakub elaborates:

They can suggest certain choices from the "menu" of melodies, textures, dynamics, and the audience can choose whatever they would like to hear from the live musicians in any given moment.

Interested in a preview? We invite you to download the music menu and get a sneak-peak at our selections. The possibilities are truly endless!

Download the music menu (PDF)...

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To celebrate our upcoming concert, New Music 101: Intro to Electronica, Metropolis Ensemble and composer Jakub Ciupinski are delighted to offer the mp3 of an inspiring electro-acoustic work by Jakub. "The Architect's Brother" premiered in 2006 at the Juilliard School's Peter Jay Sharp Theatre accompanying the choreography of Adam Weinert. You can download it here, absolutely free, for a limited time.

The Architect's Brother as performed by Vassilis Varvaresos (piano), Marko Pavlovic (celesta), Rachel Brandwein (harp), and Eugene Lifschitz (cello).

• Download the mp3...

(right-click to download the mp3s, ctrl-click on a mac)

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