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WNYC Soundcheck Interview
Conductor Andrew Cyr and DJ Ricardo Romaneiro bring Stravinsky into the 21st century with an electronic reinvention of "The Rite of Spring." They join us in the Soundcheck studio to share the secrets of setting Stravinsky's most famous work to keyboards, laptops, brass and drums.

NPR Music: Stravinsky Gets His 'Rite: Remixed'
Greg Saunier of the forward-thinking indie-rock band Deerhoof admits that he's been borrowing ideas from Igor Stravinsky. So it's hard to imagine a better pairing than this Wordless Music Series concert combining Deerhoof with a wild re-imagining of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring by the Metropolis Ensemble.

WNYC Evening Music: Live Webcast
WNYC and NPR Music team up to bring you this live webcast from the Prospect Park Bandshell, which pairs indie rock sensation Deerhoof with the progressive Metropolis Ensemble.

NPR Music: Deerhoof In Concert: Angular, Yet Pretty
The unlikely playbill was recorded live by WNYC at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn, NY, as part of Celebrate Brooklyn.

Press Mentions

The Village Voice: Rites of Summer
They’ll do it via orchestra and live sound manipulation, which could jibe nicely with the outdoor venue.

TimeOut New York: The 10 best outdoor summer concerts
Wordless Music is known for its oddball pairings. Here, Stravinsky’s Rite sets the stage for the Bay Area art-pop darlings.

The New Yorker: Concerts in Town
The Metropolis Ensemble, conducted by Andrew Cyr, offers the world premiere of “The Rite: Remixed,” a three-composer arrangement of Stravinsky’s Fauvist ballet that combines percussion, brass, and live electronics.

New York Times: Arts Briefly
The show will open with the Metropolis Ensemble, a local chamber group, performing a new arrangement of Stravinsky titled “The Rite: Remixed.”

Blog coverage

Wired.com Listening Post
When laptronica musicians melded with the brass and musicians of the Metropolis Ensemble to perform "The Rite: Remixed" in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on Friday, nary a riot ensued, but "The Rite of Spring" sounded more riotous than ever with the addition of electronic tweaks.

The Line of Best Fit
The composers kept Stravinsky’s rhythmic intensity and grand brass modal melodies, but they also added new layers of clips, fuzz and other sorts of keyboard and electronics-generated texture.

Princeton Record Exchange
The savage electronics and instrumentation bolstered the energy in the piece, and the sound was deafeningly loud and full. It was one of the more exciting re-imaginings I had seen of the piece.

Brooklyn Vegan
What more perfect pairing than this Wordless Music Series concert of the forward-thinking indie rock band Deerhoof and a wild re-imagining of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring by the Metropolis Ensemble?

Gothamist
Metropolis Ensemble opens the show with The Rite: Remixed, "a new arrangement and imagining of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

Flavorpill
In this corner: The Rite of Spring, Igor Stravinsky's storied masterpiece of neoclassical ballet, as reimagined by a band of technophiles.

Ear Farm
Unconventional, math-y, out of this world art-rock. Deerhoff is playing Prospect Park with Metropolis Ensemble on July 18th.

Vocal Area Network: Artist on the edge: an interview with Hila Plitmann
I find Ricardo Romaneiro's music to be extraordinarily organic. It gives the performer a sense of freedom and openness while at the same time consisting of very well thought-out structure and immense drive.

Sequenza21
Our friends at the Metropolis Ensemble will perform a new take on Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring called The Rite: Remixed.