The New York Times, Gramophone, and NPR celebrate The Blind Banister in their "Best of 2024" lists.
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Andrés Guadarrama (Ciudad de México, 1991) es musicaminante. Tras pausar la composición, actualmente desarrolla una práctica indisciplinar errante que especula y vincula cosmoaudiciones, experiencias místicas, peregrinaje y ritualidad.
Como músico, sus composiciones se han presentado en distintos países de América, Europa y Asia, en festivales como Donaueschinger Musiktage, New Music on the Point, NUNC! 4, The 21st Century Guitar Conference, Forum Wallis, Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez, entre otros.
Fue beneficiario de la FONCA Jóvenes Creadores 2017-2018. En 2016 representó a México en la 63va Tribuna Internacional de Compositores de la UNESCO en Wrocław, Polonia.
Andrés forma parte del Programa Educativo SOMA, generación 2025. Previamente estudió composición y teoría musical en el Centro de Investigación y Estudios de la Música (CIEM), y de manera privada con los compositores Germán Romero y Samuel Cedillo.
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Andrés Guadarrama (Mexico City, 1991) is a "musicaminante" (portmanteau of "músico" + "caminante", spanish for musician and walker-wanderer). Currently he decided to pause composition to develop a wandering indisciplinary practice that speculates and links cosmoauditions, mystical experiences, pilgrimage and rituality.
As a musician, his compositions have been presented in different countries of America, Europe and Asia, in festivals such as Donaueschinger Musiktage, New Music on the Point, NUNC! 4, The 21st Century Guitar Conference, Forum Wallis, Jornadas de Música Contemporánea CCMC, Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez, among others.
He was a recipient of the FONCA Jóvenes Creadores 2017-2018 grant. In 2016 he represented Mexico at the 63rd UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in Wrocław, Poland.
Andrés is part of the SOMA Educational Program, generation 2025. He previously studied composition and music theory at the Centro de Investigación y Estudios de la Música (CIEM), and privately with composers Germán Romero and Samuel Cedillo.
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Greg Boro is a Brooklyn based Composer, Curator and Performer. His work explores all forms of incidental music from scoring for film, performing cocktail piano and DJing ambient sets. He has worked with Complex Media, CNN International, 826 National and countless independent artists.
“Ricardo Romaneiro’s audiovisual symphony LIQUIDVERSE: Microcosm & Macrocosm has joined Cosm’s collection of critically acclaimed and unique immersive productions.”
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Athena Zenker Díaz es una artista sonora e interdisciplinaria nacida en Ciudad de México. Sus intereses oscilan entre la música antigua, la electrónica experimental y proyectos interdisciplinarios, desdibujando los límites entre tradición y vanguardia. Entre México y Alemania, Athena participa regularmente en diversos ensambles que buscan dirigir la atención a la experiencia social en el arte, repensando desde la percepción las relaciones que tejemos en la alteridad.
Actualmente, desde su residencia en Leipzig, Athena transita la vivencia en diáspora desde el sonido.
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Athena Zenker Díaz is a sound and interdisciplinary artist born in Mexico City. Her interests range from early music to experimental electronics and interdisciplinary projects, blurring the boundaries between tradition and avant-garde. Between Mexico and Germany, Athena regularly participates in various ensembles that aim to focus attention on the social experience in art, rethinking through perception the relationships we weave in otherness.
Currently, from her residence in Leipzig, Athena navigates the experience of diaspora through sound.
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Nigel Newton is a vibraphonist, composer, producer, and arranger living in Dallas, Texas. He has garnered a number of composition awards, and currently tours with a number of bands around the U.S. and Canada. His music is heavily influenced by late-90’s video games, chamber music, 70’s funk and soul, jazz, post-modern and classic science fiction literature, and the occasional kale salad.
“Cosm Dallas also has numerous immersive art events Orbital and Liquidverse.”
“A completely different orchestral arrangement. Really massive, really powerful sounding stuff.”
“Liquidverse: Microcosm & Macrocosm is Ricardo Romaneiro‘s psychedelic exploration of miniature chemical reactions.”
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Compositor, improvisador, diseñador sonoro y contrabajista mexicano, Arturo Capur escribe música para contrabajo y electrónica, así como música de cámara. Sus composiciones han sido interpretadas en lugares como la Biblioteca Vasconcelos, el Foro de Música Nueva (Ciudad de México), la Universidad DePaul (Chicago), el Auditorio Blas Galindo y New Music on the Point. Ha participado en talleres con conjuntos y músicos como el Quinteto de Vientos de la Ciudad de México, Wapiti Ensemble, Irvine Arditti, JACK Quartet y el ensemble de música creativa dirigido por Dana Jessen en New Music on the Point 2023.
La banda sonora del documental 'Raíces' se lanzó a finales de 2021. "Cuando no está pasando mucho todo lo que sucede importa" es una pieza para contrabajo y electrónica lanzada en 2022. Además, "Jardín de Piedras" es un video de 30 minutos con improvisaciones yuxtapuestas grabadas en el jardín de rocas en Mexiquillo, Durango, también lanzado en 2022. "Mutualismo" es una pieza para ensemble de cuerdas y solista diseñada para un edificio específico en la Ciudad de México, donde el ensemble está distribuido en tres niveles y cada módulo improvisatorio se activa cuando dos jugadores adicionales tiran de cintas VHS sujetas a cada cuerda. Es exalumno de OneBeat Virtual 5.
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Sean Stover is a musician based in Brooklyn, NY. His sample heavy approach, combined with his love of music from all over the world, results in an all-genre collage of his favorite sounds, harmonies, and rhythms. He currently serves as a high school music teacher, working to educate and inspire the next generation of young musicians.
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Akul Kaul is a multimodal sound artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Their modes of activity currently cycle between composer, DJ, multi-instrumentalist, sound designer, and producer. Akul's workflow tends to feel most organic in a state of alienation, which is the underlying sensation that their sound is rooted in: developing comfort with otherness. While alienation provides inception, Akul finds sustained inspiration from mystical elements in nature to shape sonic landscapes: outer space, the ocean, trees, and our subconscious. Flirting with sounds that live in between the musical communities they have encountered, Akul's productions currently lie at the intersection of electroacoustic and psybient, rooted in a process of layering improvised ideas together.
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Wes Meadows is a multi-instrumentalist from Berea, Ohio. She plays in The You Suck Flying Circus, Scorpio Death Club, i hope so., as well as many other projects. She also produces albums for others and releases them on her label, Flowerpot Records.
“Ricardo Romaneiro’s audiovisual symphony, LIQUIDVERSE: Microcosm & Macrocosm, offers a sensory journey. This experience combines orchestral music with liquid visuals.”
Perhaps the best way to celebrate the summer solstice today: two live performances of Canto Ostinato in a brand new arrangement for 50 musicians. Erik Hall joins the Metropolis Ensemble and Sandbox Percussion for the performance at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
It was new to me; it was new to Andrew; it was new to Sandbox. It will likely be new to the vast majority of our concert audience. For lovers of Reich, Glass, and Riley, there is simply zero reason to miss Simeon ten Holt.
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Cristóbal García Belmont is an artist, musician, and poet from Lima, Perú. His work explores sound, performance, sculpture, and poetry as they investigate the circulation of mediums and materials in complex postcolonial realities. By considering sound through materials and the built environment, as well as visual languages and poetry, he explores sound as a political phenomenon with the capacity to appropriate existing infrastructures and create spaces in which bodies may resonate, opening discussions about inherited power dynamics and proposing alternate ways to imagine the realities we collectively inhabit.
Grammy-nominated NYC new music pillar Metropolis Ensemble announces live performances of Simeon ten Holt's minimalist landmark Canto Ostinato for over 50 musicians on June 20, 2024.
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Tizia Zimmermann has wanted to be a musician ever since she first held an accordion in her hand. She studied classical music on the accordion at the Bern University of the Arts, where she completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Performance with distinction. In addition to interpreting contemporary classical music, she plays in various formations in which free improvisation and experimental (noise) music play an important role. She is also active in the organization of various platforms for experimental and improvised music in Zurich, such as the Gamut Kollektiv and is part of the label Wide Ear Records. She works with musicians and ensembles/orchestras such as Collegium Novum Zürich, Philharmonie Zürich, Lucas Niggli, Pablo Lienhard, Chris Pitsiokos, Jason Nazary, Chris Corsano, Christian Weber, Manuel Troller and many more and played festivals like Jazzfestival Willisau, Météo Mulhouse Festival, Jazz em Agosto Festival and Moers Festival amongst others.
Metropolis recently launched Loud and Soft, a new web presentation with Sandbox Percussion. Go behind-the-scenes with composer Molly Joyce as she discusses the production and its role in the conversation about accessibility in music.