Telekinesis is a mark of Tyondai Braxton’s distinct style... it feels like a meeting of worlds-the bubbly experimental electronics Braxton brought to Battles meets the orchestral dissonance of 20th-century composers such as György Ligeti.
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Remarkable… the best kind of soundtrack: one with the power to cast whatever surroundings you find yourself in in a more interesting hue.
Frankly, everyone involved in the production of Telekinesis should take a bow for just how magnificently produced and orchestrated it is.
Him Sophy’s Bangsokol stands on its own as an extraordinary musical experience that brings cultures and people together while serving as a model for how art can be a powerful vehicle for reconciliation in post-conflict societies.
Bangsokol is the first major symphonic work that addresses the traumas of the Cambodian genocide of the late 1970s.
The new opera “In A Grove” may seem familiar, but in the hands of Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann the story that inspired "Rashomon" will definitely be different.
For anyone old enough to remember the birth of the internet, the room in the house where that endearing, bulky desktop computer lived had a certain allure.
A timbrally-rich fusion of struck metal, wood, porcelain, and glass defines Vivian Fung’s(Un)Wandering Souls.
“Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with Jazz Saxophonist, Composer & Educator Matthew Evan Taylor.”
Composer Vivian Fung created this Spotify playlist, including Violin Concerto from our studio album, Dreamscapes, performed by violinist Kristin Lee.
Matthew Evan Taylor’s The Unheard Mixtapes has reconciled his artistic identity as a classical composer focused on social justice, Black expressive culture, and experimentalism.
Metropolis will be in residency at Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) state-of-the-art facilities in Troy, New York in 2021.
Schooled in the classics, Vivian Fung writes music that speaks to the experiences of 21st-century audiences. "I feel like this is my role, she says, whether composing for orchestra, or other ensembles. "It has to be of our time. "
“William Brittelle. I can’t say enough good things about that guy. He’s such a special person. He has such a strange mind and wild ear for aesthetic choices.”
It’s such a sweet and timely gift to the world. It feels like a hug and a reality check all in one - something the world really needs right now.
This is the kind of big, bold, sometimes even crazy symphonic work of which we could use a lot more, with orchestral brass and strings competing with fat synthesizers, rock drums, choral singing, and more.
On paper, the project could appear bombastic, what with the army of resources utilized, yet he somehow makes full use of said resources without the result becoming overblown.
With this collaboration between Nonesuch Records and New Amsterdam, walls of genre are broken down as sounds morph and blend throughout Spiritual America.
Brittelle’s inimitable blend of chamber pop forms a shape-shifting sonic collage: ripped edges, buzzing synthesizers, melodies that echo, morph, and transform in an instant—like a rush of memories overwhelming the senses.
Andy Stack has been even more secret-saucy… the structures he helped build under the visionary pop-classical song cycle Spiritual America.