Viewing entries in
Digital Projects

Flame Keepers 71: Keisuke Matsuno

Flame Keepers 71: Keisuke Matsuno

 

Flame Keepers

Keisuke Matsuno

July 18, 2022

Travel back in time to experience any Flame Keeper's work. The most recent artists are at the bottom of this page.

About the Artist

Keisuke Matsuno is a guitarist and sound / noise maker in the realm of composed and improvised music. His own aesthetics in music have been described as "salt of the earth" (Bird is the Worm) and "most extravagant, mind-blowing, and unheard-within-the-unheard" (Blow Up). He is the founding member of the post-krautrock band "Trio Schmetterling", is currently a core member of bands such as Jim Black's "Smash and Grab", Charlotte Greve’s "Wood River", Sana Nagano’s "Smashing Humans", Briggan Krauss’ "The Need Trio", Lukas Akintaya's "Hues", Andrej Ugoljew's "3ZvoVII", and John Zorn’s "Bagatelles", and has further collaborated with artists such as Chris Speed, Thomas Morgan, Rudy Royston, Tommy Crane, Ted Poor, Marja Burchard, Hans Tammen, Greg Cohen, Stefon Harris, Grey McMurray, Talibam!, and Red Baraat. Besides having performed in over 30 countries on five continents and contributed to over 30 records, he has also collaborated in dance, theater, and film. Born in the divided Berlin, Keisuke grew up in the reunified city and relocated to New York City in 2010. More »

 
 
 

More Flame Keepers


 

Newsroom

The latest news and updates from Metropolis.

 
 

Flame Keepers 70: Sivan Cohen Elias

Flame Keepers 70: Sivan Cohen Elias

 

Flame Keepers

Sivan Cohen Elias

June 13, 2022

Travel back in time to experience any Flame Keeper's work. The most recent artists are at the bottom of this page.

About the Artist

Sivan Cohen Elias is an electroacoustic experimental composer and intermedia artist, originally from Israel, who seeks to create new mixed-media experiences with the aim to sharpen the connection between our senses. She received numerous international awards, residencies, and commissions including Akademie Schloss Solitude residency, Stuttgart, Music Theatre Competition Staatstheater, Darmstadt, and most recently she received the Fromm Commission Award. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University. This summer she is relocating from New York to Minneapolis, MN, where she has been appointed as an Assistant Professor of composition/music technology emphasis, starting in Fall 2022. More »

 
 
 

More Flame Keepers


 

Newsroom

The latest news and updates from Metropolis.

 
 

Flame Keepers 69: Aliya Ultan

Flame Keepers 69: Aliya Ultan

 

Flame Keepers

Aliya Ultan

June 6, 2022

Travel back in time to experience any Flame Keeper's work. The most recent artists are at the bottom of this page.

About the Artist

Aliya Ultan (b. 1996) is a composer/improviser, cellist and vocalist from Brooklyn, NY. Born into a family of artists and musicians, Ultan was immersed in a variety of creative mediums and environments. Ultan grew up, periodically homeless with her mother and sister traveling across the U.S. and Canada. At age 12, Ultan fell in love with the cello turning it into her way out of poverty. Emerging from a unique yet challenging childhood, Ultan participated in the New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composer’s Program where her music was both workshopped and performed at the Lincoln Center. Throughout her classical training, Ultan maintained an interdisciplinary approach to creating art which has led to performances with artists such as Douglas Ewart (Chicago Art Ensemble) and Katinka Kleijn of the International Contemporary Music Ensemble, among others. More »

 
 
 

More Flame Keepers


 

Newsroom

The latest news and updates from Metropolis.

 
 

Flame Keepers 68: Maya Keren

Flame Keepers 68: Maya Keren

 

Flame Keepers

Maya Keren

May 30, 2022

Travel back in time to experience any Flame Keeper's work. The most recent artists are at the bottom of this page.

About the Artist

Maya Keren is a pianist, vocalist, composer, and songwriter from Philadelphia. They are interested in the process of environing people, voices, instruments, and sounds in ways that invite connection with one’s erotic instinct, embody compassionate and queer relations with the self and the collective, and destabilize learned systems of domination. More »

 
 
 

More Flame Keepers


 

Newsroom

The latest news and updates from Metropolis.

 
 

Flame Keepers 67: Sydney Spann

Flame Keepers 67: Sydney Spann

 

Flame Keepers

Sydney Spann

May 23, 2022

Travel back in time to experience any Flame Keeper's work. The most recent artists are at the bottom of this page.

About the Artist

Sydney Spann, originally from Baltimore, MD, is a sound artist and musician based in New York. She works with synthesis, chance operations, recursive compositional processes and voice to intervene within a personal archive of field recordings, culminating in long form compositions and improvised performances. Her music engages the private experiences that shape public spaces, and the affective dynamics within childcare work. She has released albums with Ehse Records (Baltimore), She Rocks! (NYC), and Reading Group (NYC), with a full-length release forthcoming on Recital in 2022. She has performed at the High Zero Festival of Experimental Free Improvised Music, Bar Laika by e-flux, Performance Space New York, Center for Performance Research, Cafe OTO (London), KM28 (Berlin) and in diy spaces and galleries throughout the US. Recent works for streaming include Sending up a Spiral of on Montez Press Radio and Attached/Detached (partial disappearance) for ISSUE Project Room’s With Womens Work Series. She is a 2022 Artist in Residence at ISSUE Project Room and an MFA candidate in Music/Sound at Bard College. More »

 
 
 

More Flame Keepers


 

Newsroom

The latest news and updates from Metropolis.

 
 

Flame Keepers 66: Elias Stemeseder

Flame Keepers 66: Elias Stemeseder

 

Flame Keepers

Elias Stemeseder

May 15, 2022

Travel back in time to experience any Flame Keeper's work. The most recent artists are at the bottom of this page.

About the Artist

Elias Stemeseder is a pianist, electronic musician and composer working in a wide-ranging variety of contemporary musical idioms. He has collaborated with Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, Craig Taborn, Ingrid Laubrock, Peter Evans, Joe McPhee, Anna Webber, Hamid Drake and Christian Lillinger, among others. Elias’ debut album Piano Solo was released by the acclaimed Swiss label Intakt Records in 2022. Elias Stemeseder is a longtime member of acclaimed drummer Jim Black’s piano trio (with Thomas Morgan on bass) which has released four critically acclaimed albums. He appears on over 30 recordings released by labels such as Intakt, Winter&Winter, Clean Feed and Pirouet Records, and has performed at the Village Vanguard, Elbphilharmonie, The Stone, Jazzfest Berlin and Copenhagen Jazzfestival among others. More »

 
 
 

More Flame Keepers


 

Newsroom

The latest news and updates from Metropolis.

 
 

Flame Keepers 65: Alec Toku Whiting

Flame Keepers 65: Alec Toku Whiting

 

Flame Keepers

Arlo Tomecek

May 8, 2022

Travel back in time to experience any Flame Keeper's work. The most recent artists are at the bottom of this page.

About the Artist

Alec Toku Whiting is a composer and improviser from Yokohama, Japan, currently based in Boston, Massachusetts. He makes music on the koto, electronic instruments, and the computer. His work results from the investigation and synthesis of intuitive structures and abstract formal processes in pursuit of a multiplicitous musical event. Alec has collaborated with musicians including Mark Fell, Wendy Eisenberg, Lina Tullgren, and Ted Reichman. His album with Lina Tullgren, "Unfamiliar Ceilings", was released on Astral Spirits in April 2022. More »

 
 
 

More Flame Keepers


 

Newsroom

The latest news and updates from Metropolis.

 
 

Flame Keepers 64: Andrew Yong Hoon Lee

Flame Keepers 64: Andrew Yong Hoon Lee

 

Flame Keepers

Andrew Yong Hoon Lee

May 1, 2022

Travel back in time to experience any Flame Keeper's work. The most recent artists are at the bottom of this page.

About the Artist

Andrew Lee was born in Winnipeg to Korean ancestry and currently lives and works in New York. His various activities encompasses sound, performance, video, drawing, photography, sculpture and installation. He writes, records and performs music as Holy Hum. More »

 
 
 

More Flame Keepers


 

Newsroom

The latest news and updates from Metropolis.

 
 

Flame Keepers 63: Jonathan Starks

Flame Keepers 63: Jonathan Starks

 

Flame Keepers

Jonathan Starks

April 25, 2022

Travel back in time to experience any Flame Keeper's work. The most recent artists are at the bottom of this page.

About the Artist

Jonathan Starks is an active drummer, producer, and improviser based in Boston, MA. He plays drums in several bands, including the acclaimed Birthday Ass, and produces club adjacent soundscapes on his computer.

 
 
 

More Flame Keepers


 

Newsroom

The latest news and updates from Metropolis.

 
 

Flame Keepers 62: Anna Roberts-Gevalt

Flame Keepers 62: Anna Roberts-Gevalt

 

Flame Keepers

Anna Roberts-Gevalt

April 18, 2022

Travel back in time to experience any Flame Keeper's work. The most recent artists are at the bottom of this page.

About the Artist

Anna RG is an artist whose work moves outward from her immersion in communities of traditional music, and a decade of apprenticeships with elder masters of banjo and fiddle and ballads in rural Appalachia. Her eight year multimedia collaboration with ballad singer Elizabeth LaPrelle was heralded “a radical expansion of what folk songs are supposed to do” by the New Yorker, and culminated in a release by Smithsonian folkways of re-imagined New England ballads. Performance highlights include Carnegie Hall, Newport Folk Festival, Cafe Oto, Big Ears Festival, NPR’s Tiny Desk, Hirshhorn Museum, The BBC and The Stone, and residencies at the Smithsonian and the MacDowell Colony. As a fiddler, she has worked with musicians from a broad span of genres, from free improvisation to songs to Kentucky square dance bands -- including Glen Hansard, Henry Jamison, Timo Andres, Sarah Hennies, Susan Alcorn, Carlo Costa, Jim White, the Aizuri Quartet and Ellen Fullman. She is currently working on an MFA in Sculpture at Bard College, in addition to her daily work of care as an artist living with chronic illness. She is a proud member of RAMPD—Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities, and lives in Lenapehoking (Queens.) More »

 
 
 

More Flame Keepers


 

Newsroom

The latest news and updates from Metropolis.

 
 

Middlebury Magazine: Sonic Art

Middlebury Magazine: Sonic Art

What began as an attempt by Matthew Evan Taylor to collaborate with fellow musicians during the isolation of the pandemic ended up being a yearlong project that culminated in an evening performance at the Met.

Flame Keepers 61: Jacob Rudin

Flame Keepers 61: Jacob Rudin

 

Flame Keepers

Jonathan Starks

April 11, 2022

Travel back in time to experience any Flame Keeper's work. The most recent artists are at the bottom of this page.

About the Artist

Jacob “NTHNL” Rudin is a classically trained composer and pianist turned multi-flutist, producer and sound-healing practitioner. Having created electronic and acoustic music in a wide variety of contexts since 2012, Jacob works in both the healing and contemporary music worlds, drawing on a rich sonic practice that involves experimental sound design, field recording, and virtuosic performances on a wide range of instruments. He currently lives in Queens, NY, where he teaches piano lessons, hosts regular soundbaths throughout the city and gigs with his band, NTHNL. More »

 
 
 

More Flame Keepers


 

Newsroom

The latest news and updates from Metropolis.

 
 

I Care If You Listen: 5 Questions to Han Chen about Migration Music

I Care If You Listen: 5 Questions to Han Chen about Migration Music

I learned that there are no two identical immigration stories, and they are always intertwined with all other things going on in life, things I just wouldn’t know without doing this project.

Flame Keepers 60: Ted Reichman

Flame Keepers 60: Ted Reichman

 

Flame Keepers

Ted Reichman

April 4, 2022

Travel back in time to experience any Flame Keeper's work. The most recent artists are at the bottom of this page.

About the Artist

Ted Reichman was born in Aroostook County, Maine in 1973. He began studying jazz piano at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School in 1987 and went on to study experimental music and ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University with Alvin Lucier, Sumarsam, and his most important early mentor, Anthony Braxton. At Braxton’s urging, Reichman began playing accordion, the instrument that would become the basis of his work in music. After beginning his professional career with Braxton while still a student, Reichman moved to New York City where he worked with a panoply of musical greats in styles ranging from improvised music and jazz to rock and roll and various forms of Jewish music. In addition to his work with Braxton, which includes the first recordings and performances of “Ghost Trance Music,” he is best known for his ten-year-plus tenure with John Hollenbeck’s Claudia Quintet. He also founded the music series at alt.coffee which would evolve into Tonic, one of the world’s most crucial venues for avant-garde music. He has been on the faculty of the New England Conservatory for over ten years and spent four years as an Assistant Professor of Film Scoring at Berklee. He currently lives outside Boston where he records, produces and mixes records and composes music for films. Photo by Lisa Rinzler. More »

 
 
 

More Flame Keepers


 

Newsroom

The latest news and updates from Metropolis.

 
 

Flame Keepers 59: Patrick Burke

Flame Keepers 59: Patrick Burke

 

Flame Keepers

Patrick Burke

March 28, 2022

Travel back in time to experience any Flame Keeper's work. The most recent artists are at the bottom of this page.

About the Artist

Patrick Burke writes music for piano, film, orchestra, and chamber ensembles, including NOW Ensemble, which he co-founded in 2004. His music, while deeply spiritual, is also “glittering fun…at once very sophisticated and instantly accessible” (Third Coast Digest). Patrick likes to collaborate with musicians from other genres and traditions, as he did in the Independent Music Award-winning album Rounder Songs, which was co-composed with his wife, old-time musician and songwriter Emily Pinkerton. More »

 
 
 

More Flame Keepers


 

Newsroom

The latest news and updates from Metropolis.

 
 

Flame Keepers 58: Geoff Pynn

Flame Keepers 58: Geoff Pynn

 

Flame Keepers

Geoff Pynn

March 21, 2022

Travel back in time to experience any Flame Keeper's work. The most recent artists are at the bottom of this page.

About the Artist

Geoff Pynn is a philosophy teacher, occasional church musician, and electronic music hobbyist in the Midwest. He started playing the piano at age five, guitar at 14, and ukulele at 42. An aesthetic gourmand, Geoff's compositions include minimalist piano loops, lo-fi ambient drones, mangled sample-based experimental noise, glitchy beats, shimmery blissed-out synth chorales, and bleep-and-bloop modular improvisations. His Flamekeepers contributions incorporate field recordings made in a local toy shop, samples of classic Italian giallo scores, AI-generated text-to-speech readings of ancient philosophy texts, sequenced tape hiss, piano, and a variety of inexpensive electronic instruments. More »

 
 
 

More Flame Keepers


 

Newsroom

The latest news and updates from Metropolis.

 
 

Flame Keepers 57: Amelia Brey

Flame Keepers 57: Amelia Brey

 

Flame Keepers

Amelia Brey

March 14, 2022

Travel back in time to experience any Flame Keeper's work. The most recent artists are at the bottom of this page.

About the Artist

Amelia Brey’s music has been described as possessing “haunting beauty” and “a deep, disquieting power” (National Sawdust Log). Her wind quintet, AR(i/e)AS, was the recipient of a BMI Student Composer Award; her orchestral work, Two, was premiered by the Juilliard Orchestra under the direction of Jeffrey Milarsky as a winner of the Juilliard Composers’ Orchestra Competition. Other accomplishments have included premieres by Ensemble Dal Niente, National Sawdust Ensemble, Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, and members of Ensemble Intercontemporain and the New York Philharmonic, in addition to commissions from Essential Voices USA, Metropolis Ensemble, and New York Virtuoso Singers. Brey serves as the Composition Coordinator for zFestival, a virtual new music summer course for composers, performers, and audio engineers, as well as the chief editor of the Charlotte New Music Opportunity Newsletter. Hailing from Tallahassee, Florida, Brey studied with Michael Slayton and Stan Link at Vanderbilt University as the Harold Stirling Vanderbilt Honor Scholar in Music; she is currently a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at the Juilliard School, where she studies with Robert Beaser. Her works are published by Hal Leonard and Harp Column Music. More »

 
 
 

More Flame Keepers


 

Newsroom

The latest news and updates from Metropolis.

 
 

Classical Composition, Folk Traditions, and Combining the Two

Classical Composition, Folk Traditions, and Combining the Two

Han Chen speaks with composer Hsu Chiayu, whose work blends Chinese and western techniques and bond over their shared experience as Taiwanese immigrants.

Flame Keepers 56: Sequoia Sellinger

Flame Keepers 56: Sequoia Sellinger

 

Flame Keepers

Sequoia Sellinger

March 7, 2022

Travel back in time to experience any Flame Keeper's work. The most recent artists are at the bottom of this page.

About the Artist

Sequoia Sellinger is a composer and collaborative theater artist based in New York City. She is invested in new work that functions as a vehicle to reimagine the possibilities of what the world could be. She is a graduate of SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music where she studied classical composition under Laura Kaminsky and Du Yun. She has been a composer at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and the New Dramatists Composer Librettist Studio. She is a member of Maestra and the Dramatists Guild. Recent works include: Earth First (Macdowell Fellowship), Impossible Green (The York Theatre), Silent Springs (BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop), History of Traitors According to Sydney (The Wild Project) and is currently being supported by the Shubert Organization’s Artistic Circle. and Gravity of Me Gone (Ars Nova). More »

 
 
 

More Flame Keepers


 

Newsroom

The latest news and updates from Metropolis.

 
 

Flame Keepers 55: Larissa Maestro

Flame Keepers 55: Larissa Maestro

 

Flame Keepers

Larissa Maestro

February 28, 2022

Travel back in time to experience any Flame Keeper's work. The most recent artists are at the bottom of this page.

About the Artist

Larissa Maestro is a cellist, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer originally from Ithaca, New York. Her resume is broad and varied, a testament to her deep love of creation, expression, and collaboration. Since her arrival in Nashville, TN in 2007, Larissa has co-founded a community orchestra (The Nashville Concerto Orchestra), joyfully screamed 90s covers to thousands of people with My So-Called Band, started a Star Trek podcast (Into the Wormhole with Larissa and Lauren), created countless string arrangements for recordings and live performances, and appeared on stages big and small, in person and on network television. The list of artists with whom she has collaborated and/or performed is as diverse as her interests: Eminem, Margo Price, Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings, Mickey Guyton, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Jake Wesley Rogers, H.E.R. & Daniel Caesar, Toni Braxton, Cam, Brandi Carlile, and more. She is currently writing and recording a solo pop project that she has named MZTZA, and touring with 3x 2022 Grammy award nominee and magical human, Allison Russell.

As a composer, Larissa has used chamber music to express her rich inner world, relationship to her neurodivergence, and identity as a Filipinx woman. Her compositions have been performed by Julian Schwarz (cello), Patrick Dailey (countertenor), ALIAS Chamber Ensemble, Lockeland Strings, La Vie Quartet, The Nashville Concerto Orchestra, and members of the Nashville Symphony. Her first work for dance, Fortitudine, a collaboration with choreographer Mollie Sansone, premiered in February 2022 with the Nashville Ballet. More »

 
 
 

More Flame Keepers


 

Newsroom

The latest news and updates from Metropolis.