Flame Keepers 94: Griffin Brown

Flame Keepers 94: Griffin Brown

 

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Griffin Brown

August 21, 2023

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Griffin Brown is a composer, poet, drummer, songwriter+vocalist, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and photographer. Described by The Wire as “impressive” and “original,” his music has been featured at venues and festivals throughout the US, EU, and Canada. His poems appear in The Paris Review, Plume, Poetry Northwest, Prelude, and elsewhere.

His sonic work has been premiered and commissioned by the S.E.M. Ensemble, Opera Elect, and YCBA, among others, and he collaborates with a range of established and emerging international luminaries across genres—both onstage and off.

Griffin studied composition and poetry at Yale, who awarded him the Clapp Fellowship in Poetry.

 
 
 

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National Sawdust Presents 18 New Works Co-Commissioned by Metropolis Ensemble and Pianist Han Chen

National Sawdust Presents 18 New Works Co-Commissioned by Metropolis Ensemble and Pianist Han Chen

Featuring the World Premiere of 18 new works for solo piano, co-commissioned by Metropolis Ensemble and pianist Han Chen, celebrating the centenary birthday of Hungarian-Austrian composer György Ligeti.

Flame Keepers 93: Ivan Klomp

Flame Keepers 93: Ivan Klomp

 

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Ivan Klomp

August 14, 2023

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Ivan Klomp is an Argentinian producer, percussionist, and educator. Starting on the drums at age 13, he has studied symphonic percussion, musical production, and improvisation and currently works as an audiovisual music producer. He has a solo set titled "Magiclick" in which he plays drums, triggers samples, and manipulates synths simultaneously, and is also the drummer for various artists in the Buenos Aires music scene.

 
 
 

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BBC Music Magazine: In A Grove Review

BBC Music Magazine: In A Grove Review

In A Grove is rendered in a taut, mesmeric soundworld featuring a strikingly expressive use of electronics. Eight characters are assigned to four excellent singers who, combined with a subtle-hued Metropolis Ensemble, bring the story grippingly alive within Cerrone’s lushly circular, almost ritualistic harmonic frame.

AnEarful: Monthly Listening

AnEarful: Monthly Listening

The way they create a soundscape in the recording really captures the mysterious and immersive spirit of Akutagawa’s work. It’s immersive, it's compulsively listenable.

Flame Keepers 92: Marté

Flame Keepers 92: Marté

 

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Marté

August 7, 2023

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Marté is a non-binary Argentinian composer, electronic artist, and visual artist based in Buenos Aires. They explore the creation of abstract and emotive atmospheres generated through FM synthesis and the use of pop influenced micromelodies, creating through their compositions small sonic stories. Her musical production falls within the worlds of ambient and sound + timbral design.

 
 
 

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Gramophone: In A Grove Review

Gramophone: In A Grove Review

In A Grove is an engrossing and complete experience... Cerrone evokes the fragility of memory from the outset... Metropolis articulates his economical writing for nine players with vivid nuance.

Flame Keepers 91: Abbie from Mars

Flame Keepers 91: Abbie from Mars

 

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Abbie from Mars

July 31, 2023

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Abbie is from Mars (PA). Based in New York City since 2020, she makes and performs experimental pop music with a penchant for improvisation, noise, and performance art. Her act is unique for incorporating electroacoustic tap dance with processing in Max/MSP between raw, impassioned, highly physical performances of her songs. Abbie plays regularly in NYC and has also toured in California, the Midwest, and Canada. She has performed at cultural institutions including Elastic Arts; Stanford University’s CCRMA Stage; Joe’s Pub, a Program of The Public Theater; and National Sawdust. A champion of the underground, Abbie is the host of RadioActivity, a weekly radio show at freeform station WFMU.

 
 
 

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New York Times: Five Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now

New York Times: Five Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now

In A Grove is vividly produced… not a mere document of the premiere, but a creation of its own, carefully considered for the studio… commanding attention until the end.

Flame Keepers 90: Ivan Decoud

Flame Keepers 90: Ivan Decoud

 

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Ivan Decoud

July 24, 2023

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Ivan Decoud is a trombonist and visual artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Focusing on the intersections of improvised music, composition, physical processes of instruments, noise, movement and electronics, Daniel explores the diversity of sound and technique in diverse contexts. With a passion for media, nature, and technology, Daniel has created a large body of experimental work that evokes both human instinct and industrial innovation. Daniel continues to research ways in which he can deconstruct instrumental functions to find an individual identity as a soloist, collaborator, and sideman.

 
 
 

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Cultural Attaché: New In Music This Week

Cultural Attaché: New In Music This Week

Our top pick is “In A Grove.” This is an opera that will linger long in my memory. Now it can find a place in your memory with the release of this album. I love it and can’t wait to see a full production (hopefully sooner as opposed to later).

Flame Keepers 89: Ben Garnett

Flame Keepers 89: Ben Garnett

 

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Ben Garnett

July 17, 2023

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Ben Garnett is a Nashville-based acoustic guitarist & composer interested in possibility, composition, and connection. After majoring in jazz guitar performance (2016) at the renowned University of North Texas, Garnett moved into the world of contemporary American acoustic music, where he’s since made his home as an internationally touring artist.

In March 2023, Garnett released his debut solo LP “Imitation Fields” produced by Chris Eldridge (guitarist of the band Punch Brothers), on Padiddle Records. Described as a “vivid dreamscape of acoustic immediacy and electronic fantasy,” the album has since been written about in Premier Guitar, and has received recognition across the acoustic world. Acclaimed acoustic guitarist Bryan Sutton calls the work “…a beautiful record. Songs that are modern and musical, bringing out the best in every musician involved. I’ll be listening to this for a long time.”

 
 
 

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Textura: "In a Grove" Review

Textura: "In a Grove" Review

In A Grove provides further confirmation of Cerrone's singular gifts and why he's justly regarded as one of today's leading composers.

"In A Grove" on TIDAL's The Avant Garden

"In A Grove" on TIDAL's The Avant Garden

Our new album, In A Grove, is featured at the top of the TIDAL Avant Garden playlist , and also featured prominently on the Classical page in the TIDAL app.

WRUU: Interview with Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann

WRUU: Interview with Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann

“In A Grove” composer Christopher Cerrone and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann recently spoke with Dave Lake at WRUU in Savannah.

Flame Keepers 88: The Growth Eternal

Flame Keepers 88: The Growth Eternal

 

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The Growth Eternal

July 10, 2023

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The Growth Eternal is the primary creative project of Tulsa-born, LA-based multi-instrumentalist ghalani. Conceived in 2018 as a necessary expressive outlet following years of rigorous jazz bass guitar study, the Growth Eternal (true to its name) provides ghalani with the consecrated space to intuit, evolve, and explore beyond the confines of genre and influence, operating, all the while, with humility and intention— a state akin to the Buddhist Shoshin (“beginner’s mind”).

 
 
 

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Musical America: "In a Grove" Review

Musical America: "In a Grove" Review

Christopher Cerrone’s haunting opera In a Grove is a good example of how to create something original and modern out of a timeless classic. Cerrone’s atmospheric score is deep and magical.

Flame Keepers 87: Isabel Crespo Pardo

Flame Keepers 87: Isabel Crespo Pardo

 

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Isabel Crespo Pardo

July 3, 2023

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Isabel Crespo Pardo (they/them) is a NYC-based latinx vocalist, improviser-composer, and interdisciplinary artist. Rooted in conceptual clarity, their work actively entangles music, visual art, text and performance, always evolving to reflect the intra/interpersonal spaces they inhabit. Reveling in soft chaos, they embrace openness and specificity to create poetic work(s). More info »

 
 
 

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Flame Keepers 86: Lester St. Louis

Flame Keepers 86: Lester St. Louis

 

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Lester St. Louis

June 26, 2023

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Lester St. Louis (b.1993) is a New York born and based Composer, Improviser, Cellist, Sound Designer and Curator. His work traverses through performance, installation, curation, artistic research and recording. His works are rooted in dynamic environments of improvisation both sonically and socially, ecstatic sound worlds. flow and interaction.  He has performed internationally throughout The U.S, The E.U, Canada, China and in South America; and collaborates with artists such as Chris Williams [under the moniker HxH],  Jaimie Branch’s Fly or Die, Ben Lamar Gay, Yaeji, Tortoise, Yo La Tengo, Miho Hatori, Dré A. Hočevar, Charmaine Lee, Isabel Crespo Pardo, TAK Ensemble, Random International, Irreversible Entanglements, Superblue, Terence Nance, Found Sound Nation, Wet Ink Ensemble and many more. As a composer, Lester has been commissioned by artists such as The JACK Quartet, RAGE THORMBONES, Jennifer Koh, String noise and Ghost Ensemble among others.

 
 
 

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Metropolis Ensemble Nominated for 2023 Opus Klassik Awards for Tyondai Braxton’s Telekinesis

Metropolis Ensemble Nominated for 2023 Opus Klassik Awards for Tyondai Braxton’s Telekinesis

Opus Klassik, Germany’s prestigious juried classical music prize, announced nominees for the 2023 awards, with two nominations for Metropolis Ensemble’s 2022 studio album, Telekinesis.