The Music You Most Wanted to Hear Again…

Thursday, October 15 – SONiC Boom! Cultivate

The opening concert of SONiC Festival featured music by young composers from Copland House’s annual CULTIVATE fellowship program. The pieces the audience most wanted to hear again were Viet Cuong’s Wax and Wire; Michael Gilbertson’s Low-Hanging Fruit; Gity Razaz’s A Prayer for the Abandoned; and Steven Snowden’s Steam Man of the Prairies. You can stream a video of the entire SONiC Boom: Cultivate concert here.

Viet Cuong – Wax and Wire

Michael Gilbertson – Low-Hanging Fruit 

Gity Razaz – A Prayer for the Abandoned

Steven Snowden – Steam Man of the Prairies

 

Friday, October 16 – ACO: New York Stories

Angélica Negrón – Me He Perdido 

   

Our winner Angelica Negron received the world premiere of her piece Me He Perdido by the American Composers Orchestra at the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place, part of ACO’s “New York Stories” program. Angelica collaborated with robotic-instrument builder Nick Yulman, placing mechanical percussion instruments throughout the audience. You can hear Angelica’s piece on New Sounds Live by clicking here.

 

Saturday, October 17 – Machine Music

Molly Herron – Stellar Atmospheres

 

Saturday, October 17 – Roomful of Teeth

William Britelle – High Done No Why To

Missy Mazzoli – Vesper Sparrow

You can listen to the entire concert here.

 

Saturday, October 17 – SONiC Afterhours: Visualizing Music

Bora Yoon – Sons Nouveaux

 

Sunday, October 18 – JACK Out of the Box

You can listen to the JACK Out of the Box marathon here!

Set 1: Jason Trueting – Oblique Music for 4 plus (blank)

Jeff Myers – Requiem Aeternam

Set 2: Eblis Álvarez – Cinco temas para peliculas

Carolina Heredia – Lus in Bello

Set 3: Caroline Shaw – By & By

Justine F. Chen – Measuring Force and Distance for double quartet

 

Monday, October 19 – Nieuw Amsterdams Peil

You can listen to Nieuw Amsterdams Peil full concert here!

Molly Joyce – Amplify

 

Tuesday, October 20 – wild Up:West 

The NYC debut of wild Up presented “a study of west coast: experimentalism, pulse music, noise, punk rock, Los Angeles, and tumbleweeds” RE:Sound winnders were Nick Deyoe, Andrew Tholl, and Andrew McIntosh. You can listen to the whole program here.

Nick Deyoe – A New Anxiety

Andrew Tholl – corpus callosum

Andrew McIntosh – Yelling into the Wind   

 

Wednesday, October 21 – SONiC Afterhours: Hybridity

You can listen to the whole program here. 

Set 1: Milton Nascimento – Fantasia on Cravo E Canela

Various – Tempestade

Set 2: Albert Marques – IDN

Zack O’Farrill – Foggy Conscience

Livio Almeida – Action and Reaction

 

Thursday, October 22 – Alarm Will Sound

Alarm Will Sound’s contribution to SONiC included New York premieres from three under-40 composers. Featured on the program were composers Texu Kim (Korea), Charlie Piper (England), Jeremy Podgursky (USA), Kate Soper (USA) and John Orfe (USA). Soper, Kim and Piper were our RE:Sound audience favorites. You can listen to these and the rest of the program here.

Kate Soper – I Was Here I Was I (excerpts)

Texu Kim – Bounce

Charlie Piper – Zoetrope

 

Friday, October 23 – Orchestra Underground: 21st Firsts

Listen to the full concert here!

Judah Adashi – Sestina

 

Stay tuned and we’ll keep you posted about future broadcasts and streams on Q2Music.org!