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!
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