Episode 12: Vocal Party Tricks and Glass Marbles

Josh brings a piece that was super hot in the late 1990s and Jon sets a record for the most percussion ever used in a single piece on the pod.

Featuring performances of Sarah Hopkins's "Past Life Melodies" by the St. Peters Chorale and Elainie Lillios's "The Rush of the Brook Stills the Mind" by Scott Deal.

Episode 11: Burt Bacharach, Nested Tuplets, and Beep Beep I'mma Dump Truck

Josh brings some Whitman settings from his homeland of Minnesota and we finally let Jon off the leash to do some wildin' out about that sweet, sweet Ferneyhough music.

Featuring performances of René Clausen's "Three Whitman Settings" by The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists and Brian Ferneyhough's "Exordium" by the Arditti Quartet.

Episode 10: Swooshes, Booshes, and Shakespeare

Josh tries (and fails) to speak Norwegian and Jon justifies the existence of all acousmatic music ever written (because—and this has been made official—he speaks for all acousmatic composers).

Featuring performances of Alfred Janson’s "Sonnet 76" by the Norwegian Soloists Choir and Panayiotis Kokoras’s "Anechoic Pulse."

Featuring performances of Ligeti’s "Two Unaccompanied Choruses" by the London Sinfonietta Voices and "Ramifications" by Ensemble Intercontemporain.

Episode 8: Dario Argento and Super Balls

Josh gets attacked by an 83-year-old composer and Jon brings a piece that looks as good as it sounds.

Featuring performances of Dominick Argento's Dover Beach Revisited by The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists and Heather Stebbins's Things That Follow by Adam Vidiksis.

Episode 7: Pioneer Women and a 'Rabid' String Quartet

Josh takes the pod to the prairie via a work for choir and twelve guitars while Jon wants to talk to you about a very serious, important issue: packs of stray wild dogs that control most of the cities in North America (and show up during a passage in the piece for string quartet he brings).

Episode 6: Disney Minimalism, Smoke, and Mirrors

Your hosts prove they're not too old for this sh*t by discussing two wildly different works.  Josh makes a Disney memory through one of his favorite pieces of post-minimalism and Jon gives everyone a nerd class on convolution using a whiskey flask.

Featuring performances of Michael Torke's Boast Not of Tomorrow by the Netherlands Radio Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra (Edo de Waart, conductor) and Christopher Chandler's Smoke and Mirrors by the [Switch~ Ensemble].

Episode 5: Josh and Jon Do Scandinavia

The guys barrel through pieces that set them afire for music when they were but mere youths.  Josh stumbles on the doctoral dissertation of one of his choral idols and Jon makes sure we all know the difference between Swedish and Norwegian metal.

Featuring performances of Knut Nystedt's "O Crux" by the Norwegian Soloists' Choir (Nystedt's own!) and Kaija Saariaho's "Cendres" by Mikael Helasuvo, Anssi Karttunen, and Tuija Hakkila.

Episode 4: Spirituals and Strings

Josh hips Jon to a choral banger and the guys go deep on Jon’s favorite articulation on wildly different pieces that both interact with folk traditions.

Featuring performances of Adolphus Hailstork's Crucifixion by the Brigham Young University Singers and Liza Lim's Ochred String by Soloists of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Episode 3: The Zappanale

Josh challenges Jon with the poetry from a choral classic and Jon (deservedly) just talks Zappa...Zappa...Zappa.

Featuring performances of Morten Lauridsen’s Contre qui, rose by The Singers—Minnesota Choral Artists and Frank Zappa’s The Girl in the Magnesium Dress by Ensemble Modern.