Soundmaking

Soundmaking

By Soundmaking podcastMusic
Download on the App Store

Soundmaking episodes

  • Soundmaking ep. 62: George Lewis – Merce and Baby

    In this episode, composer George Lewis talks about his work "Merce and Baby" released on Ensemble Dal Niente's album "Confined.Speak", released on New Focus Records in 2021. The title of the work refers to the 1946 Merce Cunningham show "Fast Blues" and its music by drummer Baby Dodds.

     

    Performed by: Constance Volk, flute // Kyle Flens, percussion // Tara Lynn Ramsey, violin // Chris Wild, cello // Michael Lewanski, conductor


    https://music.columbia.edu/bios/george-e-lewis

    https://www.dalniente.com

    https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/ensemble-dal-niente-confined-speak/

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    25 min
  • Soundmaking ep. 61: Big Dog Little Dog (Jessie Montgomery & Eleonore Oppenheim)

    For this episode of Soundmaking we spoke with Big Dog Little Dog, a New York based duo that features Jessie Montgomery on violin & Eleonore Oppenheim on double bass. We spoke about their first album, which was released on the label New Amsterdam in 2019, and play the tracks Cipher & Panorama during the episode.


    bigdoglittledog.bandcamp.com/album/big-…little-dog

    

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    22 min
  • Soundmaking ep. 59: John White – Electric Music

    We spoke with John White and Andrea Rocca about the 2020 double CD release "Electric Music". This album features electronic music that John composed in the 1980s. Andrea restored and mastered these pieces from the original cassettes and the album was released on ANTS.



    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    29 min
  • Soundmaking ep. 60: Jonathan Powell: John White's "Piano Sonatas, volume 2"

    We spoke with Jonathan Powell about his 2020 CD, "John White: Piano Sonatas, volume 2". The album was released in 2020 on Convivium Records, produced by Adaq Khan. Born in 1936, John White has composed nearly 200 sonatas, and we also recommend the first volume that Jonathan released. On the episode we play sonatas 156, 131 and 105. 

    https://jonathanpowellpianist.com

    https://conviviumrecords.co.uk/product/piano-sonatas-volume-ii/

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    17 min
  • Soundmaking ep. 58: Sam Shalabi (Land of Kush) – Sand Enigma

    We spoke with Egyptian-Canadian composer Sam Shalabi about Land of Kush's album Sand Enigma, released in 2019 on the label Constellation. Land Of Kush is a large orchestra assembled and directed by Sam.

    The album is available here:

    landofkush.bandcamp.com

    cstrecords.com/pages/land-of-kush

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    25 min
  • Soundmaking ep. 57: Didem Coskunseven – Ext.The Woods.Night

    We spoke with Turkish composer Didem Coskunseven about her work "Ext.The Woods.Night", written in 2021. The work is for electric guitar, synthesisers, percussion, saxophone and electronics. It was composed for Ensemble Nikel and this live recording comes from their performance of the work at 2021 November Music. A video recording of the Donaueschingen Musiktage performance is available here: 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWhdNM5iCwY


    https://cnmat.berkeley.edu/people/didem-coskunseven

    https://ensemblenikel.com

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    17 min
  • Soundmaking Ep.56: Charles Amirkhanian – Miatsoom
    In this episode we spoke with composer Charles Amirkhanian about his album Miatsoom, which was released on Other Minds Records in 2021. The episode features extracts of Roussier (not Rouffier) (1973), Dzarin Bess Ga Khorim (1972) and Miatsoom (1994–97). The extract of Miatsoom begins with Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian playing the piano. More information about the pieces can be found on the CD booklet or in the notes that comes with the digital download version, which is available here.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    26 min
  • Soundmaking ep.53: Sarah Hennies – Spectral Malsconcities

    In this episode composer Sarah Hennies talks about her composition Spectral Malsconcities, performed by the group Bearthoven (Karl Larson, piano; Pat Swoboda, bass; Matt Evans, percussion). This recording was released in 2020 on New World Records. At the end you will hear a 10 minute extract of this 30 minute work and we highly recommend you check out the rest of the work here:

    https://newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sarah-hennies-spectral-malsconcities

    https://www.sarah-hennies.com

    http://www.bearthoven.com


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    22 min

About Soundmaking

From the publisher's feed

Soundmaking is a podcast by Håkon Stene and Matthew Shlomowitz where composers and performers discuss the how and why of music they created.

Hosted on Acast. See