SoundNotion

This week on SoundNotion, eighth blackbird pianist and musical Entrepreneur, Lisa Kaplan joins the panel to discuss the terror of life without the Internet, how to say ‘thank you’ and eighth blackbird’s mission to guide the next generation of performers. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, Lisa Kaplan.

This week, we replay Patch In's August 2014 interview with Miller Puckette, the originator of interactive music platform Max, which just received a major update last month.

This week on SoundNotion, we talk open data sets. The Met offered its data and composer Suby Raman accepted the challenge with ten graphs that show what’s been up at the opera for the last 100 years. Suby also parses gender balance in top US orchestras. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald.

This week we replay our 2013 interview with composer and founder of I Care if You Listen, Thomas Deneuville. His digital magazine launched last year on iPhone and iPad, and is available this week for the first time on Android! This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, Thomas Deneuville.

This week on SoundNotion, composer-performer Jessica Meyer joins the panel to discuss her new album, the joys of looping, Spotify CEO’s response to Taylor Swift, Avery Fisher Hall being renamed, the music of Comet 67P and Youtube’s launch of Music Key. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, Jessica Meyer.

This week on SoundNotion, pianist Dejan Lazic is doing the Internet wrong, Taylor Swift boycotts Spotify, Bard College has a new training orchestra, Medici.tv now live streams from Carnagie Hall and Atlanta reaches a labor deal. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo.

This week on SoundNotion, composer John Supko joins the panel with his new album “s_traits” available November 4, 2014. Also, Klinghoffer fervor can stop already, Maestro Levine bags number 2500, 12 new Music Alive grants, and remembering Stephen Paulus. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, John Supko.

This week on SoundNotion, the panel struggles with the pain of being snubbed by Cecilia Bartoli. Plus: SoundCloud is struggling, YouTube Content ID pays out 1 billion since 2007, Alex Ross ponders the ‘Beethoven singularity’ and yMusic has a new album. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton.

This week on SoundNotion, Avant Media founder and artistic director Randy Gibson discusses cross-discipline works, the Avant Music Festival, Avant Media’s new monthly series Tangents, his upcoming premiere, and really (“really”) long music. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, Randy Gibson.

Trumpeter and composer Brian Groder explores the realm between jazz and contemporary classical music and gives us insight on the nature of improvisation. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, Brian Groder.