SoundNotion

This week on SoundNotion, we have Arlene and Larry Dunn. You may know them as @ICEfansArleneLD, or follow their reviews on the International Contemporary Ensemble’s ICEblog, or their work as contributing editors for I CARE IF YOU LISTEN magazine or… This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, Larry and Arlene Dunn.

This week on SoundNotion composer, performer and fellow SoundNotion producer Anthony Joseph Lanman TOTALLY SHREDS... At music podcasting and 8 string guitar concertos! John Luther Adams wins the pulitzer, Ted Gioia is a curmudgeon, robots and holograms. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, Anthony Lanman.

This week on SoundNotion the panel is joined by composer, performer and microtonal lobbyist Johnny Reinhard. We talk tuning systems, dissonentlessness™, and MicroFEST NYC 2014 going on right now at Spectrum. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, Johnny Reinhard.

This week on SoundNotion, the panel is joined by outgoing MATA Festival artistic director Yotam Haber and executive director Todd Tarantino. We cover what’s new with MATA, new MATA commissions, and how to remain dogmatically undogmatic as a curator. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Yotam Haber, Todd Tarantino .

This week, we’re joined by composer Joseph Klein. His intermedia and theatrical works are incredible! Check out his new album “Improbable Encounters,” a CD/DVD release on the Innova label. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, Joseph Klein.

This week, composer Armando Bayolo fills us in on the upcoming Washington, DC-based Andriessen 75 Festival, a weeklong birthday bash for the influential Dutch composer. Also, we get to hear some of Great Noise Ensemble’s newest album, Guerilla New Music. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, Armando Bayolo.

This week on SoundNotion, orchestra business consultant and friend of the show Drew McManus joins us to talk about his Orchestra 990 Database Project. If you care about the future of orchestras, you should consider backing his Kickstarter project. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Drew McManus.

This week on SoundNotion, pianist Benjamin Hochman fills us in on his March 10th Theme and Variations recital at SubCulture, featuring a new work by Tamar Muskal. PLUS: New Music USA grants, Sibelius 7.5 and “the absence of Met income in the fall...” This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, Benjamin Hochman.

This week on SoundNotion, the panel is joined by the 2014 American Composers Forum Composition Contest Finalists Michael Laurello, Todd Lerew, Kristina Warren. We listen to their music and discuss the process of writing for So Percussion. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, Michael Laurello, Todd Lerew, Kristina Warren.

This week on SoundNotion we discuss Charles Wuorinen’s opera Brokeback Mountain, the potential death knell for physical media, Osmo Vanska’s line in the sand, Obama’s new nominee to chair the NEA and Amazon’s symphony soap opera Mozart in the Jungle. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton.