Laura and Charlotte speak with composer, performer, and TAK 2024 season collaborator, Seare Ahmad Farhat about silence, the magic of chamber music, spirituality and poetry.

Donate to TAK at www.takensemble.com/support

TAK will be premiering Seare’s piece “Bring me your Silence” on December 3rd, 7:30pm at the Dimenna Center in NYC, alongside works by Eric Wubbels, inti figgis-vizueta, and Zeynep Toraman. The concert will also feature a solo performance by Qiujiang Levi Lu. Come out if you're in the area!

Tickets and more info here: www.takensemble.com/holding

For more information on Seare and to listen to more of his music, visit his website at https://searefarhat.com

For more information about TAK ensemble, visit us at www.takensemble.com, and follow us on Instagram/other social channels @TAKensemble. You can also subscribe to our newsletter or get in touch at www.takensemble.com/contact. We have a lot going on this season, and would love for you to join us!

If you like the TAK Editions Podcast and want it to keep existing, please consider making a donation to support our work at www.takensemble.com/support.

Thanks for listening.

Madison and Marina speak with composer, performer, and TAK 2024 season collaborator, Zeynep Toraman. Their conversation goes deep into the nature and motivations of artistic practice, literature, identity, and much more.

TAK will be premiering Zeynep's piece "Veils" on December 3rd, 7:30pm at the Dimenna Center in NYC, alongside works by Eric Wubbels, inti figgis-vizueta, and Seare Ahmad Farhat. The concert will also feature a solo performance by Qiujiang Levi Lu. Come out if you're in the area!

Tickets and more info here: www.takensemble.com/holding

For more information on Zeynep Toraman and to listen to more of her music, visit her website at www.zeynep toraman.com.

For more information about TAK ensemble, visit us at www.takensemble.com, and follow us on Instagram/other social channels @TAKensemble. You can also subscribe to our newsletter or get in touch at www.takensemble.com/contact.

We have a lot going on this season, and would love for you to join us!

If you like the TAK Editions Podcast and want it to keep existing, please consider making a donation to support our work at www.takensemble.com/support.

Thanks for listening!

Charlotte and Laura speak with sound artist, composer and performer Seth Cluett about his new works for TAK, 'irreversible histories of disturbance' and 'the reformation of assemblages.' The conversation includes thoughts about making music at the pace of nature, alternative notation systems, and custom-made instruments.

We will premiere these works on Sunday September 22 at 8pm at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, it would be great to see you there!

for tickets to the concert:

https://roulette.org/event/seth-cluett-tak-ensemble/

to donate to the TAK Editions Podcast:

https://donorbox.org/tak-ensemble

more info about Seth Cluett:

https://sethcluett.com/

more info about TAK:

https://www.takensemble.com/

download the track at the beginning and end of this episode:

https://amplify2020.bandcamp.com/album/acts-within-time

A very special announcement from TAK Ensemble.

Charlotte and Madison speak with poet, playwright, educator, actor, producer, and director Modesto "Flako" Jimenez about his site-specific theatre work originally inspired by his Bushwick neighborhood, Taxilandia, and multidisciplinary theatrical work Mercedes.

for more about ¡Oye! Group: https://www.oyegroup.org/

About Flako: https://www.flakojimenez.com/

Photos from brooklyn gypsy taxi flow series:

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/bgtflow/?hl=en

for more about TAK: http://takensemble.com

Our March 2 show: https://www.cprnyc.org/events/tak-ensemble-nothing-but-a-puff-of-wind

David Bird's album Wire Hums: https://david-bird.bandcamp.com/album/wire-hums

On this episode, Charlotte speaks with composer and performer Kurt Rohde and visual artist Marie Lorenz about the site-specific opera Newtown Odyssey, written for and about NYC's Newtown Creek.

for more about the opera: https://www.newtownodyssey.com/

About Kurt Rohde: https://www.kurtrohde.com/

About Marie Lorenz: http://www.marielorenz.com/

Support your artistic ecosystem by donating to TAK 's year-end fundraiser. Get great perks like meditation tracks, tutorials, and TAK merch: www.takensemble.com/support

On this episode, Charlotte speaks with composer and performer Kamala Sankaram about her recent site-specific works. 'The Buried Brook' is a soundwalk that follows the currently buried Tibbets Brook in the Bronx, and 'The Last Stand' is an experimental opera and sound installation for trees.

About Kamala Sankaram: https://www.kamalasankaram.com/

Hear the new album Bombay Rickey: https://bombayrickey.bandcamp.com/album/bombay-rickey

Support your artistic ecosystem by donating to TAK 's year-end fundraiser. Get great perks like meditation tracks, tutorials, and TAK merch: https://www.takensemble.com/support

On this episode, Charlotte and Laura speak with Bryan Jacobs in advance of TAK’s premiere of his piece ‘Organic Synthesis Volume 2’ on Thursday Dec. 7, 2023.

To hear more of Bryan’s music, go to https://soundcloud.com/bryanjacobs-1

Please contribute to TAK’s year-end fundraiser at http://takensemble.com/support

Our upcoming concert, Machine Tongue, featuring ‘Organic Synthesis Volume 2’, ‘In a Forest’ by Michelle Lou and ‘la quemadura es el lenguaje con que juro…’ by Andres Guadarrama will be on Thurs. Dec. 7 at 8pm, at 580 Sackett St. Brooklyn NY, tickets are pay-what-you-can.

On this episode, Marina speaks with the members of sinonó, who will be joining us in concert this Saturday Oct. 7 at the Dimenna Center in New York City.

sinonó is a brief submergence, a string of choices, a container for the communion of rigor and failure. This NYC-based trio, featuring Isabel Crespo Pardo (voice), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Henry Fraser (bass), performs graphic scores and poem-songs composed by Crespo. sinonó will release their debut album in early 2024.

To learn more about sinonó, visit https://isabelcrespo.com/sinono

to learn more about Interbeing, visit https://www.takensemble.com/being

Marina and Charlotte speak with Phong Tran about growing up on the internet, collaboration and simulation theory.

Phong opened SWOONFEST, our tenth anniversary festival, one month ago today with a set of brand new original music created live on analog and modular synthesizers.

The music from this episode is from Phong’s album The Computer Room, hear the whole thing here:

https://phongtran.bandcamp.com/album/the-computer-room

for more about Phong:

https://www.phongmusic.com/

for updates on his upcoming project with Ballet Collective, head to their website:

https://balletcollective.com/

for more about TAK:

http://takensemble.com