Aaron Siegel, LIVE
By way of a live concert at Brooklyn's ISSUE Project Room, Q2 brings composer and percussionist Aaron Siegel's slowly evolving monolith of sparkling drone, Science is Only a Sometimes Friend to our...
View ArticleA Baroque Minimalism with Gregory Spears
The music of composer Gregory Spears draws from such disparate influences as early music, minimalism and modern electronica. His 2010 Requiem, for instance, included medieval troubadour harp alongside...
View ArticleMaximum Power from Minimalism
When the musical approach known as Minimalism began in the 1960s and '70s it was in part a reaction against the narrative tension-and-release that's fundamental to traditional classical music....
View ArticleMusical Genetics 101: A Little Goes A Long Way
This week, musical genetics 101. We survey keyboard-centric pieces whose forms are born from the brief but compact strands of musical DNA that begin them. Maybe it's a short rhythmic fragment, a...
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Chants Encounters: New Spiritual Recordings
Contemplative, soothing, generically religious music is making a comeback. Maybe it's the time of year, or maybe it’s the need for tranquility in a noisy culture that could use some serious mellowing...
View ArticleA Baroque Minimalism with Gregory Spears
The music of composer Gregory Spears draws from such disparate influences as early music, minimalism and modern electronica. His 2010 Requiem, for instance, included medieval troubadour harp alongside...
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SRx80: 24-Hour Celebration of Steve Reich's 80th Birthday
On October 3, Q2 Music celebrates Steve Reich's 80th birthday with a 24-hour marathon – specifically one 12-hour marathon repeated once – of his trailblazing music from 1965 to 1990 in chronological...
View ArticleTape Collage and Five-Part Canons: Early Steve Reich Soundtracks
On October 3, Q2 Music celebrates Steve Reich's 80th birthday with a 24-hour marathon – one 12-hour marathon streamed twice – of his trailblazing music from 1965 to 1990 in chronological order, with a...
View ArticleEpisode 15 - New Music Fight Club
It was composer pitted against composer: uptown vs. downtown, tonal vs. atonal, left brain vs right brain, and these musicians were NOT pulling any punches. Composers were antagonizing each other,...
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