Things With Strings
For this edition of New Sounds, hear new music for strings. There’s music from Russian composer Anton Batagov, Estonian composer Arvo Part, and Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson, and Chicago-based...
View ArticleElectroacoustic Blends
For this New Sounds, we’ll hear three recordings that feature a blend of acoustic instruments and electronic processing. From a score to the new film by Bill Morrison, “The Miners’ Hymns,” listen to...
View ArticleNew Music for String Quartet
Hear a lot of new music for string quartet on this New Sounds. Listen to Raz Mesinai’s work for string quartet and four turntables where the string instruments are recorded and then manipulated by...
View ArticleWith Dustin O'Halloran
Dustin O’Halloran is an American pianist/composer based in Berlin, whose approach to solo piano music is geared to avoid being lumped into either the buttoned-up classical tradition or the vapid...
View ArticleAcoustic Music with Computers
Listen to selections from Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson’s soundtrack to the beautiful animated short film Varmints. Hear a WNYC commission by composer Osvaldo Golijov, called "Radio," for...
View ArticleScoring Bill Morrison
Listen to some of the musical scores for Bill Morrison's silent films on this New Sounds program. There’s a mix of brass ensemble & electronics in Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson’s score to...
View ArticleNew Sounds Live: Miners' Hymns Live
From the New Sounds Live concerts, we'll hear “The Miners’ Hymns,” a film score from the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. The work is a brass-heavy elegy to the coal mining culture in Northeast...
View ArticleNew Releases, July 2012
It's the most wonderful time of the month! For this program, John Schaefer presents the pick of the piles. What we can see from here includes some motoric music named for toy manufacturers, a...
View ArticleElectroacoustic Blends
For this New Sounds, we’ll hear three recordings that feature a blend of acoustic instruments and electronic processing. From a score to the new film by Bill Morrison, “The Miners’ Hymns,” listen to...
View ArticleAbstract Soundscapes
For this New Sounds, listen to some abstract soundscapes from Poland, from Berlin via an Icelandic composer, and from Brooklyn-based musicians as well. Hear a soundscape from the Berlin-based...
View ArticleAcoustic Music with Computers
Listen to selections from Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson’s soundtrack to the beautiful animated short film Varmints. Hear a WNYC commission by composer Osvaldo Golijov, called "Radio," for...
View ArticleWith Dustin O'Halloran
Dustin O’Halloran is an American pianist/composer based in Berlin, whose approach to solo piano music is geared to avoid being lumped into either the buttoned-up classical tradition or the vapid...
View ArticleRecomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi
Composer Max Richter has taken apart Vivaldi's original set of violin concertos, "The Four Seasons," and reconfigured the components while reclaiming the work as a beautiful object. Richter opened up...
View ArticleAbstract Soundscapes - Special Podcast
For this New Sounds, listen to some abstract soundscapes from Poland, from Berlin via an Icelandic composer, and from Brooklyn-based musicians as well. Hear a soundscape from the Berlin-based...
View ArticleElectronic Places
Hear electronic works on this New Sounds from three different countries - Iceland, Germany, and America, and about very specific places - Copenhagen, Milan, Borodino, near Moscow, the Okeefenokee...
View ArticleNew Sounds Live: Bang on a Can PCF Concert 2013
From the New Sounds Live concert series, listen to some of the newly commissioned works from the Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund Concert, recorded last week at Merkin Hall, as part of the...
View ArticleScoring Bill Morrison
Listen to some of the musical scores for Bill Morrison's silent films on this New Sounds program. There’s a mix of brass ensemble & electronics in Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson’s score to...
View ArticleJóhann Jóhannsson
STREAM Q2 MUSIC NOWFor Mixtapes, we ask today's leading musicians, authors, filmmakers and artists to assemble an hour of new-music that they find particularly compelling or that exemplifies the...
View ArticleNew Sounds Live: Miners' Hymns Live
From the New Sounds Live concerts, we'll hear “The Miners’ Hymns,” a film score from the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. The work is a brass-heavy elegy to the coal mining culture in Northeast...
View ArticleVisceral Connections with Jóhann Jóhannsson
The music of Iceland composer and producer Jóhann Jóhannsson is at once organic and otherworldly. Drawing from a palette of ambient music, post-rock and orchestral music, his work ranges from film...
View ArticleElectroacoustic Blends
For this New Sounds, we’ll hear three recordings that feature a blend of acoustic instruments and electronic processing. From a score to the new film by Bill Morrison, “The Miners’ Hymns,” listen to...
View ArticleNew Soundtracks
For this program, hear an hour of recent soundtracks for both film and dance. Listen to music from the new, otherwise silent film, “Visitors” by filmmaker Jon Kane – about our ambivalent relationship...
View ArticleWith Dustin O'Halloran
Dustin O’Halloran is an American pianist/composer based in Berlin, whose approach to solo piano music is geared to avoid being lumped into either the buttoned-up classical tradition or the vapid...
View ArticleAbstract Soundscapes
For this New Sounds, listen to some abstract soundscapes from Poland, from Berlin via an Icelandic composer, and from Brooklyn-based musicians as well. Hear a soundscape from the Berlin-based...
View ArticleVisceral Connections with Jóhann Jóhannsson
The music of Iceland composer and producer Jóhann Jóhannsson is at once organic and otherworldly. Drawing from a palette of ambient music, post-rock and orchestral music, his work ranges from film...
View ArticleRecomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi
Composer Max Richter has taken apart Vivaldi's original set of violin concertos, "The Four Seasons," and reconfigured the components while reclaiming the work as a beautiful object. Richter opened up...
View ArticleScoring Bill Morrison
Listen to some of the musical scores for Bill Morrison's silent films on this New Sounds program. There’s a mix of brass ensemble & electronics in Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson’s score to...
View ArticleNew Sounds Live: Bang on a Can PCF Concert 2013
From the New Sounds Live concert series, listen to some of the newly commissioned works from the Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund Concert, recorded in Spring 2013 at Merkin Hall, as part of...
View ArticleElectronic Places
Hear electronic works on this New Sounds from three different countries - Iceland, Germany, and America, and about very specific places - Copenhagen, Milan, Borodino, near Moscow, the Okeefenokee...
View ArticleNew Sounds Live: Miners' Hymns Live
From the New Sounds Live concerts, we'll hear “The Miners’ Hymns,” a film score from the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. The work is a brass-heavy elegy to the coal mining culture in Northeast...
View ArticleJohann Johannsson live at Le Poisson Rouge
Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson blends acoustic and electronic, old-style and high-tech, organic and synthetic sounds into a romantically rhapsodic musical experience.Johannsson has just been...
View ArticleNew Soundtracks
For this program, hear an hour of recent soundtracks for both film and dance. Listen to music from the silent film, “Visitors” by filmmaker Jon Kane – about our ambivalent relationship with...
View ArticleAbstract Soundscapes
For this New Sounds, listen to some abstract soundscapes from Poland, from Berlin via an Icelandic composer, and from Brooklyn-based musicians as well. Hear a soundscape from the Berlin-based...
View ArticleRecomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi
Composer Max Richter has taken apart Vivaldi's original set of violin concertos, "The Four Seasons," and reconfigured the components while reclaiming the work as a beautiful object. Richter opened up...
View ArticleElectronic Places
Hear electronic works on this New Sounds from three different countries - Iceland, Germany, and America, and about very specific places - Copenhagen, Milan, Borodino, near Moscow, the Okeefenokee...
View ArticleNew Sounds Live: Bang on a Can PCF Concert 2013
From the New Sounds Live concert series, listen to some of the newly commissioned works from the Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund Concert, recorded in Spring 2013 at Merkin Hall, as part of...
View Article#3508: New Soundtracks
For this program, hear an hour of recent soundtracks for both film and dance. Listen to music from the silent film, “Visitors” by filmmaker Jon Kane – about our ambivalent relationship with...
View Article20 Artists We Lost in 2018
The end of the year prompts us all to reflect on the events that have shaped our lives over the past 12 months. While there have been some triumphs and disasters — and the occasional funny moment —...
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