The Carbon Copy Building is an opera composed by committee; Bang on a Can members Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe combined their efforts on the music, whereas the text, and the lavishly illustrated hardcover booklet, is the work of graphic novelist Ben Katchor. Katchor's "picture stories" have graced the pages of Metropolis Magazine ...
Cellist Madeleine Shapiro is a longstanding advocate of contemporary music, both as soloist and as co-founder of the New York-based new music ensemble ModernWorks. Electricity is not only the title of her solo debut disc for Albany Records, but also a program she plays in concerts centering on the voice of the cello interacting with tape and/or ...
This album by the innovative chamber ensemble Alarm Will Sound features newly written works, contemporary classics, and transcriptions of Medieval and Renaissance vocal music. With 21 members, the mixed group of winds, brass, percussion, keyboards, strings, and voices would qualify as a chamber orchestra, but most of the pieces deploy smaller ...
From its first notes, it's clear that Van Gogh is the work of a Bang On A Can composer -- the rhythmically irregular, percussive ostinatos, the orchestration, the harmonic and melodic language. The distinctive Bang On A Can sound is hugely influenced by the music of Louis Andriessen, but many of the works of Gordon, Julia Wolfe, and David Lang ...
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