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Friction Quartet

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Spaces

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New England Conservatory President Emeritus and Walter W. Naumburg Chair in Music, Laurence Lesser Bach: Suite for Cello solo no 1 in G major, BWV 1007. Recorded live in Jordan Hall, Boston, by Alex Hug

Bach: Suite for Cello solo no 1 in G major-Prelude

recorded by Zach Miley at San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Nick Vasallo - Elements Of Metal; I. Collapsing Obsidian Sun

I. Intro - Fantasie (Bihag Overlay) (0:00)
II. Intro - Scherzo (Malkauns) (6:42)
III. Intro - Recitativo (Basant) (10:06)
IV. Intro - Rondo (Jog) (14:20)

String Quartet (Ragamala)

First Single From IRON EP By WOODKID 
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WOODKID - Iron

First movement of an unfinished string quartet. Performed by the Friction Quartet

String Quartet, Mvmt. I

Truman Sleep composed by Philip Glass in 1998 for the movie The Truman Show.

Live video: http://youtu.be/h_H_JQgM-tI

The instrument is a Clavia Nord Stage 2 using a sample Steinway Model D grand piano, a simulated Vox organ, and sampled Eminent strings.

Video

Philip Glass - Truman Sleeps (The Truman Show) [piano + Vox + Eminent]

world premiere in park city, ut on 7/31/14

Frictive Grit by Anthony Suter

Recorded live at CSU Stanislaus April 3, 2014

Philip Glass String Quartet No. 5

Philip Glass - Company, played by Santa Clara University Orchestra, on Nov 2014.  Conducted by John Kennedy.

Philip Glass - Company - 4th mvt

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CONTENT: ‘A Winged Victory For The Sullen’ is the first installment of the new collaboration between Stars Of The Lid founder Adam Wiltzie and L.A. composer Dustin O’Halloran. The duo agreed to leave the comfort zone of their home studios and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, hunting down a selection of 9ft grand pianos that had the ability to deliver extreme sonic low end. Other traditional instrumentation was used including string quartet, French horn, and bassoon, but always juxtaposed is the sound of drifting guitar washed melodies. The recordings began with one late night session in the famed Grunewald Church in Berlin on a 1950s imperial Bösendorfer piano and strings were added in the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along the River Spree. One last session on a handmade Fazioli piano in a private studio on the Northern cusp of Italy, before the final mixes took place in a 17th century villa near Ferrara with the assistance of Francesco Donadello. All songs were then processed completely analogue straight to magnetic tape. Their secret to harvesting new melodic structures from the thin air of existence was for the duo to push themselves to dangerous territory, realising that clear thinking at the wrong moment could stifle the compositions. The final result is seven landscapes of harmonic ingemination. In ‘Requiem For The Static King Part One’ – created in memory of the untimely passing of Mark Linkous – they have taken the age-old idea of a string quartet and then shot it out of a cannon to reveal exquisite new levels of sonic bliss. Of the 13 minute track ‘Symphony Pathétique’, Wiltzie says ‘after almost 20 years of struggling to create interesting ambient drone music, I feel like I have finally figured out what I am doing’. Notable guest musicians include Icelandic cellist Hildur Gudnadottir, as well as Erased Tapes label comrade Peter Broderick on violin. A Winged Victory For The Sullen is not a side project – it is the future of the late night record you have always dreamed of.

A Winged Victory For The Sullen

Requiem For The Static King Part One

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A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Requiem For The Static King Part One

Glass being my favorite 20th Century composer, here's my rendition of "Metamorphosis"

Philip Glass - Metamorphosis

That Home - Cinematic Orchestra (Extended Full Version)

Featured in trailer for Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus'. (international trailer)

Trailer here http://youtu.be/a9jRaa4Wkbk

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Max Richter - Sarajevo - Music from Prometheus Trailer

Calder Quartet play Philip Glass' String Quartet #2 at the 2010 Carlsbad Music Festival.

Calder Quartet: Philip Glass String Quartet #2

Mad Rush (Philip Glass)

Oakland/ Bay Area-based String Quartet

Friction Quartet exists to modernize the chamber music experience and expand the string quartet repertoire. Friction achieves this mission by commissioning new works, curating imaginative programs, collaborating with artists, and presenting interactive educational outreach.