With the news that Taylor Swift is re-recording her back catalog, wouldn't it be cool if she collaborated with her favorite contemporary classical composer, John Luther Adams? Back in 2015, she donated $50,000 to the Seattle Symphony after listening to and loving Adams's piece "Become Ocean," so I'm sure she's been planning for a collabo ever since.

An acoustic performance of Blank Space remixed with Adams's The Wind in High Places, Canticles of the Sky, and The Farthest Place.

The Immeasurable Blank Space Of Tones - Swift Luther Adams

Composer, drummer, and lover of megamixes. I write music that lives in a netherworld between contemporary classical and improvised music traditions.

Doctoral Fellow in Music Education at NYU; adjunct professor of music technology and music education at Montclair State University

Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) is a composer who likes noise, code, electronics, and nostalgia. They build handmade electronic instruments, design interactive software interfaces, and repurpose audio and telecommunications equipment as instruments.

Reilly's recordings appear on How Things Are Made, S3E02; in the Media Sandbox and Michigan State University Department of Theatre film (313) Choices; and on the recording Statements with the Michigan State University composition studio. Reilly’s compositions have been performed at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse and the TaPIR Lab, and by the Eastman BroadBand, members of ensemble mise-en, the Amaranth Quartet, OSSIA New Music, and How things are made.

Reilly is currently a lecturer in music technology at SUNY Geneseo. They hold a PhD in composition from the Eastman School of Music where they studied with Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, David Liptak, and Oliver Schneller; an MA in composition from Eastman, where they studied with Robert Morris and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez; and a BM in composition from Michigan State University.

The Immeasurable Blank Space Of Tones - Swift Luther Adams

Kevin Laskey