commissioned & recorded by escapeVelocity, 2020-21
violin - Giancarlo Latta
piano - Robert Fleitz

earthmaker [2020] | escapeVelocity

ISM fellow and composer Bongani Ndodana-Breen explores his latest composition fusing gospel text, pan-African sound, and the passion tradition. He also chats about his earlier operatic work that engages the sounds and figures of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle.

New Africa Passion & Beyond

Victoria Shen's needle nails technique, which was appropriately earlier this summer in a Beyoncé video, is just one of many new approaches to making sounds that Shen (who performs under the moniker Evicshen) uses in her provocative performances and installations. But even though all the sounds she makes, and often all the devices she uses to make them as well, are her own creations, she is ambivalent about describing herself as a composer as she tells Frank J. Oteri in this NewMusicBox podcast. To learn more about Shen and to see as well as hear more of her work, please visit NewMusicBox: https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/victoria-shen-the-landfill-of-meaning/

SoundLives #17 - Victoria Shen (Evicshen): The Landfill of Meaning

Foto ©WDR Claus Langer
Mitschnitt Stephan Hahn ©WDR

Aus dem Geröll  UA 23.4.2023 WDR Sinfonieorchester, Dirk Rothbrust percussion, Lin Liao conductor

Steps (Dangye) outlines my interactions with the Korean language as someone who a)is not a native Korean speaker, b) watches a lot of K-Dramas, listeners to a lot of K-Pop, and watches pansori on YouTuve with English subtitles, c) has tried many times and failed many times to learn the Korean language through podcasts, books, and the language app Duolingo. In the Korean language, I hear deep expressivity, melodic nuances, fragility, tenderness, and pointed consonants with grit! - Emily Koh

Live performance from Project 1.5 C & 34. 7 F at Ilshin Hall, Seoul on August 4, 2023. 

Performed here by
Percussion Kevin von Kampen
Soprano Jamie Jordan
Baritone-saxophone Katherine Weintraub
Recorder-keyboard Eunmi Ko 
Daegeum Jiyun Song 
Baritone-haegeum Heejin Yang

Steps by Emily Koh

Live Performance Mix the Musica di Strada Exhibition, Kleiner Wasserspeicher, Berlin 23.09.2023

Textural Study No 1: for  kinetic sound sculptures & real-time electronics

live at km28 (Berlin)

live recording of the premiere of "deep terrane (earth dreams itself, sweating)," which overlaps with "nestbuilder" (nestbuilder begins around 25:20)

with MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik & Ty Bouque:
-Ty Bouque [voice: dt + nb]
-Gregor Schulenburg [flutes: dt; glass: nb]
-Heni Hyunjung Kim [contrabass clarinet: dt; glass: nb]
-Sarah Saviet [violin: dt; glass: nb]
-Paul Hübner [trumpet: dt; glass: nb]
-Simone Beneventi [prepared bass drum: dt; glass: nb]
-T McCormack [prepared bass drum: dt; glass: nb]

more info:
https://www.timothy-mccormack.com/earth-dreams-itself
https://www.timothy-mccormack.com/nestbuilder
https://www.timothy-mccormack.com/deepterraneproject

[photo credit: Hang Su, @oliver_espace]

deep terrane (earth dreams itself, sweating) /  nestbuilder [2023]

Come spend time with Yu-Hui Chang, composer and former Artistic Director for Dino Annex, as we anticipate the performance of her piece ALTER EGO performed by dynamic guest cellist Stephen Marotto. The performance is the fourth in a series of concerts dedicated to music by composers from all over the world who've come to America and contribute to the contemporary musical landscape. Hear about Yu-Hui's experiences with the ensemble, her development as a composer, and her experience writing for solo cello. This 50th Season finale concert takes place June 7, 2025, at Watertown's First Parish Church. More information and ticketing at https://www.dinosaurannex.org/event-details/hub-of-the-musiverse-4

Yu-Hui Chang on artistic curation, writing for solo cello, and competition pieces!

Around the World, Borges Project, Prague Modern, Prague Philharmonia “Krasna Dneska” Series, Concert Hall of the Prague Conservatory, Prague, Czech Republic (April 17, 2012)

Hubert Ho - The Garden Of Forking Paths

Live, 2010 Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, 24 May 2010.

Yu-Hui Chang on artistic curation, writing for solo cello, and competition pieces!

Dinosaur Annex