SoundNotion - video

Bill Withem joins us to talk about aesthetic brutalism vs the new niceness, streaming music services, and folks not playing nice in sports and orchestras. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and Bill Withem.

Du Yun joins us this week to talk about attracting younger audiences, Zaha Hadid’s new opera house, and her piece, Visissitudes No. 1. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, Nate Bliton, Geoffrey Deibel, and Du Yun.

Topics include: what it means to be a badass composer, finding the “American” in American music, writing for piano, and more. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, and Nate Bliton.

Topics include Rob Deemer’s book project, Jeremy Denk and David Lang talk baseball the value of originality (whatever that is), the future of (batonless) orchestras, a new book of graphic notation, new music-rowboat style, and American experimental music. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Patrick Gullo, and Rob Deemer.

Topics include additions to the SoundNotion network, Alan Pierson’s open letter to mayor Bloomberg, David Smooke’s “nonopera”, NPR’s top 25 classical albums of the year, and the travails of an audio snob in the time of compression. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, Patrick Gullo, and Timothy Rosenberg.

Topics include the Violagate scandal, a festival of toy piano music, ASCAP / League of American Orchestras awards for adventurous programming, classical music and copyright at the U.S. Supreme Court, and more. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and David Kulma.

Topics include Ethel’s new violinist, the end of the Kansas Arts Commission, the American Composers Orchestra readings, amateur pianists, new music in Seattle, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Nate Bliton.

Meerenai Shim joins the panel this week as we discuss political expression in classical music, the influence of video games on young composers, orchestra news from around the U.S., and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Meerenai Shim. We originally had some issues with the audio in this video episode, but they are not fixed. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Topics include lethargy versus creativity, staying apprised of our colleagues' work, the politics and fashion of the orchestral tailcoat, and more. This week's panel: David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and Tim Rosenberg.

Topics include the Library of Congress’s National Jukebox project, Google’s new music service, revising scores, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Nate Bliton.

Topics include streaming opera performances, the future of American orchestras, rethinking digital distribution, the existential crisis of glockenspiel vibrato, and more. This week's panel: Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and David Daniels.

The h2 quartet’s Kim Goddard joins us this week as we discuss our trip to the New Music USA town hall meeting in Chicago, composer Elliot Cole’s rap EP, corporate sponsorship of the arts, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, Nate Bliton, and Kim Goddard.

Topics include Q2’s list of 100 composers under 40, Zhou Long’s Pulitzer, grooving robots, the future of the avant-garde, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Roger Petersen.

Topics include the Brazilian Symphony concert walkout, the rebirth of a Honolulu orchestra, Eric Whitacre’s YouTube choir, music volume wars, new-music in musicology, and more. This week's panel: Patrick Gullo, Sam Merciers, David MacDonald, and Nate Bliton.

Oh no! We lost most of our episode this week to the computer gremlins. We had a great conversation with composer Ken Ueno (@dj_moderne), but you’re going to have to take our word for it because we can’t show it to you. We’re pretty bummed about it. On a brighter note, the Detroit Symphony strike has ended, and Patrick and Nate were there for their season opener.