Category: Media

• Brian Eno – Brutal Ardour (1975)

  May 7

  Discreet Music (1975) is an album [liner notes here] by the British ambient musician Brian Eno. While No Pussyfooting may be his first ambient album and Another Green World features… more ›

• Andrew Poppy – Definitely Disco (2009)

  Apr 9

  On Sunday April 19, 2009, Definitely Disco premiered, a new short string quartet to be played by five different string quartets. “A battle of the quartets!” Part of the International… more ›

• Alban Berg – Lulu (1937)

  Apr 8

  She seduces, she kills, she winds up a prostitute and gets murdered by Jack the Ripper. Greed-filled, lusty Lulu is the 20th century’s greatest opera. I was 14 and in… more ›

• Adams backstage after conducting Glass’s Ninth Symphony with LA Philharmonic

  Apr 8

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• Matthew Whiteside – Ulation (For Viola and Computer) (2012)

  Apr 8

  Ulation uses the computer as a second instrument to listen to and enhance the viola. This is done through intended glitches and samples triggered when certain notes or gestures are… more ›

• Frederic Rzewski – The People United Will Never be Defeated! (1975)

  Apr 4

  The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (1975) is a piano composition by American composer Frederic Rzewski. The People United is a set of 36 variations on the Chilean song… more ›

• Laurie Spiegel – Sediment (1972)

  Apr 4

  On Wired.com, Geeta Dayal spoke with the composer and electronic-music pioneer Laurie Spiegel. The reason? A bit of Spiegel’s 1972 piece “Sediment” has cropped up in the film adaptation of… more ›

• Per Nørgård – Turn (1973)

  Apr 3

  Turn belongs to a group of works composed by Per Nørgård after the opera Gilgamesh (1972), and while working on his large Symphony No. 3 (1975). In this period he… more ›

• Matthew Whiteside – Dichroic Light (2012)

  Mar 28

  Dichroic Light for cello and live electronics composed by Matthew Whiteside played by Chandra Chapman on 27th March 2012 at Sonorities festival, Queen’s University, Belfast. more ›

• W.A. Mozart – Allegro Molto in C Major (1766)

  Mar 27

  “Allegro Molto in C Major,” a piano composition “found in a notebook in an attic” and believed to have been written by a 10-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The four-minute work… more ›