Meet the Composer Podcast
1) Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's 'Clouds Forming Over Mount Baker'
We began last week’s episode digging into the music of one particular electronic musician - the synthesist, producer and composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. Today we’re thrilled to bring you a song that y...Show More
2) Paul Simon’s Curious Mind
Paul Simon has always been attracted to new kinds of sounds. From his early band Simon & Garfunkel in the 1960s through solo albums like Graceland and Rhythm of the Saints in the '80s and '90s, up thr...Show More
3) The Producer
What happens when a composer writes music without pen and paper, using machines? How does that change the creative process? How does it morph the art itself? Today on Meet the Composer, our producer ...Show More
4) Bryce Dessner's 'Wires,' Performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain
For today’s Bonus Track, we’re thrilled to bring you the world-premiere recording of Bryce Dessner’s Wires, performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain! Last week, we dug into a particularly contentiou...Show More
5) New Music Fight Club
It was composer pitted against composer: uptown vs. downtown, tonal vs. atonal, left brain vs right brain, and these musicians were NOT pulling any punches. Composers were antagonizing each other, que...Show More
6) Henry Threadgill’s Zooid, Live at the Village Vanguard
Henry Threadgill’s music and community can’t be separated; there is no boundary: challenge and failure and growth in music are the same as challenge and failure and growth in life. This Meet the Compo...Show More
7) Henry Threadgill: Dirt, and More Dirt
1967, Fort Riley, Kansas. Henry Threadgill is 23 years old. Knowing he’s going to be drafted into the military, he joins the Army Concert Band, hoping to focus on his passion: writing music. As he sur...Show More
8) Bonus Track: John Adams' 'Coast,' Unplugged
Today's bonus track is an exclusive arrangement of a nutso, sci-fi-y electronic piece John Adams wrote in 1993. Originally part of a larger work, Hoodoo Zephyr, Coast was never intended to be performe...Show More
9) Splitting Adams: John Adams' Chamber Symphonies
What happens when the composer shows up to the first rehearsal of his brand-new piece? Would a living Beethoven sue for intellectual property? Are you the hit, or are you in the hole? For this episode...Show More
10) Bonus Track: Pauline Oliveros' 'Tuning Meditation'
Today's Bonus Track is an extended cut of Pauline Oliveros' "Tuning Meditation," recorded live at the Fuentidueña Chapel at the Met Cloisters on Jan. 20, 2017. Recorded in 3D-sounding binaural audio, ...Show More