Composer Curator: Miya Masaoka
Composer Curator,
Miya Masaoka, composer and guest host
Featuring composers Patricia Alessandrini, James Fei, and Guillermo Galindo
Program:
Miya Masaoka
Introduction 0:00
Excerpts from:
The Energy Burns from Within 4:33
Ostrava Days Orchestra Bande, conducted by Petr Kotik
The Dust and the Noise 14:34
Either/Or Ensemble
Long Arc of Time 17:34
Rehearsal footage, Kazuma Yamanaka and Jinya Imai
Patricia Alessandrini conversation 19:56
Excerpts from:
Ada's Song 26:39
Marisol Montalvo and Schallfield Ensemble
conducted by Leonhard Garms
recorded and mixed by Davide Gagliardi
Guillermo Galindo conversation 36:12
Excerpts from:
Angel 44:30
Indigenous drumming; Over loop; dynamic
Documenta 14 Kassel 47:25
Rusk. 48:43
Preparation; drumming; fence sounds; threaded Wire fence; choir
Unearthing Vanderbilt 51:59
James Fei conversation 53:58
Excerpts from:
Sine of Merit 3 (2017) 59:54
Sound Slowed Down 1000 Times (2022) 1:06:07
(in memoriam Alvin Lucier)
Find the composers:
Miya Masaoka - www.miyamasaoka.com
Patricia Alessandrini - www.patriciaalessandrini.com
James Fei - www.jamesfei.com
Guillermo Galindo - www.galindog.com
Composers Now is founder-led by Tania León since its inception in 2010. Its mission is to empower living composers (regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender), celebrate the diversity of their artistic voices (contemporary classical, jazz, concert, music theater, experimental, sound art, improvised, electronic) and honor the significance of their contributions to the cultural fabric of society. Programs include: an annual February Festival aggregating and promoting events across the five boroughs, with an Opening Event that features the presentation of Composers Now First Commission and Visionary Awards; twice-monthly virtual IMPACT series offerings - presentations, each from a single composer sharing insights about their creativity, career aims and project examples; Dialogues and Composer Curator series – performances with conversations between hosts, composers and audiences; Collaborative Creative Residencies in partnership with the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Asian Cultural Council; and two commissioning and career development/mentoring programs: Second Stage engages graduates of the Luna Composition Lab, founder-led by composers Missy Mazzoli and Ellen Reid, and supported by the Toulmin Foundation; and Cheswatyr Commissions, supported by the Cheswatyr Foundation. WQXR is a media sponsor of Composers Now. www.composersnow.org