A classically-trained cellist, composer and artistic director of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), Clarice Jensen has been building up an impressive portfolio of collaborative projects over the last 15 years. Either as a solo artist, with ACME or as part of New York City’s Wordless Music Series, Clarice Jensen has performed the music of […]
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Peter Broderick: All Together Again
Somewhat like the public letter-writers of the past, American artistic polymath Peter Broderick has adopted a similar role lately as a “public” musician, in addition to his creative work as a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and composer. “Ever since I started releasing records in 2007”, notes the musician, “people have contacted me periodically to ask if […]
Elskavon: Skylight
“Elska” means love. “Von” means hope. Love and hope. Two things every single person longs for and needs, and yet two things much too lacking in our world. A professional musician composing for film, TV and web, Minneapolis-based Chris Bartels also runs his own hybrid record label/production house Anthem Falls Music as an umbrella structure […]
Tambour: Chapitres
Based in Montréal, Simon Piché-Castonguay is a modern classical pianist and composer working for theatre and cinema. The musician is also the creative force behind the Tambour musical project whose understated and cinematic style has already proven very influential among his contemporary peers. Featuring piano, glockenspiel, a string quartet, clarinet, French horn and minimal use […]
Midori Takada: Through the Looking Glass
Born in 1951 in Tokyo, Midori Takada is a classically-trained composer and percussionist who was also influenced early on by free jazz, ambient and experimental music. The artist studied western minimalism while exploring African percussion traditions with musicians from Ghana, Senegal and Burkina Faso as well as Asian music traditions such as Bali’s Gamelan music […]
Planetarium
We’ve returned to the question of identity and humanity and human rights, and what does it mean to be a person in our world? What is our relationship to our world, and the environment? What does it mean to believe in a divine being, and what does that divine being require of us? That divine […]
