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De Bètacanon
QUATRE BOUCHES et al.
In De Bètacanon, the fifty scientific topics from de Volkskrant’s eponymous project are sung in a musical canon in four voices, interwoven with love songs for DNA, enzymes, prime numbers and entropy. The result is a canon as a love song to science.
Recording by vocal quartet Quatre Bouches: Sabine Wüthrich (soprano), Petra Ehrismann (alto), Michel Poels (bariton) and Job Boswinkel (bass), with Govert Valkenburg and Bas Ponsioen (tenor), Gerben Uilenbroek and Ruben Naeff (piano), conducted by Wouter Padberg. Recorded by Frerik de Jong, Kleinman Audio.
JACKASS
JACK QUARTET
The dazzling JACK Quartet plays JACKASS, a highly energetic journey with the pace of New York City through twelve tone melodies, 1990s dance 'house' harmonies and Balkan rhythms, sticking to a single love but still chasing wild adventure.
Fill the Present Day with Joy
MUSIC11 MUSICIANS
Inspired by the ever increasing interest we have gained in ourselves and our own community, the piece Fill the Present Day with Joy [prelude to a YouOpera] is an attempt to make a piece of music that is about the listeners themselves, rather than a historical hero. The lyrics were all taken from Facebook updates, reaching from a quotation of Wordsworth, via loving wall posts, to automatically generated texts by Facebook itself. In particular, the piece deals with the love we share online.
Live recording by Jessica Aszodi (soprano), Matt Albert (viola), Thomas Kotcheff and Charlie Magnone (piano).
Bash
NYU CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
A joyful party of clashing ideas.
Bash was performed by the NYU Contemporary Ensemble on the 25th anniversary concert of the Bang on a Can Marathon in New York City and featured in 98.7 WFMT's Relevant Tones with Seth Boustead.
MMXII
AAC AT ASPEN ORCHESTRA & NIKOLAS NÄGELE
Inspired by the predicted apocalypse of December 21st, 2012, by the Maya calendar, emphasized by the current global economical collapse, with a finishing touch of the drastic austerity measures throughout the entire world, the piece MMXII celebrates us dancing on the volcano, and urges everyone to stay happy when everything around you falls apart.
Live recording by the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen Orchestra, led by Nikolas Nägele.
Mainstream
ASPEN CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE
Expressing an individual’s personal voice in today’s fast and spectacular overflow of information.
End of Summer
TRIO CORTADO
Combining the ease of the past summer with the energy of the new season. Unpretentious summer music as overture to all new music to come.
Wind trio arrangement. Originally written for string trio.
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