• 08.02.2021 - 22:36 - Quelle: Phonolog
    Ja, ja, wir haben wieder ewig gebraucht. Was sollen wir sagen. Sorry, aber damit müssen wir alle nunmal leben (dennoch danke an alle die dennoch den Weg zu uns finden und zuhören!). Merkwürdige Episode, die wir da abgeliefert haben, aber so ist das manchmal. Wir starten mit einer App die wir nicht wirklich verstanden haben (Disclaimer - die Episode haben wir schon vor einigen Wochen Zeit aufgezeichnet) und versuchen uns dann dem Thema Sound Design zu nähern. Zum Glück hat Bony da einiges zu erzählen. Viel Spaß!
  • 16.04.2020 - 22:48 - Quelle: Phonolog
    Während wir zwischen den letzten beiden Episoden relativ wenig Zeit hatten, ist die Zeit zu dieser Episode SEHR lang gewesen. 10 Monate später sieht die Welt auch ein wenig anders aus und wir widmen uns ein paar kleinen Rants, einem Kehraus von Neuigkeiten die sich bei uns (vor allem bei Bony) angesammelt hatten und auch einem Blick auf die derzeitige Situation rund um die COVID-19 Pandemie und was das mit Musikern zu tun hat. Und FX-Picks gibt's natürlich auch. Es ist etwas länger geworden, sorry. Dennoch viel Spaß!
  • 20.06.2019 - 22:40 - Quelle: Phonolog
    Die letzte Episode ist noch nicht lang her und tadaa!...da sind wir schon wieder. Nachdem wir das letzte Mal über EQ gesprochen haben, steht in dieser Folge der Kompressor, das ewige Rätsel ;-), im Mittelpunkt. Aber auch ein paar FX-Picks gibt's wieder. Viel Spaß!
  • 28.05.2019 - 15:42 - Quelle: Phonolog
    Das Jahr schreitet mit großen Schritten voran und wir haben es endlich auch mal wieder hinbekommen uns zusammenzusetzen. Es gibt einiges an Hausmeisterei, wir sprechen über EQs und haben ein paar Effekte in petto. Viel Spaß!
  • 04.01.2019 - 13:48 - Quelle: Phonolog
    Eigentlich wollten wir in 2018 noch einmal eine neue Episode aufnehmen. Nun ja, jetzt ist's halt schon 2019 und wir wünschen Euch eine frohes neues Jahr! Wir haben ein bißchen darüber gequatscht was wir uns für 2019 vorgenommen haben, wie wir die Aufnahmen in unseren üblichen Produktionen angehen und welche Effekte uns gerade begeistern. Viel Spaß!
  • 08.10.2018 - 21:03 - Quelle: Phonolog
    Ja, es hat wieder einmal ein wenig gedauert (extralange Sommer"pause" sozusagen), aber wir haben doch wieder zusammengefunden. Dieses Mal sprechen wir über unsere "Bildungshistorien" was das Thema Audio angeht. Wie haben wir angefangen mit dem Wissenserwerb der Grundlagen in Sachen Audio? Viel Spaß!
  • 20.06.2018 - 13:55 - Quelle: Phonolog
    Wir sprechen darüber woher wir unsere Inspiration bekommen - was und wer uns inspiriert hat oder wo wir inspiriert worden sind bzw. werden. Und merken auf dem Wege wie vielschichtig das eigentlich ist. Viel Spaß!
  • 16.05.2018 - 22:10 - Quelle: Phonolog
    Nachdem wir den Podcast nun neu belebt haben, schaffen wir es auch immerhin zeitnah anzuknüpfen. Zugegeben, kein Umstand der einen in überschwenglichen Freudentaumel verfallen lässt. Aber immerhin - man muss auch die kleinen Dinge im Leben gebührend wertschätzen. Auf dem Thementeller liegen zwei Themen die die meisten sicher schon in irgendeiner Art und Weise beschäftigt haben: kann man (nahezu) ausschließlich im Kopfhörer arbeiten? Und wie findet man eigentlich seinen eigenen "Sound" (was auch immer das bedeuten mag)? Viel Spaß!
  • 17.04.2018 - 13:43 - Quelle: Phonolog
    Man mag es kaum glauben, aber wir sind noch am Leben und haben tatsächlich mal wieder zusammengefunden um ein bißchen über unser Lieblingsthema zu sprechen. Warum es so lange nichts von uns gab? Naja, manchmal kommt einem das Leben dazwischen und es will halt nicht so passen wie man es gern hätte. Aber wir sind wieder da und wollen auch bleiben. ;-) Wie es mit Phonolog weitergehen soll, erfahrt Ihr in der Episode. Hauptsächlich geht es aber um unsere Workflows, wie wir also beispielsweise Mix-Projekte angehen. Viel Spaß!
  • 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 through his recent albums So Beautiful or So What and Stranger to Stranger, Paul has made music that does what the very best art can do: it resonates with our experience, re-frames it, and introduces new timbres and ideas.

    Recently, Paul’s curious mind has brought him into the world of contemporary classical music, mining the microtonal sound world of Harry Partch for his last record, and, just last month, collaborating with 10 composers and the ensemble yMusic on a set at the Eaux Claires music festival. On this episode, we hear Paul’s perspective on his career and his most recent projects, as well as exclusive audio from the festival collaboration itself.

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    About the podcast:

    Meet the Composer is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most innovative, compelling, and breathtakingly beautiful music today.

    Follow Meet the Composer on Twitter: @MeettheComposerLike Meet the Composer on Facebook: www.facebook.com/meetthecomposer

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    Q2 Music is WQXR, New York's multi-platform home for dynamic modern music. Discover countless new artists via our 24/7 music stream – hand-crafted daily to reward your curiosity – and surprise your imagination with a world of exhilarating new music.

    Produced by Q2 Music. www.q2music.orgFollow Q2 Music on Twitter: @Q2MusicLike Q2 Music on Facebook: www.facebook.com/q2music

  • 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 you won’t hear on any of Kaitlyn’s albums. Clouds Forming Over Mount Baker was commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross Gallery to accompany a landscape photograph by Eliot Porter.

    It’s a fitting collaboration, as Smith grew up on Orcas Island, where Mt. Baker is a visible feature. Join us for this rich, synthesized soundscape, bringing sonic life to Porter’s beautiful photograph.  

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    About the podcast:

    Meet the Composer is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most innovative, compelling, and breathtakingly beautiful music today.

    Follow Meet the Composer on Twitter: @MeettheComposer
    Like Meet the Composer on Facebook: www.facebook.com/meetthecomposer

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    Q2 Music is WQXR, New York's multi-platform home for dynamic modern music. Discover countless new artists via our 24/7 music stream – hand-crafted daily to reward your curiosity – and surprise your imagination with a world of exhilarating new music.

    Produced by Q2 Music. www.q2music.org
    Follow Q2 Music on Twitter: @Q2Music
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  • 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 Alex Overington — usually behind the studio glass — takes us on a road trip to unravel the creative process of those composers who write without a score. We meet the synthesists, the samplers, the electronic musicians, and dive deep into the tools they’ve adopted to define their craft. 

    Join us as we uncover what it means to be a composer who sculpts directly with sound, through conversations with such artists as Matmos, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Tyondai Braxton, Laurie Anderson, Morton Subotnick and more.

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    About the podcast:

    Meet the Composer is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most innovative, compelling, and breathtakingly beautiful music today.

    Follow Meet the Composer on Twitter: @MeettheComposer
    Like Meet the Composer on Facebook: www.facebook.com/meetthecomposer

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    Q2 Music is WQXR, New York's multi-platform home for dynamic modern music. Discover countless new artists via our 24/7 music stream – hand-crafted daily to reward your curiosity – and surprise your imagination with a world of exhilarating new music.

    Produced by Q2 Music. www.q2music.org
    Follow Q2 Music on Twitter: @Q2Music
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  • 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 contentious moment in classical music’s history. This week, however, we’re looking at where we are NOW, a place of, well… niceness.  

    “I think right now is a really good time to be a composer,” says composer John Adams. “And I tell young composers that. They don't believe me, but they don't know how difficult it was back when I was in my 20s and 30s.”

    We'll hear how David Lang’s group Bang on a Can helped to shape a newfound culture of support and generosity, and how the next generation of composers - including Bryce Dessner - can find creative freedom in this new landscape. Finally, we hear from Bryce what it’s like to write for “the Rolls Royce … of New Music,” with his new piece, Wires, for Ensemble Intercontemporian, led by Matthias Pintscher.  

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    About the podcast:

    Meet the Composer is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most innovative, compelling, and breathtakingly beautiful music today.

    Follow Meet the Composer on Twitter: @MeettheComposer
    Like Meet the Composer on Facebook: www.facebook.com/meetthecomposer

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    Q2 Music is WQXR, New York's multi-platform home for dynamic modern music. Discover countless new artists via our 24/7 music stream – hand-crafted daily to reward your curiosity – and surprise your imagination with a world of exhilarating new music.

    Produced by Q2 Music. www.q2music.org
    Follow Q2 Music on Twitter: @Q2Music
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  • 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, questioning each other's validity, and bad-mouthing one another; it was like the second half of the 20th century was when Western Music went through middle school, and it was brutal! 

     

    “If you weren't being a constructivist composer, if the music wasn't indeed about its own structure, and its own structure wasn't complicated, then you were a pariah, you were rejected. You didn’t get tenure. You didn’t get a job.” That’s Robert Sirota - Nadia’s Dad - one of many composers who came of age in the midst of this feud and struggled - for years - to find a voice.

     

    On this episode of Meet the Composer, we unravel one of the most contentious periods in classical music’s history. How did this fight begin? How did it play out? Who were the contenders?  We hear from composers on both sides of this battle, and discover how, on all ends of the aesthetic spectrum, we can find value in differences.

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    About the podcast:

    Meet the Composer is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most innovative, compelling, and breathtakingly beautiful music today.

    Follow Meet the Composer on Twitter: @MeettheComposer
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    Q2 Music is WQXR, New York's multi-platform home for dynamic modern music. Discover countless new artists via our 24/7 music stream – hand-crafted daily to reward your curiosity – and surprise your imagination with a world of exhilarating new music.

    Produced by Q2 Music. www.q2music.org
    Follow Q2 Music on Twitter: @Q2Music
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  • 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 Composer bonus track shares an exclusive performance by Henry Threadgill's Zooid ensemble of I Never, recorded live by Q2 Music at the Village Vanguard on Oct. 2, 2016.

    Throughout his career, Threadgill has led countless ensembles with diverse instrumentations and personalities. And in each of them, he finds a way to unearth a type of asymmetry – a blend of unease and transcendence that comes across in his remarkably structured compositions. He unites musicians in the same way as he composes: with affection for the mysterious, embrace of the unexpected, and spontaneity guided by uncompromising intellect. As Threadgill has said, “Improvisation is a way to live your life and solve problems.” Music is one outlet, one way to activate this philosophy, which is something we hear echoed often from his collaborators.

    In this recording, we hear the 2016 Pulitzer Prize laureate leading his longstanding chamber ensemble, Zooid, in a live performance inside the legendary New York City underground jazz venue, the Village Vanguard.

    Performers:

    Henry Threadgill, alto sax
    Liberty Ellman, tres
    Christopher Hoffman, cello
    José Davila, tuba
    Elliot Humberto Kavee, drums, percussion

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    About the podcast:

    Meet the Composer is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most innovative, compelling, and breathtakingly beautiful music today.

    Follow Meet the Composer on Twitter: @MeettheComposer
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    Produced by Q2 Music. www.q2music.org
    Follow Q2 Music on Twitter: @Q2Music
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  • 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 surrounds himself with new ideas, he works his influences into the music that he's arranging. Then one day, the band plays one of his arrangements of a patriotic song for an inauguration of big-wigs, and from the calm of a quietly confused crowd comes a cry from a cardinal in attendance: “Blasphemy!”

    One day later, he’s told to gather his things. Thirty days later, he’s on his way to Vietnam. Fifty years later, he wins the Pulitzer Prize for music composition.

    This is only the beginning of the story of how the energy, hunger and curiosity of Henry Threadgill have influenced and changed the people around him. In spite of the failure and rejection he’s faced, Threadgill is perpetually driven toward new ideas, new challenges and new opportunities to pursue and grow stronger in his improvisational creative vision. His music is the product of the community he builds in the moment.

    This is the story of Henry Threadgill, told by the people whose lives he has touched.

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    About the podcast:

    Meet the Composer is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most innovative, compelling, and breathtakingly beautiful music today.

    Follow Meet the Composer on Twitter: @MeettheComposer
    Like Meet the Composer on Facebook: www.facebook.com/meetthecomposer

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    Q2 Music is WQXR, New York's multi-platform home for dynamic modern music. Discover countless new artists via our 24/7 music stream – hand-crafted daily to reward your curiosity – and surprise your imagination with a world of exhilarating new music.

    Produced by Q2 Music. www.q2music.org
    Follow Q2 Music on Twitter: @Q2Music
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  • 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 performed live. However, the 20-person chamber ensemble Alarm Will Sound has often been tempted by electronic works. Violinist, composer, and Alarm Will Sound member Caleb Burhans, who cut his teeth arranging works by Aphex Twin for the group, adapted Adams' work. While Alarm Will Sound has performed this piece several times, we're proud to bring this you exclusive recording! 

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    About the podcast:

    Meet the Composer is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most innovative, compelling, and breathtakingly beautiful music today.

    Follow Meet the Composer on Twitter: @MeettheComposer
    Like Meet the Composer on Facebook: www.facebook.com/meetthecomposer

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    Q2 Music is WQXR, New York's multi-platform home for dynamic modern music. Discover countless new artists via our 24/7 music stream — hand-crafted daily to reward your curiosity — and surprise your imagination with a world of exhilarating new music.

    Produced by Q2 Music. www.q2music.org
    Follow Q2 Music on Twitter: @Q2Music
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  • 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, we collaborated with the 20-member chamber ensemble Alarm Will Sound and its conductor Alan Pierson – with whom we're partnering on the upcoming podcast album Splitting Adams (out April 21 on Cantaloupe Music) –  to take a close look at the music of John Adams, specifically his two insanely difficult chamber symphonies. This episode offers unprecedented access to not only to the creative process, but the weird, woolly procedure of putting these massive pieces together.

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    About the podcast:

    Meet the Composer is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most innovative, compelling, and breathtakingly beautiful music today.

    Follow Meet the Composer on Twitter: @MeettheComposer
    Like Meet the Composer on Facebook: www.facebook.com/meetthecomposer

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    Q2 Music is WQXR, New York's multi-platform home for dynamic modern music. Discover countless new artists via our 24/7 music stream – hand-crafted daily to reward your curiosity – and surprise your imagination with a world of exhilarating new music.

    Produced by Q2 Music. www.q2music.org
    Follow Q2 Music on Twitter: @Q2Music
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  • 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, it's an immersive experience in which we would love you to think about participating while listening. For optimal audio quality, please listen with headphones!

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    About the podcast:

    Meet the Composer is a Peabody Award-winning podcast that takes listeners into the minds and creative processes of the composers making some of the most innovative, compelling, and breathtakingly beautiful music today.

    Follow Meet the Composer on Twitter: @MeettheComposer
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    Produced by Q2 Music. www.q2music.org
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  • 09.11.2016 - 12:18 - Quelle: Phonolog
    Wir sind zurück aus der ... ähm ... Sommerpause. Wir haben uns gleich mal einem Thema angenommen das hier noch nicht allzu viel Platz gefunden hat, aber doch eine nicht geringe Rolle für diejenigen spielt die Musik machen - dem Mastering. Oft scheint es so, als wäre Mastering eine Art schwarze Magie, die nur von wenigen wirklich beherrscht werden kann. Und auch wenn dedizierte Mastering Studios (und Engineers) ihre absolute Daseinsberechtigung haben und die wirklich großartigen Ergebnisse hervorbringen, sind sie aber nicht selten vor allem für Amateure, aber auch für viele professionelle Musiker unerschwinglich. Mastering ist also etwas was man im Zweifel selbst tun muss oder will. Wir versuchen mal etwas Licht in die Black Box zu bringen. Viel Spaß!