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Spitting Image, a brand new composer collective in the Twin Cities, will make their debut this weekend with their The Hear and Now concerts at Studio Z in Lowertown St. Paul and Honey in Northeast Minneapolis.
Spitting Image was formed in 2013 by composers Katherine Bergman, Ted Moore and Daniel Nass with a mission of bringing together composers, performers, and listeners in order to strengthen the Minneapolis/St. Paul new music community. Their work includes commissioning new work from local ... Continue reading ...
Percussionist Scotty Horey was kind enough to share some of his thoughts with us as he prepares for his “Letting Go” concert at Studio Z this Friday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets and info here.
Preston Duncan will be joining you on the program--a saxophonist I understand you've worked with quite a bit. How did your collaboration come about and what have you worked on together?
Preston and I met in graduate school in 2008. Now 6 years has passed and we have played together all around the twi... Continue reading ...
Posted by Dan Sailer and Katherine Bergman on Wednesday, November 6, 2013,
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Studio Z Performance
Zeitgeist's 5th Annual New Music Cabaret features an eclectic variety of new music from the top musicians in the Twin Cities, including new music advocates The Dream Songs Project (Alyssa Anderson, mezzo soprano; Joe Spoelstra, guitar). The duo has championed and expanded the repertoire for their instrumentation through commissions, premieres, and calls for scores in recent years, highlighting the music of local Minnesota composers.
TDSP has been very busy with recording projects, commissions... Continue reading ...
Zeitgeist's 5th Annual New Music Cabaret features an eclectic variety of new music from the top musicians in the Twin Cities, including contemporary music group RenegadeEnsemble. RenegadeEnsemble performs at the Cabaret on Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m. In addition, their season opener concert, Poppies in October, is tomorrow night, October 26, at Studio Z.
We had a chance to catch up with RenegadeEnsemble Assistant Director Solange Guillaume to hear a bit more about what the group is up to. RenegadeEnsem... Continue reading ...
Michael Wittgraf and Malcolm Lynn Baker join forces for a performance of Improvisations 2013 at Studio Z on Wednesday, September 4. Wittgraf stepped in as guest blogger today to give us a preview of the event.
Improvisations 2013 was first performed in March of 2013 at the University of Denver with Malcolm Lynn Baker on saxophone and me on computer. The music ranges from loop-based to rhythmically amorphous to loud to quiet. The concept is simple: construct electronic sound processing envir... Continue reading ...
Percussionist Scotty Horey will present modernist works by Schuyler Tsuda, James Dillon (with guest clarinetist Pat O’ Keefe), Yoshihisa Taira, and Vinko Globokar at Studio Z on Saturday, August 10, 7:30 p.m. Tickets and information here. I grew up listening to rock and roll and oldies with my dad, and classical music with my mother, so... Continue reading ...
We spoke with baritone saxophonist Angela Wyatt of the ANCIA Saxophone Quartet to hear more about the music the group will perform in concert on May 4, 7:30 p.m. at Studio Z. How did you decide which works to program on this concert at Studio Z? We knew that Studio Z patrons would enjoy a contemporary program, so we were eager to program some of our newer repertoire. Jeff Herriott's piece as night descends, the waters beckon was written for us several years ago and we are pleased to be perfor... Continue reading ...
RenegadeEnsemble will present extended techniques at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8 at Studio Z. The music on this concert will require the performers to use their instruments in unusual ways, and Twin Cities visual artist Jamie Winter Dawson will present live action painting during the concert. RenegadeEnsemble artistic director Stan Rothrock shares a preview of the concert and his thoughts on contemporary music. For tickets to the concert and more information, visit http://extech.brownpapertic... Continue reading ...
crow with no mouth will be presenting Keith Rowe in his Twin Cities premiere performance this coming Sunday, October 14th at 8 p.m. at Studio Z. The following paragraphs are excerpted from the crow with no mouth blog. To read the entire article, visit their blog at
http://crowwithnomouth-jesse.blogspot.com/
Here is the excerpt:
For some time now, beginning well
before hearing September, the title of the forthcoming ErstLive011
(Erstwhile Records), I have sensed an affinity betwe... Continue reading ...
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