Wordless Music Concerts
WNYC presents concerts from the Wordless Music Series, hosted by Radio Lab's Jad Abumrad. Devoted to the desegregation of musical boundaries, Wordless Music pairs rock and electronic musicians with...
View ArticleOn-Demand Audio: Jonny Greenwood's "Doghouse"
On Friday, May 20 at 8 pm, Q2's Nadia Sirota hosts a live audio Webcast and NPR Music's Anastasia Tsioulcas host an online chat from the New York Society for Ethical Culture. The show features the U.S....
View ArticleChasing Claire
This week on the New Canon, we explore the beguiling territory of Terrestre, flutist Claire Chase's second solo disc, in our latest Q2 Music webcast premiere, in which we stream a new album in its...
View ArticleUnexpected Power
In Paul Thomas Anderson's new film "The Master," Jonny Greenwood's striking score doesn't only heighten the emotions of the story, it adds new dimension by not "playing" the scene in an expected way.In...
View ArticleSay Hello
Say hello to some new music and recent reissues. These affable sounds greet you with unusual insights and a knack for telling engaging musical stories. David Garland presents music from Brooklyn, Mali,...
View ArticleTell Us How You Really Feel
This week on the New Canon, we revisit our taste of Valgeir Sigurdsson's "Architecture of Loss." Sampled on last week's program, it's our current Album of the Week and we'll hear it in rotation with...
View ArticleListen: Clint Mansell with Full Band and String Quartet
On Thursday, April 4 at 8 pm, Q2 Music presented a live audio webcast of the New York City performance debut of English composer Clint Mansell—best known for his scores to the Darren Aronofsky films...
View ArticleNew Releases, January 2014
It's the end of the month, which is the time for sharing the latest releases that have come across John Schaefer's desk and into the New Sounds inbox. On deck, a work by Bryce Dessner that was...
View ArticleOn-Demand Audio: Ensemble LPR performs Greenwood, Dessner and Bartók
On Friday, Mar. 7 at 8 pm, Q2 Music teamed up with (Le) Poisson Rouge to stream a live video webcast of the venue's elite Ensemble LPR directed by UK-based conductor André de Ridder. The evening...
View ArticleClassical Concerts Are Too Stuffy, Says Radiohead Guitarist
Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood is known as one of rock music’s strongest classical partisans, having written a growing body of orchestral compositions, collaborating with chamber groups, and...
View ArticleDecember 2014 New Releases
Although it's already five days into January, for this New Sounds program, listen to music that was added to the New Sounds library in December of 2014. There's music from composer Daniel Lentz, a film...
View ArticleNew Releases, October 2015
John Schaefer carefully sorts through the stacks and boatloads of LPs, cassettes, flexidiscs, CDs, as well as the downloads and streams which have come across his desk over the past month to present...
View ArticleUnusual Cross-Cultural Collaborations
This New Sounds is full of unexpected musical dream-teams. Listen to a collaboration between Radiohead guitarist/keyboardist Jonny Greenwood, Israel/India-based composer/musician Shye Ben Tzur, and...
View ArticleElectronic and Electronically Enhanced Music
Preview electronic music made by nonkeen - three childhood friends, Nils Frahm, Frederic Gmeiner, and Sebastian Singwald, who shared a love of rudimentary tape machines back when they were kids. They...
View ArticleJohn Schaefer's Top 10 for 2015
In a not-so-shocking break with tradition, John Schaefer reveals his “Best Of 2015” list, before 2015 actually ends, but long after most best-of lists have gone to print or air. Listen for kora and...
View Article#3815: John Schaefer's Best of 2015 (Special Podcast)
Hear kora and cello music recorded on a rooftop in Bamako, Mali; the 1960s space race set to 21st century electronics; and folk songs from the shadowy “Traveller” culture of Scotland and England.In no...
View Article#3801: Unusual Cross-Cultural Collaborations
This New Sounds is full of unexpected musical dream-teams. Listen to a collaboration between Radiohead guitarist/keyboardist Jonny Greenwood, Israel/India-based composer/musician Shye Ben Tzur, and...
View Article#3809: Electronic and Electronically Enhanced Music
Preview electronic music made by nonkeen - three childhood friends, Nils Frahm, Frederic Gmeiner, and Sebastian Singwald, who shared a love of rudimentary tape machines back when they were kids. They...
View ArticleOn-Demand Audio: Ensemble LPR performs Greenwood, Dessner and Bartók
On Friday, Mar. 7 at 8 pm, Q2 Music teamed up with (Le) Poisson Rouge to stream a live video webcast of the venue's elite Ensemble LPR directed by UK-based conductor André de Ridder. The evening...
View ArticleAbstract Electronics to Space Spirituals, New Show Spotlights Last Month's Best
Hear Just Out this week on our 24/7 Live Stream on Thursday, Feb. 29 at 12 pm, Friday at 9 pm; Saturday at 10 am, and Sunday at 4 pm.The first episode of Just Out focuses on recordings released in...
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