Modern Notebook for April 28 - May 4, 2024

Photo: Composer Andrew Noseworthy (photo credit: Chloe Kendell).

On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: States of discord: like struggle, disagreement, dispute, and division - is the subject matter of Clarice Assad’s “CLASH.” Composed between 2020 and 2021, the music responds to what was, for many, a turbulent period of health crises, the collapse of the economy, political turmoil, and more.


Then, it’s a work by Andrew Noseworthy for cello and electronics that draws on elements of shoe gaze music. Titled “GomL_V7FinalMix_LessVox_MoreVerb_Dec13_MASTERED_48k24b_FINAL.wav,” it’s music that cloaks quiet acoustic gestures behind a thick, My-Blood-Valentine-esque foreground of bit-crushed cello.


Plus pieces by Liam Taylor-West, Nicolas Lell Benavides, Mary Watkins, Eduardo Costa Roldan, Clara Allison, Kezia Yap, Doug Bielmeier, and others; and performances by violinists Lucia Lin and Shaw Pong Liu, pianist Sarah Chaill, bandoneon soloist Julien Labro with Takacs Quartet, Kukuruz Quartet, violinist Flora Wong, cellist India Gailey, Unheard-of//Ensemble, and more.



Hour 1

  • Turning Points by Liam Taylor-West.
  • Nicolas Lell Benavides’ Cuates.
  • Summer Days by Mary Watkins.
  • Clarice Assad’s Clash.
  • Tríptico by Eduardo Costa Roldán.
  • David Liptak’s The Sacred Harp.
  • Suspension I by Ellis Ludwig-Leone.

Hour 2

  • In My Body (The Room That Will Outlive Us) by Clara Allison.
  • Kezia Yap’s conversation in the mountains.
  • GomL_V7FinalMix_LessVox_MoreVerb_Dec13_MASTERED_48k24b_FINAL.wav by Andrew Noseworthy.
  • Doug Bielmeier’s Corporate Responsibility Pledge.
  • Strings to the Bone by Sebastian Fagerlund.

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