A special guest post from eighth blackbird’s long time audio engineer Ryan Ingebritsen on the eve of eighth blackbird’s Chicago Counterpoint: A Steve Reich Celebration at Millennium Park on August 22, 2011, for which Ryan has acoustically re-imagined Reich’s provocative, politically-charged early tape pieces, Come Out, Melodica, and It’s Gonna Rain for the Pritzker Pavilion’s state-of-the-art [...]
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An Education – Part 1: The Road (Miscellany)
I’ve somehow found myself in a position where I make decisions that impact eighth blackbird’s life on the road (silly birds). And so we, in our collective wisdom, wondered if it might not be a bad idea for me to come on the road with them.
Greg Sandow and the relevance of classical music
There is a sense, I believe, that while enjoying new theater only requires you to be human and open, appreciating new music requires training, initiation into the secret meaning of all those farts and squeaks. This to me is the great challenge of new music: how to disabuse wider audiences of the notion that they need to come to a concert with anything other than open ears in order to have an engaging aesthetic experience.
