Wednesday May 10, 2023
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė: Aletheia
Sounds from Silence
How does a new piece of music get created? Join host Sidney Chen for a series of conversations with composers about their sources for inspiration, what lights the creative spark, and how they choose which techniques in their compositional toolbox to use. Through talking with the creators themselves, we unlock the ideas behind the music of they write, and learn how they draw sounds from silence.
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Sidney Chen, host
Sidney Chen is passionate about supporting the creation of new artistic work — as a performer, a writer, and an administrator. His performance projects center on contemporary music in new forms, from serialized podcast operas to musical dramas with laptop orchestras. He has toured internationally with Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble. At home in San Francisco, he's the Artistic Advisor for the new-music chamber chorus Volti. For two decades Sidney managed artistic projects for the Kronos Quartet. He was a Regional Editor for the web magazine NewMusicBox, and wrote the pioneering classical music blog The Standing Room.
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Episodes
Episodes
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
Wednesday Apr 12, 2023
In this episode of Sounds from Silence, host Sidney Chen talks with San Francisco-based composer Mark Winges about his new choral work Words Cast Shadows, which will be premiered by the vocal ensemble Volti on May 13 and 14, 2023.
// REFERENCES //
• Mark Winges's website
• Poet Jane Hirshfield
• Poems: "Sheep", "A Blessing for Wedding", "When Your Life Looks Back"
• Volti's website
• Canticles of Rumi: 3. The Waterwheel (used with permission) on Spotify
• Volti's 2017 album This Is What Happened (Innova, Spotify, Amazon)
• San Francisco Ballet's Colorforms on Vimeo (choreography by Myles Thatcher, music by Steve Reich)
• Premiere performances of Words Cast Shadows by Volti on May 13 & 14 (tickets)
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