Épisodes

  • John Howell Morrison / Helmut Lachenmann
    Jan 5 2026

    Episode 14: String Obliteration and Some Weird Mouth Sounds - The guys change things up and bring in something they assume the other one would like. Josh presents something with electronics from one of his mentors which he thinks frightens children and Jon doesn’t think he understood the assignment.


    Featuring performances of John Howell Morrison’s "Hard Weather Makes Good Wood" by the Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble and Helmut Lachenmann’s "Consolation II" by the Klangforum Wien.

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    1 h et 12 min
  • Arvo Pärt Turns 90!
    Sep 15 2025

    Episode 13: Pärt-y Time - We celebrate Estonian superstar Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday with both early and later works you may not have heard because they don't use his tintinnabuli technique.

    Featuring performances of Pärt’s 1966 cello concerto, “Pro et contra” by Toomas Velmet and the Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Neeme Järvi, conductor) as well as “I Am the True Vine” from 1996 by the Pro Arte Singers and Theatre of Voices (Paul Hillier, conductor).

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    1 h et 12 min
  • Sarah Hopkins / Elainie Lillios
    Jul 18 2025

    Episode 12: Vocal Party Tricks and Glass Marbles - Josh brings a piece that was super hot in the late 1990s and Jon sets a record for the most percussion ever used in a single piece on the pod.


    Featuring performances of Sarah Hopkins's "Past Life Melodies" by the St. Peters Chorale and Elainie Lillios's "The Rush of the Brook Stills the Mind" by Scott Deal.

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    1 h et 5 min
  • René Clausen / Brian Ferneyhough
    Mar 25 2025

    Episode 11: Burt Bacharach, Nested Tuplets, and Beep Beep I'mma Dump Truck - Josh brings some Whitman settings from his homeland of Minnesota and we finally let Jon off the leash to do some wildin' out about that sweet, sweet Ferneyhough music.

    Featuring performances of René Clausen's "Three Whitman Settings" by The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists and Brian Ferneyhough's "Exordium" by the Arditti Quartet.

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    1 h
  • Alfred Janson / Panayiotis Kokoras
    Jan 13 2025

    Episode 10: Swooshes, Booshes, and Shakespeare - Josh tries (and fails) to speak Norwegian and Jon justifies the existence of all acousmatic music ever written (because—and this has been made official—he speaks for all acousmatic composers).

    Featuring performances of Alfred Janson’s "Sonnet 76" by the Norwegian Soloists Choir and Panayiotis Kokoras’s "Anechoic Pulse."

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    1 h et 2 min
  • György Ligeti’s 100th!
    Dec 10 2023

    Episode 9: Ligeti Split - It's György Ligeti’s centenary, so the guys break from tradition and bring two works by the same composer (while still somehow maintaining their podcast thesis statement of loving on something wildly different).

    Featuring performances of Ligeti’s "Two Unaccompanied Choruses" by the London Sinfonietta Voices and "Ramifications" by Ensemble Intercontemporain.

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    1 h et 3 min
  • Dominick Argento / Heather Stebbins
    Sep 14 2023

    Episode 8: Dario Argento and Super Balls - Josh gets attacked by an 83-year-old composer and Jon brings a piece that looks as good as it sounds.

    Featuring performances of Dominick Argento's Dover Beach Revisited by The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists and Heather Stebbins's Things That Follow by Adam Vidiksis.

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    44 min
  • Nico Muhly / Cenk Ergün
    May 31 2023

    Episode 7: Pioneer Women and a 'Rabid' String Quartet - Josh takes the pod to the prairie via a work for choir and twelve guitars while Jon wants to talk to you about a very serious, important issue: packs of stray wild dogs that control most of the cities in North America (and show up during a passage in the piece for string quartet he brings).

    Featuring performances of Nico Muhly's "The Night Herders" (from How Little You Are) by Conspirare, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, the Dublin Guitar Quartet, and the Texas Guitar Quartet (Craig Hella Johnson, conductor) and Cenk Ergün's Sonare by the JACK Quartet.

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    58 min