Q2 is pleased to announce a Facebook page and Twitter feed as new means to hear about all your favorite new music happenings. Find up-to-the-minute information about our latest webcasts, upcoming festivals, composer spotlights, and all the newest new music being integrated into the Q2 sonic world.

Q2 continues its monthly series of Composer Introductions with composer/bandleader Missy Mazzoli. Hear exclusive, live performances, read an introduction by Mazzoli herself and download her music.

On Sunday, April 11 at 11:30 a.m. EST, Q2 and WNYC Culture partner to present a live webcast of the historic, first public concert from 110 Livingston, the new second home of the Brooklyn-based performance venue, ISSUE Project Room.

Beginning on Wednesday, March 17, Q2 launches JacobTV on the Radio, a 5-day immersion into the life and music of JacobTV. The festival features a kaleidoscope of new private and European recordings, introductions to over 20 of JacobTV's most ground-breaking works, videos and on-demand streaming audio.

JacobTV provides personalized introductions to many of his controversial and innovative works and in doing so offers a rare, exclusive insight into the creative process of one of today's most daring composers.  

Listen to on-demand streaming audio of the full Ethel Plays JacobTV -- the next in our ongoing series of live New Sounds Live webcasts on Q2. Hear the music of Dutch avant-pop composer Jacob Ter Veldhuis, aka JacobTV, performed by the Ethel string quartet, 24/7 at your convenience, as recorded live on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at Merkin Concert Hall. This concert contains strong language.

What would a JacobTV festival be without, well, internet TV? Click ahead for more videos, but here's just a taste, from a first draft preview's of JacobTV's upcoming and self-proclaimed "never-ending" opera, The News. Videos are by Kristien Kerstens and this teaser is entitled Small Pop.

Starting Wednesday, March 17, grab a free download, offered exclusively for the duration of JacobTV on the Radio, of JacobTV's break-through and provocative work--Grab it!--sampling audio from the 1978 documentary Scared Straight!

JacobTV stopped by the WNYC studios back in April 2007 along with guitarist Kevin Gallagher and his avant-rock ensemble Electric Kompany. Listen to a live performance of excerpts from White Flag, a piece including audio from videos shot by soldiers during the Iraq war and samples from an interview between Fox News's Bill O'Rilley and then president George W. Bush.

In JacobTV’s pieces, you hear audio from too-good-to-be-true infomercials, political talk show hosts, doomsday preachers, confessions from fallen pop icons, violent Jerry Springer confrontations and other creatively distorted American pop culture iconography.

How does that make you feel?

Set your watches, it's time for the Kronos Quartet. At the top of every hour on Wednesday, March 10, Q2 celebrates the Kronos Quartet with a deep dive into their extraordinarily rich and diverse recorded output, as we gear up for their upcoming Carnegie Hall series, Perspectives: Kronos Quartet.

Valentin Silvestrov is in the spotlight starting Monday, February 22, as the next in Q2’s monthly series of Composer Introductions. Listen to a selection of his compositions.

Last night at 7:30 p.m., Q2 presented the first in a series of New Sounds Live webcasts with host John Schaefer. For this, the 23rd annual New Sounds Live concert series, New York's beloved Bang on a Can All-Stars performed four world premieres.

Whether you're atonal, bitonal, polytonal, or just tonally curious, you'll love Hope Springs Atonal. Join Nadia Sirota each weekday at 1PM (and 1AM) for a show devoted to the high octane world of post-tonal music.

To mark the 25th anniversary of her New York debut, virtuosic American pianist Sara Davis Buechner performed live on November 11 at Merkin Concert Hall.

When you hear the name Heitor Villa-Lobos, you may think of the colorful textures and dynamic rhythms of his native Brazil or his descriptive titles. This week on Q2, rediscover his 12 symphonies and 17 string quartets.

New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert and Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg are taking the Philharmonic somewhere it hasn't gone before with CONTACT!.

This Wednesday night, December 16th, at 9pm hear a special presentation of the world premiere performance of Steve Reich’s 2009Mallet Quartet. Also included will be his 2006 piece Daniel Variations.

Mallet Quartet is co-commissioned by Stanford Lively Arts and will receive its U.S. premiere at Stanford University.

Follow interviews spanning a 30-year career with composer Steve Reich as he appears on landmark New York Public Radio shows with hosts John Schaefer, Tim Page and Leonard Lopate.