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Q2 Music Album of the Week

So Percussion Dances with John Cage

Monday, April 02, 2012

Spending an evening listening to So Percussion’s Cage 100 Bootleg Series is somewhat akin to sitting up all night in college, drinking red table wine, smoking Parliaments and discussing what it all means.

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The New Canon

New Albums from Cage, Clyne and Andriessen

Monday, April 02, 2012

The New Canon is back with a new format, focusing on new releases. Up first: A beguiling Anna Clyne, a visual quartet from Louis Andriessen, choral fixation from Jennifer Higdon and a Cage extravaganza courtesy of So Percussion.

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Maverick Mixtapes

Maverick Mixtapes: So Percussion

Friday, March 09, 2012

For Maverick Mixtapes, we asked musicians from different musical backgrounds to curate an hour of music that they deemed best fit the ideal of an "American Maverick." Today's featured group is the Brooklyn-based new-music ensemble So Percussion.

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Q2 Music Album of the Week

'It is Time' for So Percussion and Steve Mackey

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

So Percussion's latest recording for Cantaloupe Music does for time what the quartet did for cities in 2009's Imaginary City.

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Cued Up

Look & Listen Festival: Closing Night

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Cued Up brings you the final installment of the 10th annual Look & Listen Festival this Sunday, at 2 p.m.. You'll hear a world premiere by composer and percussionist David Cossin, Missy Mazzoli's group Victoire, So Percussion performing music by its longtime member Jason Treuting, and some refreshing works by Brasil Guitar Duo.

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Cued Up

Look and Listen: Part II

Sunday, August 14, 2011

On Sunday at 2 pm, Cued Up features the second of four programs featuring performances from the Look and Listen Festival. On tap is a quiet storm of music by John Cage, Colin Jacobsen, Jason Treuting, Elliott Carter and John Musto.

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The New Canon

Wild Reich

Monday, April 25, 2011

Bang on a Can co-founder and Pulitzer laureate David Lang joins us on Monday at 4pm (along with several surprise guests!) to talk about Steve Reich and his uncanny ability to "unleash the hidden and locked-up power of the sounds between the sounds.”

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    Q2 Music Live Concerts

    So Percussion, Bobby Previte and Special Guests

    Monday, March 28, 2011

    On Monday, March 28 at 7:30 p.m., Q2 and New Sounds Live team up to bring you our final live audio Webcast from the inaugural Ecstatic Music Festival hosted by WNYC's John Schaefer. Housed at Merkin Concert Hall, this evening's performance features the innovative quartet So Percussion premiering a work by composer and drummer Bobby Previte.

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    Ecstatic in March

    Tuesday, March 01, 2011

    The inaugural Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall closes this March with its most concentrated month of ambitious programming to date. Featuring six concerts and two Webcasts on Q2, the festival's culmination epitomizes music-making at its most collaborative and experimental.

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    Q2 Music Live Concerts

    Ecstatic Music Marathon: Part 1

    Wednesday, February 09, 2011

    The Ecstatic Music Festival, a two-month event dedicated to exploring the boundaries between classical music and pop, kicked off with an eight-hour marathon last month. Check out some of the highlights on Q2.

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    Cued Up

    League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

    Sunday, February 06, 2011

    This week on Cued Up on Q2, we continue to celebrate the uncompromising vision of the late Milton Babbitt with a New York premiere of one of his most mesmerizing and compelling string works, Transfigured Notes (1986), along with premieres by Elliott Carter, Joan Tower and So Percussion's Jason Treuting.

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    WQXR Blog

    So Percussion on Q2

    Tuesday, December 14, 2010

    You've hopefully heard Q2's "stings" countless times by now. Stings are the pre-recorded, station-identifying short bits of music used as segues between songs. In radio jargon, they're also referred to as sweepers, stingers, radio/station imaging, bumpers, shotguns... admittedly, the radio industry has some eccentric terminology.

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    Electroacoustic Storm

    Sunday, November 07, 2010

    One of the conspicuously binding forces between the music of concert halls and dance halls in the past fifty years has been the use of electronically generated sounds. In other words, if there was a Venn diagram that included Stockhausen and Lady Gaga, or David Tudor and N.W.A., the overlap would be electronics. This Sunday, November 7 at 2 p.m on Cued Up on Q2, listen to some of host Nadia Sirota's favorite electroacoustic performances from New York City.

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    Live from (Le) Poisson Rouge on June 6, 2010: Two Giants Form a Gestalt

    Sunday, September 26, 2010

    This Sunday, September 26th at 2pm, Q2 invites you to listen to the collaboration of Baltimore's head-bopping experimentalists, Matmos, and Brooklyn's avant-classical percussion mainstay, So Percussion. Recorded at a concert at Le Poisson Rouge on June 8th, they present material from their recent album, Treasure State, which pairs uncompromised sonic creativity with primal rhythmic expression.

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    Q2 Music Live Concerts

    So Percussion and Matmos

    Thursday, June 17, 2010

    Childhood is a magical time when imaginations run freely and we create to our hearts content. Fortunately for musicians, the fun doesn't end in kindergarten art class. In celebration of the release of their collaborative album, Treasure StateSo Percussion and Matmos take the stage on June 8 at (Le) Poisson Rouge, proving that uninhibited creativity can go a long way toward making music -- and that even cactus needles can be used as evocative instruments.

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    WQXR Blog

    Eight Days of Steve: So Percussion

    Tuesday, December 15, 2009

    The members of So Percussion spend a lot of time and energy performing Steve Reich’s music. His contributions to percussion music loom over the still-emerging genre. They are so fun to listen to, play, and discuss. When we sat down to write some thoughts on this legacy, it really came pouring out!

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