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SoundNotion is a weekly podcast dedicated to the discussion of new music and current events in the concert music world. SoundNotion is released each Sunday.
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| 1 | VideoSoundNotion 70: Irregular Panelists | Composer, songwriter, performer Corey Dargel joins the panel. He will join classical and pop, bringing balance to the force. Also, Peter Gelb “pulls a Gelb”, another death in disco, premiere some Glass at Time Square and an indeterminate NewMusicBox b | 5/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoSoundNotion 69: Last Dance | This week, the panel discusses Kid Rock and the DSO, the idea of open notation, opera budgets, a couple recent deaths, fraudulent Strads, and much more! | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoSoundNotion 68: Contemporaneous Speaking | On SN 68, David Bloom and Dylan Mattingly of Contemporaneous join the panel to talk opera on the silver screen, composer tantrums about opera, orchestral flash mobs, loud and proud Tchaikovsky by Hahn-Bin and the passing of beloved author Maurice Sendak. | 5/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoSoundNotion 67: The Mozart Remix | Jeff Loeffert and Jonathan Nichol of the h2 Quartet join the panel to discuss their new album Groove Machine and discuss Apple’s classical music offerings, a retracted blog post on WQXR’s website, Joshua Bell on Dancing with the Stars, and more! | 5/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoSoundNotion 66: No Repeats | This week Douglas Boyce of counter)induction joins the panel. We take on music myths, creative programing, conflict in performance, Make Music, Occupy Guitarmy (yes Guitarmy), settlement in Louisville? NEWS FLASH: MUSIC + CHILDREN = EMPATHY. | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoSoundNotion 65: Revolutions | Rob Deemer and Charith Premawardhana join the panel to discuss anthologizing composers, the Tokyo String Quartet’s official goodbye, the music initiative Classical Revolution, Kevin Puts’s Pulitzer Prize win, and much more! | 4/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoSoundNotion 64: Music of the Flyover States | This week with guest composer Ricardo Lorenz-Labor issues with orchestraZZZZZZZZzzzzz, adding Secretary of Culture to 25th Amendment, arena opera, 8 new(York) pieces from Ethel PLUS Sondheim and SoundCloud. | 4/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoSoundNotion 63: Professors Really ARE Cool | This week the panel is joined by FoTS Meerenai Shim to discuss her upcoming premieres, the NEA/Kickstarter deathmatch, entrepreneurial musicians, orchestral shenanigans in Louisville, retro-electronica and the passing of the “King of Loud” Jim Marshal | 4/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoSoundNotion 62: Robot Genius Podcasters | The panel takes on arts funding in Europe, checks out the new Spotify app “Classify”, discusses David Smooke’s thoughts on the Genius Myth, and more! | 4/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoSoundNotion 61: The Talking Part of an Opera | This week #FoTS Daniel Felsenfeld joins the panel to parse composition contests, blogging contests, a new kind of concert hall and the concert works of Sir Anthony Hopkins (good with fava beans and a nice Chianti). | 3/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoSoundNotion 60: I Dare You Not to Cry | This week FoTS Matt Schoendorff joins the panel to discuss sound masses, the most interesting Polish man in the world, big female lists, quiting trombones, Greenwood, helicopters in opera and not crying over spilled cello. | 3/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoSoundNotion 59: Sqwonkification | Composer James Holt joins the panel to discuss jerks, doppelgangers, pie charts, composer as critic, poetry as analysis, sqwonkification, Osvaldo Golijov and more. | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoSoundNotion 58: Old York vs. New York | London based performer and composer Kerry Andrew joins the panel to discuss the weeks music news and how to get more women composing. We find the answer painfully obvious. | 3/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoSoundNotion 57: Grammys in the Cupboard | eighth blackbird’s Lisa Kaplan joins the panel to discuss the group’s recent Grammy win, the Golijov-Bergeman “scandal”, out-of-this-world Kickstarter patronage, and much more! | 2/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoSoundNotion 56: You Say Potato, I Say Terrifying | Judd Greenstein joins the panel to talk about the Ecstatic Music Festival, the mission of New Amsterdam Records, taking instruments on airplanes, tuba theft, and much more! | 2/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoSoundNotion 55: Sour Grapes | This week on SoundNotion De Profundis goes low, the Sphinx Organization celebrates 15 years, Justin Davidson makes the longest mix tape, the Grammys take heat for disenfrancategorizesing™ musicians, the Library of Congress and “instrumental competitio | 2/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoSoundNotion 54: Glasspeggios™ | This week the panel is joined by #FoTS Ty Forquer. We discuss the Grammys (GO YORK BOWEN!), Oliveros’ Cage Award, the classical cred of Radiohead vs Reich, the salvation of classical music (ASIANS!) and Sam gets buyers remorse over Glass Symphony No. 9. | 2/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoSoundNotion 53: Quasi-Objectivity | This week on SoundNotion the Greenwood/Penderecki duo drop some new sounds, Alex Ross gets his own festival, the panels parses some Smooke Schtick, Opera Carolina is giving it away for free and Kyle Gann considers “quasi-objectivity” in music. | 1/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoSoundNotion 52: Snarkosphere | This week on SoundNotion Brahms get his big break on BBC Radio 3, SOPA and PIPA (¿sopaipilla?), Norman Lebrecht enters the Snark-o-sphere, NPR Field Recordings occupy your local Lowes and FoTS Rob Deemer considers #composerspace. | 1/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoSoundNotion 51: Romney/Merciers 2012 | This week on SN a new work by Brahms (yes, that Brahms), Mahler adds some marimba (thanks to Patron X), Frank J. Oteri want to know if size matters, a Stradivarius double blind test and we reach to the past for this week’s pick of the week. | 1/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoSoundNotion 50: POW!! | SoundNotion kicks off the new year with the Queen of Soul’s search for new opera talent, musical happenings, the Oregon Symphony saves some cash, Opera Boston’s sudden crash, the New York Phil’s “newish” music series, and Bang on a Can’s 25th | 1/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoBest of SoundNotion.tv 2011 | While we take a couple of weeks to spend time with family and friends, enjoy some of the best moments from across all of our shows this year: SoundNotion, Music is Hard, and Streamers and Punches. See you in 2012! | 12/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoSoundNotion 49: Sam Blames You! | Not being the most newsworthy week, the panel takes to the blogs to find some cool stuff happening online including a candid post by Yvonne Lam, new music scores on YouTube, a profile of the GVSU New Music Ensemble, and much more. | 12/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoSoundNotion 48: Designated Hitter | Bob Lord, CEO of Parma Recordings, joins us to discuss the importance of collaborative networks in new music and creative projects, evaluating music apps, garage chamber music, shorter pieces, again composers and more! | 12/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoSoundNotion 47: A Good Relationship | Armando Bayolo joins the panel to discuss recent awards and nominations, the idea of “frightening music”, the Louisville Orchestra, Occupy Wall Street at Lincoln Center, and much more! | 12/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoSoundNotion 46: This is Probably Illegal" | Timothy Rosenberg and Víctor Márquez Barrios join us to discuss the Jeffrey Kahane’s Baroque iPad, Wolf Fifth’s awesome archive, UK’s plan to save classical music, what every new music student should know, and much much more! | 11/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoSoundNotion 45: New Music Happy Hour" | Chris Richardson joins us to discuss the future of eighth blackbird and New Music Chicago, the intrigue of Google Music, “great men” of the arts, Michael Kaiser’s latest head-scratcher, David Lang on YouTube, and the vital importance of a cheap pint | 11/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoSoundNotion 44: Actually it's "Donnacha Dennehy" | Alan Pierson joins the panel to discuss the sum of EMI’s parts, 3D opera, zombie duets, the persistence of Stairway to Heaven, the newly formed New Music USA and his new gig with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. | 11/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoSoundNotion 43: Obey SoundNotion | Ty Forquer joins us to give a high-five to the LA Phil, watch the Louisville Orchestra take dangerous steps, see Philip Glass (finally) make the big time, discuss elitism, and debate what exactly makes music “good.” Happy birthday Brassland! | 11/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoSoundNotion 42: The One With Alex Ross | Alex Ross joins the panel to talk about his career as a music critic, the release of the paperback edition of Listen to This, copyright law, the Occupy Museum movement, and much more! | 10/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoSoundNotion 41: Sax-Zombie Apocalypse | Rob Deemer joins the panel to discuss amateurism, the SONiC Festival, the release of a catalogue of forgotten recordings, music and technology, and the most relaxing tune ever. (Try not to fall asleep.) | 10/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoSoundNotion 40: Buzzword Bingo | Rachel Yoder joins the panel to discuss SONiC, classical music in bars, racial inequality in arts funding, pension problems with the Philadelphia Orchestra and amateur composers (get enough money to make it through retirement or die tryin’). | 10/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoSoundNotion 39: Undefeated | Los Angeles New Music Ensemble music director Christina Giacona joins the panel to discuss the passing of Steve Jobs, the Gramophone Awards (what’s that?), good times in Seattle and Brooklyn, and the perfidy over donor money in the Philadelphia Orchestr | 10/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoSoundNotion 38: Ovation Inflation | This week the panel grooves on Steven Mackey’s It Is Time, how virtuosity can lead to a bland performance, music theory and helicopter shortages in college music programs and the best fake musicology papers Twitter can muster. | 10/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoSoundNotion 37: Coach Penderecki | The panel discusses the new Greenwood-Penderecki album, what you can’t do at arts venues, Kojiro Umezaki’s Cycles (what falls must rise), and more. | 9/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoSoundNotion 36: Winning Awards | David Smooke joins the panel to discuss the John Cage Memorial Random Composer Award, his provocative NewMusicBox article on The Audience, and his piece, Empty Every Night. | 9/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoSoundNotion 35: Remembrance | Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, the panel discusses the Music After concert, works inspired by the attacks, the compulsion to write an opera, James Levine’s newest health issues, Nico Muhly’s anger over recordings, and the non-existence of Beethove | 9/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoSoundNotion 34: Time Travel | Composer/performer Ken Ueno joins the panel to discuss political protest at classical concerts, a primer for the classically confused, making better listeners out of composers and audiences, the catharsis of Jimi Hendrix and “success” as a composer. | 9/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoSoundNotion 33: Five Murderers | Composer Daniel Felsenfeld discusses Music After (an all day event for composers who lived through the 9/11 attacks), the bold musical life of Jennifer Choi, fisticuffs between the AMF and the Louisville Orchestra and the utility of program notes. | 8/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoSoundNotion 32: SoundNotion's Porgy and Bess | Composer/scholar Chris Shultis joins the panel to discuss remaking a Gershwin classic, a super-sleuth in the age of opera 2.0, re-thinking the memoir, why doctoral degrees in music composition are dumb and his newest work for band. | 8/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoSoundNotion 31: Tongues and Skirts | Composer and performer Missy Mazzoli joins the panel to talk about Yuja Wang’s hemline, the WTC9/11 cover, tweeting at concerts, Spotify for fun and profit, grooving in her living room, and her work A Thousand Tongues for singing cellist. | 8/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoSoundNotion 30: Opera is Operatic | Colin Jacobsen joins us to talk about Brooklyn Rider’s new Philip Glass album, composer-performer relations, alternate notation styles, the New York City Opera, and more. | 8/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 43 | VideoSoundNotion 29: Mos Def-initely | This week, the panel discusses the Brooklyn Phil’s new season, Wagner in Israel, the viability of classical music apps, and more. | 7/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoSoundNotion 28: Lawyerville | Drew McManus joins us again to help guide us through Lawyerville in Louisville as we discuss Q2’s composers, Reich’s WTC 9/11 imagery, and more! | 7/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | VideoSoundNotion 27: Colonoscopy of a Show | Bill Withem joins us to talk about aesthetic brutalism vs the new niceness, streaming music services, and folks not playing nice in sports and orchestras. | 7/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 46 | VideoSoundNotion 26: Very Refreshing | Du Yun joins us this week to talk about attracting younger audiences, Zaha Hadid’s new opera house, and her piece, Visissitudes No. 1. | 7/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | VideoSoundNotion 25: Badassness | Topics include: what it means to be a badass composer, finding the “American” in American music, writing for piano, and more. | 7/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | VideoSoundNotion 24: Weak Metaphor | Topics include Rob Deemer’s book project, Jeremy Denk and David Lang talk baseball the value of originality (whatever that is), the future of (batonless) orchestras, a new book of graphic notation, new music-rowboat style, and American experimental musi | 6/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | VideoSoundNotion 23: Podcasting is Hard | Topics include additions to the SoundNotion network, Alan Pierson’s open letter to mayor Bloomberg, David Smooke’s “nonopera”, NPR’s top 25 classical albums of the year, and the travails of an audio snob in the time of compression. | 6/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | VideoSoundNotion 22: Violagate! | Topics include the Violagate scandal, a festival of toy piano music, ASCAP / League of American Orchestras awards for adventurous programming, classical music and copyright at the U.S. Supreme Court, and more. | 6/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 51 | VideoSoundNotion 21: Dear SoundNotion... | Topics include Ethel’s new violinist, the end of the Kansas Arts Commission, the American Composers Orchestra readings, amateur pianists, new music in Seattle, and more. | 6/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 52 | VideoSoundNotion 20: Shirtless Guitarist (fixed) | Meerenai Shim joins the panel this week as we discuss political expression in classical music, the influence of video games on young composers, orchestra news from around the U.S., and more. | 5/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 53 | VideoSoundNotion 19: Fashion Forward | Topics include lethargy versus creativity, staying apprised of our colleagues' work, the politics and fashion of the orchestral tailcoat, and more. | 5/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 54 | VideoSoundNotion 18: Hall of Famers | Topics include the Library of Congress’s National Jukebox project, Google’s new music service, revising scores, and more. | 5/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 55 | VideoSoundNotion 17: It's Always Sunny in East Lansing, 8 May 2011 | Topics include streaming opera performances, the future of American orchestras, rethinking digital distribution, the existential crisis of glockenspiel vibrato, and more. | 5/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 56 | VideoSoundNotion 16: Blasphemer, 1 May 2011 | The h2 quartet’s Kim Goddard joins us this week as we discuss our trip to the New Music USA town hall meeting in Chicago, composer Elliot Cole’s rap EP, corporate sponsorship of the arts, and more. | 5/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 57 | VideoSoundNotion 15: The Other Whitesnake, 24 April 2011 | Topics include Q2’s list of 100 composers under 40, Zhou Long’s Pulitzer, grooving robots, the future of the avant-garde, and more. | 4/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 58 | VideoSoundNotion 14: Really Great Hair, 17 April 2011 | Topics include the Brazilian Symphony concert walkout, the rebirth of a Honolulu orchestra, Eric Whitacre’s YouTube choir, music volume wars, new-music in musicology, and more. | 4/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 59 | VideoSoundNotion 13: Unlucky Thirteen, 10 April 2011 | Oh no! We lost most of our episode this week to the computer gremlins. We’re pretty bummed about it. On a brighter note, the Detroit Symphony strike has ended, and Patrick and Nate were there for their season opener. | 4/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 60 | VideoSoundNotion 12: Architects vs. Chefs, 3 April 2011 | NewMusicBox’s Molly Sheridan joins us to discuss the American Music Center-Meet the Composer merger. We also discuss the latest from the DSO, the RIAA’s suit against Limewire, and Rob Deemer’s article about architects and chefs. | 4/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 61 | VideoSoundNotion 11: Over and Over and Over..., 27 March 2011 | Topics include the standardization of musical competence, visual art vs. music, ethnic diversity in young audiences, and pick of the week: Nico Muhly’s “Mothertongue”. | 3/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 62 | VideoSoundNotion 10: Copyright Radius, 20 March 2011 | Topics include the DSO’s latest musician loss, how not to use social media, the YouTube symphony, copyrighting pi, and more. | 3/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 63 | VideoSoundNotion 9: Adaptistrate This!, 6 March 2011 | Orchestra consultant and blogger Drew McManus joins us on the show this week. Topics include the business of a big orchestra, the DSO’s current status, the impact of new and social media on performing arts groups, and more. | 3/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 64 | VideoSoundNotion 8 "Seventeen Alto Saxophones", 6 March 2011 | Composer Matt Schoendorff joins us on the show this week. Topics include Matt's music for young band, the DSO musician’s offer to end the strike, the economics of classical music, the NEA’s study on the public’s interaction with the arts, and more. | 3/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 65 | VideoSoundNotion 7 "#accompanisthaiku", 27 February 2011 | Topics include Meerenai Shim on patronage and commissioning Daniel Felsenfeld, NY Philharmonic new fundraising ideas, sexy marketing in classical music, diversity in the Vienna Philharmonic, the DSO administration’s latest threats, and more. | 2/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 66 | VideoSoundNotion 6 "No, really, it's final.", 20 February 2011 | Topics include the Detroit Symphony’s big cancellation, NEA budget cuts, controversial remarks from the NEA chair and Kennedy Center president, Michael Daugherty’s Grammy, Anna Nicole up in Lights, Radiohead’s new album, and more. | 2/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 67 | VideoSoundNotion 5 "Can You Say 'La Jolla'?", 13 February 2011 | Topics include Bachtrack’s report on programming in 2010, the New York Philharmonic’s omission of female composers in the coming season, NY Times columnist Max Frankel’s take on John Adams’s Nixon in China, and more. | 2/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 68 | VideoSoundNotion 4, 6 February 2011 | Topics include self-publishing composers, the New World Symphony’s brand new concert hall, the New York Philharmonic’s digital archives, the Detroit Symphony’s efforts to save the rest of their season, and more. | 2/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 69 | VideoSoundNotion 3, 30 January 2011 | Topics include Milton Babbitt, his legacy, the future of music patronage on the web, a brief update on the Detroit Symphony labor situation, and more. | 1/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 70 | VideoSoundNotion 2, 23 January 2011 | Topics include a Detroit Symphony strike update, Anthony Tommasini's quest to pick the top 10 composers of all time, the Met's production of Adams's Nixon in China, Alan Pierson's new gig, and more. | 1/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 71 | VideoSoundNotion 1, 16 January 2011 | Topics include the Detroit Symphony Orchestra strike and financial issues in orchestras today and how these factors impact new music. | 1/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 71 Episodes |
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