Famous in China
Last month, Mobtown Modern presented Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night and we were fortunate to have Voice of America China on hand to cover the event. The story they did is below. Our portion starts at 3:28. Hope you know Mardarin!
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A Home Grown Countdown, So To Speak
Next month, Mobtown Modern will present Home Grown, a retrospective of recent works by super-cool Washington D.C.-based composer Alexandra Gardner. As a way of helping the audience get to know some of the musicians who’ll be performing on that show, Alex has begun posting a series of interviews with them over on her blog. The first one, hot off the presses, is with yours truly. Warning: I admit something quite shameful.
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I’m working on my diabolical laugh
A couple weeks ago, I was contacted by Jason Policastro, a freelance writer for the website BmoreMedia.com. He was writing an article about “young Baltimore innovators” and wanted to include me in the story based on the work I’ve done with Mobtown Modern. Flattering, to say the least! The story is up today and you can check it out here.
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The Zeitschichtengeist
Katayoon Hodjati performing at Mobtown Modern. Photo by Rob McIver. With impeccable timing in advance of Mobtown Modern‘s show next week, there’s a new interview with Erik and I up at the web magazine Zeitschichten. Many thanks to Matthias Röder for the opportunity and for doing such an excellent job. Check it out.
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Mobtown Morning
Mobtown Modern takes to the radiowaves! Tune in to Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast on WYPR 88.1FM this Wednesday at 9 a.m. to hear Erik and I talk with Tom Hall about the series and our upcoming concert.
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Signal audio
Audio from HGP‘s segment on WYPR’s The Signal is now available for download. Many thanks to Aaron Henkin for making us sound smashing.
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HGP on The Signal
Tune in to The Signal on WYPR this Friday at 12 p.m. (repeat at 7 p.m.) to catch Hybrid Groove Project in conversation with Signal producer and host, Aaron Henkin. The program will also spotlight the upcoming performance of Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night in Batlimore. Update: The line-up for Friday’s Signal broadcast is up on their blog.
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In conversation
Hugh Sung puts me on the spot for an interview following our Ocean Grove performance.
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FOX news loves me
This year’s performance of Unsilent Night in Baltimore generated a great deal of interest, especially in the media. There was the CityPaper feature, the article in the Sun, and day-of morning interview on the FOX45 Morning News. FOX also saw fit to send out a mobile cameraman/reporter to film the event and produce a story for their evening newscast. The story, shown above, was shot, written, and edited by Josh Miller of FOX45. (N.B. Clip info: Unsilent Night – FOX45 News Story on Vimeo)
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A life in music
“You can only live in music, as it were, if you have other interests, if you see the parallels with literature, if you see the parallels with painting, if you see the parallel with the development of political process, and if you have an interest, and then you have the ability to deduce, then all this becomes part of your innermost being; and this comes out in the music; and therefore, music really becomes your life.” Daniel Barenboim, Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and...
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Hunka w/ Nonken
Don’t miss George Hunka‘s three-part interview with new music pianist Marilyn Nonken. Part one deals with issues of gender, the visual aspect of music performance, and authority; part two focuses on self-consciousness, aesthetic v. everyday perception, and the risks involved with playing a certain type of repertoire; and in the final part she discusses her experiences performing Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories for both live audiences and in the static air of the recording studio.
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