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Season 3 is brought to you by Zeitgeist New Music! Check them out and let your ears receive weirdness:

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Mary Ellen Childs is my guest this episode! Among the rabbit holes are: Music for the senses; structure for the sparsity; creativity for the creation.

Check out Mary Ellen's NORTH at Carleton College in Northfield, MN through November 15th, 2023!

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Music used in this episode (in order):

Faint Object Camera by Mary Ellen Childs; performed by Zeitgeist

Aurora from NORTH by Mary Ellen Childs; performed by Zeitgeist

II. Points from Ephemeral Geometry by Mary Ellen Childs; performed by ETHEL

Tyler J. Borden is a cellist working with, in, and around the constraints of the cello. Formerly from Western NY, he is now based in Brooklyn NY, where he spends much of his time finding ways to exploit the strengths and failures of himself and his instrument. If you like this episode, Subscribe, review, share, all the things!

Check out all of the ridonkulous things TJ does by following these links:

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Mivos Quartet

Mivos Bandcamp

Technical Reserve

Music used in this episode (in order):

Agnes Hvizdalek and TJ Borden @ Downtown Music Gallery

Triple Quartet: II. – on Steve Reich: The String Quartets by Mivos String Quartet

Structures II for Two Pianos (1961): Chapter 1 on Boulez Performs Boulez & Stockhausen by Pierre Boulez

I Am Trying To Break Your Heart on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco

Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps: Liturgie de cristal on Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time by Tashi

Bob Hope Airport Train Station by T.J. Borden

Fourth on That Nothing Is Known by Bob Marsh, Jack Wright, John Berndt & Michael Zerang Time and Motion Study II by Brian Ferneyhough performed by T.J. Borden

Part 2 of my chat with @carnagetheexecutioner in which we get very passionate about the importance of paying to see artists, then I published the episode a week after the show we talked about happened. Le Sigh.

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Music in this episode:

Rockit by Herbie Hancock on Future Shock

Rebel Without a Cause by Public Enemy on It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back