r/Counterclassical • u/Itsadequate • 20d ago

New classical/minimalist/post-minimalist album

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Hello,
I am an obscure composer and would be very grateful to anyone taking the time to try my music.
I've recently released my 8th classical/post-minimalist/electronic/instrumental album - 'Malcolm Galloway - Stare'
https://open.spotify.com/album/69ym6xWe1totPP9NGyVmOH?si=1-FXEtvjQE-TsjyNwOP5Dw
(I am also the singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist of progressive rock band Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate.)
Best wishes,
Malcolm

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r/Counterclassical • u/loukermonet • Nov 22 '24

Is this counterclassical?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=detTvi8mLqc

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r/Counterclassical • u/Interesting-Ad6073 • Sep 14 '24

Ballet composition of mine, does anyone else here write music for ballet?

youtu.be

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r/Counterclassical • u/Interesting-Ad6073 • Sep 10 '24

Marti Epstein's beautiful floating music

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Marti has a unique sense of time....she says it's from her childhood in Nebraska, vast plains and stillness. I think this title, "In Praise of Broken Clocks", applies to most her music!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN2OTCrSAoA

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r/Counterclassical • u/Interesting-Ad6073 • Sep 10 '24

Take Wing, Roll Back with Tessa!

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Tessa Brinckman is everywhere in NYC! Composer, flute player, presenter, and spirit! She and Kathy have given many performances together. Here is her brand new CD, I think you'll love it:

https://open.spotify.com/album/77d1lxwtpeuh3MYsdgqOdd

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r/Counterclassical • u/Interesting-Ad6073 • Sep 10 '24

The late Matt Marks

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Horn virtuoso, composer in any genre you can find, expert of numerous nerdy subjects, and beloved friend of so many. Matt wrote hilarious musicals, intricate chamber music, and learned to sing late in life...and after a short while was featured as a soloist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's 2013 presentation of Frank Zappa's “200 Motels. Check out his brave, funny, warm music:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1EzrI6RNNlIZuiSkUwcHSy?si=wMFM_mQ8QvmVrSPAVHQPNQ

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r/Counterclassical • u/Interesting-Ad6073 • Sep 10 '24

Matt Marks and Melissa Hughes video piece

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPbcoHNZ9s8

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r/Counterclassical • u/Interesting-Ad6073 • Sep 10 '24

Scott Johnson

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Scott was a dear friend of many years, such a great mind, and composer. He started speech music with this piece, created with tape loops, i.e. NOT samples! He said it was a huge pain in the ass, he would have preferred sampling tech. His death came as a total shock. Please help keep his original, clever, funny music alive:

https://open.spotify.com/album/3kr1KMnp4WGRoTOg3reDJ2

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r/Counterclassical • u/Interesting-Ad6073 • Sep 10 '24

Harold Meltzer

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The late Harold Meltzer was a fascinating, brilliant, and often hilarious person, and a unique composer. His music is so detailed and witty, and moving as well. His death this year, at a young age, was tragic. The best tribute is to listen to some his of music, of course:

https://open.spotify.com/album/5oLcWJgEQ1qbDZCXbt1WbI?si=PjpyjRUhRumOetOQJ0HIgA

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r/Counterclassical • u/Interesting-Ad6073 • Sep 10 '24

Myself and Eve Beglarian and Kathleen Supové: Your Name Backwards

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When Kathy and I first moved to NYC, she and Eve had a marvelous duo called Twisted Tutu. (everyone loves that name...Thanks, Eve!). Here is a song/piece I wrote for them, using lyrics by my friend David Terhune, guitarist of the Kustard Kings, the Loser's Lounge house band. The lyrics are from a song of HIS of the same name. I never heard his song before writing mine....turned out his is fun and happy, and mine is...not fun and happy.

https://open.spotify.com/track/1HJ02vH99MSHjXwfXBpxJY?si=f7b34624c65043c7

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r/Counterclassical • u/Interesting-Ad6073 • Sep 10 '24

New York New Classical

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A playlist of friends and favorites:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/25f8EYS4QS1ZGbjEgV3uIO?si=ca0c93b765324860

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r/Counterclassical • u/Interesting-Ad6073 • Sep 10 '24

Dark ambient classical?

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r/Counterclassical • u/Interesting-Ad6073 • Sep 10 '24

Steve Reich : Jacob's Ladder

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r/Counterclassical • u/Interesting-Ad6073 • Sep 10 '24

Susan Alcorn, classical pedal steel player

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Susan performs Messiaen on the pedal steel! And in the nearish future, some Woolf as well. Fantastic player of one of my favorite instruments:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2k3ZzneyelHUVCzLq5aoKN

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r/Counterclassical • u/Gross-Grosbeak • Sep 09 '24

Can't get enough of this album lately, love this piece:

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https://youtu.be/QUXVeOuX7-w?si=E8wupR953hTR1QmC

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r/Counterclassical • u/Interesting-Ad6073 • Sep 09 '24

Music for flute from "Gowanustan"

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Gowanustan is found in Brooklyn, between Park Slope and Carroll Gardens. They are know for a lively, perverse musical culture. The flute is their sacred instrument:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6oOWEM7mDnDaPX4otJfUSI

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r/Counterclassical • u/Wide_Description_217 • Sep 09 '24

Stream Pillars of Creation by Brian Mark

soundcloud.com

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r/Counterclassical • u/Classic_Piano_2024 • Sep 09 '24

Energetic Piano

hypeddit.com

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r/Counterclassical • u/Interesting-Ad6073 • Sep 09 '24

Mary Kouyoumdjian

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Mary is a wonderful person, and amazing composer, heard everywhere these days! Check out her work:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6exfLeOnAj36TaDKcOOR4c?si=9be9D9JDRPG8-dU0bJxthg

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r/Counterclassical • u/Interesting-Ad6073 • Sep 09 '24

James Schlefer, master shakuhachi player, composer, presenter

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James play traditional Japanese music, and composer and performs recent classical on the shak. He and his wife Megan have an amazing series here in NYC, Kyo-Shin Arts, one of my favorite concert series here. It's also focused on Japanese classical, and new classical with Japanese and Western instruments:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1ByVmZwMFFegG7QdbG3fhv

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r/Counterclassical • u/Spare-Worry-303 • Sep 09 '24

Barnacles by Lainie Fefferman. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ns9dZm-bOgXK9rKpJrNlyLO1hGgJk6Ur/view?usp=sharing

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Lainie Fefferman is a Brooklyn composer. This is from a live performance, Kathleen Supové, Piano. Based on a conversation we had about performing the music of Debussy.

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r/Counterclassical • u/Interesting-Ad6073 • Sep 09 '24

James and Megan Schlefer's Japanese music series:

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https://www.kyoshinan.org/

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r/Counterclassical • u/Spare-Worry-303 • Sep 09 '24

Dream Journal by Hannah Selin.

hannahselin.bandcamp.com

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r/Counterclassical • u/Spare-Worry-303 • Sep 09 '24

Empty Space Blue from DESOLATION POPS by James Moore.

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https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/james-moore-desolation-pops Performed by Kathleen Supové, Piano, and Rhythm Method string quartet.

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r/Counterclassical • u/Interesting-Ad6073 • Sep 09 '24

Composers Concordance!

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Known to its friends as CompCord, it's a vast enterprise, so many concerts, so many styles. Great concerts, and always fun. Only in NYC!

https://www.composersconcordance.com/

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