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ICEcast: Jason Eckardt, “Undersong”

By Robert | Published: July 26, 2011
ICE’s most recent recording is out now: the new song cycle Undersong by composer Jason Eckardt, released today on Mode Records. In this episode, the ICEcast interviews Eckardt about poet Laura Mullen’s influence on Undersong, how one sets a poem without a strict structure to music, and why he continues to make music in trying times.
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Schick: “The King of Denmark”

By Robert | Published: February 21, 2011
More incredible drawings from Steven Schick. On our Varèse project, he graphed out a map of “zones of intensity” for the program; this time, we have a visual representation of the the choreography for playing Morton Feldman’s The King of Denmark. Click the images to enlarge. See Schick perform it tomorrow, Tuesday, February 22, at TullyScope.
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“Two Conversations”

By Robert | Published: February 16, 2011
Ahead of ICE’s Chance Encounters concert to kick off Lincoln Center’s new TullyScope Festival on Tuesday, February 22, we present Steven Schick’s program note, entitled Two Conversations. The stories are famous now but they started with a chance encounter. Largely unnoticed. Seemingly insignificant. Like many a chance encounter, why was there any reason to think that [...]
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ICEcast: John Luther Adams and Steven Schick in conversation

By Robert | Published: February 12, 2011
ICE will be joined by conductor & percussionist Steven Schick and composer John Luther Adams on Saturday, February 26 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for two concerts of Adams’s music: the meditative In the White Silence on the MCA Stage at 7:30pm, and the virtuosic solo percussion piece The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies, written [...]
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Summertime with Xenakis

By Robert | Published: June 10, 2010
In the fall of 2008, ICE gave the US premiere of Iannis Xenakis’s opera Oresteia. This summer, the recording of that concert will soundtrack a marionette version of the opera, directed by Luca Vigetti, to be held at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater in New York’s Central Park. On the same day, ICE’s own Nathan Davis will [...]
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