#american contemporary music ensemble

[mitjalovse]

The European ambient music scene has a multitude of overlaps with a variety of different idioms, though I would dare to suggest the biggest can be found within the domain of the contemporary classical style. Max Richter fits the bill, he's a composer, you have probably heard his work in this function, yet his solo works find him in the brand Eno 'established'. He does bring his own modern sensibility and his orchestral acumen to the elements of these sorts of tunes. For instance, he did tackle the same path as Robert Rich did, i.e. Mr. Richter did a soundtrack for a sleep. While one could call this a gimmick, one notices the LP remains far from that accusation. The entire album travels the journey of one's usual slumber with all that this entails.

[dk-thrive]

Beauty is the voice that settles us

When a lovely melody, a sublime landscape or a passage of exquisite poetry comes before your senses and your mind, you know that you are at home in the world. Beauty is the voice that settles us, the assurance that we belong among others, in a place of sharing and consolation. ~ Sir Roger Scruton, The Modern Cult of Ugliness (Daily.com, December 2, 2009)

[titoocombe]

Jóhann Jóhannsson - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

[therealandyhat]

A dronerrific work (I said I was running out of suitable superlatives). If you're near Durham and like beautiful music with drones, go hear it at Duke tomorrow.

[losangeleslovesyou]

CAROLINA EYCK + THE AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE : LEYOHMI

[enchufatechicago]

On Tuesday, September 10, Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson shared the stage at (Le) Poisson Rouge with Puerto Rican-born multi-instrumentalist composer Angélica Negrón for a double bill of contemplative electronica and indie-classical experimentation. Jóhannsson, who played the piano and triggered electronics on his laptop for his set, was joined by the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME). Download the complete concert, and read more: http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/316594-johann-johannsson-and-angelica-negron-at-le-poisson-rouge/ Launch Q2 Music's 24/7 stream of the best in new music: http://www.wqxr.org/#station=q2!/series/q2/

[bernsartsinc-blog]

ACME: Chamber Masterpieces by Weinberg, Shostakovich, Górecki at the Morgan Library

Thursday, April 18 at 7:30pm ACME: Chamber Masterpieces The Morgan Library & Museum New York, NY

Described by San Francisco Classical Voice as "flawless urban sophisticates at their finest," American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) pays homage to the late, largely unsung Polish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg with an elegiac chamber music program that includes his exquisite Piano Quintet Op. 18, plus works by Henryk Górecki and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Weinberg, Piano Quintet, Op. 18 Shostakovich, Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67 Górecki, String Quartet No. 3, select movements

Presented in cooperation with the Polish Cultural Institute New York. 

[flyingneutrino]

Purchasing a vinyl album by A Winged Victory for the Sullen was the very best decision. I'm just gonna lie here all night and watch the ceiling fan go around and around.

Kind of irked that there wasn't a download code, though, because I was told at the merch table that there would be one. Sorry, never mind, I'm really finding it impossible to be irked by anything at the moment. Ahh, bliss.

Gorgeous concert the other night, just as you all said it would be. I didn't even watch most of it. Instead I spent a great deal of time just leaning back in my chair and watching shadows and little puddles of colored light on the stage. (And what a relief to have that sort of chilled-out concert experience after enduring a long wait on a platform of the 34th Street-Herald Square station, otherwise known in July as the Sixth Circle of Hell. "Thank you all for coming," said Dustin O'Halloran. "What would chamber music be without...air-conditioning?") Totally entrancing. They played the full album and their take on Gavin Bryars' Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, with strings provided by the opening act, Clarice Jensen's ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble).

No photos or anything; it just didn't seem right to take any in that atmosphere. Everyone was in a chilled-out trance and no one budged. (Except for that one family of obvious tourists who walked out during one of the songs -- gah!) Sort of like how I'm not moving right now, even though I really should be going to answer more Email from Incredibly Stupid People. Wish there was someone around to flip my records over. Oh well.

I'm hooked. Not missing out on them again (unless it's another case of overlapping Sufjan).

[dk-thrive]

Jóhann Jóhannsson, 48, performs "The Drowned World" with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble.

[imaginarysymphonies]

Part one of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble's performance of Gavin Bryars' "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet"  featuring Julian Koster at All Tomorrow's Parties on March 11th, 2012.  Parts two and three below.

[therealandyhat]

More great music, performed by the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME). I'm running out of superlatives at this festival.

[bernsartsinc-blog]

ACME performs Muhly, Cage, Friedman, Andriessen & more

Wednesday, March 27 at 8pm ACME: Brutal + Sublime The CenterStage at Reston Community Center Reston, VA

On Wednesday, March 27, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) performs a new concert program called Brutal + Sublime that juxtaposes musical extremes in an ecstatic dance of dissonance and serenity.

The program includes Nico Muhly's Big Time for percussion and string quartet, Timothy Andres' I Found it by the Sea for piano quartet, Mick Barr's ACMED, selections from Jefferson Friedman's Grammy-nominated String Quartet No. 3, John Cage's String Quartet in Four Parts, and Louis Andriessen's iconic Workers Union.

ACME players for this concert include Caroline Shaw, violin; Ben Russell, violin; Caleb Burhans, viola; Clarice Jensen, cello; Peter Dugan, piano; and Chris Thompson, percussion.