#post-classical

[burlveneer-music]

Samuel Sharp - Consequential - new album of multi-tracked saxophone serial minimalism, out today from Blackford Hill. (I am especially intrigued by the notion of a "post-classical club night.")

London-based saxophonist and composer Samuel Sharp presents 'Consequential', his second solo album and first release with Scottish label Blackford Hill. A playful, mellifluous and sometimes dizzying brew, Samuel layers and weaves his saxophone notes into intriguing, soporific and occasionally slapstick patterns, with only a small batch of effects pedals for accompaniment.

Samuel Sharp has two secret weapons for captivating his audiences. His saxophone and his storytelling. Innovatively crafted soundscapes blur the lines between classical, jazz and electronic music. He uses harmoniser and delay pedals to create live loops as he plays, but there’s a folksy, grassroots approach to the way that he presents these heady, hypnotic melodies. “I noticed that I connect much better with the audience when I introduce my tracks beforehand,” explains Samuel, who is also known for co-founding and curating the post-classical club night Counter Chamber in Hoxton. “I rehearse the talking bits of my shows as well as the music. I’ve been to stuffy classical recitals over the years and seen baffling sets in arts venues so I want people to feel comfortable at my performances. Every track on the album has a story behind it so it makes sense to repaint the scene live onstage.” Over nine tracks, Samuel dips into his childhood memories, merging pastoral snapshots from frogspawn-spotting holidays in the Lake District with more recent family trips, where the sight of darting rabbits in the moonlight leaves him standing transfixed on a quiet country lane. Based in Hackney, with a recording studio on the edge of Walthamstow Marshes, Samuel lets East London seep into the record too, as heard on the steady rhythms of 'Train Across The Meadow', where he counts carriages thundering past him on his run, or 'Canal Crash', where sharp, punchy bass notes build steadily to a loud splash as he recalls a bicycle accident which propelled him over his handlebars into the Regent’s Canal. Sketches from what he calls his ‘parental diary’ also feature, including spritely, crisp tones on 'Upon York Wall' where Samuel’s saxophone echoes him pretend marching with his daughters along the Roman wall, or the Steve Reich-like minimal repetitions of 'Krasner With The Kids', where he shares his children’s sense of wonder at abstract expressionist painter Lee Krasner during an exhibition at the Barbican. Samuel’s running commentaries during his live sets have been translated into sleeve notes for the new album, allowing listeners to join him on his journey.

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Rebecca and Aliayta Foon-Dancoes on Reverie and collaboration

Rebecca and Aliayta Foon-Dancoes discuss their first collaborative album Reverie, recorded in rural Québec and released by Constellation Records in 2025. Rebecca Foon and Aliayta Foon-Dancoes trace different routes through classical and experimental music. Reverie, their first full-length collaboration, was recorded in a converted barn in rural Quebec and released by Constellation in…

[palukoo]

three hearts that beat as one | old hollywood throuples anyone???

[ferdifz]

"Gen Z's Splice-Sampling Visionary" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKzCuE4SHA

David Bruce composer interviews Ben Nobuto, a young composer of British-Japanese descent whose orchestral piece "Hallelujah Sim" was recently featured at the opening night of the 2024 BBC Proms

[adobe-outdesign]

high-key obsessed with this XY museum concept art that shows a guy just casually holding a Mew

even better is the in-game blurb that goes with the painting, which is both great worldbuilding and also very funny:

A Man and Mew: They say a man of power at the time forced the artist to add the Mythical Pokémon Mew to spread the word of how great he was.

[carefulzombie]

everyone always acts so aghast about the whole “the doctor kidnapped his first companions!” thing which yeah obviously terrifying from ian and barbara’s pov but you really gotta look at it from the angle of “guy who just ran away from home comes across someone breaking into his car and in a panic locks the doors hits the gas and now they’re all very very lost” and then it becomes hysterical

[golyadkin]

Sons Of The Labyrinth or The Things Our Fathers Do To Us

[number-one-shadisper-shipper]

[observinghenrywinter]

[randomgirl005]

[paracosmoon]

[chaoticaesthetician]

abnormally large trees please lend me some of your centuries worth of wisdom

[psitrend]

Mark Molnar releases EXO on Constellation in June 2025

Recorded without collaborators EXO focuses on structure resonance and decay Mark Molnar has operated at the outer edge of composition and improvisation in Ottawa for over twenty years. A cellist, multi-instrumentalist, and organizer, he has maintained a long presence in Canada’s experimental music community, both as a performer and as founder of the label Black Bough Records. His work crosses…

[susartwork]

He's joking, guys-

Idk what this is. I've had this comic idea in my notes for literally a year, so I used it for color practice XD

[palarien]

sketched this out at jury duty actually