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Marcos Balter

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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
TONIGHT! Sad to miss it (I’m in Miami), but if you’re in NYC you should check it out. #juilliard #carnegiehall
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Ooof, that one hurts. RIP, Sofia Gubaidulina. Thank you for the countless gems. youtube.com/watch?v=aZYY...
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Sofia Gubaidulina - Garten von Freuden und Traurigkeiten (1980)
YouTube video by Anthony Mondon
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Dream team right here. Can’t wait to spend summer at Tanglewood with these five incredibly talented composers. #tanglewood #tmc
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The leanness of Saariaho’s late scores is like sonic nouvelle cuisine. The simplest things become magically beautiful and fresh.
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I don’t quite know what to make of Hermann Nitsch’s music, which keeps making me want to revisit it. That’s… good? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I think they meant absurd rather than absurdist.
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
There are some hues I struggle with in music. Like “epic,” for instance. I can’t connect 99% of times. That oh so rare 1%, though… full body chills. Like this
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Enno Poppe : Keilschrift (2005/2006)
YouTube video by Béton Brut
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Now when I hear loud tapping, I just know it’s Hawk Hudson sitting on top of my a/c again. So beautiful, but such a noisy jerk.
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“I think sometimes genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists.” - Beyoncé “(…) in music, genre and kinship often co-present, as predicted by its root, gen- (genetic, genotype, and even gender).” - George Lewis
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
It’s official: we’re roommates now.
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“Uncanny comfort.” Pretty apt, I kinda like that.
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This is how I spent my evening, and it was sublime. If you’re in NY, go catch them.
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The Amphion Foundation @amphionfoundation.org · 28/01/2025
The 2025 Spring Round of the Amphion Grant Program is now open for applications! This round is for Performing Ensembles only. >> Deadline - February 27, 2025, 11:59pm ET. << Full guidelines and application: buff.ly/30cjjdx
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
When I’m freaking out about life and it’s cold and gray outside, few things comfort me more than a good feijoada.
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Avant Music News @avantmusicnews.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
The Music of Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell Coming to REDCAT Source: REDCAT. The music of legendary collaborators Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell is singular and boundless. These are expansive, quintessentially queer pieces, in which every moment is full of choice. Their profound and personal…
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The Music of Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell Coming to REDCAT
Source: REDCAT. The music of legendary collaborators Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell is singular and boundless. These are expansive, quintessentially queer pieces, in which every moment is full of choice. Their profound and personal sounds demand that performers become unabashedly themselves, merging and getting lost in the notes and rhythms, finding themselves again and again, and emerging whole and newly committed to self.
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
One of my favorite recent reads that are not about music composition but kind of are. Highly recommend it.
dear-data.com
THE BOOK — Dear Data
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Hello Bluesky! Can't wait to start sharing all-things-new-music with you on here. Help us find our artist community again by giving this post a like. And stay tuned for new interviews, essays, and reviews 👁️❤️🎧
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Friends in Reykjavik: really cool concert TONIGHT by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Bjarnason, featuring my “Orun” and other contemporary works. So wish I could be there, but I know it’ll be great. ❤️
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Thoughts on adjudication season: there are SO MANY absolutely incredible young composers out there. The level is stratospheric. I wish there were more opportunities, more spots in programs. I could easily form a team of 50 whose music would make your jaw drop. Listening to their music is humbling.
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
More than ever, time to show support for our trans friends. Donate. 💰
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Donate - Trans Lifeline
Support our work with a donation! Trans Lifeline is primarily funded by individual donors; donations of all sizes are deeply appreciated and put to good
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thinking piccolo and crotales this morning, wonder why 🤔
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Emilia Perez is one of the worst examples of appropriation I’ve seen in a while. The songs alone are enough to drive any native Spanish speaker mad. It’s like old-school French colonial take on Mexican culture. So bad.
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Patricia Alessandrini @alessandrini.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I am returning to Dijon this summer, for the International Academy of Musical Creation with New Media 2025. This is a great opportunity to have new work, especially multimedia, performed in a supportive environment. Applications are rolling (until 1 June): cagedijon.hpage.com/academie-202...
Professors and participants of the 2023 edition of the academy - composers and performers, including invited composer Brice Pauset -  posing in a practice space with speakers, a screen and a chandelier.
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Every snowfall, our neighbors immortalize themselves as a snow couple on the bench across the street. They got a dog this year. 🥹
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PENTATONE @pentatonemusic.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Organist and pianist James McVinnie makes his PENTATONE debut with ’Dreamcatcher’, an intimate sequence of contemporary classical music centred around the act of imagining. RELEASED TODAY, LISTEN NOW on Apple Music, Spotify, IDAGIO, and more! 🎶 lnk.to/DreamcatcherMcVinnie
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Liner Notes Danny @linernotesdanny.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
They’re giving all the proceeds to Sweet Relief to help musicians recover from the LA fires, so buy it on Bandcamp:
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Risk Of Make Believe, by Son Lux
5 track album
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Out today: James McVinnie’s new album, available everywhere. Works by Meredith Monk, Laurie Spiegel, @nicomuhly.bsky.social , @inticomposes.bsky.social , John Adams, Bryce Dressner, Gabriella Smith, and my “Dreamcatcher,” which is also the album’s title.
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Marcos Balter @marcosbalter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Congratulations, Ashkan! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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2025 Composer Prizes to Ashkan Behzadi, Bastien David and Kristine Tjøgersen | Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
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Alarm Will Sound @alarmwillsound.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
🎶 Applications are open for the 2025 Matt Marks Impact Fund! 🎶 Up to $7,500 in seed money for boundary-pushing works that expand music and performance. 📅 Apply by March 1 🔗 Learn more: alarmwillsound.com/mmif 💻 Info session in February—email mmif [at] alarmwillsound [dot] com.
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Matt Marks Impact Fund
The Matt Marks Impact fund offers up to $7,500 seed money to begin development on exciting, ambitious projects with Alarm Will Sound that have potential to make significant cultural and social impact.
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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
More like this please Xenakis: Pithoprakta (Arturo Tamayo / Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, with graphical score)
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Iannis Xenakis - Pithoprakta (w/ graphical score)
YouTube video by Pierre Carré
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New Music USA @newmusicusa.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Our hearts are heavy as we think about everyone impacted by the LA wildfires. This is a list of resources complied from our friends and those actively working to support those affected.
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Carola Bauckholt @carola-bauckholt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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Bachtrack @bachtrack.com · 14/01/2025
Waiting for Kurtág: Fin de partie receives its Berlin premiere at Unter den Linden ✍️ Elena Luporini bachtrack.com/review-fin-d...
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Waiting for Kurtág: Fin de partie receives Berlin premiere
Director Johannes Erath and conductor Alexander Soddy bring György Kurtág's first and only opera to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, starting the year with a dash of Beckett.
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New Focus Recordings @newfocuslabel.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
From Exceptet's new album coming out this Friday, here's a movement from the title work Tree Lines by composer Katherine Balch newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/tree-l... soundcloud.com/new-focus-re...
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Katherine Balch: Tree Lines: Yew (Exceptet)
Katherine Balch: Tree Lines: Yew Exceptet: Chuck Furlong, clarinet; Sarah Goldfeather, violin & voice; Evan Honse, trumpet; Dan Linden, trombone; Allison Nicotera, bassoon; Evan Runyon, double bass; D
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Bard College @bardcollege.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The GLISS Composition Residency, a new summer program at Bard open to three transfeminine composers aged 18–30, will take place at Bard in August 2025. The residency is led by Sarah Hennies, visiting assistant professor of music at Bard College, and composers inti figgis-vizueta and Andrew Yee.
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New Summer Program for Transfeminine Composers
The inaugural GLISS Composition Residency, a new summer program for transfeminine composers led by Sarah Hennies, visiting assistant professor of music at Bard College, and composers inti…
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