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Next Fest Connects: Recording New Music At Home and In the Studio
Next Fest Connects: Engineer & Composer Ryan Streber of Oktaven Audio will discuss best practices, techniques & pitfalls of audio recording
Douglas Boyce: The Hunt by Night | Catalogue | New Focus Recordings
Composer Douglas Boyce's second release on New Focus, The Hunt by Night, is a collection of his finely wrought chamber music. Boyce's music balances an affinity for subtle motivic development with vigorous rhythmic energy. Featured performers are counter)induction, Trio Cavatina, violist Beth Guterm...
Star Maker Fragments, by TAK ensemble & Taylor Brook
2 track album
Timeline Photos
Why do artists release their work as albums? How do recording projects come to fruition? đź’˝đź’⚡️ Find out this Tuesday night with Ryan Streber (Oktaven Audio), Ash Fure, Wendy Richman, JosĂ©-Luis Hurtado, Nate Wooley (Sound American), and Jacob Greenberg! We’ll also gather over Zoom after the stream to discuss more. Free RSVP at https://bit.ly/tues7-feb2.
Tonight!
So happy for Brooklyn Rider for the nomination of this gorgeous record!! It was always an honor and a pleasure to work with them, and I'm deeply grateful to have been able to be a part of its creation! Congratulations!!
Incredibly honored to be in such company! Feeling the love, thank you all so much!!!🥰
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@doverquartet @thirdcoastpercussion @pacificaquartet @hedtearne
Merz Trio
We survived! Our first album recording in the books!!
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3 days, 15 hours, 4 types of chocolate bars and innumerable hot beverages later we've emerged from Oktaven Audio somehow intact and excited for this Paris, 1914 themed album! Stay tuned for more details...
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#firstalbum #recording #2021release #paris #studiorecording #album #chambermusic Oktaven Audio Lee Dionne
Yarn/Wire
Out today, FRIDAY, Oct 9! Inner Garden, a truly epic journey of an album we made with a musician we love dearly, the one and only Travis Laplante!Get your copy from New Amsterdam at travislaplante.bandcamp.com/album/inner-garden
Mobili: Music for Viola and Piano from Chile, by Georgina Isabel Rossi, Silvie Cheng
10 track album
Video Premiere: New Morse Code Releases Thomas Kotcheff's "then and then and then this" — Classical Post
Contemporary music duo New Morse Code, comprised of Hannah Collins (cello) and Michael Compitello (percussion) joins Classical Post for a special video premiere of composer Thomas Kotcheff’s “ then and then and then this” . They discuss the collaborative process, filming, matching timbre and w...
Merz Trio
Thrilled to release this new music video of Those Secret Eyes, by Charlotte Bray -- a year in the making!
We recorded this in Jordan Hall last spring 2019 -- a time barely recognizable, before sewing masks became a national pastime (and a full time job) - yet the work's haunting themes and steely outbursts remain as relevant as ever.
Watch our full Video here: https://youtu.be/85rz-TCOXWM
Huge thanks to Point of Order productions for their eye in capturing these shots and playing with color, as well as to @Oktaven Audio for their wonderful recording work.
Mario Davidovsky’s “Synchronisms” in concert; pre-conversation with Eric Chasalow & Mario Davidovsky
A pre-concert presentation featuring conversations with composers Mario Davidovsky and Eric Chasalow about Davidovsky's series of seminal works for instrumen...
Hear Technologies
It's fun to look back and see the creative ways artists and studios use Hear gear. Look at those blue-lighted Hear Back PRO Mixers at Oktaven Audio's big band setup!
We'd love to see how Hear gear helps you #HearMoreYou!
Photo credit: Oktaven Audio, 2017
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ACRONYM
Our continuo team for Cantica Obsoleta coming out July 24th 2020! All photos taken at Oktaven Audio
CINEPOESIA12: MAMULENGO (LEA FREIRE com ALI RYERSON e KEITH UNDERWOOD)
MĂşsica de Lea Freire & Filme de Lucas Weglinski. Ali Ryerson e Keith Underwood - Flautas / Lea Freire - Piano Faixa BĂ´nus de CINE POESIA, um Disco Filme. Gra...
Numinous
Tomorrow June 9th begins my online campaign to raise money to finish the recording of my opera The Grey Land. If you are able, I hope you will consider donating to help bring my opera to a world-wide audience this Fall on New Amsterdam Records. The Grey Land features soprano Rebecca Hargrove as a Black mother trying to survive the reality in this land that "never has been yet", with her son actor/narrator Kenneth L. Browning. The opera tells a story of Black humanity, identity, and resilience in the face of the seemingly intractable systemic societal, economic, and cultural forces in today's America.
Check my feed tomorrow for a special video and link to the fundraiser in order to find out more about the opera and to donate. Until then, here is Rebecca singing a moment from Scene 2 "Ferguson: Summer of 2014" at one of our sessions at Oktaven Audio. Video by Donald MartĂnez
ACRONYM
An amazing day of recording some gorgeous music today at Oktaven Audio... tomorrow we are making our way to Manhattan to perform on Music Before 1800 series at Corpus Christi Church at 4:00 PM. More details at www.acronymensemble.com
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Congrats on terrific sessions, ACRONYM!
a beautiful photo from our three days in the studio at Oktaven Audio with Ryan Streber taken by Jesse Blumberg
Brooklyn Rider gets a great write-up from Rober Baird in Stereophile Magazine, with an interview by Ryan: https://www.stereophile.com/content/brooklyn-rider-lucid-flight
Is classical music really on the ropes? Living in New York City, it's easy to think that is a myth cooked up in the provinces.
SonicScoop
Michael Duncan takes you on a virtual visit of the new Oktaven Audio in Mount Vernon, New York.
Far larger and better-appointed than its predecessor, this new room sports a Steinway & Sons Hamburg D piano and a fresh new layout by Francis Manzella Design Ltd.
New Focus Recordings
"In its four dark and vulnerable pieces, Roberts casts a powerful and delicate web, connecting the shadowy cracks in the rich palette of the cello." Jason Charney on Mariel Roberts #cartography on I Care if You Listen (.com)
https://www.icareifyoulisten.com/2017/06/mariel-roberts-expertly-navigates-four-premieres-cartography/
counter)induction
Concert Sunday night at National Sawdust! Come out from some terrific music.
Oktaven Audio
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https://www.facebook.com/NewFocusRecordings/posts/10153941069511762
Look for most of these labels at good record stores, and there are still a few, especially Downtown Music Gallery in a basement space on Monroe Street in Chinatown. You can also order straight from the labels.
Ryan on Dan Dunford's amazing Divergent Paths!
Download past episodes or subscribe to future episodes of Divergent Paths with Dan Dunford by Dan Dunford for free.
Café Concert: Mivos Quartet Plays Taylor Brook's 'El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan'
The Mivos Quartet visited the WQXR Café to play the fourth movement of Taylor Brook's “El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan.” Read more about the Mivos Quar...
Dan Lippel at New Focus had some very kind words for Oktaven 2.0- I'll share them here, as the build has been an arduous journey and we're delighted with the outcome.
It's been extremely exciting to be part of a few sessions over the last month at Ryan Streber and Jessica Slaven's amazing new Oktaven Audio studio in nearby Mt. Vernon, NY. They've built a truly special, top level studio to match Ryan's commitment to capturing the best of what we all strive to do. Looking back over the last 12 years, I couldn't be prouder to have had the chance to work closely with such a great musician and colleague during this time, and am so amazed to see what he and Jessica have built. Congrats guys, and anyone who's looking to record in the New York area, consider Oktaven Audio, it's a fabulous place to record!
Go check out Fred Hersch at the Vanguard!
This from the current New Yorker: Fred Hersch, celebrating his sixtieth birthday, wears many artistic hats-a dazzling solo pianist, a composer of concert music, and a creator of ambitious multimedia projects-but his trio remains an integral element of his musical identity. The latest iteration of the band, now in its fifth year, features the bassist John Hebert and the drummer Eric McPherson, with whom the leader communicates on a second-sight level. (Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Ave. S., at 11th St. 212-255-4037. Oct. 20-25.) http://www.villagevanguard.com
Red Light New Music ~ Barbary Coast
In many ways, Barbary Coast reminds me of the times when classical music halls produced brawls and minor scandals. This is not to say that you’ll stand up and punch your audio player of choice, dem...
Get to The Kitchen and see the amazingness of Claire Chase!
This charismatic flutist performs works commissioned as part of Density 2036, a 22-year venture whose title is inspired by the 100th anniversary (in 2036) of Edgard Varèse’s flute solo “Density 21.5.
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