Jonah Reider is the culinary half of the duo behind “Brownstone,” a food- and music-based pop-up billed as “an experiential treasure-hunt of sound, taste and color.”
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Ricardo Romaneiro
In the Upper East Side townhouse that the American Irish Historical Society calls home, a violinist ambled down the stairs while tuning her instrument and a harpist improvised with electronic sounds that came from the walls.
In the Upper East Side townhouse that the American Irish Historical Society calls home, a violinist ambled down the stairs while tuning her instrument and a harpist improvised with electronic sounds that came from the walls.
Andrew Cyr continually fosters young composers and emerging talents, and I’ve been honored to premier an incredible amount of music by some wonderful composers.
Harpist Bridget Kibbey had a concept for a concert: to celebrate the diverse and colorful cultures that make up the American musical fabric.
Metropolis Ensemble features first class performers and Bridget Kibbey is no exception. It was such a treat not only to hear her play, but to get an insight into her sources of inspiration and her creative/collaborative process.
Hallucinations, Metropolis Ensemble’s recent production at (Le) Poisson Rouge, was a mind-bending juxtaposition of acoustic, orchestral instruments with electronics.
Metropolis Ensemble ushered in a packed house of excited audience members at (le) Poisson Rouge on January 27-28 for its surreal Hallucinations concert events.
Ravi Sharma assists composer Ricardo Romaneiro and his live electronics for the world premiere of “Hallucinations.”
What impressed most was the diversity of approaches that the composers involved took to stretching a more or less conventional chamber ensemble’s sound through electronic legerdemain.
Hallucinations is being recorded this week at LPR by Q2, the online station of WQXR.
We’re pleased to share a new documentary video about Metropolis Ensemble’s world premiere of The Rite Remixed.
WNYC host David Garland discusses the wild re-imagining of Stravinski’s The Rite of Spring with composer Ricardo Romaneiro and music director Andrew Cyr. Read the article…
Hear the Metropolis Ensemble and Deerhoof perform a concert from the Wordless Music Series, recorded live by WNYC at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, NY. Listen on NPR.org starting at 7:30pm EST. An hourlong special about the Wordless Music Series begins at 6:30pm. Tonight’s webcast is produced by WNYC and hosted by David Garland.
Wordless Music Series pairs Metropolis Ensemble led by Artistic Director/Conductor Andrew Cyr and indie sensation Deerhoof for a night of music under the stars. Experience The Rite: Remixed and Two-Part Belief with an expected audience of 10,000 at Celebrate Brooklyn. Featuring soprano Hila Plitmann.
Join us in Prospect Park - either in person or online - for a night of music under the stars!
WNYC host John Schaefer discusses The Rite: Remixed with artistic director Andrew Cyr composer Ricardo Romaneiro. Listen to the interview…
Artistic Director/Conductor Andrew Cyr and Composer Ricardo Romaneiro will be on WNYC Soundcheck at 2pm EST today to discuss their new composition, The Rite: Remixed and share the secrets of setting Stravinsky’s most famous work to keyboards, laptops, brass and drums. Three ways to listen…
Tune into WNYC FM 93.9 Radio
Listen on iTunes
Click on Radio (top left)
Open the “Public” category
Click on WNYC-FM
Listen Online. Click on the “listen live” box on this page.
UPDATE:
You can now listen to the broadcast
or as a
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Metropolis Ensemble will be opening for Deerhoof in Prospect Park on July 18, 2008, as part of the
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Metropolis Ensemble led by Artistic Director/Conductor Andrew Cyr and Wordless Music co-commissions
The Rite: Remixed
, a collaboration between three composers and live electronics producers, explodes the boundaries of live electro-classical music. Ryan Francis, Leo Leite, and Ricardo Romaneiro re-conceptualize the most revolutionary work of the 20th Century, Igor Stravinsky’s
The Rite of Spring
, through the lens of the latest sounds and technology from electronica. Combined with acoustic forces consisting of huge percussion and brass ensembles, 2 keyboards / 2 laptops, and electric bass, the remixed version will fuse a futuristic, rhythm-inspired sonic tableaux with a hyper-kinetic visual show.
The Metropolis Ensemble and
The Rite: Remixed
appears as part of the
, which puts popular and classical artists together to tear down boundaries between performers and audiences of each. “At the moment, there is no more inventive music series in New York” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker).
The mercurial SF experimentalists
, “the most creative band in indie rock today,” (LA Weekly) forge a distinctive sound out of sophisticated improvisation, fierce dissonance, and weirdly catchy melodies.