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NEW CD "ALMOST TRUTHS AND OPEN DECEPTIONS"
A cello concerto, warped 78's, machines, a broken shortwave radio and more!
Read about the CD and order it here from Tzadik
Or here from Amazon
Read a review of the CD in the New Yorker here
Read a review of the CD in NewMusicBox here
Read a New York Times review of the CD release concert
MAY 9: SYNTH NIGHTS CURATED BY LAURIE ANDERSON
AT THE KITCHEN, NYC, "EWA7" WITH AG, ROGER KLEIER, KENNY WOLLESEN; "LOST SIGNALS" WITH MARY ROWELL
Details about the festival
APRIL 25-27 PREMIERE OF "SHATTERED APPARITIONS OF THE WESTERN WIND" by KATHLEEN SUPOVE,, NYC
Read more about the program
Read about the piece
NEWS, UPCOMING CONCERTS, and PREMIERES
Read about upcoming CD's, concerts and premieres
NEW VIDEOS FROM THE CD, THE KITCHEN, HUDDERSFIELD, AND MORE Gosfield Channel
"LIGHTNING SLINGERS AND DEAD RINGERS" PIANO CD
Read about it here
2012 FELLOWSHIP AT THE AMERICAN ACADEMY IN BERLIN AND A CONCERT AT MAERZMUSIK
Read about it here
LATEST ARTICLE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES "OPINIONATOR"
click here to read Gosfield's "Advice to Young Composers" in the Times
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF "DAUGHTERS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION" AT THE KITCHEN read it here
REVIEW FROM THE STONE IN THE NYT
"MAKING MUSIC OUT OF UNCRACKED CODES AND A FACTORY'S DIN" read it here
LOST
SIGNALS AND DRIFTING SATELLITES
click here to purchase: Annie
Gosfield, Tzadik 8007
click here for more information about the CD & listen to musical excerpts
"A major figure of the downtown scene with pieces that use nonmusical sounds (warped records, satellite signals, and more) in a strikingly expressive manner." –The New Yorker
Click here to watch (and read) an interview in New Music Box
Click here to read four essays from The New York Times' TimesSelect
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"Her music is unlike anything in the current European chamber spectrum, coupling zest and imaginative poetics with a warming textural glow underlying the spikiness."
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Rob Young, The Wire
"Only
two or three people use the sampler distinctively enough to be instantly
recognizable, and Gosfield may be chief in that respect"
– Kyle Gann, The Village
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"EWA7
is a machineshop throwdown that could reduce angstridden
'industrial' poseurs to sobbing heaps."
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David Sprague,
The Village Voice
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"A wonderful disc, beautifully
performed and produced. Perhaps more than any other composer of
her generation Gosfield has taken up the challenge of Edgard Varèse,
writing music which addresses forthrightly the aesthetic challenge
of mechanization, technology, and science."
– Robert Carl, Fanfare,
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Hailed as ”a star of the downtown scene” by the New Yorker magazine,
Annie Gosfield lives and works in New York City, where she divides her
time between performing on piano and sampler with her own group and composing for many ensembles and soloists. Her music often explores the inherent beauty of non-musical sounds, and is inspired by diverse sources
such as machines, destroyed pianos, warped 78 records, and detuned radios.
She often combines acoustic instruments with electronics, resulting in pieces like Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites for violin and satellite sounds, and The Manufacture of Tangled Ivory for prepared piano samples with mixed ensemble. Gosfield uses traditional notation, improvisation, and extended techniques to create a sound world that eliminates the boundaries between music and noise, while emphasizing the unique qualities of each performer.
Click here to read an unedited interview from The Wire with Julian Cowley
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