THE SOURCE (2015)

THE SOURCE  |  Ted Hearne  |  New Amsterdam Records, 2015

Music by Ted Hearne
Text culled from various sources by Mark Doten

vocalists:
Ted Hearne
Mellissa Hughes
Samia Mounts
Isaiah Robinson
Jonathan Woody

band:
Courtney Orlando, violin
Anne Lanzilotti; viola
Leah Coloff, cello
Taylor Levine, guitar
Greg Chudzik, bass
Ron Wiltrout, drums
Nathan Koci, music director

more info on The Source here.

video by Daniel Fish, Juliet Lashinsky-Revene and Jim Findlay

album art by Seth Gadsden

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“...some of the most expressive socially engaged music in recent memory — from any genre.”

— Pitchfork

“It is a refutation of literal meaning, an assault on sense. It evokes our time, the age of atomized digitized information, more potently than any piece of music I’ve heard, and in its volatile nonsensicality, it brings us the sound of a once-promising composer in the act of becoming a major one.”

— The Nation

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Red Light New Music | BARBARY COAST (2015)

BARBARY COAST |  Red Light New Music  |  New Focus Recordings, 2015

Crispy Gentlemen

Ted Hearne

Red Light Ensemble performs
"Cirques" by Vincent Raikhel
"Chamber Concerto" by Liam Robinson
"The Night Mare" by Chris Cerrone
"Crispy Gentlemen" by Ted Hearne
"Brontal No. 3" by Scott Wollschleger

John Popham, cello
Yegor Shevtsov, piano
Kevin Sims, percussion
Christa van Alstine, clarinets
Erin Wight, viola
Roberta Michel, flute
Esther Noh, violin
conducted by Ted Hearne

REVIEW by Ethan Iverson, "Do the Math"

SOME PHOTOS from the old days of Red Light (fond memories there):

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R WE WHO R WE (2013)

R WE WHO R WE | New Focus Recordings (2013)

Music by Ted Hearne and Philip White

Our debut album offers a noisy take on songs from the pop landscape. More about the project here. 

Review from Time Out Chicago:
"Listening to Ted Hearne and Philip White's R WE WHO R WE is a bit like attempting to force the beaters of electric hand mixer through one's nostrils and into the brain, then flipping the power on... and this is an unequivocally good thing."   READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE.

album art by Seth Gadsden

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THE LAW OF MOSAICS (2014)

THE LAW OF MOSAICS | Crier Records (2014)

A Far Cry performs
"The Companion Guide To Rome" (2010) by Andrew Norman

"Law of Mosaics" (2013) by Ted Hearne

REVIEWS:
Alex Ross, The New Yorker
<Notable Recordings of 2014>

Textura (review)
 

"Climactic moments from Adagio for Strings and The Four Seasons, slowed down and layered on top of one another" from LAW OF MOSAICS (2013) by Ted Hearne

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album art by Rachel Perry Welty

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Katrina Ballads (2010)

Katrina Ballads | New Amsterdam, 2010

Music by Ted Hearne

Abigail Fischer, mezzo-soprano
Isaiah Robinson, tenor
Allison Semmes, soprano
Anthony Turner, baritone
with Ted Hearne, tenor

Christopher Coletti, trumpet
Nathan Koci, horn
Kelli Kathman, flutes
Eileen Mack, clarinets
Batya MacAdam-Somer, violin
David Medine, viola
Jody Redhage, cello
David Hanlon, piano
Taylor Levine, electric guitar
Kris Saebo, electric bass
Ron Wiltrout, drums
conducted by Ted Hearne

film by Bill Morrison
"When we awoke, it was to that familiar phrase: New Orleans dodged a bullet" from KATRINA BALLADS by Ted Hearne

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Your Bad Self: Live At The Stone (2008)

Your Bad Self: Live At The Stone 2008 | Limited Edition

Music by Ted Hearne
includes Illuminating the Maze, Touch, We Didn't Know, Snowball, Wanderer, Last Man Standing, All the Things, Crib Dweller and Never Said Nothing; along with interludes by Ron Wiltrout, Nathan Koci and Bill Carson.

Featuring
Miki-Sophia Cloud - violin
Chris Coletti - trumpet/keyboard
Ted Hearne - piano/voice
Nathan Koci - horn/accordion/keyboard
Taylor Levine - electric guitar
Eileen Mack - clarinets
Ron Wiltrout - drums
Matthew Wright - trombone
with Bill Carson on vocals

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album art by Nathan Koci

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Manorexia: The Mesopelagic Waters (2010)

Manorexia: The Mesopelagic Waters | Tzadik Records, 2010

Music by the brilliant and enigmatic composer J.G. Thirlwell (Foetus, Manorexia), featuring six arrangements for acoustic ensemble by Ted Hearne.

The tunes are played by David Cossin (percussion), David Broome (piano), Felix Fan (cello), Elena Moon Park (viola) and others, with Thirlwell himself on electronics.

Available on Tzadik Records.
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J.G. Thirlwell

New Music Collective, Vol. 1 | 2007

New Music Collective, Vol. 1 | 2007

New Music Collective, Charleston

featuring 23 by Ted Hearne - performed by Laura Ball, piano; David Heywood, flute; Nathan Koci, horn; Philip White, guitar; and Ron Wiltrout, drums

contact New Music Collective to purchase