(Above, Steve Reich talks to members of 8bb prior to the world premiere of Double Sextet at the University of Richmond on March 26, 2008.) Steve Reich’s Double Sextet, a work commissioned and performed all over the world by 8bb, has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for music. According to the panel of judges, it is “a [...]
Above, watch 8bb perform Eel – four funky, canonic minutes of Dennis DeSantis-created madness – on Chicago TV station WGN’s midday news. You can also click here. The footage features Dennis DeSantis (far right in the video) remixing his own composition live. Ryan Ingebritsen acted as balance engineer for the performance. The folks at Channel [...]
Several weeks ago we gave the world premiere of a new piece for sextet and electronics by Frances White at University of Richmond’s 3P Festival of Electroacoustic Music. This is what I wrote at the time: Each year the festival commissions one or two new works for 8bb to premiere. Last year it was pieces [...]
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