George E. Lewis's guest appearances

George E. Lewis

Classical Classroom

Sound It Out

Sound Expertise

Matthew Aucoin

Steve Reich

George Gershwin

Norman Fischer

William Parker

Ashley White

Orson Welles

Jade Simmons

Alex Ross

Keith Weber

Chris Johnson

David Hunter

Igor Stravinsky

Leonard Bernstein

Nico Muhly

OwlTail

What happens when classical music takes seriously the work of Black avant-garde composers? What would a creolized musical world look like? And what is the relationship between scholarship and composing? A conversation with George E. Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University.Show notes and more over at soundexpertise.orgQuestions? Thoughts? Share them with Will on Twitter @seatedovation

What happens when classical music takes seriously the work of Black avant-garde composers? What would a creolized musical world look like? And what is the relationship between scholarship and composing? A conversation with <a href="https://music.columbia.edu/bios/george-e-lewis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">George E. Lewis</a>, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University. Show notes and more over at <a href="http://soundexpertise.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">soundexpertise.org</a> Questions? Thoughts? Share them with Will on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/seatedovation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@seatedovation</a>

Identity Politics and Experimental Music with George E. Lewis

Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth. Neo: What truth? Spoon boy: There is no spoon. Neo: There is no spoon? Spoon boy: Then you’ll see that it is not the spoon that bends; it is only yourself. – from The Matrix Dr. George E. Lewis is the Neo of the classical music Matrix. He doesn’t have a great deal of use for preconceived notions of genre and form and he doesn’t have a lot of time to worry about definitions. That’s because he’s pretty darn busy making music and art. In addition to chairing the Composition Area at Columbia University, he’s a composer, an electronic performer, an installation artist, a trombone player and a scholar. In this episode of Classical Classroom, Dr. Lewis pauses for a moment to talk about his experimental classical music, and about what he’s been doing at Rice University with the James Turrell Sky Space using the things Houston is best known for: its crazy weather and its diverse people. Music in this episode :  “Anthem” performed by Wet Ink Ensemble from Relay, by George Lewis “Give It Up Or Turn It Loose” by James Brown from Sex Machine (live at Bell Auditorium, Augusta, Georgia)  Audio production by Todd “Typical Todd” Hulslander with digitization by Dacia Clay and assistance from Mark DiClaudio. By the way, in this episode, Dr. Lewis talks about an art installation that he worked on with artist Carroll Parrott Blue for the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston called Whispering Bayou. Among the many cool things about this piece, in it, Lewis and Blue used recordings of Houstonians representing many of the 145 languages that are spoken in the city. Learn more here in this short video from Houston Public Media’s Arts InSight.

Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth. Neo: What truth? Spoon boy: There is no spoon. Neo: There is no spoon? Spoon boy: Then you’ll see that it is not the spoon that bends; it is only yourself. – from The Matrix Dr. George E. Lewis is the Neo of the classical music <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Matrix</a>. He doesn’t have a great deal of use for preconceived notions of genre and form and he doesn’t have a lot of time to worry about definitions. That’s because he’s pretty darn busy making music and art. In addition to chairing the Composition Area at <a href="http://music.columbia.edu/bios/george-e-lewis" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Columbia University</a>, he’s a composer, an electronic performer, an installation artist, a trombone player and a scholar. In this episode of Classical Classroom, Dr. Lewis pauses for a moment to talk about his experimental classical music, and about what he’s been doing at Rice University with the <a href="http://skyspace.rice.edu/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">James Turrell Sky Space</a> using the things Houston is best known for: its crazy weather and its diverse people. Music in this episode : <ul> <li>“Anthem” performed by Wet Ink Ensemble from Relay, by George Lewis</li> <li>“Give It Up Or Turn It Loose” by James Brown from Sex Machine (live at Bell Auditorium, Augusta, Georgia)</li> </ul> Audio production by Todd “Typical Todd” Hulslander with digitization by Dacia Clay and assistance from Mark DiClaudio. By the way, in this episode, Dr. Lewis talks about an art installation that he worked on with artist <a href="http://www.uh.edu/class/news/spotlight/2011/history/cph-blue/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Carroll Parrott Blue</a> for the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston called <a href="http://houmuse.org/explore/events/whispering-bayou/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Whispering Bayou</a>. Among the many cool things about this piece, in it, Lewis and Blue used recordings of Houstonians representing many of the 145 languages that are spoken in the city. Learn more here in this short video from Houston Public Media’s <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/shows/arts-insight/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Arts InSight</a>.

Classical Classroom, Episode 160: There Is No Spoon, With George E. Lewis

Can you make a libretto out of an academic book? This is the question George E. Lewis asked and answered during his visit to the University of Guelph on March 4th, 2016. Drawing from the audio recordings of early AACM organizational meetings where members discussed their motivations for forming the Association, Lewis responds in the affirmative, transforming a chapter of his 2009 book A Power Stronger than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music into the Opera Afterword. Hear Herald Kisiedu in conversation with Lewis on this episode! Originally aired on CFRU 93.3FM on March 15, 2016.Sound It Out airs biweekly on Tuesdays at 5pm on CFRU 93.3FM.

Can you make a libretto out of an academic book? This is the question George E. Lewis asked and answered during his visit to the University of Guelph on March 4th, 2016. Drawing from the audio recordings of early AACM organizational meetings where members discussed their motivations for forming the Association, Lewis responds in the affirmative, transforming a chapter of his 2009 book A Power Stronger than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music into the Opera Afterword. Hear Herald Kisiedu in conversation with Lewis on this episode! Originally aired on CFRU 93.3FM on March 15, 2016. Sound It Out airs biweekly on Tuesdays at 5pm on CFRU 93.3FM.

Episode #36 - AACM Origins and Apocrypha: George E. Lewis’s Opera ‘Afterword’