#4154: With Tyshawn Sorey, from the 2018 Music Now Festival

New Sounds | Jan 18, 2021

Hear music by and an interview with composer, improviser, drummer, trombonist, and pianist Tyshawn Sorey. A 2017 MacArthur Fellow, Sorey makes music that is wonderfully hard to pin down and floats best when presented at a “neutral ground” – a festival like the Music Now Festival in Cincinnati or Big Ears in Knoxville, with no listening expectations. (Thanks to AC Entertainment, who runs both festivals, for the 2018 audio from Cincinnati.)

Listen to Sorey’s “Autoschediasm” for a hybrid conducted improvisation language that came out of Sorey’s work with both Butch Morris and Anthony Braxton. Recorded at the Music Now Festival, the Dublin-based new music group Crash Ensemble plays the composed and improvised work, conducted by Tyshawn Sorey. Then, hear commercially-released work from Tyshawn Sorey, recorded as a trio from his 2017 record, Verisimilitude, along with another trio recording from his record, Alloy.

Plus, hear music from Chicago-based drummer, composer, and producer, Makaya McCraven, recorded with tuba player Theon Cross, and sax player Nubya Garcia, along with other collaborators in London, and recomposed the improvisations for the record, Where We Come From (CHICAGOxLONDON Mixtape).

#4154: With Tyshawn Sorey (First aired 9/26/2018)

ARTIST: Tyshawn Sorey Trio
WORK: Cascade in Slow Motion [4:26]
RECORDING: Verisimilitude
SOURCE/INFO: tyshawn-sorey.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Crash Ensmemble, Tyshawn Sorey conducting
WORK: Tyshawn Sorey: Autoschediasms, excerpt [9:06]
RECORDING: Music Now Festival
SOURCE: Live recording courtesy of AC Entertainment
INFO: tyshawnsorey.com

ARTIST: Crash Ensmemble, Tyshawn Sorey conducting
WORK: Tyshawn Sorey: Autoschediasms, excerpt [4:39]
RECORDING: Music Now Festival
SOURCE: Live recording courtesy of AC Entertainment
INFO: tyshawnsorey.com

ARTIST: Tyshawn Sorey Trio
WORK: Movement, excerpt [1:26]
RECORDING: Alloy
SOURCE/INFO: tyshawn-sorey.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Tyshawn Sorey Trio
WORK: Template [7:19]
RECORDING: Alloy
SOURCE/INFO: tyshawn-sorey.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Makaya McCraven, ft. Soweto Kinch - saxophone, voice; Theon Cross - tuba; Joe Armon-Jones - Rhodes piano; Nubya Garcia - saxophone; Kamaal Williams - keys. 
WORK: Ox Tales [6:22]
RECORDING: Where We Come From (CHICAGOxLONDON Mixtape)
SOURCE: International Anthem
INFO: intlanthem.bandcamp.com

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