Contemporaneous

Composer, Vocalist, Laptop Player (and friend of Contemporaneous) @zacharyjamesritter is releasing a new album! 🎊 Come see the live show celebrating release at Holy Trinity Lutheran on May 24th at 7 PM!

🚢 Cleansing your timeline 🌊 with Gavin Bryars’ “Sinking of the Titanic” A big thanks to @bangonacan // Long Play Festival for having us this year!

Here’s one more excerpt from “Ulysses Dances,” the first movement of composer @DylanMattingly13 ’s ‘The Transmutation Notebooks,’ from his upcoming label debut, ‘The Wild Heart.’ The album, due June 26, was recorded with @econtemp , conductor @DavidMartinBloom , and vocal soloist @iarlaolionaird . Stay tuned for new music from the album to come next week! You can watch the video for “Ulysses Dances,” made by Robert Edridge-Waks, on the Nonesuch Records’ YouTube channel. #DylanMattingly #TheWildHeart #Contemporaneous #ContemporaryClassicalMusic #NonesuchRecords

A snippet of Gavin Bryars’ “Jesus’s Blood Never Failed Me Yet”, performed as part of @bangonacan ’s Long Play Festival Thanks to all that joined us!

Here’s a bit of “Ulysses Dances,” the first movement of composer @DylanMattingly13 ’s ‘The Transmutation Notebooks,’ from his upcoming label debut, ‘The Wild Heart.’ The album, due June 26, was recorded with @econtemp , conductor @DavidMartinBloom , and vocal soloist @iarlaolionaird , and includes both ‘The Transmutation Notebooks’ and ‘Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (these are the tears of things).’ You can watch the whole video for “Ulysses Dances,” made by Robert Edridge-Waks, on the Nonesuch Records’ YouTube channel. #DylanMattingly #TheWildHeart #Contemporaneous #ContemporaryClassicalMusic #NonesuchRecords

My album “The Wild Heart”, which was recorded with the incredible musicians of @econtemp and the brilliant @iarlaolionaird is going to be released on @nonesuchrecords on June 26! It’s an extraordinary joy to be able to share my music with — music that I’ve been dreaming about, that’s lived alone in my imagination for 9 years — in such a full way, where I can feel that what I experience in my favorite moments of living — the sense that the world, the rosy fingers of dawn or the laughter of discovery, seems to be overflowing — can cross the negative space between us and exist, whenever you want it, as part of your life. The music on this album is two pieces, “The Transmutation Notebooks” and “Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (these are the tears of things),” drawn from History of Life — the epic I’ve been working on for a decade about Darwin, Odysseus, and an imagination of the infinite life and love of all things across the vastness of time. It is wild, ecstatic music, music that I hope can remind us of the things we love most about being alive, can sweep over us like a wave and in that electric cold give us the chance to feel as much as possible, to stand in the tide and scream for joy in our tiny moment in the massive strange beautiful universe. This is an excerpt from the gorgeous video made by Robert Edridge-Waks to accompany the first movement of The Transmutation Notebooks, “Ulysses Dances.” You can watch the whole wonderful video on the Nonesuch Records’ YouTube channel! I’m so excited to share this with you and can’t wait for you to hear the rest!

‘The Wild Heart,’ the Nonesuch Records debut from composer @DylanMattingly13 , is due June 26. The album, performed by Contemporaneous (@econtemp ) with conductor @DavidMartinBloom and vocal soloist @iarlaolionaird , comprises the five-movement work ‘The Transmutation Notebooks,’ as well as ‘Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (these are the tears of things).’ The vinyl edition features the latter piece and two movements from ‘The Transmutation Notebooks’: “Ulysses Dances” and “Last Dance.” You can pre-order the album and hear “Ulysses Dances” now at link in bio. The two pieces sprang from Mattingly’s six-hour epic composition ‘History of Life,’ which, as Jake Wilder-Smith says in his album liner note, “weaves together a wide array of traditions, styles, and source materials, chief among them Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ and Charles Darwin’s account of his five-year expedition aboard the HMS ‘Beagle.’” ‘Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (these are the tears of things)’ was written during the first year of the pandemic, while wildfires blazed in Mattingly’s native California. Composer John Adams says: “Dylan Mattingly is a true original whose music fills the listener with a sense of overflowing abundance ... He’s a genuine American Maverick in the true sense of the term.” #DylanMattingly #TheWildHeart #Contemporaneous #contemporaryclassicalmusic #NonesuchRecords

📣 The Open Mic Vol. 4 Open Call is LIVE! Apply anytime from today until April 30th for a chance to hear your piece — in any stage of its development — performed and recorded by our band. More info + application is available at the link in bio!

Wish you were here! Some gems from last week’s Open Mic Vol. 3 taken by the phenomenal @russrowland . More about Open Mic Vol. 4 very, very soon 👀

A message from @whitney.e.george about Open Mic Vol. 3 TOMORROW NIGHT (April 13)! 🥳 RSVP for FREE before it’s too late for an evening of works by 12 composers, a celebration with the community, and lite bites (read: momos 🥟) + drinks! More info at the link in bio… and did we mention that it’s free?

“Inspired by the three cats I live with, I imagine the orchestra as a four-dimensional creature… constantly shifting in color and form, awakening from a primordial state.” — @wei2yang_weiyang Catch Weiyang’s piece and more at Open Mic Vol. 3 this coming Monday (April 13)! Tickets at link in bio 🎟️

Our Open Mic Vol. 3 composers! By the way, what do tricksters, glaciers, and 4D creatures have in common? Find out at the show NEXT MONDAY (April 13)! 🏃‍♀️ RSVP for FREE and learn more at the link in bio!