Episode 16: Fiddles and Loudspeaker Orchestras.

Josh teaches Jon what a Hardanger fiddle is using a piece that draws on English Renaissance, Norwegian, Sámi, and American folk traditions and Jon brings the electronic heat with a work on all levels, including recording fidelity, production quality, processing, moving sound, narrative, and syntactical development of materials.

Featuring performances of Martin Ødegaard's Love Me by Ensemble 96 and David Q. Nguyen's Textures Arc the Points by the composer himself.

Episode 15: Rags, Clusters, Tasks, and Faders

Josh is back on his sacred kick with an entire (and very brief) Missa brevis and Jon brings in another smash hit electroacoustic work (where there’s literally sounds of smashing).

Featuring performances of William Albright’s "Chichester Mass" by both the Dale Warland Singers as well as the Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble and Rocío Cano Valiño’s "Tâches" by the the composer herself.

Episode 14: String Obliteration and Some Weird Mouth Sounds - The guys change things up and bring in something they assume the other one would like. Josh presents something with electronics from one of his mentors which he thinks frightens children and Jon doesn’t think he understood the assignment.

Featuring performances of John Howell Morrison’s "Hard Weather Makes Good Wood" by the Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble and Helmut Lachenmann’s "Consolation II" by the Klangforum Wien.