On the next Modern Notebook with Tyler Kline: States of discord: like struggle, disagreement, dispute, and division - is the subject matter of Clarice Assad’s “CLASH.” Composed between 2020 and 2021, the music responds to what was, for many, a turbulent period of health crises, the collapse of the economy, political turmoil, and more.
Then, it’s a work by Andrew Noseworthy for cello and electronics that draws on elements of shoe gaze music. Titled “GomL_V7FinalMix_LessVox_MoreVerb_Dec13_MASTERED_48k24b_FINAL.wav,” it’s music that cloaks quiet acoustic gestures behind a thick, almost-My-Blood-Valentine-esque foreground of bit-crushed cello.
Plus pieces by Liam Taylor-West, Nicolas Lell Benavides, Mary Watkins, Eduardo Costa Roldan, Clara Allison, Kezia Yap, Doug Bielmeier, and others; and performances by violinists Lucia Lin and Shaw Pong Liu, pianist Sarah Chaill, bandoneon soloist Julien Labro with Takacs Quartet, Kukuruz Quartet, violinist Flora Wong, cellist India Gailey, Unheard-of//Ensemble, and more.
That’s Sunday night from 8 to 10 ET on Classical WSMR 89.1 and 103.9. Available the next day at modernnotebook.org.
Hour 1 Turning Points by Liam Taylor-West. Nicolas Lell Benavides’ Cuates. Summer Days by Mary Watkins. Clarice Assad’s Clash. Tríptico by Eduardo Costa Roldán. David Liptak’s The Sacred Harp. Suspension I by Ellis Ludwig-Leone. | 
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Hour 2 In My Body (The Room That Will Outlive Us) by Clara Allison. Kezia Yap’s conversation in the mountains. GomL_V7FinalMix_LessVox_MoreVerb_Dec13_MASTERED_48k24b_FINAL.wav by Andrew Noseworthy. Doug Bielmeier’s Corporate Responsibility Pledge. Strings to the Bone by Sebastian Fagerlund. | 
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