All posts tagged sarah j ritch

video documentation of sarah j. ritch’s new piece, strange attractors!

recorded live (on a phone) at the green mill in chicago. performed by christopher jones, rebecca laurito, and cory tiffin of anaphora on sunday, november 25, 2012.

kind words for sarah j ritch and sky thing!

from recent music heroes: Sarah J Ritch`s 5-track issue is a crossover album which is managed in a way to lead it up to the consolidation of modern and traditional, doleful cello music and experimental, at times even aggressive electronic or electro-acoustic processings which wake you up from a lethargic state of mind. These minimally [...]

pan y rosas showcase at the hideout!

hey everyone, exciting news! pan y rosas is having a showcase for the chicago-based pyr artists, and the awesome people at the hideout have been generous enough to host the event! if you’ve ever downloaded any of their records and enjoyed them, this is your chance to show the artists your support! and please tell [...]

kind words for 53:38 by sound collision alliance!

…53″38 dei Sound Collision Alliance, 4 lunghi brani in cui sono le chitarre elettriche e quella gu-zheng (uno strumento tradizionale cinese sistemato a piano, che ha usato anche Fred Frith) a farla da padroni, con un sound molto aderente a certe filosofie post-rock con evidente vicinanza all’avanguardia “da ripetizione” del minimalismo americano, alla “sgangherata” microtonalità [...]

pan y rosas release 53:38 by sound collision alliance!

sound collision alliance is a group of three composers who were brought together by their shared interest in exploring the world outside the western classical conservatory style of sound creation. the three composers – darren bartolo, sam krahn, and sarah ritch – rarely discuss melodic or harmonic structure before playing. instead, they use improvisation as [...]

more kind words for sarah j ritch’s string theory

this time the kindness comes from the acts of silence blog: Ritch is a classically trained cellist so her attraction to drones is quite understandable. String Theory is part drone and part contemporary classical.* The album starts out with a short drone piece, “Celli”, which cements in my mind that the cello is the original [...]

great lakes ensemble – featuring sarah j ritch

hey everyone, the great lakes ensemble performed in chicago on june 10th as part of the rapid pulse international performance art festival. they recorded their performance and posted it on bandcamp. check it out! from their description: The Great Lakes Ensemble performed at Dfbrl8r during the Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival on June 10, [...]

more kind words for sarah j ritch’s string theory

hey everyone, sarah j ritch just got an awesome review from time out chicago in which she receives four stars! (out of five, yo!) The five tracks on String Theory offer a brief overview into Ritch’s development as a composer and skillful manipulator of electronics and cello. Aside from the notated tonal music of Sonata [...]

sarah j ritch, pyr interview!

kind words for sarah j ritch’s string theory

the kindness comes from touching extremes. One’s got to love someone whose family name’s pronunciation sounds like a truncated version of your own. Seriously, this is one of the many “first meetings” reported on these pages, in this circumstance with a cellist and composer who’s also a rare case of academically trained yet open-minded musician [...]