Caleb Burhans, violin, voice
Mellissa Hughes, voice, electronics
James Johnston, synthesizer
Taylor Levine, electric guitar
David T. Little, director, drums
Eileen Mack, co-director, clarinets
Brian Snow, cello, bass
Yuri Yamashita, percussion
Etkilendikleri
Black Sabbath, Kronos Quartet, Beatles, Brecht, Megadeth, Hanns Eisler, Frederic Rzewski, RATM, Heiner Goebbels, God Forbid, Public Enemy, John Zorn, Joy Division, Glenn Branca, Nick Cave, Foetus, Einstürzende Neubauten, Meshuggah, Bang on a Can, Skot Smallwood, Judd Greenstein, Missy Mazzoli, Free Speech Zone, Samson Young, Eve Beglarian, Anna Clyne, Ted Hearne, Louis Andriessen, Oscar Bettison, Toby Driver, John Supko, Florence Reece.
NEWSPEAK is an eight-piece amplified ensemble working under the direction of composer David T. Little and clarinetist Eileen Mack. Named after the though-limiting language in George Orwell’s 1984, Newspeak explores the grey area where art and politics mix. Through their programming, performances, and commissions, they seek to reconsider, redefine, and ultimately reclaim the notion of socially engaged music and its place in contemporary society. Embedding elements of a rock band into a classical new music ensemble, Newspeak confronts the boundaries between the classical and the rock traditions.
Newspeak is utterly committed to the music of living composers; to commissioning, work-shopping, developing and performing new works, and to encouraging composers to find their own voice in engaging with musical and social issues. Since 2004, they have commissioned and premiered more than thirty works, each engaging differently with the problem of the political in music, and primarily from American composers. They have proudly shared bills with such diverse groups as The Fiery Furnaces, Anti-Social Music, Pit Er Pat, Electric Kompany, STATS, Time of Orchids, The Motion Sick, Massey, NOW Ensemble, So Percussion, ACME, and Corey Dargel. They are currently preparing to record their first studio album for New Amsterdam Records.
For more information, please see: http://www.newspeakmusic.org
Newspeak performs The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" at their 2008 Election Night Party with Corey Dargel and Anti-Social Music.
Newspeak performs (part of) Caleb Burhans "Requiem for a General Motors in Janesvile, WI" at their 2008 Election Night Party with Corey Dargel and Anti-Social Music.
Newspeak performs "sweet light crude" at Make Music New York
Music written for us:
2004-2005
David T. Little - Electric Proletariat
2005-2006
Missy Mazzoli - In Spite of All This
Toby Driver - Subject Can't Wake Up On Film
Oscar Bettison - B & E (with aggravated assault)
2006-2007
John Supko - Songs of a Landloper
Samson Young - Efflorescentric Aftermath
David T. Little - sweet light crude
Stefan Weisman - I Would Prefer Not To
Scott Smallwood - given to earth in dark blood
Caleb Burhans - By Way of Force
Judd Greenstein - What They Don't Like (for Chuck D)
2007-2008
Ted Hearne - My Catalonia
Michael Early - Flood
Anne Hege - Incantation for the King of Soul
Sarah Kirkland Snider - This Is What You're Like
Andrea Mazzariello - The New Austerity
Mark Dancigers - American Sky
Lisa Coons - Accessorizing the Soft Machine
Paul Lansky - Minor Alterations
David T. Little - Tricky Bits (second evolution)
Sean Griffin - Buffalo '70 *
2008-2009
Dmitri Tymoczko - Let The Bodies Hit The Floor
Caleb Burhans - Requiem for a General Motors in Janesville, WI
Pat Muchmore - Brennschluß
Robert Davidson - Generation After Generation
Kate Soper/Bakar Wilson - morning branch**
Jennifer Griffith/Douglas A. Martin - In E**
David First/Ansellm Berrigan - Let Us Sample Protection Together **
Sima Wolf/Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai - The Key**
Sima Wolf/Regie Cabico - What Remains**
Jed Distler/Cheryl Burke - The First Two**
William Brittelle - Pegasis in Alcatraz
Other music we play:
Stefan Weisman - From Frankenstein
Hanns Eisler - Songs
David T. Little - Soldier Songs
David T. Little - Songs of Love, Death, Friends, and Government
Keeril Makan - Target
Frederic Rzewski - Coming Together
Frederic Rzewski - To The Earth
Frederic Rzewski - The Price of Oil, Part II
Eve Beglarian - Until It Blazes
Wolf Edwards - My Lai 1968
Roshanne Etezady - Unsafe (at any speed)
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
* commissioned by the MATA Festival, and premiered with members of Either/Or
** commissioned by the Composers Collaborative Non Sequitur project.
Hi Eileen, ok, I've come back to myspace and have been loving hearing these Newspeak performances. Great commitment in the playing! I would so love to hear the group live, and I'm looking forward to the studio tracks. Rob
I've heard of you! Lots of cool stuff goin' on there. Please check out my projects on my friends myspace pages and tell me what you think...
...thanks for the add, congrats on your successes, may you have many more...
...and God bless,
Joel
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