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Formless (). Daniel Wohl

• "Commissioned by Sonic Generator and GLO ATL part of the ballet 'Cycles'." Daniel Wohl
• "The music is both aggressive and gorgeous." Tom Huizenga/NPR
• "“Formless” is marked by the ebbs and flows of a muffled beat, recalling the loop-based works of William Basinski and ambient techno explorations of Wolfgang Voigt." Fringe Arts
• 'Elsewhere, the Mivos Quartet—the same group who pairs up so winningly with Mantra Percussion on "Progression"—have much less to do during "Formless."' Seth Colter Walls/Pitchfork. Album as a whole got a 7.7 rating.
• "Wohl’s Formless, which closed the set, evoked a slithery swamp creature, but a rather pretty one, bemoaned by Lee’s viola." Jeff Kaliss/San Francisco Classical Voice. Review of a Switchboard Music Festival concert in San Francisco, with a performance by the Del Sol String Quartet.

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Play (2013/2016). Andrew Norman #engulfing #grawemeyer

• Andrew Norman won the 2017 Grawemeyer Award for the work.
• The composer says symphonic music is meant to be experienced live. And yet, I take great enjoyment listening at home to tiny reproductions.
• " sprawling, engulfing, furiously unpredictable piece in three symphonic movements"
• "Play explores many different ideas—ideas about choice, chance, free will, and control, about how technology has rewired our brains and changed the ways we express ourselves, about the blurring boundaries of reality in the internet age, the murky grounds where video games and drone warfare meet, for instance, or where cyber-bullying and real world violence converge."

Homage to Jimi Hendrix (). Laurel Zucker

• Laurel Zucker has 57 CD releases.

What Remains of a Rembrandt (2011). Randall Woolf

• A mysterious blend of jazz, classical and world music
• Disfigured gamelan?

Shattered Apparitions of the Western Wind (2013). Annie Gosfield #hurricane #ghostly

• Inspired by Debussy's What the West Wind Saw, complete with sounds of Hurricane Sandy 
• an eerie soundscape that oscillates between tumultuous winds and ghostly silences

Cakewalking (Sorry Claude) (2013). Daniel Felsenfield

• Based on Debussy's Golliwog's Cakewalk

La plus que plus que lent (2013). Jacob Cooper #withlaptop

• Jacob Cooper is a professor at West Chester University and studied at the Yale School of Music
• Performed on piano with laptop