Tell me a little bit about Ghost Ensemble. Joan Tower and Kyle Gann were my advisers, and composition teachers, along with George Tsontakis and Keith Fitch. And then you also had Jazz guys and a great electronic music program with Robert Bielecki and Richard Teitelbaum, so there were a lot of different strains of things going on and also just getting going right during that time (the ensemble Contemporaneous came out of the Conservatory after I left Bard). ![]() So the music department was where the experimental composers tended to go, and the much more classically-minded, especially performer-composers, in the conservatory. ![]() Those guys were still around my senior year, but by then you also had a chamber orchestra of classical musicians playing classical music, and composers who were accepted to the Conservatory more in that vein. The musical scene there was really changing a lot while I was there - it started with a bunch of weirdos like me, building instruments and doing field recordings: that was the scene. I arrived for the last year that they had only the music department as opposed to the conservatory. I was there at an interesting time because the Bard College Conservatory started there my second year. It’s a lot less expensive, you can cycle around everywhere, and it’s the vegan capital of the universe.Īs a fellow Bardian, I’ve gotta ask: what was your involvement in music at Bard? You graduated in 2008? People are actually coming to the concerts! So I was excited about that. I’ve been to a couple of experimental music concerts with 50 people packing into a room, and it astonishes me every time. New York was pretty exhausting and hectic, and I’ve been to Berlin many times. I just moved from New York, where I work with Ghost Ensemble, to Berlin. I've been working on my German, cycling around and trying not to get lost. ![]() These are edited excerpts from a February 2015 interview with Wild Rumpus soprano Vanessa Langer, originally available at the ensemble's web site, for the premiere of Water’s Edge on Saturday, February 28, 2015, at the Center for New Music in San Francisco.
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