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Video: Quando Carnaval Chegar arranged by Maiani da Silva
Chico Buarque//Maiani da Silva
ALBUM: Eighth Blackbird
from composition as explanation (David Lang, Gertrude Stein, directed by Anne Bogart)
Video: Distance Canon
Music by: Ted Hearne
Video: Digit #2 by Mayke Nas
Performed live by Maiani da Silva and Lisa Kaplan at Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, 2023
Video: Vital Sines, concerto grosso by Viet Cuong
w/8BB & US Navy Band
Trailer: composition as explanation
Recording artists: Maiani da Silva: Violin, voice
Zachary Good: Clarinets, Voice
Matthew Duvall: Percussion, Voice
Lisa Kaplan: Piano, Voice
Dalia Chin: Flutes, Voice
Four-time Grammy-winning sextet, Eighth Blackbird (8BB), “one of the smartest, most dynamic contemporary classical ensembles on the planet” (Chicago Tribune), presents the world premiere recording of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang’s composition as explanation, based on Gertrude Stein’s seminal 1926 lecture of the same name.
Called “Super Chamber Music” by David Lang, this multidisciplinary work incorporates elements of chamber music, theater, and performance art; it has the groundbreaking ensemble not only performing the music, but also speaking and singing Stein’s text. For the performance, the 8BB players committed themselves to a rigorous education process, including lessons in acting, diction, and the art of theater
Zachary Good: Clarinets, Voice
Matthew Duvall: Percussion, Voice
Lisa Kaplan: Piano, Voice
Dalia Chin: Flutes, Voice
Four-time Grammy-winning sextet, Eighth Blackbird (8BB), “one of the smartest, most dynamic contemporary classical ensembles on the planet” (Chicago Tribune), presents the world premiere recording of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang’s composition as explanation, based on Gertrude Stein’s seminal 1926 lecture of the same name.
Called “Super Chamber Music” by David Lang, this multidisciplinary work incorporates elements of chamber music, theater, and performance art; it has the groundbreaking ensemble not only performing the music, but also speaking and singing Stein’s text. For the performance, the 8BB players committed themselves to a rigorous education process, including lessons in acting, diction, and the art of theater
Audio (press): WRUU's Contemporary Classics w/Dave Lake
David Lang, Maiani da Silva, Matthew Duvall discuss Composition as Explanation with Dave Lake (Part 1)
Video (excerpt): 8BB + CSO:Concerto grosso Nine Mothers
World Premiere
Eighth Blackbird
Music by Kinds of Kings
Louis Langree, MD
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
March 2022
Eighth Blackbird
Music by Kinds of Kings
Louis Langree, MD
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
March 2022
Audio (press): WRUU's Contemporary Classics w/Dave Lake PART 2
David Lang, Maiani da Silva, Matthew Duvall discuss Composition as Explanation with Dave Lake (Part 2)
Video (press): composition as explanation
Eighth Blackbird album release 2024: Maiani da Silva (violin, voice, percussion), Zachary Good (clarinets, voice), Matthew Duvall (percussion, voice), Lisa Kaplan (piano, voice), Dalia Chin (flute, voice), music by David Lang, text by Gertrude Stein, directed by Anne Bogart
Video: Eighth Blackbird at Bryant Park NYC
Town Hall presents, Picnic Performances: Eighth Blackbird Celebrates John Cage
Video: Sindô Le Lê, arranged by Maiani da Silva
Performed by The Furies
Directed, Filmed, and Edited by Jennifer Bewerse, Middle Ear Project
Recorded and Mixed by Lewis Pesacov. Ahata Sound, Los Angeles, California
Commissioned by UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance for the Tune In Festival 2021
Directed, Filmed, and Edited by Jennifer Bewerse, Middle Ear Project
Recorded and Mixed by Lewis Pesacov. Ahata Sound, Los Angeles, California
Commissioned by UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance for the Tune In Festival 2021
Video: A Lua Girou, arr. by Maiani da Silva
Performed by The Furies
Directed, Filmed, and Edited by Jennifer Bewerse, Middle Ear Project
Recorded and Mixed by Lewis Pesacov. Ahata Sound, Los Angeles, California
Commissioned by UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance for the Tune In Festival 2021
Directed, Filmed, and Edited by Jennifer Bewerse, Middle Ear Project
Recorded and Mixed by Lewis Pesacov. Ahata Sound, Los Angeles, California
Commissioned by UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance for the Tune In Festival 2021
Video: When I had the honor of performing for Louis Andriessen
The New Math(s), music Louis Andriessen (excerpt)
Video Courtesy of Bang On a Can
Video Courtesy of Bang On a Can
Video: 8BB + CSO:Concerto grosso Nine Mothers
Eighth Blackbird premiere with CSO
Album: Souls in Trasition
Music by : Carl Vollrath
Performed by: Summa Trio
Label: Navona Records
Performed by: Summa Trio
Label: Navona Records
Video: Groove!
Co-composed Maiani da Silva and Danny Clay
Produced by: Danny Clay and Noe Music
Produced by: Danny Clay and Noe Music
Video: 8BB plays Jonathan Bailey Holland's Clarity of Cold Air
for Cap UCLA's Tune In Festival, 2021
Video: The Making of Vital Sines
"Vital Sines" is constructed of several musical sequences and chaccone forms, all of which use repetition as means of development. It's overarching structure thus bears resemblance to the visual depiction of the sine wave, rising and falling like the tracing of breaths and heartbeats. The Piece is dedicated to my father's memory and the key moments in my life when I found sanctuary in music, when the music healed my heart."
- Viet Cuong
- Viet Cuong
Track: [redact]
Music by: Nina Shekhar
Audio: Eighth Blackbird w/Cincinnati Symphony
GRAMMY Award-winning Eighth Blackbird joins the CSO for a premiere from Kinds of Kings.
Premiere: Nine Mothers March 2022
Premiere: Nine Mothers March 2022
Video (trailer): A New Protagonist
Performed by: The Furies
Produced by: Jennifer Bewerse/Middle Ear Project
Presented by: Music for your inbox
Produced by: Jennifer Bewerse/Middle Ear Project
Presented by: Music for your inbox
Video: The Furies/Pecou a Rosa
Music by: Jocy de Oliveira
Produced by: Middle Ear Project
Presented by: Music for your Inbox
Produced by: Middle Ear Project
Presented by: Music for your Inbox
Album: Premieres
by US Navy Band
Eighth Blackbird featured in the US Navy Band album "Premieres" (2022)
Video: Karakurenai
Music by: Andy Akiho
Performed by: Eighth Blackbir
Performed by: Eighth Blackbir
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