Have You Heard This? w/ Josh and Jon

Episode 11: Burt Bacharach, Nested Tuplets, and Beep Beep I'mma Dump Truck Josh brings some Whitman settings from his homeland of Minnesota and we finally let Jon off the leash to do some wildin' out about that sweet, sweet Ferneyhough music. Featuring performances of René Clausen's "Three Whitman Settings" by The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists and Brian Ferneyhough's "Exordium" by the Arditti Quartet.

Episode 10: Swooshes, Booshes, and Shakespeare Josh tries (and fails) to speak Norwegian and Jon justifies the existence of all acousmatic music ever written (because—and this has been made official—he speaks for all acousmatic composers). Featuring performances of Alfred Janson’s "Sonnet 76" by the Norwegian Soloists Choir and Panayiotis Kokoras’s "Anechoic Pulse."

Episode 9: Ligeti Split: Y’all, it is György Ligeti’s centenary, so the guys break from tradition and bring two works by the same composer (while still somehow maintaining their podcast thesis statement of loving on something wildly different). Featuring performances of Ligeti’s "Two Unaccompanied Choruses" by the London Sinfonietta Voices and "Ramifications" by Ensemble Intercontemporain.

Episode 8: Dario Argento and Super Balls Josh gets attacked by an 83-year-old composer and Jon brings a piece that looks as good as it sounds. Featuring performances of Dominick Argento's Dover Beach Revisited by The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists and Heather Stebbins's Things That Follow by Adam Vidiksis.

Episode 7: Pioneer Women and a 'Rabid' String Quartet Josh takes the pod to the prairie via a work for choir and twelve guitars while Jon wants to talk to you about a very serious, important issue: packs of stray wild dogs that control most of the cities in North America (and show up during a passage in the piece for string quartet he brings). Featuring performances of Nico Muhly's "The Night Herders" (from How Little You Are) by Conspirare, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, the Dublin Guitar Quartet, and the Texas Guitar Quartet (Craig Hella Johnson, conductor) and Cenk Ergün's Sonare by the JACK Quartet.