newly released!

Geometries & Geographies
Chamber Music by Matthew Malsky
available from Ravello Records
(RR7891)

with Worcester Chamber Music Society,
Radius Ensemble & c-squared

physical CD available through Amazon & ArkivMusic; digital download through iTunes & Classics Online, and streamed by Naxos Music Library & Spotify.

Reviews:
"...an astounding elegy for two violas... From its arresting tremolo start -42.489° 108.756°, is all that an elegy for two violas can be be: edgy and languorous, tormented and tormenting, fashioned in the form of a palindrome but with an unpalindromic surprise at the end." Gramophone North America

"A spirit of geometric accuracy pervades all five tracks here, marked by a rational but inspired economy of means." Kathodik

"As played by WCMS violists Peter Sulski and Mark Berger, the duo for whom it was written, the piece – which is written as a palindrome – comes across with tragic immediacy and haunting, emotional clarity." Artfuse

"The variety of instrumental configurations makes for dramatic contrasts and highly listenable fare. The part writing unwinds with perfect sense; each work holds its own with a tightly compressed economy of means..." Classical Modern Music Review

Interview:
Gramophone talks to... Matthew Malsky. The composer on writing muisc, recording it — and listening back to it." Gramophone North America

 

recent & up–coming performances & recordings

April 14, 2015
Clark 20 | 21
All the Ends of the Earth (premiere)
for two guitars (classical & electric) with live electronics

January 15, 2015
heterogeneous for toy piano & live electronics
Claudia Birkholz, toy piano
Joy of Toy @ The Westerberg Musuem
Bremen, Germany

November 15, 2014
Thirteen Ways of Listening to a Loudspeaker
Sonic Currents, a concert of contemporary electroacoustic music
WPI, Riley Commons in Sanford Riley Hall @ 7:30pm

September 26, 2014
Clark 20 | 21 - concert & CD release party
performances of Cyan-Magenta-Yellow, The Discontents of Orpheus & Princess Nicotine; or The Smoke Fairy

June 19, 2014
Egged On recording @ Clark University with
Keith Kirchoff

recent premieres

February 21, 2014
Egged On @ Clark University
Keith Kirchoff, the Electroacoustic Piano

March 24, 2013
Princess Nicotine, a new piano trio score for the 1909 silent film
Clark University, Worcester MA

Feb. 9, 2013
Worcester Chamber Music Society @ Clark University
with The Archipelago of Regrets, with Krista Buckland Reisner, violin; Joshua Gordon, cello; & Geoff Burleson, piano

September 10, 2011
elegy for two violas
Peter Sulski & Mark Berger
Clark Univeristy, Worcester MA

April 3, 2011
The Archipelago of Regrets, for clarinet, cello & piano
Julian Milkis, clarinet, Sergey Antonov, cello with Sima Kustanovich, Piano
Clark University

the final digits of PI, for viola & piano
Two Composers (Mark Berger & Ketty Nez),
March 19, 2010 – Boston University
March 26, 2010 – Clark University
March 27, 2010 – Middlesex Community College

recently published

“Scoring Ruttman’s Berlin Film: considering music meaning in historical and modern contexts” in Making Music for Silent Films, Palgrave Macmillian Publishers. Edited by K.J.Donnelly and Ann-Kristin Wallengren. Expected publication date Fall 2015.

"The Grandeur(s) of CinemaScope: early experiments in cinematic stereophony" in Living Stereo: Histories and Cultures of Multichannel Sound, Bloomsbury Publishing, Edited byPaul Théberge, Kyle Devine & Tom Everret, Available January 2015

“Being Heard : Listening In — sound & our dystopian present” World Picture Journal [Autumn 2011/issue 6] “Wrong” ISSN 1938-1700, invited submission, 17 pages in manuscript

“Fantasy and the concert hall: musical performance in the electroacoustic age.”, 28 pages in manuscript. Reprinted in Search Journal for New Music and Culture. Fall 2011 (Issue 9) (originally published in Reconstruction: a journal of cultural studies).

projects-in-progress | commissions | teaching

piano with electronics (PianoBar) for Keith Kirchoff

Clark Laptop Orchestra (CLOrk) performance of Terry Rily's "In C"