Welcome to this special triple episode with three of our Swoonfest artists! Charlotte speaks with Mattie Barbier of Rage Thormbones, Shara Lunon of Blasé and Russell Greenberg of Yarn/Wire about the exciting performances that they are bringing to TAK’s very own festival, Swoonfest, on Sept. 12 and 13! Get tickets for Swoonfest here: https://www.takensemble.com/tickets check out Rage Thormbones’ album Breaking Ships and other work: https://triptickstapes.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-ships https://ragethormbones.com/ check out Blasé’s album, 1: https://blaseworld.bandcamp.com/album/1 check out some of Yarn/Wire’s work: https://www.yarnwire.org/media-1 Donate to support TAK here: https://www.takensemble.com/support

Welcome to this special double episode with two of our Swoonfest artists! Charlotte speaks with Victoria Cheah and Mobey Lola Irizarry of Las Mariquitas about the exciting performances that they are both bringing to night 2 of TAK’s very own festival, Swoonfest, on Sept. 13. Get tickets for Swoonfest here: https://www.takensemble.com/tickets check out some of Victoria Cheah’s work: https://victoriacheah.com/work/instrumental-electronic/ Las Mariquitas’ single, Como me Quiero: https://lasmariquitas.bandcamp.com/track/como-me-quiero-ft-sara-ramirez-yaissa-jim-nez More info about Las Mariquitas: https://www.instagram.com/mariquitas.band/?hl=en Donate to support TAK here: https://www.takensemble.com/support

Welcome to this special double episode with two of our Swoonfest artists! Charlotte speaks with Levi Lu and Jennae Santos about the exciting performances that they are each bringing to night 1 of TAK’s very own festival, Swoonfest, on Sept. 12 2025 at the Dimenna Center in NYC. To jump to Jennae's interview, go to 38:00 Get tickets for Swoonfest here: https://www.takensemble.com/tickets Check out some of Levi Lu’s other work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Au7P7KY5Q https://levilu.bandcamp.com/track/electricity-as-blood https://levilu.com/ Gushes’ forthcoming album Delicious Collision: https://gushes.bandcamp.com/album/delicious-collision-2 More of Jennae Santos’ work: https://gushesmusic.com/ https://www.naesantos.live/ Donate to support TAK here: https://www.takensemble.com/support

Laura and Charlotte speak with composer, performer, and TAK 2024 season collaborator, Seare Ahmad Farhat about silence, the magic of chamber music, spirituality and poetry. Donate to TAK at www.takensemble.com/support TAK will be premiering Seare’s piece “Bring me your Silence” on December 3rd, 7:30pm at the Dimenna Center in NYC, alongside works by Eric Wubbels, inti figgis-vizueta, and Zeynep Toraman. The concert will also feature a solo performance by Qiujiang Levi Lu. Come out if you're in the area! Tickets and more info here: www.takensemble.com/holding For more information on Seare and to listen to more of his music, visit his website at https://searefarhat.com For more information about TAK ensemble, visit us at www.takensemble.com, and follow us on Instagram/other social channels @TAKensemble. You can also subscribe to our newsletter or get in touch at www.takensemble.com/contact. We have a lot going on this season, and would love for you to join us! If you like the TAK Editions Podcast and want it to keep existing, please consider making a donation to support our work at www.takensemble.com/support. Thanks for listening.

Madison and Marina speak with composer, performer, and TAK 2024 season collaborator, Zeynep Toraman. Their conversation goes deep into the nature and motivations of artistic practice, literature, identity, and much more. TAK will be premiering Zeynep's piece "Veils" on December 3rd, 7:30pm at the Dimenna Center in NYC, alongside works by Eric Wubbels, inti figgis-vizueta, and Seare Ahmad Farhat. The concert will also feature a solo performance by Qiujiang Levi Lu. Come out if you're in the area! Tickets and more info here: www.takensemble.com/holding For more information on Zeynep Toraman and to listen to more of her music, visit her website at www.zeynep toraman.com. For more information about TAK ensemble, visit us at www.takensemble.com, and follow us on Instagram/other social channels @TAKensemble. You can also subscribe to our newsletter or get in touch at www.takensemble.com/contact. We have a lot going on this season, and would love for you to join us! If you like the TAK Editions Podcast and want it to keep existing, please consider making a donation to support our work at www.takensemble.com/support. Thanks for listening!

Charlotte and Laura speak with sound artist, composer and performer Seth Cluett about his new works for TAK, 'irreversible histories of disturbance' and 'the reformation of assemblages.' The conversation includes thoughts about making music at the pace of nature, alternative notation systems, and custom-made instruments. We will premiere these works on Sunday September 22 at 8pm at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, it would be great to see you there! for tickets to the concert: https://roulette.org/event/seth-cluett-tak-ensemble/ to donate to the TAK Editions Podcast: https://donorbox.org/tak-ensemble more info about Seth Cluett: https://sethcluett.com/ more info about TAK: https://www.takensemble.com/ download the track at the beginning and end of this episode: https://amplify2020.bandcamp.com/album/acts-within-time

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Charlotte and Madison speak with poet, playwright, educator, actor, producer, and director Modesto "Flako" Jimenez about his site-specific theatre work originally inspired by his Bushwick neighborhood, Taxilandia, and multidisciplinary theatrical work Mercedes. for more about ¡Oye! Group: https://www.oyegroup.org/ About Flako: https://www.flakojimenez.com/ Photos from brooklyn gypsy taxi flow series: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/bgtflow/?hl=en for more about TAK: http://takensemble.com Our March 2 show: https://www.cprnyc.org/events/tak-ensemble-nothing-but-a-puff-of-wind David Bird's album Wire Hums: https://david-bird.bandcamp.com/album/wire-hums

On this episode, Charlotte speaks with composer and performer Kurt Rohde and visual artist Marie Lorenz about the site-specific opera Newtown Odyssey, written for and about NYC's Newtown Creek. for more about the opera: https://www.newtownodyssey.com/ About Kurt Rohde: https://www.kurtrohde.com/ About Marie Lorenz: http://www.marielorenz.com/ Support your artistic ecosystem by donating to TAK 's year-end fundraiser. Get great perks like meditation tracks, tutorials, and TAK merch: www.takensemble.com/support

On this episode, Charlotte speaks with composer and performer Kamala Sankaram about her recent site-specific works. 'The Buried Brook' is a soundwalk that follows the currently buried Tibbets Brook in the Bronx, and 'The Last Stand' is an experimental opera and sound installation for trees. About Kamala Sankaram: https://www.kamalasankaram.com/ Hear the new album Bombay Rickey: https://bombayrickey.bandcamp.com/album/bombay-rickey Support your artistic ecosystem by donating to TAK 's year-end fundraiser. Get great perks like meditation tracks, tutorials, and TAK merch: https://www.takensemble.com/support

On this episode, Charlotte and Laura speak with Bryan Jacobs in advance of TAK’s premiere of his piece ‘Organic Synthesis Volume 2’ on Thursday Dec. 7, 2023. To hear more of Bryan’s music, go to https://soundcloud.com/bryanjacobs-1 Please contribute to TAK’s year-end fundraiser at http://takensemble.com/support Our upcoming concert, Machine Tongue, featuring ‘Organic Synthesis Volume 2’, ‘In a Forest’ by Michelle Lou and ‘la quemadura es el lenguaje con que juro…’ by Andres Guadarrama will be on Thurs. Dec. 7 at 8pm, at 580 Sackett St. Brooklyn NY, tickets are pay-what-you-can.

On this episode, Marina speaks with the members of sinonó, who will be joining us in concert this Saturday Oct. 7 at the Dimenna Center in New York City. sinonó is a brief submergence, a string of choices, a container for the communion of rigor and failure. This NYC-based trio, featuring Isabel Crespo Pardo (voice), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Henry Fraser (bass), performs graphic scores and poem-songs composed by Crespo. sinonó will release their debut album in early 2024. To learn more about sinonó, visit https://isabelcrespo.com/sinono to learn more about Interbeing, visit https://www.takensemble.com/being

Marina and Charlotte speak with Phong Tran about growing up on the internet, collaboration and simulation theory. Phong opened SWOONFEST, our tenth anniversary festival, one month ago today with a set of brand new original music created live on analog and modular synthesizers. The music from this episode is from Phong’s album The Computer Room, hear the whole thing here: https://phongtran.bandcamp.com/album/the-computer-room for more about Phong: https://www.phongmusic.com/ for updates on his upcoming project with Ballet Collective, head to their website: https://balletcollective.com/ for more about TAK: http://takensemble.com

This week, Madison and Marina speak with Michelle Lou. TAK will be premiering Michelle's new work "In a Forest" on night 2 of SWOONFEST, May 5 + 6 at The Clemente on Manhattan's Lower East Side. For more information and to reserve your tickets, visit www.takensemble.com/swoonfest The music from this episode is a live recording of Michelle's piece "Different Furs," performed by Yarn/Wire. You can hear the complete performance here: https://yarnwire.bandcamp.com/track/michelle-lou-different-furs-2017 Check out her newest album, HoneyDripper: https://michellelou.bandcamp.com/album/honeydripper

This week on the podcast, Madison and Ellery interview Rodnie King and Riot Dent of Sour Spirit, a chaos noise rock duo based in Philadelphia. Sour Spirit will close out night 2 of SwoonFest, TAK’s festival celebrating our 10th anniversary, May 5th and 6th at The Clemente in NYC. For tickets, visit www.takensemble.com/swoonfest – if you get your tickets by April 20th, you can take advantage of a very sweet discount! To hear more of their music, check out their their Bandcamp – especially their most recent album, LIVE DUSS III (featured in this episode): https://sourspirit.bandcamp.com/album/live-duss-iii For info on upcoming shows, be sure to follow them on socials @sourspirit

On this episode composer and performer Natacha Diels speaks with Ellery and Charlotte about electronics, collaboration, friendship, AI, fun and high stakes. Natacha will play her solo set Somewhere Beautiful (with assistance from TAK) on SWOONFEST, celebrating TAK’s tenth anniversary, happening May 5 and 6 at The Clemente Center! Buy tickets and learn more about SWOONFEST here: https://www.takensemble.com/swoonfest Hear previews of Natacha’s set here: https://soundcloud.com/natachadiels/somewhere-beautiful https://vimeo.com/762363167 https://vimeo.com/762343816

On this episode, Chris Williams speaks with Marina and Madison about time travel, the ethics of collaborating with the dead, and the spirituality of building a practice of breathing as a wind player. Chris will perform a solo set at SWOONFEST, a festival celebrating TAK’s tenth anniversary, happening May 5 and 6 at The Clemente Center. Buy tickets and learn more about SWOONFEST here: www.takensemble.com/swoonfest Check out “Relay,” Chris’s most recent release with Booker Stardrum, here: https://cachedmedia.bandcamp.com/album/relay And his album “Sans Soleil” with Patrick Shiroishi, here: https://chriswilliamstpt.bandcamp.com/album/sans-soleil And for more information about Chris, check out his website: https://www.chriswilliamssound.com/

On this episode, gabby fluke-mogul speaks with Laura and Charlotte about their work as an improviser, and how it relates to embodiment, infinite matrices of time and space, form, feeling, and boundaries. gabby will play in a trio with Tcheser Holmes and Mara Rosenbloom on SWOONFEST, a festival celebrating TAK’s tenth anniversary, happening May 5 and 6 at The Clemente Center! Buy tickets and learn more about SWOONFEST here: https://www.takensemble.com/swoonfest Hear a live recording of the trio here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBazukTKh3Q&t=579s gabby’s solo album ‘Love Songs’: https://flukemogul.bandcamp.com/album/love-songs gabby’s ‘rue’ presented by Roulette Intermedium: https://vimeo.com/696223673

In this episode, Madison speaks with Johnny Chang and Keir GoGwilt about their album ‘hope lies fallow’, which was released on Another Timbre. The conversation encompasses their recompositions of Orlando di Lasso and Hildegard von Bingen, the sociological resonances of chamber music, instant ramen as a metaphor for art making, amidst much more. hear the full album at: https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/hope-lies-fallow for more about Keir GoGwilt: https://kgogwilt.com/ for more about Johnny Chang and the Viola Torros project: https://soundcloud.com/johnnychchang to donate to TAK's year-end fundraising campaign: https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/tak for more about TAK ensemble: http://takensemble.com

“My belief is that music was sort of a mediation between humanity and the wild world; a way of speaking back to the world that speaks so many languages.” In this week’s episode, Charlotte and Laura speak with Nina Dante and Bethany Younge about their album Lizard Tongue, released a year ago on TAK Editions. We talk about intimacy with collaborators, listeners and nature; what fulfilling collaborations can look like and advice for non-male people working in the male-dominated realm of music technology. The music in this episode comes from Lizard Tongue. To listen to the album, head to: https://ninadantebethanyyounge.bandcamp.com/album/lizard-tongue For more about Nina Dante: https://www.ninadante.com/ https://www.instagram.com/thesnakesaidtotheriver/?hl=en For more about Bethany Younge: http://www.bethanyyounge.com/ For more about TAK Ensemble: https://www.takensemble.com/ For info about our upcoming concert on Wednesday Nov. 9, 2022: http://www.takensemble.com/tickets/tak-terrain-11922