October 16, 2012

Yesterday we recorded Gloria Coates’ unplayed string quartet Among the Asteroids, begun in 1961!  It will be released on John Zorn’s Tzadik label.  You can find out more about the piece and hear the outtakes here.

And to illustrate her unique language, here is a film of one of our live performances of her music: In the Fifth Dimension, from her String Quartet No.5, recorded at the South London Gallery in 2010:

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuBqvciBtGs&feature=plcp