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Project 19.16: Caroline Mallonee

July 29, 2020

The simplicity on the far side of complexity.

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Presentation by School for Poetic Computation, Day For Night, Houston, TX, 2015.

Project 19.15: Unsuk Chin

July 25, 2020

Her music is based on a musical syntax that shares certain similarities with computer programming languages.

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With the sun shining through, pinwheels spin in the wind on Alan and Nicole Milligan's "Better Angels." (John Autey / Pioneer Press)

Project 19.14: Du Yun

July 21, 2020

These are dangerous times for our better angels.

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NASA photograph of one of the two identical Voyager space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched in 1977. NASA / Public domain

Project 19.13: Caroline Shaw

July 18, 2020

While Shaw may adore the music of J.S. Bach’s time, she incorporates her cosmopolitan musical sensibilities at will into her compositions, creating a sonic world that is at once recognizable and modern.

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How Black Hole Winds Blow; Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Project 19.12: Anna Thorvaldsdóttir

July 13, 2020

She can find inspiration in the microscopic or macroscopic, biological or geological, or in the inner space of dreams or the depths of outer space.

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at the San Antonio Botanical Garden

Project 19.11: Angélica Negrón

July 11, 2020

Angélica Negrón sings whatever she feels like singing and, in the process, helps to shape the world around us all.

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Shoreline of Port Aransas Beach in Texas

Project 19.10: Melinda Wagner

July 7, 2020

Her concertos for orchestral instruments elevate a form that has been around for centuries and would make any principal musician in any modern symphony orchestra dream of calling her up and having her write a showpiece to remember.

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