Howling Cats

Fanfare Magazine published a review of the Amernet String Quartet’s recording Alabama String Quartets that includes my composition Follows from Hummingbird. The reviewer states:

For anyone looking for new string quartet repertoire, this album is a gold mine.

What’s surprising here is how few of the works sound clichéd; a good number of composers have their “own” voice.

and also mentions

…the huge swooping portamentos (hummingbirds?) in Hopson’s piece [Follows From Hummingbird] that go on and on for nine bloody minutes (I nicknamed it “Howling Cats”)…

Nine bloody minutes of howling cats, indeed. This quote has promptly found a place of pride in my press kit!

From Adams to Zappa

Parma Recordings presents the Madison New Music Ensemble directed by Joseph Koykkar in a live-streamed online concert of contemporary music that will also feature cellist Craig Hultgren performing my piece Snakeskin (Verso) for cello and live electronics.

Friday July 23 9pm EDT
https://www.parmarecordings.com/event/madison-new-music-ensemble-live-stream-07-23-21/

Watch on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za3D7M0zHy0

Other composers include John Adams, Joseph Koykkar, Kirstin Volness and Frank Zappa.

Astonishment… on offer now

My piece A Work of Art for Every Entry in Index—Subjects—Library of Congress has been included in a special journal issue titled Astonishment.

fragment of the collage Hallucination 2 by Krzysztof M?tel

Download the pdf of Astonishment

The journal originates from the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts, Poznan, Poland with cooperation from the University of Alabama and Harvard University. It was edited by professors Marysia Galbraith, Grzegorz Keczmerski, and Janusz Marciniak.

The journal includes work by:
Maciej Andrzejczak
Tomasz Bukowski
Jeremy G. Butler
Marysia Galbraith
Adam Gillert
Wojciech Gor?czniak
Marek Ha?aduda
Ewa Harabasz
Holland Hopson
Tomasz Kalitko
Grzegorz Keczmerski
Anna Ró?a Ko?acka
Katarzyna Kujawska-Murphy
Marcin Lorenc
Christopher D. Lynn
Jakub Malinowski
Janusz Marciniak
Joanna Marcinkowska
Krzysztof M?tel
John Miller
Agata Nowak
Mateusz Pietrowski
Barbara Pilch
Amy Pirkle
Marek Przyby?
Agnieszka Sowis?o-Przyby?
W?adys?aw Radziwi??owicz
Grzegorz Ratajczyk
Monika Shaded
Tomasz Juliusz Siwi?ski
Jacek Strzelecki
Natalia Wegner
Filip Wierzbicki-Nowak
Krzysztof Wodiczko