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  • The Double Decker Music Series on WHYY

    WHYY’s Jen Kinney rode along on the Double Decker Music Series, Sebastian Petsu’s history tours of Philadelphia with live music on the top deck of an open-air bus, produced with Bowerbird. The…

  • Inside Bowerbird: a Q&A with Dustin Hurt

    The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage interviewed Dustin Hurt, founder and director of Bowerbird, for its Questions of Practice series. He talked about Sound Machines, our U.S. premiere of Kagel’s Zwei…

  • WRTI talks with Dustin Hurt about Zwei-Mann-Orchester

    Debra Lew Harder of WRTI visited Kagel’s Zwei-Mann-Orchester at Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery, a sculpture played by two performers inside it, and talked with Dustin Hurt about bringing it to Philadelphia. Read “It’s…

  • Recreating Kagel’s 1973 orchestra, on WHYY

    Jen Kinney reported for WHYY on our production of Zwei Mann Orchester, only the fourth ever and the first in the United States, with guitarist Wilhelm Brück, who worked on the first…

  • Billy Penn on our Rube Goldberg-like orchestra

    Shaun Brady wrote for Billy Penn about the U.S. premiere of Kagel’s Zwei Mann Orchester, the centerpiece of Sound Machines at Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery. Dustin Hurt describes finding the score in Penn’s…

  • Sound Machines in Broad Street Review

    Benjamin Safran wrote about Sound Machines, our staging of Kagel’s Zwei Mann Orchester at Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery, with percussionists Andy Thierauf and Ashley Tini performing on a sculpture built by Thierauf, Tini,…

  • First page of 2018 05 08 Daily News An orchestra of just two musicians

    Zwei Mann Orchester, in the Daily News

    David Patrick Stearns’s story on Zwei Mann Orchester also ran in the Philadelphia Daily News, with Ashley Tini and Andy Thierauf playing the 210-instrument sculpture at the Pearlstein Gallery. As it appeared…

  • Zwei Mann Orchester is a hot ticket

    David Patrick Stearns wrote about Sound Machines, our production of Mauricio Kagel’s Zwei Mann Orchester, performed by Ashley Tini and Andy Thierauf on a 210-instrument sculpture at Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery. He called…

  • Julius Eastman’s four-piano score, page 1

    Village Voice: Nine Beginnings for Julius Eastman

    Sasha Frere-Jones wrote for the Village Voice about the wave of attention to Julius Eastman in 2018, including the four-piano performance at the Knockdown Center that was part of That Which Is…

  • S.E.M. Ensemble: Julius Eastman, Roberto Laneri, Jan Williams and Petr Kotik

    Same Difference: Malik Gaines on Julius Eastman, in Artforum

    In Artforum’s April 2018 issue, Malik Gaines wrote about Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental, the exhibition and concert series presented in Philadelphia at Slought and The Rotunda in 2017 and expanded…