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‘Love Songs’, Best of June 2026
Peter Margasak at ‘Bandcamp Daily’ has included Love Songs Without Subjects (Sofa Music) as part of their pick for June 2026.
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The Chamber Music Center of the Lincoln Center has posted a video of Cradles featuring: Ayano Kataoka, percussion / Ian Rosenbaum, percussion / David Adamcyk, electronic sound
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‘Talkback Burnback’ (video post)
Tim Munro has posted a video of a live performance of the radio piece, Talkback Burnback, featuring: Ida Schultz, speaker / Tim Munro, flute / Drew Gilchrist, clarinet / Camille Barry, violin Dan Curro, cello / Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, percussion / Lucas Montgomery, guitar / Therese Milanovic, keyboard / Vanessa van Dalsen, video direction / Emily Booij, assistant
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Premiere of ‘Hollywood Parsifals’
Hollywood Parsifals (concerto for orchestra and foley artists) will receive its world premiere by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (cond. Ben Northey) in Melbourne AUS on 21 August 2026. The soloists are foley artist, John Simpson, and percussionist, Eugene Ughetti, sound engineer Alistair McLean.
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Rubiks Collective plays ‘Love Songs Without Subjects’
Jane Sheldon will join Rubiks Collective to sing and play a new arrangement of Love Songs Without Subjects at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne AUS on 25 August 2026.
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asamisimasa plays ‘Love Songs Without Subjects’
Ditte Marie Bræin will join asamisimasa to sing and play Loves Songs Without Subjects at ‘Festival 20-21’ in Leuven BEL on 24 October 2026. The concert also features new work by Øyvind Torvund.
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‘Talkback Burnback’ in Luxembourg
A sound installation version of the radio play, Talkback Burnback, along with a short film of a live performance of the work, will be exhibited at ‘Festival Rainy Days’, Philharmonie Luxembourg LUX 19-21 November 2026.
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‘Pferd Frisst Hut’, Komische Oper Berlin
Based on Eugène Labiche’s Un chapeau de paille d’Italie, the musical ‘Pferd Frisst Hut‘ (Horse Eats Hat) returns to Komische Oper Berlin, music by Herbert Grönemeyer and direction by Herbert Fritsch.
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‘Love Songs without Subjects’ on vinyl
To celebrate their twenty-fifth anniversary, ‘asamisimasa’ has teamed up with fellow Norwegians, SOFA music, and have released their seventh album, a recording of Love Songs without Subjects. Featuring the voice of Ditte Marie Bræin, the piece is a musical mediation on a short text culled from the seminars of Jacques Lacan: ‘Love is to give what you do not have, to someone who does not want it’ (orig.: ‘L’amour, c’est donner ce qu’on n’a pas à quelqu’un qui n’en veut pas’).
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Ronan Apcar, ‘Old Rags / Past Haunts’
Ronan Apcar has made a video recording of ‘Old Rags’.