Activist Music

What happens when a composer who loves the pop music of the '80s and '90s hangs out in dance clubs blasting house music from the 2010s? 'Off the Edge' offers a 140 bpm-thumping, EDM-jumping clue, from...

Immersion brings listeners on a sonic journey into a private, aquatic realm. Beneath the surface of the ocean is a world of liquid beauty and grace hidden from our eyes and from our imagination. Follo...

Immersion brings listeners on a sonic journey into a private, aquatic realm. Beneath the surface of the ocean is a world of liquid beauty and grace hidden from our eyes and from our imagination. Follo...

Masked von Alex Shapiro ist genau in der Form eines klassischen Menuetts und eines Trio-Walzers komponiert, obwohl die Musik - ein skurriler, wenn auch etwas verrückter Maskenball (oder, in diesem Fal...

Homecoming is a distinctly American piece of music which ventures emotionally from doubt, to hope, and finally to celebration. The most simple wind instrument of all, the human voice, echoes meaningfu...

Alex Shapiro first brought electroacoustic music - paired with using an everyday object as an instrument - to middle school bands with her 2010 piece, PAPER CUT. Now comes ROCK MUSIC, possibly the ver...

From the acclaimed composer of Paper Cut, AlexªShapiro, this unique, high-energy work could beªdescribed by the following: imagine Arnold Schoenberg, ªHenry Mancini, and Charlie Parker walking into aª...

From the acclaimed composer of Paper Cut, AlexªShapiro, this unique, high-energy work could beªdescribed by the following: imagine Arnold Schoenberg, ªHenry Mancini, and Charlie Parker walking into aª...

From the acclaimed composer of Paper Cut, AlexªShapiro, this unique, high-energy work could beªdescribed by the following: imagine Arnold Schoenberg, ªHenry Mancini, and Charlie Parker walking into aª...

From the acclaimed composer of Paper Cut, AlexªShapiro, this unique, high-energy work could beªdescribed by the following: imagine Arnold Schoenberg, ªHenry Mancini, and Charlie Parker walking into aª...

Continuing in the tradition of her innovative electroacoustic band works including Paper Cut, Immersion, and Tight Squeeze, Alex Shapiro's Liquid Compass takes the musicians and the audience on a jour...

Continuing in the tradition of her innovative electroacoustic band works including Paper Cut, Immersion, and Tight Squeeze, Alex Shapiro's Liquid Compass takes the musicians and the audience on a jour...

The renowned composer of Paper Cut and Tight Squeeze has created a love child from these two popular works. The result is Lights Out, an audience-wowing excursion into a new realm of opto-electro-acou...

The renowned composer of Paper Cut and Tight Squeeze has created a love child from these two popular works. The result is Lights Out, an audience-wowing excursion into a new realm of opto-electro-acou...

Pensive and emotional, the unusual, textural music of MOMENT offers reflection and stillness in an often frenetic world. Repeating notes and haunting, lyrical lines give musicians the opportunity to e...

Evocative train sounds allow listeners' own trains of thought to wander freely, in this emotionally captivating electroacoustic tone poem. As with other signature Shapiro works like Immersion and Liqu...

Evocative train sounds allow listeners' own trains of thought to wander freely, in this emotionally captivating electroacoustic tone poem. As with other signature Shapiro works like Immersion and Liqu...

Ascent reflects the effort to get off the ground, literally or figuratively. It's a micro-overture that begins with the promise of upward transcendence, yet soon flies off into rogue disorganization....

Die nachdenkliche und emotionale Musik von MOMENT bietet Reflexion und Stille in einer oft frenetischen Welt. Sich wiederholende Noten und eindringliche, lyrische Linien geben den Musikern die Möglich...

Masked von Alex Shapiro ist genau in der Form eines klassischen Menuetts und eines Trio-Walzers komponiert, obwohl die Musik - ein skurriler, wenn auch etwas verrückter Maskenball (oder, in diesem Fal...

Alex Shapiro first brought electroacoustic music - paired with using an everyday object as an instrument - to middle school bands with her 2010 piece, PAPER CUT. Now comes ROCK MUSIC, possibly the ver...

From the acclaimed composer of Paper Cut, AlexªShapiro, this unique, high-energy work could beªdescribed by the following: imagine Arnold Schoenberg, ªHenry Mancini, and Charlie Parker walking into aª...