Relevant Tones returns after our hiatus to bring you some of our favorite albums (and concerts) of the year.

It was a great year for music!

Hosted by Seth Boustead, Matthew Dosland, Stephen Anthony Rawson and Austin Williams.

MUSIC

For Adrienne I by Martin Gendelman

What Stories We Tell by George Hurd

Study No. 1 by Jessie Montgomery

Yanga by Gabriela Ortiz

At Which Point No. 1: Prologue by Wang Lu

Groung (Crane) by Mary Kouyoumdijian

More Mania by the Dirty Projectors

Thoka by Aniima

Moraine Lake by Frank Horvat

At the World’s Edge is a chamber music festival inspired by its roots in the Southern Alps of New Zealand and forging ties to Chicago and beyond.

Host Seth Boustead talks with violinist and founding Artistic Director Benjamin Baker about his vision for the festival and features music the festival has commissioned.

MUSIC

Yabo by Salina Fisher

String Trio No. 2 by Huw Watkins (excerpt)

Mata Au by Salina Fisher

Four Postcards by Gareth Farr

Host Austin Williams and composer guest Neil Quigley chat about Neil’s music and its relationship to speculative history.

Neil explains how his relationship to the Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory is largely based in that practice. Among many other projects Neil created this love letter to his hometown and lans to wrap up the anthology in the coming year or so.

Check more of Neil’s work at his band camp:

Set List

1. Helga Hölzel ( Neil Quigley ) - Early Impulse Study 1 - St. Mary's Cathedral (1968)

2. Kenny Phelan ( Neil Quigley ) - A Psychogeographic sonification of Fairy Forts located near the banks of the Three Sisters I, II, III

3. Tony Quinn ( Neil Quigley ) - Footing

4. Physique - French Lick, Indiana

5. Physique - Desperate Housewives S04E05

6. Physique - Wunder-Baum