What do you get when you gather ten composers, all with different musical styles, talents, backgrounds, and areas of expertise? You get ICEBERG.

Featured pieces (in alphabetical order by composer last name):
Unfolding for strings and live electronics by Drake Andersen
Coatlicue barría la escalera del templo (Coatlicue was Sweeping the Temple Steps) by Victor Baéz
pOwer trIo for alto sax, piano, and percussion by Alex Burtzos
Decomposition by Yu-Chun Chien
RISE by Derek Cooper
Steep for strings, percussion, and celesta by Jack Frerer
Clarinet Quintet by Max Grafe
Source Code by Harry Stafylakis

Learn more about ICEBERG and follow them on social media:
Website | YouTube
Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

The Etudes Project album featuring Jenny Lin and ICEBERG.
Lisa Pegher at Timucua

Theme music is by Daryl Banner.
Alexandrian Media podcast music by Andrew Gavin. Voiced by Michael Bolton.

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Adam Kennaugh believes that genuine communication between the composer and performer(s) is what creates honest and powerful music.

Featured pieces:
Crepuscular Light | Watch this piece: https://youtu.be/0R0IfOUhi70
Confronting Distance | Departure Duo
Approaching Cyyrhus | Natalie Magane - In All but Name... (YouTube flute performance)

Where to find Adam Kennaugh and his music:
Website | Facebook | Instagram
YouTube

Theme music is by Daryl Banner.
Alexandrian Media podcast music by Andrew Gavin. Voiced by Michael Bolton.

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Derek Cooper is a composer with a deep passion for engaging with his audience. To Derek, the relationship between the composer, the ensemble, and the audience is one of the most important aspects of music making.

Featured pieces:
Puzzles: https://youtu.be/PWAG8XZ4fno | How he created this piece: https://youtu.be/c_8FhFXFn3c
Starry Night: https://youtu.be/fVfiv1hzYUM | How he created this piece: https://youtu.be/vj8n2zT3m10

Where to find Derek Cooper and his music:
Website | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
YouTube | SoundCloud

Watch Star Wars Music Analysis: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuCty0Ik_7PJZYxYxQjYZpA

Theme music is by Daryl Banner.
Alexandrian Media podcast music by Andrew Gavin. Voiced by Michael Bolton.

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On this episode of Movie Night, Brooks Leibee joins me once again to chat about Chris Roe's score for the 2018 documentary Spitfire and François Tetaz's score for the 2007 horror/thriller film Rogue. Grab some popcorn, dim the lights, and get comfy!

Watch Spitfire and Rogue (click on the titles to watch the films).

Where to find Brooks and his projects:
Instagram | Twitter
SoundCloud | IMDb

Theme music is by Daryl Banner.
Alexandrian Media podcast music by Andrew Gavin. Voiced by Michael Bolton.

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In this interview with Eric Lagergren, he leaves us with an important message: never take your art too seriously. Perfection is unachievable, especially when you’re desperate to obtain it.

Featured pieces: Quarantime | Flor de Muerto | Rhopalocera

Where to find Eric Lagergren and his music:
Website | Instagram | Twitter
SoundCloud | Bandcamp

Theme music is by Daryl Banner.
Alexandrian Media podcast music by Andrew Gavin. Voiced by Michael Bolton.

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Listen to 20 - Robert and Sonia Delaunay on Cultured, But... Not Really on your favorite podcatcher.

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In a world where music has time and time again been given narrative, Stephen Ryan Jackson uses his music to explore the mundane.

Featured pieces:
i can feel the universe expanding | solo voice + electronics
Tooth Necklace | flute + bass clarinet + violin + cello + piano + percussion
rinse & repeat | soprano saxophone + double bass + two percussion

Where to find Stephen Ryan Jackson and his music:
Website | Instagram
SoundCloud

Theme music is by Daryl Banner.
Alexandrian Media podcast music by Andrew Gavin. Voiced by Michael Bolton.

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Melissa Dunphy is an award-winning and acclaimed composer specializing in vocal, political, and theatrical music. Melissa is a composer who would be amongst the first to tell you that, if you want to be a composer, you need to write what you're passionate about. After the premiere of her large-scale choral work the Gozales Cantata, her career took off, and she wants to share her vision with the world.

Featured pieces:
Come, My Tan-Faced Children | Performed by Raehann Bryce-Davis, Laura Ward, Min-Young Kim, Tim Ressler
More Milk, More Milk Makes it Better (from American DREAMers) | Performed by the Singers
Tesla’s Pigeon movements III and IV (orchestral version) | Performed by Jessica Lennick and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, cond. Kensho Watanabe
Intro to The Boghouse

Where to find Melissa Dunphy, her music, and The Boghouse:
Website | Twitter | Facebook
The Boghouse

Theme music is by Daryl Banner.
Alexandrian Media podcast music by Andrew Gavin. Voiced by Michael Bolton.

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You never fully understand what someone is going through unless you've lived it yourself. What makes Puccini's opera La bohème so powerful is that so many of its creators went through the same hardships that the characters of the opera went through.

Theme music is by Daryl Banner

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Music used in this episode:
"Quando m'en vo'" (orchestral version) from La bohème by Giacomo Puccini
Caught in the Waves by Trevor Kowalski
Divine by Amaranth Cove
For Those Who Know by Gavin Luke
Lion's Drift by Trevor Kowalski
Night Sky Alive by Trevor Kowalski
Look Down When You're Ready by Trevor Kowalski

Sources used in this episode:
Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Puccini: A Biography (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002).