May 9, 2024

Dr. Nico Gutierrez, Dr. Michael Kahle

Hello Everyone,

If you haven’t already, I highly encourage you to navigate over to the Episodes tab, or click the link right below, to listen to our most recent podcast featuring Dr. Nico Gutierrez and his piece Teogonia.

https://www.tccollaboration.com/teogonia-dr-nico-gutierrez/

It was a really fun interview, and I am very grateful for Dr. Gutierrez to come onto the TCC. I know that an easy perception from the episode is that I was absolutely gushing about this piece, which is somewhat true, but it is more-so that I just get really excited about art that inspires me. As featured in the podcast episode, the slower, contrasting middle section of the piece was just pure elation. I am an absolute sucker for thick string-choir orchestration within a larger orchestra, and this section was just something really special. That is not to forget the absolute ear-worm of a melodic motif that is called (as I found out during the recording of the episode) the creation theme, and its different orchestrations and ornamentations throughout the piece. Dr. Gutierrez also has the recording with the score of Teogonia on his website, and I highly recommend you check-out the actual piece. Thank you again to Dr. Nico Gutierrez for bringing his doctoral dissertation piece, Teogonia, onto the TCC, and all of his contact info is included on the corresponding contributor page (link below!).

https://www.tccollaboration.com/guests/dr-nico-gutierrez/

The next episode of the Theorist Composer Collaboration will be featuring Dr. Michael Kahle, from the University of West Virginia, and his piece We are the stories we’ve been told, a three-movement work for flute, viola and vibraphone. Certainly a unique instrumentation, and it produces quite the novel sound. Now, I don’t want to give too much away, but I will say that this piece has a dynamically unique construction in its compositional process. Think Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, and for fear of spoiling the fun, I will leave it at that. Make sure to follow all of our social media platforms and or subscribe to the podcast hosting platform of your choosing (all relevant links at the bottom of this post), and of course new episodes will be immediately uploaded to this website. I had a great time talking with Dr. Kahle and spending time with his work, and you won’t want to miss the upcoming episode this coming Monday, May 13^th!

I am also happy to tease that the episode following Dr. Kahle is going to be a little different from the existing library of guests, as the TCC will be featuring Violincia, an alternative post-rock group, and their debut album Nihilara. More on this soon, and I promise it will be very exciting!

Make sure to stay up-to-date with all of the goings-on with the Theorist Composer Collaboration with the following links, and I will see you this coming Monday with the next episode!

- Aaron

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Aaron D'Zurilla

TCC Founder/Music Theorist

Hello, my name is Aaron D'Zurilla and I am the primary host and founder of the Theorist Composer Collaboration. I created the Theorist Composer Collaboration out of a love of the connection between the artist and their art. Music Theory, in my view, is a lens and avenue in which to understand people and their experiences. Often, as Music Theorists, and individuals attempting to find success in a historically hierarchical field, we find ourselves turning-away from modern music and artists when choosing what to study. As many academics could attest, the decision to study or analyze a work goes beyond that simple decision. It is a choice to highlight, spotlight, platform, and even promote the continuation of a commodity or idea, even if it is in a critical light. While there is plenty of space for such scholarship, and new inventive work in the field of Music Theory is developed everyday across the world in numerous topics, there is a stark lack of attention to the new music of today.

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