The orchestra accomplished that last October, when it pulled together 16 ensembles to perform more than 100 works by composers under 40 in SONIC: Sounds of a New Century.
Among the various motivations behind the festival SONiC: Sounds of a New Century, a nine-evening series of new-music concerts running throughout the city, one standout is the claim that all the included works are from composers 40 or younger.
Sonic Sounds, with its piles of records and CDs and T-shirts crammed into a tiny upstairs room, had a kind man behind the counter who would recommend things to accommodate my widening tastes.
Then, a few years ago, I went to a car boot sale and the Sonic Sounds man was there, behind a table creaking with records I had flicked through 10 years ago.
The new festival Sonic: Sounds of a New Century was notable as much for sprawling over New York, with 14 concerts in 11 performance spaces in nine days, as for its promise that all the music presented would be written by composers 40 or younger.
This is the thinking of the composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel and the pianist Stephen Gosling, the curators of SONiC: Sounds of a New Century, a 14-concert, 9-day festival of 21st-century music by more than 100 composers under the age of 40.
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Table 2 shows that the most prevalent exposures were hearing sonic sounds of jetfighters, watching mutilated bodies on television, and hearing shelling of houses.
He also published a book with that impressive degree, Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear now you all know why Hyperdub's got that murky, spooky sound to it. .
As well as teaching the music culture BA at the University of East London, Goodman has just finished writing a book, Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear, which will be published by MIT Press in December.
