Podcast appearances and mentions of dan trueman

Chat about contemporary music, composition, and just intonation with us in this theoretically adventurous and wide ranging episode. Christopher Otto, composer and violinist, works with the JACK quartet, a group that has played the music of such individuals as John Zorn, Tristan Perich, Cenk Ergün, Tyshawn Sorey, Catherine Lamb, Georg Frederich Haas, Dan Trueman, and many, many, more. Intro: Christopher Otto (jack quartet) rag'sma  Catherine Lamb - divisio spiralis (mvt. II) Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 (storm section low notes) Vicente Atria - Seasons Will Pass You By Christopher Otto (jack quartet) rag'sma  Christopher Otto - 3x5x7 (loadbang) Christopher Otto - violin octet (d1) LaMonte Young - Trio for Strings (Part 4 out of 8) LaMonte Young - Trio for Strings (Part 4 out of 8) - demo of 17 “equalizing” 9/8 Vicentino - Madonna il poco dolce (31edo) Stephen Weigel cover Christopher Otto - 3x4x5 (Weslos) Outro: Christopher Otto (jack quartet) rag'sma    Rag'sma: https://greyfade-label.bandcamp.com/album/ragsma   Christopher and JACK's links: https://christopherotto.space/ https://www.jackquartet.com/ https://christopherotto.bandcamp.com/album/3x4x5   Support us on Patreon! (If we get 60 patrons, episodes will be released regularly instead of sporadically) https://www.patreon.com/nowandxen Follow http://nowandxen.libsyn.com https://twitter.com/now_xen https://www.facebook.com/nowxen/   Subscribe RSS: http://nowandxen.libsyn.com/rss iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n… Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1mhnGsH… Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/nowxen Twitter: https://twitter.com/now_xen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nowxen/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmYNMpemAIq8DnK5HJ9gsA  

Tunes: Innes Watson and Jarlath Henderson: The Final Trawl Dàimh: An Dubh Ghleannach Brìghde Chaimbeul: Crònan Dave Rowlands: La Chanterelle and Spinning Jenny Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman: The Fate of Bones Plúirín na mBan: Two Brothers Matt DeBlass: Middlebook Jeff Mann & Andrew Morrill: The Highland Vamp The Fabled Folks: Enkidu Jason Rouse: The Fairy Hill (Sí Beag, Sí Mór) & Fergus McPhilimey and his Sarcastic Son Fàrsan: Pronn an Caoran (Smash the Ember) Cleveland Celtic Ensemble: Ole Joe's Jig & Road to Banff +X+X+X The Final Trawl from Innes Watson and Jarlath Henderson's Album “A Moment in Time” https://innojar.bandcamp.com/album/a-moment-in-time-2 +X+X+X+ An Dubh Ghleannach from Dàimh's new album SULA. https://daimh.bandcamp.com/album/sula +X+X+X+ Crònan from Brìghde Chaimbeul's “Carry Them With Us” https://brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/album/carry-them-with-us +X+X+X+ La Chanterelle and Spinning Jenny from Dave Rowlands “Final Disclosure” https://daverowlandsbagpipes.bandcamp.com/album/final-disclosure +X+X+X+ Fair and Equal Fable from Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman's album: “The Fate of Bones” https://irishmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-fate-of-bones +X+X+X+ Two Brothers from Plúirín na mBan's debut album: “Female Rambling Sailor” https://pluirinnamban.bandcamp.com/album/female-rambling-sailor +X+X+X+ Middlebook from Matt DeBlass's album “Small Musics” https://mattdeblass.bandcamp.com/album/small-musics You can Also Follow Matt on Tik tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattdeblassmusic +X+X+X+ The Highland Vamp by Jeff Mann & Andrew Morrill on “Whippin' the Coo's Hoof” Enkidu by The Fabled Folks on “Whippin' the Coo's Hoof” https://poopoop.bandcamp.com/album/whippin-the-coos-hoof +X+X+X+ The Fairy Hill (Sí Beag, Sí Mór) and Fergus McPhilimey and his Sarcastic Son From Jason Rouse's Album “Frontier Nua” https://pipingrouse.bandcamp.com/album/frontier-nua +X+X+X+ Pronn an Caoran (Smash the Ember) from Fàrsan's debut album, “Fàrsan” https://farsan.bandcamp.com/album/f-rsan +X+X+X+ Ole Joe's Jig & Road to Banff from Cleveland Celtic Ensemble's Upcoming Album https://www.kbbproductions.net/ https://www.facebook.com/CleCelticEnsemble +X+X+X+ FIN Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! Checkout my Merch Store on Bagpipeswag: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/wetootwaag You can also support me by Buying my First Album on Bandcamp: https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/oyster-wives-rant-a-year-of-historic-tunes or my second album on Bandcamp! https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/pay-the-pipemaker or my third album on Bandcamp! https://jeremykingsbury.bandcamp.com/album/bannocks-of-barley-meal You can now buy physical CDs of my albums using this Kunaki link: https://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=166528&pp=1 You can just send me an email at wetootwaag@gmail.com letting me know what you thought of the episode! Listener mail keeps me going! Finally I have some other support options here: https://www.wetootwaag.com/support Thanks! Listen on Itunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wetootwaags-bagpipe-and-history-podcast/id129776677 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QxzqrSm0pu6v8y8pLsv5j?si=QLiG0L1pT1eu7B5_FDmgGA

AXIS is a specialist in the most complex and misunderstood of all insurance sectors: cyber. In this episode, Global Head of Cyber and Technology Dan Trueman talks about how his team stays ahead of the curve with internal training, webinars and market-leading courses, and how modern claims data is helping the industry to set standards and manage risk.You'll learn:1. The impact of cyber insurer underwriting and insights on the cybersecurity industry2. How AXIS shares its expertise with internal and external training3. How the insurance industry can pin down systemic risk and create general rules of thumb4. Dan's take on war exclusions and their effect on the global cyber insurance marketAbout Dan:Dan Trueman is the Global Head of Cyber and Technology at AXIS. Dan is an experienced multi-class underwriter with expertise in Cyber, Reputational Risk, Intellectual Property, Supply Chain insurance, Political Risks, Contract Frustration, Marine Consequential loss, Marine War, Marine Hull, Piracy, Physical Damage and Energy. Prior to AXIS, Dan was the Chief Innovation Officer and Unit Head for the Cyber Division of Novae from 2014 until 2017, when the company was acquired by AXIS. Dan was previously at ANV, where he was Lead Underwriter for its Enterprise Risk Division. Prior to this he spent 10 years at Kiln, most recently as Active Underwriter of the Enterprise Risk Division of Syndicate 510.__________About AXIS:AXIS is a specialty insurer and reinsurer, focused on helping businesses navigate dynamic risks.  Our underwriters are known for their business acumen and technical expertise. Our claims teams champion customers' needs with an honest approach and quick decision-making. Website: http://www.axiscapital.com/Industry: Finance, Financial Services, InsuranceCompany size: 2,200Headquarters: Hamilton, BermudaFounded: 2001__________About the host, Anthony:Anthony is passionate about cyber insurance. He is the CEO of Asceris, a company that enables its clients to respond to cyber incidents quickly and effectively. Anthony is originally from the US but now lives in Europe with his wife and two children. Get in touch with Anthony on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyhess/ or email: ahess@asceris.com__________This podcast is produced by our friends at SAWOO 

We open season two of Underrated ML with Anna Huang on the show. Anna Huang is a Research Scientist at Google Brain, working on the Magenta project. Her research focuses on designing generative models to make creating music more approachable. She is the creator of Music Transformer and also the ML model Coconet that powered Google's first AI Doodle the Bach Doodle.She holds a PhD in computer science from Harvard University and was a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. She spent the later parts of her PhD as a visiting research student at the Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms (MILA). She publishes in machine learning, human-computer interaction, and music, at conferences such as ICLR, IUI, CHI, and ISMIR.She has been a judge on the Eurovision AI Song Contest and her compositions have won awards including first place in the San Francisco Choral Artists' a cappella composition contest. She holds a masters in media arts and sciences from the MIT Media Lab, and a B.S. in computer science and B.M. in music composition both from the University of Southern California. She grew up in Hong Kong, where she learned to play the guzheng.On the episode we discuss Metaphoria by Kate Gero and Lydia Chilton, which is a fascinating tool allowing users to generate metaphors from only a select number of words. We also discuss the current trends regarding the dangers of AI with a case study on child welfare.Underrated ML Twitter: https://twitter.com/underrated_mlAnna Huang Twitter: https://twitter.com/huangczaPlease let us know who you thought presented the most underrated paper in the form below: https://forms.gle/97MgHvTkXgdB41TC8Links to the papers:Gero, Katy Ilonka, and Lydia B. Chilton. "Metaphoria: An Algorithmic Companion for Metaphor Creation." CHI 2019. [paper][online paper] [talk] [demo]"A case study of algorithm-assisted decision making in child maltreatment hotline screening decisions" - [paper]Additional Links:Compton, Kate, and Michael Mateas. "Casual Creators." ICCC 2015. [paper]Fiebrink, Rebecca, Dan Trueman, and Perry R. Cook. "A Meta-Instrument for Interactive, On-the-Fly Machine Learning." NIME 2009. [paper][talk][tool]Huang, Cheng-Zhi Anna, et al. "The Bach Doodle: Approachable music composition with machine learning at scale." ISMIR 2019. [paper][blog][doodle]

Has digital music reached the point of diminishing returns? Has it all been done, and heard, before? At the start of a new millennium, a crew of Princeton engineers and musicians answered this question with a resounding no, building the now-famous Princeton Laptop Orchestra. As a Princeton music grad student in the late 1990s, Dan Trueman worked with his adviser, Perry Cook, on building an unorthodox digital instrument played with all the expression of a fiddle, but sounding more like a robot. And rather than running the sound through a single speaker pointed at the audience, they created a 360-degree ball of speakers, so that the device had the sonic presence of an acoustic instrument. When Trueman returned as a member of the faculty several years later, Trueman and Cook (who had a joint appointment in engineering and music) set their minds to creating an entire ensemble of those unorthodox instruments. And in the process, they created a whole new genre of music and digital creative expression.

  This week's trawl through the megahertz begins at home with Dónal reviewing two new standout Irish releases.   There's a radiant new single from Aoife Nessa Frances and the long-awaited sophomore record from Caoímhín O'Raghallaigh and Dan Trueman, The Fate of Bones.   We skip to northern Mali to marvel at the latest offering from desert blues royalty Terakaft and while we're there we jump back in time to introduce a timeless dance floor anthem played on the Balafon by Neba Solo.   There are other incendiary dance-floor tunes of a more contemporary kind from the master Four Tet under his KH pseudonym and a remix for the ages by Ross From Friends for Jeshi's 3210.   Our love affair with bedroom production wizardry continues this episode with offerings from Arupu operating out of Bucharest, Romania and Emma Kirby in London who is making extraordinary electronic music under the Elkka monikor.   Correction: Maeve Mc Kenna plays harp on Emptiness Follows by Aoife Nessa Frances   Support the music-makers on Bandcamp:    raHHH https://rahhhh.bandcamp.com/album/tetris-people-ep   Caoímhín O' Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman https://thefateofbones.com/   Aoife Nessa Frances https://aoifenessafrances.bandcamp.com/   Terakaft https://secousse.bandcamp.com/album/jagwar   Neba Solo https://secousse.bandcamp.com/album/can-2002   Arapu https://dbh-music.bandcamp.com/album/rwx016   Tom VR https://tomvr.bandcamp.com/track/soared-straight-through-me-kareem-ali-remix   Elkka https://elkka.bandcamp.com/   KH https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/looking-at-your-pager   Jeshi https://jeshi.bandcamp.com/album/3210-ross-from-friends-remix     ///

Today's guest is one of the elder statemen of the Cyber insurance market and a returning guest to the show. Way back in Episode 10 of the Voice of Insurance AXIS's Global Head of Cyber Dan Trueman made a prediction that the Cyber market was on the cusp of big change and that Cyber insurance would never be sold more cheaply than it was back then. Two years and 111 Episodes later and the hard Cyber market that followed Dan's comments has rarely been out of the news. I'd use today's episode as a really good example of the difference between a podcast and a recorded interview. That's because, instead of being just a series of questions and answers, this encounter is very much a conversation, and a lively one at that! Anyone looking for an update on the highly-pressurised cyber space should look no further. We talk about the re-pricing the sector has gone through and when this might end, loss trends and what cyber criminals are getting up to as well as advances in modelling systemic risk and the potential for unlocking the capital the class is definitely going to need if it is going to meet rising demand without starting to hit supply constraints. LINKS We thank our naming sponsor AdvantageGo: https://www.advantagego.com/ We also thank our advertiser Anaplan and Conor Donohoe and Daniel Ellis for coming on the show to explain what Anaplan's platform does for the insurance sector. Email contacts: conor.donohoe@anaplan.com daniel.ellis@mentattechnology.co.uk

Composer Viet Cuong joins us to discuss the role that marching band played in his formative years and the impact it continues to have on his current career. He shares his approach to composing for small ensembles, preparing students to take advantage of new and innovative tools, and the skills vital for success as a freelance musician. We finish with a conversation about what it means to “sound like tomorrow”. Called “alluring” and “wildly inventive” by The New York Times, the “irresistible” (San Francisco Chronicle) music of American composer Viet Cuong (b. 1990) has been commissioned and performed on six continents by musicians and ensembles such as the New York Philharmonic, Eighth Blackbird, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Sō Percussion, Alarm Will Sound, Atlanta Symphony, Sandbox Percussion, Albany Symphony, PRISM Quartet, Orchestra of St. Luke's, and Dallas Winds, among many others. Viet's music has been featured in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, National Gallery of Art, and Library of Congress, and his works for wind ensemble have amassed hundreds of performances worldwide, including at Midwest, WASBE, and CBDNA conferences. He was recently featured in The Washington Post‘s “21 for '21: Composers and performers who sound like tomorrow.” In his music Viet enjoys exploring the unexpected and whimsical, and he is often drawn to projects where he can make peculiar combinations and sounds feel enchanting or oddly satisfying. His recent works thus include a percussion quartet concerto, tuba concerto, snare drum solo, and, most recently, a concerto for two oboes. This eclecticism extends to the range of musical groups he writes for, and he has worked with ensembles ranging from middle school bands to Grammy-winning orchestras and chamber groups. Viet is also passionate about bringing different facets of the contemporary music community together, and he will have opportunities to do so with an upcoming concerto for Eighth Blackbird with the United States Navy Band. He recently began his tenure as the California Symphony's 2020-2023 Young American Composer-in-Residence, where he and the symphony will develop three new orchestral works together over three years. Viet is currently on the music theory and composition faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He holds degrees in music composition from the Curtis Institute of Music (Artist Diploma), Princeton University (MFA), and the Peabody Conservatory (BM/MM). His mentors include Jennifer Higdon, David Serkin Ludwig, Donnacha Dennehy, Steve Mackey, Dan Trueman, Dmitri Tymoczko, Kevin Puts, and Oscar Bettison. During his studies, he held the Daniel W. Dietrich II Composition Fellowship at Curtis, Naumburg and Roger Sessions Fellowships at Princeton, and Evergreen House Foundation scholarship at Peabody, where he was also awarded the Peabody Alumni Award (the Valedictorian honor) and Gustav Klemm Award. The transcript for this episode can be found here. For more information about Viet Cuong, please visit his website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and SoundCloud.

The cyber risk and insurance landscape is ever-evolving. In this episode, AXIS Insurance leaders Dan Trueman, Global Head of Cyber and Technology, and Max Perkins, Head of Strategy and Innovation for the Global Cyber and Technology Unit, will explore the biggest themes in cyber insurance today and give a nod to Cyber-security awareness month.

We open season two of Underrated ML with Anna Huang on the show. Anna Huang is a Research Scientist at Google Brain, working on the Magenta project. Her research focuses on designing generative models to make creating music more approachable. She is the creator of Music Transformer and also the ML model Coconet that powered Google’s first AI Doodle the Bach Doodle.She holds a PhD in computer science from Harvard University and was a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. She spent the later parts of her PhD as a visiting research student at the Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms (MILA). She publishes in machine learning, human-computer interaction, and music, at conferences such as ICLR, IUI, CHI, and ISMIR.She has been a judge on the Eurovision AI Song Contest and her compositions have won awards including first place in the San Francisco Choral Artists’ a cappella composition contest. She holds a masters in media arts and sciences from the MIT Media Lab, and a B.S. in computer science and B.M. in music composition both from the University of Southern California. She grew up in Hong Kong, where she learned to play the guzheng.On the episode we discuss Metaphoria by Kate Gero and Lydia Chilton, which is a fascinating tool allowing users to generate metaphors from only a select number of words. We also discuss the current trends regarding the dangers of AI with a case study on child welfare.Underrated ML Twitter: https://twitter.com/underrated_mlAnna Huang Twitter: https://twitter.com/huangczaPlease let us know who you thought presented the most underrated paper in the form below: https://forms.gle/97MgHvTkXgdB41TC8Links to the papers:Gero, Katy Ilonka, and Lydia B. Chilton. "Metaphoria: An Algorithmic Companion for Metaphor Creation." CHI 2019. [paper][online paper] [talk] [demo]"A case study of algorithm-assisted decision making in child maltreatment hotline screening decisions" - [paper]Additional Links:Compton, Kate, and Michael Mateas. "Casual Creators." ICCC 2015. [paper]Fiebrink, Rebecca, Dan Trueman, and Perry R. Cook. "A Meta-Instrument for Interactive, On-the-Fly Machine Learning." NIME 2009. [paper][talk][tool]Huang, Cheng-Zhi Anna, et al. "The Bach Doodle: Approachable music composition with machine learning at scale." ISMIR 2019. [paper][blog][doodle]

Dan Trueman is global Head of Cyber at Axis Insurance and is one of the true cyber market pioneers with a 20 year career centred on insuring unconventional enterprise risks. He has developed into an industry spokeperson and an ambassador for the cyber class globally. In our wide-ranging discussion we got to the heart of what has triggered the explosion in cyber growth and the latest in price, demand and loss trends. Listen and discover why Dan thinks that cyber cover will never again be as cheap as it is today. We also dissected all the innovations around cyber modelling and the work going on to maximise the reinsurance and alternative capital that can be brought to bear on this potentially systemic global risk so that its growth story can continue. We also looked at regulation and the thorny issue of silent or non affirmative cyber cover. I really enjoyed our talk and I'm sure you will too.

Pieces featured on this show:1. Michael Alec Rose’s Il ritorno: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3UhKJQ9eWw7tpOyyyWPk0p?si=rX--sV3bQ-aItzJtcVJZbA2. Dan Trueman’s Songs that are Hard to Sing: https://open.spotify.com/album/52UJBGxkgdgXt9VRu2KlAF?si=KjtBEhSPQg-rsbHwqn9qHQ3. Elliot Cole’s Hanuman’s Leap: https://soundcloud.com/elliot-cooper-cole/hanumans-leap-live-in-ann-arbor-with-willo-collectiveYou can listen to these before or after the episode, or you can pause our podcast and go listen to each piece as we introduce them. Panelists:Described by American Record Guide as “...a composer whose heart and care are palpable... who has a voice that deserves to be heard often” and by the Baltimore Sun as having “a refined sense of melodic arcs and harmonic motion,” Peter Dayton’s compositions have been performed across the globe. He brought Michael Alec Rose’s Il ritorno (he recommends you listen to the whole album); you might also be interested in the soloist’s commentary. peterdaytonmusic.comViolinist Sarah Thomas performs and teaches in the Baltimore area and is committed to engaging the community through chamber music in fresh and exciting ways. Enthusiastic about new and old music alike, Sarah performs as a member of the Bergamot Quartet, Chamber Encounters, and other Baltimore-based chamber music ensembles. She brought Dan Trueman’s Songs that are Hard to Sing, which is also available in video form.bergamotquartet.comChristina Manceor is a percussionist, educator, and arts administrator with diverse musical interests. As a soloist, she is winner of the 2015 PAS/Armand Zildjian Percussion Scholarship, as well as the 2013 Black Swamp Solo Multi-Percussion Competition. Her experience in music education spans almost a decade of private instruction in classical percussion, marching percussion, drumset, and jazz improvisation, and she has regularly taught as drumline staff for the Troy High School Marching Band in Michigan. She brought Elliot Cole’s Hanuman’s Leap; you can read the composer’s commentary in addition to ours!christinamanceor.comMore information at pauseandlisten.com. Pause and Listen was created by host John T.K. Scherch and co-creator/marketing manager Michele Mengel Scherch.

Acclaimed young composer Viet Cuong joins the show to share his thoughts about band music, his work as a composer, and how growing up in the Lassiter band helped him fit in and find his place in the world. Topics: 
Viet’s background and how he got his start as a musician, percussionist, and composer. How band and music helped Viet “find his place” in the world and the importance of band as a place where kids who are struggling to feel accepted have a place where they can fit in and grow. Growing up in the legendary Lassiter Band Program under the baton of Alfred Watkins. Thought about what band directors can do to support young musicians who are writing music or want to become composers. Thoughts about academic music, new music for band, and some insights into building design at Princeton. The Blue Dot Collective Links: Viet Cuong, Composer The Blue Dot Collective Cuong: Diamond Tide Cuong: Moth Stravinsky: Rite of Spring Biography: Called “alluring” and “wildly inventive” by The New York Times, the “ingenious” and “knockout” (Times Union) music of Viet Cuong (b. 1990) has been performed on six continents by musicians and ensembles such as Sō Percussion, Eighth Blackbird, Alarm Will Sound, Sandbox Percussion, the PRISM Quartet, JACK Quartet, Gregory Oakes, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Albany Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, and Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, among many others. Viet’s music has been featured in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Aspen Music Festival, New Music Gathering, Boston GuitarFest, International Double Reed Society Conference, US Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium, and on American Public Radio’s Performance Today. He also enjoys composing for the wind ensemble medium, and his works for winds have amassed over one hundred performances by conservatory and university ensembles worldwide, including at Midwest, WASBE, and CBDNA conferences. Viet holds the Curtis Institute of Music’s Daniel W. Dietrich II Composition Fellowship as an Artist Diploma student of David Ludwig and Jennifer Higdon. Viet received his MFA from Princeton University as a Naumburg and Roger Sessions Fellow, and he is currently finishing his PhD there. At Princeton he studied with Steve Mackey, Donnacha Dennehy, Dan Trueman, Dmitri Tymoczko, Paul Lansky, and Louis Andriessen. Viet holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with Pulitzer Prize-winner Kevin Puts and Oscar Bettison. While at Peabody, he received the Peabody Alumni Award (the Valedictorian honor) and the Gustav Klemm Award for excellence in composition. Viet has been a fellow at the Mizzou International Composers Festival, Eighth Blackbird Creative Lab, Cabrillo Festival’s Young Composer Workshop, Copland House’s CULTIVATE emerging composers workshop, and was also a scholarship student at the Aspen, Bowdoin, and Lake Champlain music festivals. Additionally, he has received artist residencies from Yaddo, Copland House, Ucross Foundation, and Atlantic Center for the Arts (under Melinda Wagner, 2012 and Christopher Theofanidis, 2014). Viet is a recipient of the Barlow Endowment Commission, Copland House Residency Award, ASCAP Morton Gould Composers Award, Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Composers Award, Theodore Presser Foundation Music Award, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra Call for Scores, Cortona Prize, New York Youth Symphony First Music Commission, Boston GuitarFest Composition Competition, and Walter Beeler Memorial Prize, among others. In addition, he received honorable mentions in the Harvey Gaul Composition Competition and two consecutive ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prizes. Scholarships include the Evergreen House Foundation scholarship at Peabody, a 2010 Susan and Ford Schumann Merit Scholarship from the Aspen Music Festival and School, and the 2011 Bachrach Memorial Gift from the Bowdoin International Music Festival.

The latest episode of Classical Chicago features an interview with Eighth Blackbird cellist, Nick Photinos. In this episode, Nick discusses Eighth Blackbird's latest album "Olagon: a Cantata in Doublespeak" and the collaboration between the ensemble, composer Dan Trueman, and Irish sean nos singer Iarla O'Lianard.

Composer and Princeton professor Dan Trueman is the inventor of a new instrument combining man and machine: the prepared digital piano. His Nostalgic Synchronic is a series of etudes that showcase the interactive instrument's capabilities, combining old-fashioned composition with responsive elements that anticipate the future of music performance. Like John Cage's Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano, Nostalgic Synchronic is at once pleasantly familiar – drawing on traditions of Bach, and as Trueman notes, the Hungarian composer György Ligeti – and charged with unexpected colors and nuances. Last October, we joined Trueman and Sō Percussion's Adam Sliwinski (for whom the pieces were written) backstage at Le Poisson Rouge for conversation and musical demonstration followed by a live performance of Nostalgic Synchronic. Download Dan Trueman's Nostalgic Synchronic as part of Season Two of LPR Live, with host John Schaefer. Listen to trailblazing new music performed live at Le Poisson Rouge, and enjoy interactions with artists and audience members. Subscribe to LPR Live on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. 

Dan Trueman is one of those people whose list of accomplishments will blow you away. He's an accomplished fiddler, specializing in the Hardanger fiddle. He's the inventor of the laptop orchestra, having started it out of his teaching position at Princeton. He developed a number of new Max objects, as well as developing the PeRColate object set, which opened the door for using Perry Cook's physical models in the Max environment. And he's written and performed a ton of music in a ton of different situations. So, how do you get to be That Guy? Turns out, it's all about having a passion for playing, coding and composing - all simultaneously. In this chat, Dan talks about how he manages the process of working in several contexts without feeling like he is required to 'blend' them. The result is an amazing body of work. You can find out more about Dan's work at Many Arrows Music. Enjoy!

Listen to new music for the instrument from Southwestern Norway known as the Hardanger fiddle, (or hardingfele), but of course there’s a twist. For this New Sounds, there’s post-rock, world music, electroacoustic music, and even an Irish-American duet on this Norwegian instrument – with music from Scotland, Ireland, and the U.S. Hear the collaborative recording between Hardanger fiddle master Nils Økland and the post-rock duo The Low Frequency In Stereo, called Lumen Drones – which comes off as a psychedelic drone band. Then, listen to music from the octogenarian bard Robin Williamson (of Incredible String Band reknown), along with violist Mat Maneri and drummer Ches Smith. Then, hear a duo record from Caoimhin O Raghallaigh (of The Gloaming) and Dan Trueman (founder of Princeton Laptop Orchestra), which stretches and recombines the DNA of Norwegian folk and Irish trad fiddling on a 10-stringed instrument, the Hardanger d’Amore. Plus, there’s music from the Hardanger’s likely ancestor, the viola d’amore, by composer/violist Garth Knox, and more.   PROGRAM #3676 Hardanger Fiddle Music (First aired on 12/23/2014)   ARTIST(S) RECORDING CUT(S) SOURCE Lumen Drones (Nils Okland/Per Steinar Lie/Orjan Haaland) Lumen Drones Dark Sea [3:54] ECM 2434 http://ecmrecords.com Annbjørg Lien Baba Yaga Aja [6:27] North Side #6044 / Grappa Musikkforlag GRCD 4158 annbjorglien.com Robin Williamson w/ Mat Maneri, viola and Ches Smith, drums Trusting In The Rising Light Our Evening Walk [5:40] ECM 2393 ecmrecords.com Lumen Drones (Nils Okland/Per Steinar Lie/Orjan Haaland) Lumen Drones Keelwater [6:15] See above. Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman Laghdú fead an iolair [4:02] store.irishmusic.net Carla Kihlstedt Borrowed Arms Hold My Own [5:00] kihlstedtbossi.bandcamp.com Garth Knox D'Amore Malor me bat (2004) [4:54] ECM 1925 ecmrecords.com  

Brooklyn based quartet Sō Percussion (Eric Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting) collaborate with composer Dan Trueman on their newest album, neither Anvil nor Pulley. They experiment with different ways of creating sound, using a turntable, a laptop and various gadgets like a video game controller. The result is a piece in five acts, composed with, rather than for the quartet. We have Eric from Sō Percussion and Dan in the studio to talk about their project and some quirky details of the album. Hosted by Seth Boustead Produced by Jesse McQuarters Neither Anvil nor Pulley Act 1: Another Wallflower [from Long Ago] Act 2: 120bpm [or, What is zour Metronome Thinking?] Act 3: A Cow Call [Please oh Please Come Home!] Act 4: Feedback [in Which a Famous Bach Prelude Becomes Ill-Tempered] Act 5: Hang Dog Springar [a Slow Dance]