#gougalon

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Unsuk Chin- "Gougalon" (live from the Metropolitan Museum)

Saw this performed at Symphony Space the following night (5/6/2013). One of the best pieces of new music I've heard only in a while, trumped only by Anders Hillborg's "Strand Settings," which the Philharmonic did this past weekend at Carnegie. The concert this is taken from also featured a Hillborg piece, "Vaporized Tivoli," which you can hear here. Chin's was the standout of this program- a timeless, location-less universal "folk" music featuring unique prepared-piano sounds and bottle marimbas.