Of the two albums, percussionist Russell Greenberg explains, "Tonband and Becoming Air / Into the Vanishing Point represent two vastly different ways of making music for Yarn/Wire. Tonband represents ...
Yarn/Wire is a New York-based percussion and piano quartet (Sae Hashimoto and Russell Greenberg, percussion; Laura Barger and Julia Den Boer, pianos) dedicated to the promotion of creative, ...
For something that started out without a master plan, Chris Belt’s Accidental Music Festival has sprouted some impressive legs. Now in its fifth year, the Orlando event has become a defining player in ...
The Earth is a noisy place. “I hear music for so much of my day,” says Laura Barger. “When I come home, I honestly need some silence.” An interesting confession from a musician. But the cacophony is ...
From their roots at Stony Brook University in 2005, the dual percussion/dual piano quartet Yarn/Wire has taken an uncommon approach to experimental music. In the case of Currents 0 the jazz roots are ...
In Philadelphia, Girard College students are joining the composer Tyshawn Sorey and Yarn/Wire for a multimedia adaptation of Ross Gay’s “Be Holding.” Tyshawn Sorey, front, the composer and ...
A few weeks ago, I found myself rushing through Manhattan during a rainy evening, leaving one rendezvous behind and yearning to swiftly reach the next. A common ritual in the hyper-accelerated reality ...
In our final video from the Edinburgh international festival, we’ve got Sufjan Stevens’ soundtrack from an arthouse documentary about rodeos. Of course We’ve already brought you Anna Calvi and ...
Picture this, the Momentary encourages: A single piano, played, plucked, strummed and struck by eight hands. Yarn/Wire -- described by Time Out NY as "fearless" -- is a New York-based percussion and ...