Aug
8
7:30 PM19:30

Unheard-of: Cultural Ecologies-Ginita y La Orquesta Esa [Brooklyn, NY]

On August 8th, Unheard-of presents a new premiere for the ensemble, electronics, and video by David Bird, composer, producer, and multimedia artist praised for his “inventive, mind-expanding electroacoustic soundscapes” (An Earful). Unheard-of is joined by special guest band Ginita y La Orquesta Esa for a closing set of latin Jazz tunes from the group’s latest self-titled album!

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Aug
10
7:00 PM19:00

CCI 2026: Opening Concert –Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time [St. Louis, MO]

  • Christ Church Cathedral St. Louis (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Unheard-of Ensemble kicks off their annual Collaborative Composition Initiative workshop performing Olivier Messiaen’s monumental Quartet for the End of Time. Written in 1941 while Messiaen was a prisoner of war, the Quartet tells the story of the book of Revelation while meditating on his faith and the eternal. The story of the Quartet’s composition is one of resilience, persistence, and friendship between Messiaen, clarinetist Henri Akoka, violinist Jean le Boulaire, and cellist Étienne Pasquier. 
Unheard-of also performs the Midwest premiere of CCI Composition Faculty Liliya Ugay’s After the End of Time. The work written in 2020 is a modern homage to Messiaen. It responds to the feelings surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, the fear and uncertainty, detachment and unity, and hope.

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Aug
11
7:30 PM19:30

CCI 2026: Sonic Ecologies – Multimedia Music at High Low [St. Louis, MO]

Unheard-of performs multimedia premieres with explosive visuals, hyper-pop electronics, and prophetic musical storytelling. This program features Christopher Stark’s Maple, Annika Socolofsky’s Let the more loving one be me, a new premiere from David Bird, and Christian Quiñones’s My Eyes Devour the Internet. 


Stark’s Maple captures the intensity and devastation of Yellowstone’s 2016 Maple fire through bending electronic loops and field recordings morphed into dance rhythms, examining the anxiety in between the forces of nature and technology. Socolofsky’s Let the more loving one be me is a sonic documentary of the histories and stories of queer elders, capturing their stories while they are still here. Quiñones’s My Eyes Devour the Internet is a maximalist romp through digital excess, from overpowering virtual vocaloid synths to the overpowering meme-fluenced hyperpop.

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Aug
14
7:30 PM19:30

CCI 2026: Premieres @ Dissonant Works [St. Louis, MO]

Unheard-of performs multimedia premieres written by our festival fellows Yeeun Sim, Max Eidinoff, Emelia Ulrich, Jason Zhang, Dayton Hare, HoiPui Chen, Alex Brown, Preston Posey, and Yeonsuk Jung. These emerging artists from across the United States worked with Unheard-of to develop dynamic works for Unheard-of and electronics.

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Sep
4
8:00 PM20:00

Synesthetic Project: Korijenje/Roots [Lake Weisensee, AT]

Weissensee Klassik - Weissensee LAB with the world premiere of the Synesthetic Project. At 8 PM Graln's Tenn, Neusach 7. In collaboration with the artistic director of the WKF Christoph Zimper, the ensemble Synesthetic Project – which breaks down boundaries between music, movement, and space and thinks of concert formats as holistic experiences – explores, under the direction of Nika Baumann, the significance of folk music in its most original form. Tickets: www.oeticket.com or at the Weissensee Information.

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Sep
5
8:00 PM20:00

Synesthetic Project: Once Upon a Time [Lake Weisensee, AT]

Weissensee Klassik - Weissensee LAB with the world premiere of the Synesthetic Project. At 8 PM Graln's Tenn, Neusach 7. In collaboration with the artistic director of the WKF Christoph Zimper, the ensemble Synesthetic Project – which breaks down boundaries between music, movement, and space and thinks of concert formats as holistic experiences – explores, under the direction of Nika Baumann, the significance of folk music in its most original form. Tickets: www.oeticket.com or at the Weissensee Information.

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Sep
19
6:30 PM18:30

Unheard-of: Cultural Ecologies Series- Mehrnam Rastegari Trio [Brooklyn, NY]

On September 19th, Unheard-of presents a new expansive electroacoustic commission by Matt McBane exploring underwater topographies in acoustic and synth forms paired with a set by Mehrnam Rastegari and her trio. Rastegari is a prominent Persian musician, award-winning film score composer, and master Kamancheh player bringing Persian music in new directions with inflections of rock, jazz, and modern fusion.

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Jun
27
7:30 PM19:30

Unheard-of: Cultural Ecologies- Ebb and Flow [Brooklyn, NY]

Our clarinetist Ford and music technologist/composer Brian Ellis are presenting a site-specific pop-up on June 27th 8PM at the 2nd Street Dock performed from canoes, tracing the flow of the Gowanus Canal from the Flushing Tunnel to the 2nd Street Boathouse. This opening pop-up titled Ebb and Flow is a limited seat event that is the first of smaller pop-up experiences bringing people together for on the water musical journeys. Iva will present a short set for the opening night.

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May
23
7:30 PM19:30

Cultural Ecologies Series: Unheard-of presents Discocactus [Brooklyn, NY]

  • Dredgers Bunker, 2 19th Street, NY 11232 (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Date and Time: May 23, 2026, 7PM Canoe Launch, 7:30PM Music
Join Unheard-of Ensemble, the Dredgers, and special guests video game jazz-funk ensemble Discocactus to open the season! Unheard-of opens the show with new premieres written for them by Annika Socolofsky and Discocactus's own keyboardist Ben Wallace. Unheard-of also performs new video game music arrangements from Ben and Unheard-of's violinist Matheus Souza. Discocactus closes out the night performing some of their hits joined by members of Unheard-of!

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May
2
10:30 PM22:30

Long Play: Contemporaneous plays Gavin Bryars [Brooklyn, NY]

One of the experimental double-bassist’s best-known early works is Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, which uses a recorded loop of a homeless man singing an improvised fragment, with rich string harmonies layered on top. A recording of the piece was made in 1993 with Tom Waits. Here, Contemporaneous brings the piece to life again.

Roulette @ 10:30 PM

503 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217

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Mar
11
7:30 PM19:30

Unheard-of: Florida State University [Tallahassee, FL]

Guest Artist Recital | Opperman Music Hall

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Unheard-of performs music by Liliya Ugay, Christian Quiñones, Jesse Jones, and Susanna Hancock on tour across Florida as well as student works by FSU and University of Florida composers. We also offer career workshops, instrumental workshops and chamber music coachings at UCF and FSU.

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Mar
8
7:30 PM19:30

Unheard-of: University of Central Florida [Orlando, FL]

UCF Music, Guest Artist: Unheard-of

Sunday, March 8, 2026 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Unheard-of performs music by Liliya Ugay, Christian Quiñones, Jesse Jones, and Susanna Hancock on tour across Florida as well as student works by FSU and University of Florida composers. We also offer career workshops, instrumental workshops and chamber music coachings at UCF and FSU.

Free event. No registration required. 

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Feb
21
8:30 PM20:30

Contemporaneous: David Lang + Bill Morrison @ PS21 [Chatham, NY]

Film with Live Score / Music 

Live film score performed by Ensemble Contemporaneous

David Lang and Bill Morrison have collaborated for nearly 25 years and darker is their tenth collaboration.

Lang and Morrison drew inspiration from a minimal score to create a film that, like the music, can exist both before and under the viewer’s eyelids: a slowly, lilting depiction of the sublime, where actors, dancers and acrobats reappear and then disappear back into a bubbling morass of time. 

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Feb
7
1:00 PM13:00

Modfest: Student Composer Symposium [Poughkeepsie, NY]

Featuring performances by Unheard-of Ensemble

Alan Hankers, Assistant Professor; Celeste Oram, Adjunct Assistant Professor; Department of Music students

Celebrate the creativity and stylistic breadth of Vassar’s emerging composers. This interactive event offers audiences a unique opportunity to engage directly with the compositional process, from first sparks to finished scores, featuring live performances and open discussion in a collaborative workshop. Attendees will hear original student compositions performed by professional musicians and be invited to participate in conversations about inspiration, process, and artistic motivation. The symposium fosters an open exchange between composers, performers, and listeners, highlighting the visionary potential of the next generation of musical voices.

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Feb
6
8:00 PM20:00

Unheard-of Dialogues//Trios feat. Sputterbox [Harlem, NY]

Date and Time: February 6, 2026, 8PM
Concert Location: Mise-en_Place, Harlem

Unheard-of explore a brief history of trios for clarinet, violin, and cello from first major works like Messiaen’s “Intermède” from Quartet for the End of Time and Ingolf Dahl’s Concerto a Tre, to recently written works including Meg Okura’s Phantasmagoria and Du Yun’s dreams – bend. Unheard-of is joined by Sputter Box, performing a set of their own trios and recent premieres by Onche Rajesh Ugbabe, Jane Kozhevnikova, and Brendan Sweeney.

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Jan
21
6:00 PM18:00

Synesthetic Project: Once Upon a Time [Vienna, AT]

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program

  • Works by Luigi Boccherini, Franz Schubert, Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, Manuel de Falla, Giovanni Sollima, Oscar Antolí and traditional music from Lower Austria

performers

Synesthetic Project Ensemble

  • Nika Bauman , flute, artistic director

  • Iva Casián-Lakoš cello

  • Tomaž Zevnik, clarinet

  • Marko Ferlan , guitar, double bass

  • Anna Bárbara Bonatto Dance

  • Samuel Adam Dance

Recommended for ages 10 and up

 Inspired by Austrian and German fairy tales and myths, the music theatre ensemble Synesthetic Project transports audiences to a magical world of fantasy. Music, dance, and video intertwine in "Once Upon a Time" to create a story about diversity, tolerance, and understanding.

Duration approx. 60 minutes

supported by Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne

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Jan
21
10:00 AM10:00

Synesthetic Project: Jeunesse- Mit Baby ins Konzert [Vienna, AT]

performers

  • Synesthetic Project Ensemble

  • Nika Bauman , flute, artistic director

  • Iva Casián-Lakoš cello

  • Tomaž Zevnik, clarinet

  • Marko Ferlan , guitar, double bass

Length of time

0h 45min, no break

Recommended for parents with babies

 Tickets

Attention parents who don't want to miss out on attending a classical concert! The "With Baby to the Concert" series allows parents with babies to enjoy music at the highest level – in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.

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Nov
14
7:30 PM19:30

Unheard-of @ Oberlin Conservatory [Oberlin, OH]

Free admission, no tickets required

Brooklyn-based new music group Unheard-of//Ensemble will be in residency at the Oberlin Conservatory from November 13th through the 14th. A clarinet, violin, cello, and piano quartet specializing in programs that fuse music, multimedia, and interactivity on a number of levels, Unheard-of champions works by contemporary composers, presenting lectures and shows throughout the United States. Their residency will include a workshop and recording sessions of student compositions, a lecture spanning topics from working with composers to integrating technologies into performance, as well as this guest artist recital in Stull Recital Hall that will feature a world premiere by Oberlin composition faculty member Jesse Jones.

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Nov
12
7:30 PM19:30

Unheard-of: Ohio State University [Columbus, OH]

  • Ohio State Music Department (map)
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Touring across Ohio performing Jesse Jones – Quartet for Ye Olde of Tyme, Susanna Hancock, Aliayta Foon Dancoes – Cloud 9 ½, Andrew Burke, Robert McClure – contours snared in warp and weft, Meg Okura – Phantasmagoria, Christian Quiñones – My Eyes Devour the Internet, and Chris Stark’s Fire Ecologies as well as workshopping and recording works by students at Ohio University, Ohio State, and Oberlin.

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