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• Ecstatic Preview! Multimedia! Excitement!
February 4, 2012

We live in the literal future. While our collaborators for our upcoming Ecstatic Music Festival show are as far-flung as Canada (Richie) and California (Ryan), we’ve been managing to get some work done via the miracle of the Internet (which I’ve just discovered after careful reading of this completely mind-blowingly-awesome NYTimes feature is capitalized [??!])! A few days ago, CJ and Rob sat down with Skype and Steve Taylor and filmed these awesome little pieces. I am really, really excited for this show, guys!! It’s at Merkin Concert Hall on Wednesday the 8th. You can pick up your tickets here.
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• WNYC Spinning on Air TONIGHT
January 29, 2012

yMusic joins host David Garland for an insightful discussion on the group and its role in the current music scene, as well as in studio performances of most of Beautiful Mechanical.
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• “Too Busy For Their Own Success”
January 3, 2012

yMusic featured in today’s Wall Street Journal Music Section!
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• Rob featured in Hartford Courant
December 13, 2011

A few weeks ago, I discussed yMusic and the future of classical music with the Hartford Courant’s Eric Danton.
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• yMusic on NPR’s All Things Considered!
December 13, 2011

NPR plays “Proven Badlands” and calls yMusic “one of the groups that has really helped to shape the future of classical music.”
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• Time Out New York Critics Pick!
November 27, 2011

We are extremely excited to have the opportunity to play our debut album, Beautiful Mechanical, live in its entirety for the first time! Please join us at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 on Sunday, December 4 at 7pm for this momentous event.
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• Beautiful Mechanical is out now!
September 27, 2011

Our full-length debut is available for purchase now! Music by Ryan Lott, Annie Clark, Shara Worden, Sarah Snider, Judd Greenstein, and Gabriel Kahane. Get your mitts on one here, here, or here.
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• Watch Now! My Brightest Diamond’s Be Brave
September 22, 2011

This Autumn is insanely full of music. It’s crazy. Not only is our record coming out September 27th, but Shara Worden (aka My Brightest Diamond)’s new album, All Thing Will Unwind, featuring –ahem– your favorite chamber musicians, comes out October 18! Weeks away! The single, Be Brave, featuring remixes by Son Lux and Prefuse 73, is already out (pick it up here), as is this nifty video. Enjoy! My Brightest Diamond – ALL THINGS WILL UNWIND: Be Brave from Asthmatic Kitty on Vimeo.
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• Listen Now! Annie Clark (St. Vincent)’s Proven Badlands
September 22, 2011

Oh my, our debut, full-length record comes out in less than a week! Check out newamsterdamrecords.com for more info, or pre-order on Amazon or iTunes. In the meantime, get your yFix with Pitchfork’s preview of Annie Clark’s Proven Badlands.
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• Kickstarter!
July 7, 2011

We are excited to announce a Kickstarter campaign for our forthcoming, debut record, entitled Beautiful Mechanical! We are nearly finished mixing, art is in the works, and we are extremely excited to present this labor of love to you very soon.
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• “a scruffy-ish band of young musicians…”
January 29, 2011

Yesterday, yMusic had the pleasure of sharing the stage with its dear friend, Shara Worden. The occasion was Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Series and the group was dressed to the nines! Merely 24 hours later, we are excited to share two reviews of our performance.
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• Fashionably Late
September 27, 2010

We here at yMusic are occasionally fond of fashion to a fault. In this blog, Hideaki becomes a man through a series of increasingly embarrassing emails!
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• Coverage
February 26, 2010

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Apparently Mark O’Connor, Darol Anger and that guy from Berklee were unavailable for a photo shoot, each citing hair-related issues. Yes, the dry winter is tough on even the most resilient of curls.
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• Rob as occasional (dedicated) audience member
October 3, 2009

I am doing something personally unprecedented: flying across the country to see a concert. In the past, I have journeyed in cars, buses and trains along the east coast to hear music that mattered to me. Today, an older and more ambitious version of my previous self is kicking it up a notch. I’m flying to Denver for a single night to hear the premiere of Chris Thile’s mandolin concerto.
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• Death of Summer features Rebirth of yMusic blog
September 21, 2009

You may have noticed a sizeable gap in yMusic communication. Instead of skirting the issue, I find it best to lay it bare, stick it right out there in the open. And in so doing, I want to reassure you all that our group has been full of the best of intentions. Read on for blog schemes, party summaries and attendance solicitations!
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• Hideaki on Flossing, Belt Brands and Lunch Tables
July 26, 2009

Hi. This is Hideaki and here is my blog. I’m going to make this quick and easy because I spent the last 15 minutes trying to write a first paragraph, and failed… Here are some short paragraphs about my fellow yMusicians that I think might be true:
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• CJ Speaks His Mind (and someone writes it down)
July 18, 2009

It’s not every day that dedicated fans can plumb the depths of CJ Camerieri’s mind. But for the second time this summer, New York’s most fashionable trumpet player waxes informative. Warning: this is a blog about a blog.
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• To Do’s, Today’s, Tallis, Totes, and Tweets
July 2, 2009

To Do Today: 1.) Bike over to Carroll Gardens and buy more coffee beans from D’Amico. Love, love, love & love. 2.) Group Photo! Assemble ALL of the kids and take a picture of them all totes togeths…shhhhhhyouloveit. 3.) Park Loop. Then, if it’s sunny, which it won’t be because it NEVER is because New York is actually New Seattle…work on the Summer Tan.
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• tales, institutional collisions, even a cape
June 27, 2009

I’ve decided to tip-toe into the ever-so-timely loss of my blogging virginity by explaining, in the horror of nonfiction, how I came to be friends with 3 members of yMusic. The description follows in chronological order…There’s Clifford Brown’s widow, a bus ride, Sting, Hideaki Aomori, hotel porn, links, Nadia Sirota, baggage claim, James Taylor, Alex Sopp and the rainforest. Read More…
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• yMusic takes test, explores results, enters period of denial
June 26, 2009

Newsflash: yMusic gets curious! yMusic goes corporate! yMusic takes a test! [Anyone else feel like they're in the middle of a Sufjan Stevens song title?] In order to explore our group dynamics from a safe distance, we tangled with a compact, internet-based version of the Myers-Briggs Personality Test. Read More…
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• on google alerts [serendipity follows struggle]
June 18, 2009

Do you use Google Alerts? I’m sure you do. If you’re like me, you use more than one. These days, google alerts have nearly taken the place of that old treasure, junk mail. You see, there are a few ‘Robs’ out there with the nickname ‘Moose.’ None of the nick or name sharers, however, can rival this incredible sentence which, courtesy of a comma, contains my name in sequence. Read More…
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• This is yMusic
June 3, 2009

“One of the groups that has really helped to shape the future of classical music” – Fred Child, NPR “A New York chamber ensemble at the heart of the current indie-classical overlap.” – New York Times “#1 Classical Album of 2011” – Time Out New York “While many chamber ensembles attempt to sound as one voice, yMusic achieves it.” – Huffington Post “Six Hip Virtuosi” – Time Out New York “A bullpen full of potential counterpoint” – New York Times READ MORE…
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• edinburgh. then, a short history lesson.
June 3, 2009

Being on tour is like living in a vacuum. I hesitate to call it a bubble because, as we know, bubbles burst. I’m nearly five months into the ramble and luckily the height of my struggle feels like an extended loss of peripheral vision. [Cue inner dialogue: what was that about an airplane…resignations at the British Parliament…haven’t seen my passport in days...the wireless costs fifteen euro…left my violin on that bus we rented…which airline is in the One World Alliance…did you make it to breakfast?”] Read More…
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