The New Music Help Desk is an opportunity for composers and performers to get face time with Spektral – to ask pointed questions about notation, feasibility, tuning systems, and even (gasp!) string harmonics. Our aim is to use our skills to both build community and keep creativity flowing for artists hemmed in by this quarantine.

If you are interested in participating (or just watching), complete this brief form by Thursday, April 16th:

We will select a few questions in advance and then open it up to attendees using the Zoom Q&A feature. Which is to say, even if yours is not one of the few chosen beforehand, you can still ask us your question live during the event. If we don't get to your query this time around, have no fear. We’ll keep all submissions in the mix for future Help Desk sessions.

For this debut event, we have compositional dynamo Sam Pluta (UChicago, Wet Ink Ensemble) joining the quartet panel to assist us.

This is frankly a scary time for all of us in the arts. We hope the New Music Help Desk brings at least a little glimmer of hope and assistance to our fellow artists.