The New Music Help Desk is a unique opportunity for composers and performers to get face time with Spektral – to ask pointed questions about notation, feasibility, tuning systems, harmonics, or simply how to stay motivated in the midst of a quarantine. 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:
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 event, we have one of our earliest collaborators and closest friends, composer Marcos Balter joining the quartet panel to assist us, so you know this is going to be one lively discussion. Marcos is a brilliant pedagogue, generous collaborator, and one of the most imaginative composers we know. A brief hangout – a chance to vent, encourage, and check in – will immediately follow the presentation.
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.
Spektral Quartet’s programming is supported by our members, our donors, and by the following foundations and organizations:
