Have You Heard This? w/ Josh and Jon

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“Have You Heard This?” is an ongoing and informal discussion about music between two friends, choral composer Joshua Shank and electroacoustic composer Jon Fielder. With their shared sense of humor, Josh and Jon have been peacefully staring at each other from VERY opposite sides of the aesthetic spectrum for years, and have often wondered why other composers they’ve met in their journeys sometimes can’t do the same. Josh and Jon invite listeners to join them in talking about classical music they may or may not like…in a way they may or may not have talked about it before. Have you heard this?

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Episodes

René Clausen / Brian Ferneyhough

Episode 11: Burt Bacharach, Nested Tuplets, and Beep Beep I'mma Dump Truck Josh brings some Whitman settings from his homeland of Minnesota and we finally let Jon off the leash to do some wildin' out about that sweet, sweet Ferneyhough music. Featuring performances of René Clausen's "Three Whitman Settings" by The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists and Brian Ferneyhough's "Exordium" by the Arditti Quartet.

Mar 25, 2025•1 hr

Alfred Janson / Panayiotis Kokoras

Episode 10: Swooshes, Booshes, and Shakespeare Josh tries (and fails) to speak Norwegian and Jon justifies the existence of all acousmatic music ever written (because— and this has been made official —he speaks for all acousmatic composers). Featuring performances of Alfred Janson’s " Sonnet 76 " by the Norwegian Soloists Choir and Panayiotis Kokoras’s " Anechoic Pulse ."

Jan 13, 2025•1 hr 2 min

György Ligeti’s 100th!

Episode 9: Ligeti Split: Y’all, it is György Ligeti’s centenary, so the guys break from tradition and bring two works by the same composer (while still somehow maintaining their podcast thesis statement of loving on something wildly different). Featuring performances of Ligeti’s " Two Unaccompanied Choruses" by the London Sinfonietta Voices and " Ramifications" by Ensemble Intercontemporain.

Dec 10, 2023•1 hr 3 min

Dominick Argento / Heather Stebbins

Episode 8: Dario Argento and Super Balls Josh gets attacked by an 83-year-old composer and Jon brings a piece that looks as good as it sounds. Featuring performances of Dominick Argento's Dover Beach Revisited by The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists and Heather Stebbins's Things That Follow by Adam Vidiksis.

Sep 14, 2023•44 min

Nico Muhly / Cenk Ergün

Episode 7: Pioneer Women and a 'Rabid' String Quartet Josh takes the pod to the prairie via a work for choir and twelve guitars while Jon wants to talk to you about a very serious, important issue: packs of stray wild dogs that control most of the cities in North America (and show up during a passage in the piece for string quartet he brings). Featuring performances of Nico Muhly's "The Night Herders" (from How Little You Are ) by Conspirare, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, the Dublin Guitar Qua...

May 31, 2023•58 min

Michael Torke / Christopher Chandler

Episode 6: Disney Minimalism, Smoke, and Mirrors Your hosts prove they're not too old for this sh*t by discussing two wildly different works. Josh makes a Disney memory through one of his favorite pieces of post-minimalism and Jon gives everyone a nerd class on convolution using a whiskey flask. Featuring performances of Michael Torke's Boast Not of Tomorrow by the Netherlands Radio Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra (Edo de Waart, conductor) and Christopher Chandler's Smoke and Mirrors by the [Sw...

Oct 06, 2022•59 min

Knut Nystedt / Kaija Saariaho

Episode 5: Josh and Jon Do Scandinavia The guys barrel through pieces that set them afire for music when they were but mere youths. Josh stumbles on the doctoral dissertation of one of his choral idols and Jon makes sure we all know the difference between Swedish and Norwegian metal. Featuring performances of Knut Nystedt's "O Crux " by the Norwegian Soloists' Choir (Nystedt's own!) and Kaija Saariaho's "Cendres" by Mikael Helasuvo, Anssi Karttunen, and Tuija Hakkila....

Jan 12, 2022•1 hr 1 min

Adolphus Hailstork / Liza Lim

Episode 4: Spirituals and Strings Josh hips Jon to a choral banger and the guys go deep on Jon’s favorite articulation on wildly different pieces that both interact with folk traditions. Featuring performances of Adolphus Hailstork's Crucifixion by the Brigham Young University Singers and Liza Lim's Ochred String by Soloists of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Sep 14, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Morten Lauridsen / Frank Zappa

Episode 3: The Zappanale Josh challenges Jon with the poetry from a choral classic and Jon (deservedly) just talks Zappa...Zappa...Zappa. Featuring performances of Morten Lauridsen’s Contre qui, rose by The Singers—Minnesota Choral Artists and Frank Zappa’s The Girl in the Magnesium Dress by Ensemble Modern.

Jul 26, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Wolfram Buchenberg / Lee Hyla

Episode 2: Next! Song! Jon judges a (German) book by its cover and Josh falls hard for Lee Hyla’s music. Featuring performances of Wolfram Buchenberg’s "Vier geistliche Gesänge" by Cantabile Regensburg and Lee Hyla’s "Pre-Pulse Suspended" by Speculum Musicae.

Apr 30, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Joshua Shank / Jon Fielder

Episode 1: New Music Hug Factory. Welcome to Have You Heard This? w/ Josh and Jon ! In this opening episode, the guys start things off by talking about their own music a bit. Despite their stated mission, they can’t help but make fun of each other. Featuring performances of Josh’s " Musica animam tangens" by the University of Pretoria Camerata and Jon Fielder’s " Think" by the composer himself.

Apr 30, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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