NEWSPEAK is an eight-piece amplified ensemble working under the direction of composer David T. Little and clarinetist Eileen Mack. Named after the thought-limiting language in George Orwell's 1984, Newspeak explores the grey area where art and politics mix, seeking to reconsider, redefine, and ultimately reclaim the notion of socially engaged music. By embedding elements of a rock band into a classical new music ensemble, Newspeak also confronts the boundaries between the classical and the rock traditions. Utterly committed to the music of its time, Newspeak has commissioned, work-shopped, and premiered work by some of the most exciting members of the new generation, including Oscar Bettison, Darcy James Argue, Corey Dargel, Ted Hearne, Caleb Burhans, Missy Mazzoli, Judd Greenstein, and David T. Little, as well as established masters like Frederic Rzewski and Paul Lansky. They have held multiple residencies at Princeton University, been featured on the MATA Festival, shared bills with The Fiery Furnaces as part of Wordless Music, and performed as part of John Zorn's Full Force festival. Their recently released album on New Amsterdam Records has been hailed as "fearlessly aware, insightfully political, (and) resolutely defiant." "If more groups played music with such life, power, and passion," Sequenza21 proclaims, "nobody would think (classical) music is dead."
For more information, please see: http://www.newspeakmusic.org
Newspeak performs The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" at their 2008 Election Night Party with Corey Dargel and Anti-Social Music.
Newspeak performs (part of) Caleb Burhans "Requiem for a General Motors in Janesvile, WI" at their 2008 Election Night Party with Corey Dargel and Anti-Social Music.
Newspeak performs "sweet light crude" at Make Music New York
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