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Before tonight's Pendulum concert, there was a buzz in the air. New music was about to happen. The concert opened with the intriguingly titled “For the Eastern Elk,” an elegy to a subspecies of elk that diseappeared in 1877 in Pennsylvania. “It's a meditation on extinction; a commentary on the...

Last Sunday, at the kid-friendly hour of 2pm, Pendulum took over the Boulder Public Library and presented music ranging from recorded sounds at the TANK to Riley's historic "In C" to our P-rade through the entire building. Where else can you find composers Jack and Egemen marching side by side,...

Ten musicians take to the stage. The air in the room begins to vibrate: sounds, unmoored from a beat, swirl out of instruments and mingle like colorful smoke above the audience. A thick purple cloud of consonance is emerging from a piano; an oud deliciously bends an emerald-colored wisp; a...

Pendulum New Music is proud to announce that select scores of student works will be included at CU Scholar. Our first work is Anasi by Kevin Michael Olson . This score combines traditional notation with graphic notation and uses color to suggest timres and shapes to the performers.