Nov 12, 2015 | News, Press
Composer John Luther Adams and Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche collaborate on a recording of Luther Adams’ roiling percussion work Ilimaq. Luther Adams won a Pulitzer last year for Become Ocean, while Kotche has made some serious inroads into modern classical, and...
Jun 18, 2015 | News, Press
“Here is your audience instrument; you take it apart like chopsticks,” said the usher, handing me a couple of glued-together jagged pieces of wood along with my concert program. Audience participation, oh my. This concert was either going to be very good or, more...
May 22, 2015 | News, Press
As each ticket was torn to give entry to Thursday night’s concert at the Museum of Contemporary Art, each bearer received what looked like miniature chopsticks joined at a serrated center. These sticks would be called into play midway through Glenn...
Mar 27, 2014 | News, Press
The Wilco drummer returns with an album of pieces influenced by classical minimalism, including a work writen for the Kronos Quartet. Where his previous albums foregrounded himself as a virtuoso performer, Adventureland is about Kotche as a composer first...
May 30, 2006 | News, Press
Wilco drummer creates a solo record rooted in Steve Reich, the thumb piano, and a variety of rhythmic puzzles. Since the release of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, “experimental” is a word that has been clinging like a lamprey to descriptions of Wilco’s...
May 2, 2006 | News, Press
Fortune has smiled upon percussionist Glenn Kotche. His famous rock band has gotten to that exalted level of success where the record label gives the drummer a solo album. But this isnt just any drummer, nor is Nonesuch any old label. Kotche is a skilled improviser,...
