Members include Molly Barth on flute, Brian McWhorter on trumpet and flügelhorn, David Riley on piano and celesta, and Phillip Patti on percussion.
[1] Beta Collide focuses on the collision of musical art forms for example, from new to older; from radically extended technique to site-specific improvisation; from popular to the academy.
Named by The New York Times as a “terrific trumpeter”, McWhorter’s discography goes through genres like contemporary chamber or orchestral, improvised music, pop and rock, etc.
comes from the opening track, a chamber arrangement of György Ligeti's "Mysteries of the Macabre" a giddily anarchic play of instrumental outbursts and spoken word.
"Memories of an Echo," evocative of the ancient Japanese court music tradition, gagaku; and dreamy washes of distorted sound in Stephen Vitiello's "Yellow."