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Video: Quando Carnaval Chegar arranged by Maiani da Silva

Chico Buarque//Maiani da Silva

ALBUM: Eighth Blackbird

from composition as explanation (David Lang, Gertrude Stein, directed by Anne Bogart)

Video: Distance Canon

Music by: Ted Hearne

Video: Digit #2 by Mayke Nas Performed live by Maiani da Silva and Lisa Kaplan at Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, 2023

Video: Vital Sines, concerto grosso by Viet Cuong

w/8BB & US Navy Band

Trailer: composition as explanation

Recording artists: Maiani da Silva: Violin, voice
Zachary Good: Clarinets, Voice
Matthew Duvall: Percussion, Voice
Lisa Kaplan: Piano, Voice
Dalia Chin: Flutes, Voice
Four-time Grammy-winning sextet, Eighth Blackbird (8BB), “one of the smartest, most dynamic contemporary classical ensembles on the planet” (Chicago Tribune), presents the world premiere recording of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang’s composition as explanation, based on Gertrude Stein’s seminal 1926 lecture of the same name.

Called “Super Chamber Music” by David Lang, this multidisciplinary work incorporates elements of chamber music, theater, and performance art; it has the groundbreaking ensemble not only performing the music, but also speaking and singing Stein’s text. For the performance, the 8BB players committed themselves to a rigorous education process, including lessons in acting, diction, and the art of theater

Audio (press): WRUU's Contemporary Classics w/Dave Lake

David Lang, Maiani da Silva, Matthew Duvall discuss Composition as Explanation with Dave Lake (Part 1)

Video (excerpt): 8BB + CSO:Concerto grosso Nine Mothers

World Premiere
Eighth Blackbird
Music by Kinds of Kings
Louis Langree, MD
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
March 2022

Audio (press): WRUU's Contemporary Classics w/Dave Lake PART 2

David Lang, Maiani da Silva, Matthew Duvall discuss Composition as Explanation with Dave Lake (Part 2)

Video (press): composition as explanation

Eighth Blackbird album release 2024: Maiani da Silva (violin, voice, percussion), Zachary Good (clarinets, voice), Matthew Duvall (percussion, voice), Lisa Kaplan (piano, voice), Dalia Chin (flute, voice), music by David Lang, text by Gertrude Stein, directed by Anne Bogart

Video: Eighth Blackbird at Bryant Park NYC

Town Hall presents, Picnic Performances: Eighth Blackbird Celebrates John Cage

Video: Sindô Le Lê, arranged by Maiani da Silva

Performed by The Furies
Directed, Filmed, and Edited by Jennifer Bewerse, Middle Ear Project
Recorded and Mixed by Lewis Pesacov. Ahata Sound, Los Angeles, California
Commissioned by UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance for the Tune In Festival 2021

Video: A Lua Girou, arr. by Maiani da Silva

Video: When I had the honor of performing for Louis Andriessen

The New Math(s), music Louis Andriessen (excerpt)

Video Courtesy of Bang On a Can

Video: 8BB + CSO:Concerto grosso Nine Mothers

Eighth Blackbird premiere with CSO

Maiani da Silva, Maiani da Silva violinist with Summa Trio, Maiani da Silva, violinist, Eighth Blackbird violinist, Maiani violin

Album: Souls in Trasition

Music by : Carl Vollrath
Performed by: Summa Trio
Label: Navona Records

Video: Groove!

Co-composed Maiani da Silva and Danny Clay
Produced by: Danny Clay and Noe Music

Video: 8BB plays Jonathan Bailey Holland's Clarity of Cold Air

for Cap UCLA's Tune In Festival, 2021

Video: The Making of Vital Sines

"Vital Sines" is constructed of several musical sequences and chaccone forms, all of which use repetition as means of development. It's overarching structure thus bears resemblance to the visual depiction of the sine wave, rising and falling like the tracing of breaths and heartbeats. The Piece is dedicated to my father's memory and the key moments in my life when I found sanctuary in music, when the music healed my heart."
- Viet Cuong