eighth blackbird

Eighth Blackbird (stylized as eighth blackbird until April 2016) is an American contemporary music sextet based in Chicago, composed of flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, and cello (Pierrot ensemble with percussion). Their name derives from the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.

Collected Works - 2025-03-14T00:00:00.000000Z

David Lang: composition as explanation - 2024-07-12T00:00:00.000000Z

composition as explanation (artist cut) - 2024-07-12T00:00:00.000000Z

Premieres - 2022-12-18T00:00:00.000000Z

Singing in the Dead of Night - 2020-06-12T00:00:00.000000Z

When We Are Inhuman - 2019-08-30T00:00:00.000000Z

Olagón: A Cantata in Doublespeak - 2017-11-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Hand Eye - 2016-04-08T00:00:00.000000Z

Filament - 2015-09-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Filament - 2015-09-11T00:00:00.000000Z

MusicNOW: 10 Years - 2015-03-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Adventureland - 2014-03-25T00:00:00.000000Z

Music of Fred Lerdahl, Vol. 4 - 2013-05-14T00:00:00.000000Z

Trembling Air - 2012-09-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Trembling Air - 2012-09-11T00:00:00.000000Z

eighth blackbird meanwhile - 2012-09-04T00:00:00.000000Z

In the Library of Dreams - 2012-04-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Lonely Motel: Music from Slide - 2011-09-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Double Sextet/2x5 - 2010-09-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Kolaborasi - 2008-07-22T00:00:00.000000Z

Moravec: Time Gallery (The) / Protean Fantasy / Ariel Fantasy - 2006-02-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Moravec: The Time Gallery, Protean Fantasy & Ariel Fantasy - 2006-02-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Eighth Blackbird: Strange Imaginary Animals - 2006-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Eighth Blackbird: Strange Imaginary Animals - 2006-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Kellogg: Divinum Mysterium / Crumb: Voice of the Whale - 2000-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

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