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REARRANGED considers the meaning we take from songs by examining an under appreciated aspect of their creation: the arrangement.
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42 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
12 episodes
since Feb. 17, 2025
episodic
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The man behind Meridian Brothers on the highly organized method he uses to produce his scrambled takes on Latin American musical traditions.
Eblis Álvarez's music under the Meridian Brothers banner mines cumbia, salsa, and other traditions, but his outlandishly creative imagination and skill with …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
We visit the composer's Peabody class on "Listening to Baltimore" and discuss his "intimate and epic" music.
Baltimore-based Judah Adashi brings the community into his compositions and into his classroom at the Peabody institute. We talk about his music, his city, and why marimbas sound like rain.…
Clare and Olivier Manchon on their dedication to craft and never ever cutting corners in songwriting, arranging, and film scoring.Clare and Olivier Manchon met in a world of sound as students at the Berklee College of Music. Over the last couple decades they've brought the world many rich arrangeme…
How the prolific songwriter and composer draws on intuition and orchestration to create his musically and emotionally compelling songs and concert music.
Gabriel Kahane discusses his arranging approach for his own vast and varied catalog as well as for other artists, writing orchestrally for piano…
Georgia Anne Muldrow and Brandon Ross talk about their collaboration on the new Harriet Tubman album Electrical Field of Love and how their bandmates create in the moment by supporting each other through their musical "it's alright, go ahead" moments.
Thanks to Susan Valot for recording Georgia An…
How the High Llamas founder and in-demand arranger gets his sound. Rearranged host Lawrence Lanahan inteviews O'Hagan about the evolution of the High Llamas' sound, arranging for other artists, and learning from the younger version of himself while arranging old tunes with Cathal Coughlan for a Mic…
The music arranger’s power to put a listener inside a song.
Songwriters write the songs—duh—but arrangers determine how we hear them. To arrange a song is to make a series of musical decisions. What do those decisions add up to? Sometimes it’s really just a sound, and we like that sound or we don’…
Don’t mess with my melody! What happens when arrangers end up in court.
Copyright law is supposed to incentivize creative expression, but court rulings on arrangements have had the opposite effect. In Episode 4, we learn why the courts have called arrangers "mere mechanics," stifling creativity fr…
How revolutions in recording technology remade the sound of the popular song.
Studio technology has evolved from Edison's massive and unwieldy acoustic horn to an infinite array of possibilities that fit on the smartphone in your hand. In Episode 3 of Rearranged, we explore the revolutions in the …
Arrangements are often belittled as second-hand, second-class music. We’ll discover their potential for stunning originality.
A pianist and a scholar of Franz Liszt show us the profound originality possible in derivative music like Liszt’s piano renditions of Beethoven’s symphonies.
In Episode …
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