Maya Beiser x Philip Glass

In "Maya Beiser x Philip Glass," cellist, arranger, and producer Maya Beiser creates a multi-layered sound sculpture with her cello, exploring and unveiling new dimensions in some of Philip Glass’s most powerful and achingly beautiful works. Thinking about stratum, the layering that occurs in most sedimentary rocks formed at the Earth’s surface, Maya imagined the layers of her cello becoming porous and Glass’s music flowing vociferously through each layer, like lava, endlessly creating new patterns, expanding into the landscape.Setting out to reimagine two of her favorite Glass piano etudes, "Etude no 5" and "Etude no 2," Maya took out her Boss RC-300 and began experimenting with live looping these scores, surprised to discover how natural it was to create them as solo cello loops. Glass’s 1979 work, "Mad Rush," is a pianistic tour de force, but what interested Maya in creating this work as a multi-cello track was to explore its hallucinatory quality. She wanted to create a sonic cello