Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer’s “Different Rooms” Captures Elusive Moments in Live Music

Two composers walk into a room (actually, they walk into different rooms) and record an album focused on the serendipity of live performance. Fittingly, it’s titled Different Rooms.

The composers in question are Jeremiah Chiu, who plays the synth, and Marta Sofia Honer, a violist. KEXP contributor Isabel Khalili spoke with them about how this latest album is an experimental dance between acoustic and electric, in some ways paying tribute to experimental composers from more than 50 years ago.

“Something that we talk about a lot is leaving little to chance and letting it be a little chaotic because that’s the actual experience that we’re having as we’re navigating through this world,” Chiu says in the interview. “It’s not overly careful and considered — all things happen at the same time, and we’re walking through it. If things are overly perfect when we listen to music, everyone’s always like, ‘Where’s the human in this?’”

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