Music Is Music

Alex Temple's new composition Behind the Wallpaper was specifically written with singer/songwriter Julia Holter and the Spektral Quartet. The piece combines Spektral Quartet's brand of accessibility and playfulness with the neo-renaissance vocal stylings Holter likes to hint at in her own work. Spektral Quartet is one of the gems of the Chicago music scene. The group is just as comfortable performing in a concert hall as it is at a bar. Case in point: this installment of Music is Music, where the artists converge on Chicago's Lake View neighborhood for a show at Constellation. Familiar tropes shake hands with found sounds and new tones in this performance of Alex Temple's Behind the Wallpaper.