Extradition

Four years ago, Portland’s Extradition Ensemble launched a multi-year project with composer Philip Corner (b. 1933) dedicated to performing and recording works from his vast, seven-decade catalog. Today, we’ve released for pre-order the latest manifestation of that project: EXTRADITION PLAYS CORNER: PARTE II, presenting 80 tracks focusing on 21st-century works alongside key pieces from earlier decades. It’s a 15½-hour journey into Corner’s all-encompassing sound world, where elemental music theory and democratized 12-tone serialism meet improvisation, field-recordings, sonic meditations, austere minimalism, post-punk guitars, rain, cows, rocks, twigs, drones, bones, and bells — all realized in open, generous collaboration between composer and performers.

https://extraditionpdx.bandcamp.com/album/extradition-plays-philip-corner-parte-ii

The full album will release on the evening of June 20, and includes a 56-page pdf booklet of composition notes, essays, photos, credits, and a short biography of the composer.

Extradition Plays Philip Corner: Parte II, by Extradition 80 track album

Extradition contributor Daniel Reyes Llinás has just released a beautiful new recording:

https://llinas.bandcamp.com/album/from-nothing

"From Nothing is an EP in three movements that explores the relationship between acoustic and electronic matter across a latent dramaturgy shaped by minimal gestures and granular dialogues. Within a shifting sonic landscape rich in morphological nuances, each sound carries a trace of transfiguration as a plurality of patterns aggregate and dissolve in a shared search oriented toward continuity and transformation. Out of this open dynamic, guitarist and composer Daniel Reyes Llinás gathers a new ensemble together with violinist Madeline Hocking, violist Hannah Selin and cellist Clara Cho. Through frictions and suspensions, the quartet gradually unfolds luminous spaces, where each element redefines and supports the balance of the others. Moving through a circular temporality of instants, From Nothing, Imagen Dos and Diálogos simultaneously inhabit a space open to presence and to the possibilities of sound."
-Anita Soukizy

From Nothing, by Daniel Reyes Llinás 3 track album

Tickets: https://buytickets.at/extraditionensemble/2178156

Audio is up on YouTube for most pieces from last weekend's Extradition Spring Concert 2026.

Toshi Ichiyanagi – Mudai #1 for La Monte Young (1960)
https://youtu.be/cp2-MJYTrZo

George Brecht – Spanish Card Piece for Objects (1959–60)
https://youtu.be/1K7UEAOmlKA

Terry Riley – Concert for Two Pianists and Tape Recorders (1959–60)
https://youtu.be/CaIV8Pze1gw

Benjamin Patterson – String Music (1960)
https://youtu.be/KYPIIJhmp7s

TONIGHT! SATURDAY, APRIL 18: Extradition’s 2026 Spring Concert presents five experimental works from 1960, by Terry Riley, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Benjamin Patterson, George Brecht, and Philip Corner.

Tickets: https://buytickets.at/extraditionensemble/2083993

Venue: Leaven Community, 5431 NE 20th Ave @ Killingsworth, PDX

Doors 7pm, music 7:30pm

https://extraditionpdx.com/calendar

TOMORROW! SATURDAY, APRIL 18: Extradition’s 2026 Spring Concert presents five experimental works from 1960, by Terry Riley, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Benjamin Patterson, George Brecht, and Philip Corner.

Tickets: https://buytickets.at/extraditionensemble/2083993

Venue: Leaven Community, 5431 NE 20th Ave @ Killingsworth, PDX

Doors 7pm, music 7:30pm

https://extraditionpdx.com/calendar

THIS SATURDAY, APRIL 18: Extradition’s 2026 Spring Concert presents five experimental works from 1960, by Terry Riley, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Benjamin Patterson, George Brecht, and Philip Corner.

Tickets: https://buytickets.at/extraditionensemble/2083993

Venue: Leaven Community, 5431 NE 20th Ave @ Killingsworth, PDX

Doors 7pm, music 7:30pm

https://extraditionpdx.com/calendar