New York Times: A Night of Acoustic and Electronic Exploits

On Thursday night the Metropolis Ensemble, a resourceful pocket orchestra led by Andrew Cyr, presented “Hallucinations,” a program devoted to works in which acoustics and electronics shared roughly equal status. Smart promotion and novel music — and probably the ensemble’s recent Grammy Award nomination — helped to pack the house at Le Poisson Rouge for an evening consisting almost entirely of previously unheard works.

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