Jonny Rogers: Cindertalk
November 15-22, 2025
Glass music for new temperaments. Duets for de-tuned glass, violin / saxophone. An immersive audio concert exploring the tender beauty of alternate tuning systems, and how these affect the mind, body and spirit. Audience members may watch seated in the conventional way or bring yoga mats to meditate or rest. Experience Studio 9 in immersive audio, where hearing is believing.
Cindertalk in residence at Studio 9 as part of the FreshGrass Institute.
Jonny Rodgers is a composer and multi-instrumentalist performing and recording as Cindertalk.
Best known for his “stunning” (NY Times) work with tuned glass, Jonny orients his work around unusual organic instrumentation, often manipulating it electronically, to create future-leaning music that feels anchored in the real world. Never content to stay in one musical lane, Jonny is equally at home writing indie-music, classical art-music, and scoring films. A musical explorer, he seeks out unconventional sounds that permeate his writing which is often described as surprising, wistful, lovely, melancholy, intricate, and emotionally immersive. As a recent attendee to one of his concerts blurted out, “What planet are you from?”
Idit Shner is an active performer of both jazz and classical music, Idit has played in various distinguished venues in the United States and abroad, such as The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and Lincoln Center in New York.
Todd Reynolds is a self-proclaimed ‘solo classical violinist gone horribly wrong’. For years the violinist of choice for contemporary artists such as Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, and Bang on a Can, he’s also a founder of the string quartet known as Ethel. As a frequent performer at Carnegie Hall and in concert halls around the world, his compositional and performance style is a hybrid of old and new technology, multi-disciplinary aesthetic and pan-genre composition and improvisation. He thrives on a stage, whether virtual or physical, encircled by many speakers and a mission control with which to record himself and compose in real-time. His musical weapon of choice is made up of hybrid technology from the 1800s to the 2100s - a classical violin wired into digital technology running through Ableton Live and Cycling 74's Max/MSP which was integral in creating his double-disc debut solo album Outerborough, released in 2011 on the Innova label. His thirty years of creating inside the music industry based in New York City have left him fortunate and grateful, with a bucket list of items greatly filled already, especially having collaborated with artists like Yo-Yo Ma, Todd Rundgren, Joe Jackson, Mark Mothersbaugh, and even Bruce Springsteen. He currently lives in the woods of Northwestern Massachusetts where he produces, records, coaches, streams, and supports like-minded artists through his education portal, Amplify This.
