“Have You Heard This?” is an ongoing and informal discussion about music between two friends, choral composer Joshua Shank and electroacoustic composer Jon Fielder. With their shared sense of humor, Josh and Jon have been peacefully staring at each other from VERY opposite sides of the aesthetic spectrum for years, and have often wondered why other composers they’ve met in their journeys sometimes can’t do the same.
Josh and Jon invite listeners to join them in talking about classical music they may or may not like…in a way they may or may not have talked about it before. Have you heard this?
Episode 16: Fiddles and Loudspeaker Orchestras.
Josh teaches Jon what a Hardanger fiddle is using a piece that draws on English Renaissance, Norwegian, Sámi, and American folk traditions and Jon brings the electronic heat with a work on all levels, including recording fidelity, production quality, processing, moving sound, narrative, and syntactical development of materials.
Featuring performances of Martin Ødegaard's Love Me by Ensemble 96 and David Q. Nguyen's Textures Arc the Points by the composer himself.
14 Jul 2026
William Albright / Rocío Cano Valiño
Episode 15: Rags, Clusters, Tasks, and Faders
Josh is back on his sacred kick with an entire (and very brief) Missa brevis and Jon brings in another smash hit electroacoustic work (where there’s literally sounds of smashing).
Featuring performances of William Albright’s "Chichester Mass" by both the Dale Warland Singers as well as the Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble and Rocío Cano Valiño’s "Tâches" by the the composer herself.
5 Jan 2026
John Howell Morrison / Helmut Lachenmann
Episode 14: String Obliteration and Some Weird Mouth Sounds - The guys change things up and bring in something they assume the other one would like. Josh presents something with electronics from one of his mentors which he thinks frightens children and Jon doesn’t think he understood the assignment.
Featuring performances of John Howell Morrison’s "Hard Weather Makes Good Wood" by the Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble and Helmut Lachenmann’s "Consolation II" by the Klangforum Wien.
15 Sept 2025
Arvo Pärt Turns 90!
Episode 13: Pärt-y Time: We celebrate Estonian superstar Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday with both early and later works you may not have heard because they don't use his tintinnabuli technique.
Featuring performances of Pärt’s 1966 cello concerto, “Pro et contra” by Toomas Velmet and the Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Neeme Järvi, conductor) as well as “I Am the True Vine” from 1996 by the Pro Arte Singers and Theatre of Voices (Paul Hillier, conductor).
18 Jul 2025
Sarah Hopkins / Elainie Lillios
Episode 12: Vocal Party Tricks and Glass Marbles
Josh brings a piece that was super hot in the late 1990s and Jon sets a record for the most percussion ever used in a single piece on the pod.
Featuring performances of Sarah Hopkins's "Past Life Melodies" by the St. Peters Chorale and Elainie Lillios's "The Rush of the Brook Stills the Mind" by Scott Deal.
25 Mar 2025
René Clausen / Brian Ferneyhough
Episode 11: Burt Bacharach, Nested Tuplets, and Beep Beep I'mma Dump Truck
Josh brings some Whitman settings from his homeland of Minnesota and we finally let Jon off the leash to do some wildin' out about that sweet, sweet Ferneyhough music.
Featuring performances of René Clausen's "Three Whitman Settings" by The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists and Brian Ferneyhough's "Exordium" by the Arditti Quartet.
13 Jan 2025
Alfred Janson / Panyiotis Kokoras
Episode 10: Swooshes, Booshes, and Shakespeare
Josh tries (and fails) to speak Norwegian and Jon justifies the existence of all acousmatic music ever written (because—and this has been made official—he speaks for all acousmatic composers).
Featuring performances of Alfred Janson’s "Sonnet 76" by the Norwegian Soloists Choir and Panayiotis Kokoras’s "Anechoic Pulse."
10 Dec 2023
György Ligeti’s 100th!
Episode 9: Ligeti Split: Y’all, it is György Ligeti’s centenary, so the guys break from tradition and bring two works by the same composer (while still somehow maintaining their podcast thesis statement of loving on something wildly different).
Featuring performances of Ligeti’s "Two Unaccompanied Choruses" by the London Sinfonietta Voices and "Ramifications" by Ensemble Intercontemporain.
14 Sept 2023
Dominick Argento and Heather Stebbins
Episode 8: Dario Argento and Super Balls
Josh gets attacked by an 83-year-old composer and Jon brings a piece that looks as good as it sounds.
Featuring performances of Dominick Argento's Dover Beach Revisited by The Singers - Minnesota Choral Artists and Heather Stebbins's Things That Follow by Adam Vidiksis.
31 May 2023
Nico Muhly and Cenk Ergün
Episode 7: Pioneer Women and a 'Rabid' String Quartet
Josh takes the pod to the prairie via a work for choir and twelve guitars while Jon wants to talk to you about a very serious, important issue: packs of stray wild dogs that control most of the cities in North America (and show up during a passage in the piece for string quartet he brings).
Featuring performances of Nico Muhly's "The Night Herders" (from How Little You Are) by Conspirare, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, the Dublin Guitar Quartet, and the Texas Guitar Quartet (Craig Hella Johnson, conductor) and Cenk Ergün's Sonare by the JACK Quartet.
6 Oct 2022
Michael Torke and Christopher Chandler
Episode 6: Disney Minimalism, Smoke, and Mirrors
Your hosts prove they're not too old for this sh*t by discussing two wildly different works. Josh makes a Disney memory through one of his favorite pieces of post-minimalism and Jon gives everyone a nerd class on convolution using a whiskey flask.
Featuring performances of Michael Torke's Boast Not of Tomorrow by the Netherlands Radio Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra (Edo de Waart, conductor) and Christopher Chandler's Smoke and Mirrors by the [Switch~ Ensemble].
12 Jan 2022
Knut Nystedt and Kaija Saariaho
Episode 5: Josh and Jon Do Scandinavia
The guys barrel through pieces that set them afire for music when they were but mere youths. Josh stumbles on the doctoral dissertation of one of his choral idols and Jon makes sure we all know the difference between Swedish and Norwegian metal.
Featuring performances of Knut Nystedt's "O Crux" by the Norwegian Soloists' Choir (Nystedt's own!) and Kaija Saariaho's "Cendres" by Mikael Helasuvo, Anssi Karttunen, and Tuija Hakkila.
14 Sept 2021
Adolphus Hailstork and Liza Lim
Episode 4: Spirituals and Strings
Josh hips Jon to a choral banger and the guys go deep on Jon’s favorite articulation on wildly different pieces that both interact with folk traditions.
Featuring performances of Adolphus Hailstork's Crucifixion by the Brigham Young University Singers and Liza Lim's Ochred String by Soloists of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
26 Jul 2021
Morten Lauridsen and Frank Zappa
Episode 3: The Zappanale
Josh challenges Jon with the poetry from a choral classic and Jon (deservedly) just talks Zappa...Zappa...Zappa.
Featuring performances of Morten Lauridsen’s Contre qui, rose by The Singers—Minnesota Choral Artists and Frank Zappa’s The Girl in the Magnesium Dress by Ensemble Modern.
30 Apr 2021
Wolfram Buchenberg and Lee Hyla
Episode 2: Next! Song!
Jon judges a (German) book by its cover and Josh falls hard for Lee Hyla’s music.
Featuring performances of Wolfram Buchenberg’s "Vier geistliche Gesänge" by Cantabile Regensburg and Lee Hyla’s "Pre-Pulse Suspended" by Speculum Musicae.
30 Apr 2021
Joshua Shank and Jon Fielder
Episode 1: New Music Hug Factory.
Welcome to Have You Heard This? w/ Josh and Jon! In this opening episode, the guys start things off by talking about their own music a bit. Despite their stated mission, they can’t help but make fun of each other.
Featuring performances of Josh’s "Musica animam tangens" by the University of Pretoria Camerata and Jon Fielder’s "Think" by the composer himself.
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