The Path You Choose
(music from Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK)

FEATURING
KRONOS QUARTET
SHABAKA HUTCHINGS
THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
JAMES MCVINNIE ENSEMBLE
SOUNDWALK ENSEMBLE

a companion album to Ellen Reid’s award-winning public art project

“Reid creates a rich, grandly orchestral sound world of intimate nuzzlings and wraparound vistas... She grants us an illusion we all need right now: that we have the power to change the plot merely by walking in a different direction.”
— Justin Davidson, New York Magazine

Ellen Reid is one of the most innovative artists of her generation. A composer and sound artist whose breadth of work spans opera, sound design, film scoring, ensemble and choral writing, she was awarded the the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her opera, p r i s m.

Selected Press for Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK

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Music by Ellen Reid, except where noted

Produced by Eclipse Projects
Mixed & Mastered by Valgeir Sigurðsson
Edited by Ellen Reid &
Daniel Neumann
Remote Recordings Produced by Nadia Sirota

Engineered by Members of the Kronos Quartet, Musicians of the New York Philharmonic, Members of the SOUNDWALK Ensemble, and James McVinnie. Shabaka Hutchings recorded by Lewis Pesacov at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles

Musicians of the New York Philharmonic: 
Alison Fierst, flute
Pavel Vinnitsky*, clarinet
Leelanee Sterrett, Chad Yarbrough*, horn
Christopher Martin, trumpet
Daniel Druckman, Kyle Zerna, percussion
Nancy Allen, harp
Kuan Cheng Lu, Anna Rabinova, Marié Rossano, violin
Leah Ferguson, Robert Rinehart, viola
Ru-Pei Yeh, cello

*denotes substitute

Kronos Quartet
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Sunny Yang, cello

Shabaka Hutchings
shakuhachi, clarinet, saxophone

James McVinnie Ensemble
organs

SOUNDWALK Ensemble:
Alex Sopp, flute
Joshua Rubin, clarinet
Rachel Drehmann, horn
Riley Mulherkar, trumpet
Sidney Hopson, percussion
Kyle Poole, drums
Ashley Jackson, harp
Mathis Picard, piano
Ellen Reid, synthesizer 
Eliza Bagg, voice
Mona Tian, violin
Nadia Sirota, viola
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Russell Hall, bass