Dirty Projectors’ Nat Baldwin Takes Inspiration From Connecticut’s Anthony Braxton

From the Hartford Courant:

Those connections are easily traced back to Baldwin’s time in Connecticut, where, as a student at the Hartt School, he got turned onto the music of Wesleyan composer Anthony Braxton. (Braxton’s son, Tyondai, himself a composer and performer, was a senior at Hartt when Baldwin was a freshman.) Pretty soon, Baldwin was spending more time in Middletown than Hartford, and eventually withdrew from Hartt. While sitting in on Braxton’s classes at Wesleyan, Baldwin started playing his teacher’s graphic scores with the Middletown Creative Orchestra, a group of like-minded musicians from various backgrounds.