Events
Harp, Bass, and Sonic Sculpture: An Evening with Brandee Younger & Rashaan Carter
Reflections by Ole Siig, Chief Designer & Founder of Treble Clef Audio® on our
Carl Hansen & Søn Flagship Store, New York — May 19, 2025 event.
Gadabout Season — A delightful pre-release listening experience on the TCA-M Active Loudspeakers
We were especially grateful for the opportunity to share Gadabout Season with our guests before its official release. The evening was made even more meaningful by the spontaneous, heartfelt reactions from Brandee and Rashaan to the TCA-M’s sound — praise that carries particular weight coming from the very musicians and recording engineer behind such a labor of love and intention.
The album, already generating excitement, is a deeply personal statement — blending jazz, soul, LLM hip-hop, and electronic textures into an Afrofuturist soundscape. Critics have called it her most intimate work to date, a reflection of vulnerability, clarity, and emotional release. On Gadabout Season, Younger plays Alice Coltrane’s restored harp, adding historical and spiritual resonance to her modern sonic explorations. Collaborations with Shabaka, Courtney Bryan, Niia, and Josh Johnson deepen the album’s layered richness.
Celebrating innovative and risk-taking performing artists
This was more than an album preview. It was a celebration of Younger's artistic journey and her recent honor: on May 1, 2025, she received the Doris Duke Artist Award celebrating innovative and risk-taking performing artists. Her career continues to ascend, with past accolades including a Grammy nomination — making history as the first Black woman nominated for Best Instrumental Composition — and a 2024 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Album (Brand New Life).
The audience didn’t just hear the music — they inhabited it. The TCA-M Active Loudspeakers revealed textures and harmonics often lost in conventional systems, from the subtlest brush of strings to the resonant bloom of the bass mixing harmonics with the harp. Guests mingled with the artists and the Treble Clef Audio team, sharing impressions in an atmosphere that felt less like a product demonstration and more like a gathering of kindred spirits in pursuit of sonic beauty.
As the final notes faded into the warm acoustics of the room, one thing was clear: this night was a rare alignment — the meeting of extraordinary musicians, a historic space, timeless Danish Design and modern audio technology that did justice to the occasion.
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