Rearranged
@rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social
Writer/musician Lawrence Lanahan hosts Rearranged, an Osiris Media podcast that considers the meaning we take from songs by examining an underappreciated aspect of their creation: the arrangement. Subscribe at https://www.osirispod.com/podcasts/rearranged
Excited to share that @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social is a Best Arts or Journalism Podcast finalist for the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards. @osirispod.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Excited to share that @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social is a Best Arts or Journalism Podcast finalist for the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards. @osirispod.bsky.social
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Got so excited reading @gabrielkahane.bsky.social on arranging that I'm writing again at @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social: it's about Kahane's new song, Glenn Miller, and how the appearance and disappearance of instrumental passages stoke the fire of a song's meaning.
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Exit Signs
Gabriel Kahane's "Where are the Arms" and the power of disappearance in musical arranging
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September 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Got so excited reading @gabrielkahane.bsky.social on arranging that I'm writing again at @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social: it's about Kahane's new song, Glenn Miller, and how the appearance and disappearance of instrumental passages stoke the fire of a song's meaning.
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My pals at Osiris Media just wrote to send me to Apple's top music podcast charts. The GenXer in me says "charts schmarts," but this kind of stuff can help me produce more episodes of @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social. Thanks, listeners! Please leave a review at the main show page if you can :)
May 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My pals at Osiris Media just wrote to send me to Apple's top music podcast charts. The GenXer in me says "charts schmarts," but this kind of stuff can help me produce more episodes of @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social. Thanks, listeners! Please leave a review at the main show page if you can :)
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Rearranged
Music History Podcast · Updated Weekly · REARRANGED considers the meaning we take from songs by examining an under appreciated aspect of their creation: the arrangement.
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April 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
If you listened to @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social, I hope you'll consider goosing The Algorithm by leaving a review at Apple Podcasts. Apparently this helps push the podcast in front of more people who might enjoy it.
You'll need to do this from the main page, not an episode page. Thanks!
You'll need to do this from the main page, not an episode page. Thanks!
My band "Glad Pulses" just released its debut album, Blue and Bright. At the Rearranged Substack, I share some lessons from arranging collaboratively. Many ears are better than two!
"Way More Ass"
Notes on mixing and arranging the debut album from Glad Pulses
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April 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
My band "Glad Pulses" just released its debut album, Blue and Bright. At the Rearranged Substack, I share some lessons from arranging collaboratively. Many ears are better than two!
Arranging on the fly: Eblis Álvarez and Los Pirañas.
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Moving and Marveling
Eblis Álvarez with Los Pirañas at Creative Alliance in Baltimore
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April 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Arranging on the fly: Eblis Álvarez and Los Pirañas.
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The fifth and final episode of Rearranged is live! If it's words you're hankerin' for, enjoy this reflection on Philip Glass Ensemble's four-hour performance of Music in Twelve Parts at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville. rearranged.substack.com/p/pausing-mu...
Pausing Music: Philip Glass's Music in Twelve Parts
A dispatch from the Big Ears Festival
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March 31, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The fifth and final episode of Rearranged is live! If it's words you're hankerin' for, enjoy this reflection on Philip Glass Ensemble's four-hour performance of Music in Twelve Parts at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville. rearranged.substack.com/p/pausing-mu...
Heading home from Big Ears Festival. I was here for much more than arranging, but the arranging I liked most was guitarist Joel Harrison's Free Country project: country, folk, and Appalachian music arranged to be *played like* jazz, even if it doesn't always *sound* like it.
March 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Heading home from Big Ears Festival. I was here for much more than arranging, but the arranging I liked most was guitarist Joel Harrison's Free Country project: country, folk, and Appalachian music arranged to be *played like* jazz, even if it doesn't always *sound* like it.
The final Rearranged episode: a tour through some favorite arrangements as I discover *why* they became so close to me and how the art of removing sound is as important to arranging as the art of adding it.
Plus an answer to the big question: What is a song?
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Plus an answer to the big question: What is a song?
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EPISODE 5 | Rearranged podcast
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March 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The final Rearranged episode: a tour through some favorite arrangements as I discover *why* they became so close to me and how the art of removing sound is as important to arranging as the art of adding it.
Plus an answer to the big question: What is a song?
llanahan.wixsite.com/rearranged/e...
Plus an answer to the big question: What is a song?
llanahan.wixsite.com/rearranged/e...
It's not just sampling that lands musical artists in court. Muddled and unmusical jurisprudence has made musical tools vulnerable to litigation: not just melody, harmony, and rhythm, either. It's making musical artists timid, as Kembrew McLeod and Charles Cronin explain in Episode 4 of Rearranged.
March 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
It's not just sampling that lands musical artists in court. Muddled and unmusical jurisprudence has made musical tools vulnerable to litigation: not just melody, harmony, and rhythm, either. It's making musical artists timid, as Kembrew McLeod and Charles Cronin explain in Episode 4 of Rearranged.
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What is a "song," and can we really own one?
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Ours, Ours, Ours
Reconciling the concept of "ownership" with the social nature of the song
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March 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
What is a "song," and can we really own one?
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In Ep. 4 of @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social, @kembrew.bsky.social and I discuss why originality in popular music is misunderstood. The Turtles sued De La Soul over a sample, calling it "theft." But the recycled chord progression in "Happy Together" doesn't exactly establish The Turtles as original.
March 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
In Ep. 4 of @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social, @kembrew.bsky.social and I discuss why originality in popular music is misunderstood. The Turtles sued De La Soul over a sample, calling it "theft." But the recycled chord progression in "Happy Together" doesn't exactly establish The Turtles as original.
What does Ed Sheeran have to do with Robin Thicke and The Turtles and an 1832 issue of the German music journal Allgemaine Musikalische Zeitung? Tune into Episode 4 of the @osirispod.bsky.social podcast @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social and find out!
March 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
What does Ed Sheeran have to do with Robin Thicke and The Turtles and an 1832 issue of the German music journal Allgemaine Musikalische Zeitung? Tune into Episode 4 of the @osirispod.bsky.social podcast @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social and find out!
Episode 4 bats cleanup for a reason. Starting in 1832 Germany and ending in a federal courtroom in 2023, I rescue the reputation of arrangers from those who'd dismiss them as "mere mechanics."
Along the way, I get insulted in German and land a good punch on AI. llanahan.wixsite.com/rearranged/e...
Along the way, I get insulted in German and land a good punch on AI. llanahan.wixsite.com/rearranged/e...
EPISODE 4 | Rearranged podcast
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March 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Episode 4 bats cleanup for a reason. Starting in 1832 Germany and ending in a federal courtroom in 2023, I rescue the reputation of arrangers from those who'd dismiss them as "mere mechanics."
Along the way, I get insulted in German and land a good punch on AI. llanahan.wixsite.com/rearranged/e...
Along the way, I get insulted in German and land a good punch on AI. llanahan.wixsite.com/rearranged/e...
In Ep. 3, Baltimore actor/singer Brandon Shaw McKnight dramatizes the writing of America's first million-selling American pop tune. Songsmith Charles K. Harris had seen a couple break off their engagement at a ball. When the "Wheelmen's Club" said they needed a song for an upcoming production...
March 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In Ep. 3, Baltimore actor/singer Brandon Shaw McKnight dramatizes the writing of America's first million-selling American pop tune. Songsmith Charles K. Harris had seen a couple break off their engagement at a ball. When the "Wheelmen's Club" said they needed a song for an upcoming production...
Episode 3 of Rearranged makes the case for the originality possible in derivative music by connecting two centuries of music: from Liszt's piano arrangements of Beethoven symphonies to Public Enemy's orchestral use of sampling. Producer/writer John Morrison puts it all in perspective.
March 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Episode 3 of Rearranged makes the case for the originality possible in derivative music by connecting two centuries of music: from Liszt's piano arrangements of Beethoven symphonies to Public Enemy's orchestral use of sampling. Producer/writer John Morrison puts it all in perspective.
Here is an arranging challenge delightfully met: samba with Russian synthesizers. I bet High Llamas fans will like this.
Dig Domenico’s 2022 album ‘sramba,’ which was recorded in Lisbon, where he lived for several years.
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sramba, by Domenico Lancellotti
10 track album
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March 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Here is an arranging challenge delightfully met: samba with Russian synthesizers. I bet High Llamas fans will like this.
In Rearranged Ep. 3, historian Susan Schmidt Horning chronicles the glory days of the studio arrangers before the British Invasion swept them aside. Here she chronicles the rise to fame of arranger Alan Lorber, who got his break writing arrangements for a singer's performance at the Apollo Theater.
March 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
In Rearranged Ep. 3, historian Susan Schmidt Horning chronicles the glory days of the studio arrangers before the British Invasion swept them aside. Here she chronicles the rise to fame of arranger Alan Lorber, who got his break writing arrangements for a singer's performance at the Apollo Theater.
Episode 3 of Rearranged is out! How revolutions in recording technology remade the sound of the popular song. www.osirispod.com/podcasts/rea...
EPISODE 3: The Sound and the Song - Osiris
How revolutions in recording technology remade the sound of the popular song. Studio technology has evolved from Edison's massive and…
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March 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Episode 3 of Rearranged is out! How revolutions in recording technology remade the sound of the popular song. www.osirispod.com/podcasts/rea...
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Do you turn away from life to listen to music and turn back when you're done? Here are some thoughts on finding a place to dwell where music and life are one and the same. rearranged.substack.com/p/mosaic-music
Mosaic Music
The perforated line between music and life, and the Rearranged episode I didn't make
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March 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Do you turn away from life to listen to music and turn back when you're done? Here are some thoughts on finding a place to dwell where music and life are one and the same. rearranged.substack.com/p/mosaic-music
Episode 2 of Rearranged is live!
A classical music scholar and a pianist look under the hood of Franz Liszt’s solo piano transcriptions of Beethoven’s nine symphonies to discover the vast originality possible in derivative music.
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A classical music scholar and a pianist look under the hood of Franz Liszt’s solo piano transcriptions of Beethoven’s nine symphonies to discover the vast originality possible in derivative music.
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EPISODE 2 | Rearranged podcast
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March 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Episode 2 of Rearranged is live!
A classical music scholar and a pianist look under the hood of Franz Liszt’s solo piano transcriptions of Beethoven’s nine symphonies to discover the vast originality possible in derivative music.
llanahan.wixsite.com/rearranged/e...
A classical music scholar and a pianist look under the hood of Franz Liszt’s solo piano transcriptions of Beethoven’s nine symphonies to discover the vast originality possible in derivative music.
llanahan.wixsite.com/rearranged/e...
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Finding music during the emergence of the pandemic: rearranged.substack.com/p/choosing-m....
Choosing Music
Episode 1 of Rearranged will be up in a few hours.
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February 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finding music during the emergence of the pandemic: rearranged.substack.com/p/choosing-m....
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Just wrote about the worst musical arranging tic of the 21st century. Take a gander and subscribe to the Rearranged podcast...which premieres tomorrow on @osirispod.bsky.social! rearranged.substack.com/p/ukeleles-a...
Ukeleles and Glockenspiels
On the worst arranging trend of the 21st century
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February 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Just wrote about the worst musical arranging tic of the 21st century. Take a gander and subscribe to the Rearranged podcast...which premieres tomorrow on @osirispod.bsky.social! rearranged.substack.com/p/ukeleles-a...
As we await the premiere of Episode 1, head over to Substack to read about how Rearranged got started. It involves Van Dyke Parks, Lee Konitz, and my favorite piece of recorded music. rearranged.substack.com/p/chasing-a-...
Chasing a Moon Dream
As this project concludes, a reminiscence of the beginning.
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February 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
As we await the premiere of Episode 1, head over to Substack to read about how Rearranged got started. It involves Van Dyke Parks, Lee Konitz, and my favorite piece of recorded music. rearranged.substack.com/p/chasing-a-...
You can subscribe to the Rearranged podcast and Substack here! rearrangedpodcast.com
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