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What do you get when you feature five of the most accomplished contemporary performer-improvisers on…
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Tristan McKay
Andrew Yee, a multi-hyphenate new music powerhouse, continues to build an oeuvre that spans composit…
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Connie Li
Dylan Fujioka is a Japanese-American composer, performer, actor, and model most known for his work o…
For experimental musician and artist Charmaine Lee, meaningful ideas are best expressed in a languag…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
It’s end-of-term showtime at the London conservatoires, and recently I’ve seen some exciting new sho…
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Caroline Potter
Everything seemed perfectly engineered for presence on Jun. 25 at Pioneer Works. The sun twinkled go…
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Vanessa Ague
Kronos Quartet is an ensemble that needs little introduction — the San Francisco-based group recentl…
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Sofía Rocha
José Martínez has charted numerous routes through tradition and storytelling by leaning into abstrac…
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Jacob Kopcienski
Composer, electroacoustic musician, and educator Ali Balighi seems most comfortable in the unstable…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
We are currently seeking freelance writers to join the I CARE IF YOU LISTEN contributor team. I CARE…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Mari Esabel Valverde is an award-winning transgender Mexican-American composer in steady demand in t…
It isn’t often that performers approach microtonal music armed only with a set of tuning forks and t…
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Julia Kuhlman
In the 250th anniversary of the United States, we might expect programming that focuses on the Found…
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A. Kori Hill
Metamorfosis opens with a yell. In “Tormentas,” a deity loosely based on the Aztec goddess of earth…
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Lana Norris
In a world of constant connectivity, what do we gain from looking within? Wild Up’s Jun. 6 program,…
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Dalanie Harris
Sound artist, composer, and visual creator Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe has developed a singular artistic…
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Yaz Lancaster
Lia Kohl is a composer and sound artist based in Chicago. Her wide-ranging practice includes composi…
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
When Glenn Branca’s Symphony No. 13 (“Hallucination City”) for 100 Guitars was first performed at th…
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Vanessa Ague
“A shifting environment of unstable systems … Signals emerge, overlap, and dissolve, forming a tempo…
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Lana Norris
I grew up in Bogotá in the late ‘80s. Toothpaste was no longer called “toothpaste” — it was Colgate.
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Alejandro Zuleta
In the landscape of modern opera performance, everyone seems to be fighting an uphill battle. Compos…
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Clover Nahabedian
There’s often a moment in a group improvisation where musicians let go of trying to make sense of ea…
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Gemma Peacocke
Sanaya Ardeshir (she/her) is an Indian producer and composer, with a parallel practice in electronic…
