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Standard Issue at Dig That Treasure! Festival 2026 -- Photo by Carl Northcote

The Ecstatic Experience of Dig That Treasure! Festival 2026

I don’t think I have ever seen the audience at Cafe Oto so animated and so joyful as they were on th…
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Robert Barry
Malachi Brown -- Courtesy of artist

Malachi Brown and the Sounds of U.S.

For more than a century, the New York City neighborhood of Harlem has been a synchedoche for Black a…
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A. Kori Hill
SydeBoob -- Courtesy of artist

SydeBoob Duo’s “Au Naturel” is a Bold and Athletic Debut

As SydeBoob Duo, soprano Anna Elder and flutist Sarah Steranka perform bold and athletic repertoire…
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Tristan McKay
Poiesis Quartet -- Photo by Lisa Marie Mazzucco

ListN Up: Poiesis Quartet (May 7, 2026)

Lauded for their “palpable chemistry and remarkable warmth” (San Francisco Classical Voice), the Poi…
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Goal Weight (Marguerite Cox and Jennifer Gersten) -- Photo by Vivian Wang

Chance Meeting Leads to Fruitful Collaboration on Goal Weight’s “Keep Telling Yourself That”

What does it mean to bring a project to life with a collaborator you met by chance — say, at a celeb…
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Michelle Hromin
CHAINES and Laura van der Heijden perform at Manchester Collective's

Music Flies Free in “Papillons” from Manchester Collective

The tagline for the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival is ‘a multi-arts festival powered by orch…
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Caroline Potter
Kavyesh Kaviraj -- Photo by Benny Moreno

Kavyesh Kaviraj Wears His Influences on His Sleeve – And Reminds Us of Our Common Humanity

“One might describe [my style] as a patchwork: you can really find the seams when you’re browsing th…
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A. Kori Hill
International Contemporary Ensemble at Hannah Kendall Composer Portrait -- Photo by Stephanie Berger for Miller Theatre at Columbia University

Disorienting Dread in the Works of Hannah Kendall

Hannah Kendall expresses her fascination with a multi-dimensional rainbow of timbre through her rete…
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Stephanie Boyd
Dorian Wood -- Photo by Laura Pardo

Transgression is Freedom in the Artistry of Dorian Wood

A self-described anti-disciplinary artist, Dorian Wood seeks to “infect” spaces and ideologies in or…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Hamed Erfani and Yasaman Seif -- Photo by Cruz Pulido

5 Questions to Hamed Erfani (composer) and Yasaman Seif (cellist)

Hamed Erfani and Yasaman Seif are a formidable couple: as a composer and a cellist, respectively, th…
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Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Andrea Curutchet-Stevenson -- Courtesy of artist

ListN Up Playlist: Andrea Curutchet-Stevenson (April 23, 2026)

Andrea Curutchet-Stevenson is a trans non-binary and second-generation New Yorker who releases and p…
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Ryan Alexander -- Courtesy of artist

5 Questions to Ryan Alexander (Founder, Project Poetic Justice)

With Project Poetic Justice, artist and activist Ryan Alexander combines his passion for social just…
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Thulasi Seshan
Kiki Hitomi of WaqWaq Kingdom at Rewire Festival 2026 -- Photo by Sabine van Nistelrooij

Rewire Festival Offers an International Space for Catharsis and Connection

The 2026 Rewire Festival opened not with a bang, but as a beautifully disjointed conversation. In th…
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Yaz Lancaster
Mai Khôi -- Photo by Nate Guidry

5 Questions Mai Khôi (singer, composer, activist)

Few children dream of being a pop star and actually achieve that goal — but that is what happened fo…
Author
Chrysanthe Tan
Maiani Da Silva -- Photo by Franklin Yeep

Maiani da Silva Renews Sonic Connections to Nature on “Brouhaha”

On Brouhaha: Shaped by Fire (Sono Luminus, 2026), violinist Maiani da Silva suggests that listeners…
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Kathleen McGowan
Allison Loggins-Hull -- Photo by Roger Mastroianni

For Allison Loggins-Hull, Community and Reciprocity Feed Place-Based Music Making

This interview has been lightly edited for clarity. Flutist and composer Allison Loggins-Hull has al…
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Lana Norris
Amina Claudine Myers -- Photo by Steve Baboun

Perpetual Adaptability: Amina Claudine Myers at 84

Defining the full scope of Amina Claudine Myers’ artistry feels impossible. At 84, she has nurtured…
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Yaz Lancaster
Xavier Emmanuel -- Photo by Adriane Baker

ListN Up Playlist: Xavier Emmanuel (April 9, 2026)

Denver, Colorado born Xavier Emmanuel (he/him) is a multi-hyphenate artist/scholar and PhD candidate…
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Éliane Radigue -- Courtesy of Éliane Radigue, Yves Arman, Foundation A.R.M.A.N.

Éliane Radigue: A Legacy of Listening Closely, Together

On a spring day in 2022, an uninterrupted hum emanates from the center of a room, as natural as the…
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Vanessa Ague
Madli Marje Gildemann -- Photo by Enso Photography

Madli Marje Gildemann Looks to Nature on “Dream Sequence of an Ancient Forest”

The Estonian composer Madli Marje Gildemann explores the fragile thresholds between sound, embodimen…
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Gemma Peacocke
Lucy Liyou -- Photo by Park Seung Won

Lucy Liyou Breaks Free in Visceral “Mister Cobra” Performance

Before she took the stage as “Babygirl,” we were preparing for Lucy Liyou’s character to bleed. Ushe…
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Connie Li
Irreversible Entanglements -- Photo by Annemone Take

A Call to Action from Irreversible Entanglements: “Vibrate Higher, Beyond the Noise”

Although Camae Ayewa, Tcheser Holmes, Luke Stewart, Aquiles Navarro, and Keir Neuringer had lived an…
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Julia Kuhlman
Olivia Block -- Photo by Lyndon French

5 Questions to Olivia Block (media artist, composer)

Olivia Block is pictured on her website before a glistening Steinway piano, illuminated from behind…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Keren Abreu -- Photo by Jo Chiang

ListN Up Playlist: Keren Abreu (March 26, 2026)

Keren Abreu is a singer-songwriter whose music is a multilingual blend of folk lyricism, pop melodie…
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