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Asking for a Friend: Selfie Videos & Elusive Second Performances

Welcome to the first installment of “Asking for a Friend,” a new music advice column where arts admi…
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Rhiannon Giddens (Photo by Ebru Yildiz) and Michael Abels (Photo by Eric Schwabel)

5 Questions to Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels about Omar

As a founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and through her current career as a singer-song…
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A. Kori Hill

Counterpoints is an Enchanting Meditation on Place and Meaning

Every single day as we move through the world, we use our senses to identify places and navigate amo…
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Tristan McKay
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ACF Partners with Look + Listen for 20th Anniversary Season

Look + Listen’s free annual spring festival marks its 20th anniversary with a trio of boldly i…
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Layale Chaker--Photo by Anna Rakhvalova

ListN Up: Layale Chaker (April 8, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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For the Love of Fire and Water

“For the Love of Fire and Water” Creates Harmony Out of Discord

On April 8, 2022, pianist and composer Myra Melford is releasing her full-length album For the Love…
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Padideh Aghanoury
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Who Cares How You Listen? – Thoughts on Our Relationship with Recordings

As artists who are also listeners, we tend to have a complex relationship with recorded music. When…
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Christian Kriegeskotte, Ciyadh Wells
Departure Duo performs Sarah Gibson's The Boys Are There

Video Premiere: Departure Duo Performs The Boys Are There by Sarah Gibson

The spirit of the 1920s reverberates through words, architecture, and costuming in Departure Duo&#82…
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Julie Herndon--Photo by Bonnie Rae Mills

Julie Herndon Thrives Between Art and a Technological Place

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Artists require substantial support. Beca…
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Jasmine IVANNA Espy
Lidiya Yankovskaya--Photo by Kate Lemmon

ListN Up: Lidiya Yankovskaya (April 1, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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OHYUNG--Photo by Jess X. Snow

On imagine naked!, OHYUNG Finds the Emotional Core of Ambient Music

OHYUNG used to think ambient music was pretentious. The open-endedness and ability to retrofit seemi…
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Chrysanthe Tan
innova Recordings national call projects

innova Recordings Announces Eight New Artists to Join the Label following National Call

Today American Composers Forum (ACF) announces the first collection of recording projects selected t…
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Guro Skumsnes Moe’s Resonant Silence--Photo by Thor Brødreskift/Borealis

Borealis 2022 Contemplates Space, Place, and Time

Our concept of time over the past couple of years has become a bit amorphous – moments expanding and…
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Amanda Cook
Aeryn Jade Santillan with Massa Nera--Photo by Riley Taylor

ListN Up: Aeryn Jade Santillan (March 25, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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Huang Ruo's Book of Mountains and Seas--Photo by Teddy Wolff

Huang Ruo’s Book of Mountains and Seas is Elegant, Sensual Storytelling

As with his opera An American Soldier or the quasi-improvisational test of boundaries in Resonant Th…
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Lana Norris
Julián de la Chica and Yana Mann's Su Voz

Video Premiere: Yana Mann Performs “Su Voz” by Julián De La Chica

Until recently, Julián De La Chica’s 11 Poemas de Bar had been sitting in a pile of unpublishe…
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Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson's Blue

New Opera “Blue” Presents Searing Take on Police Violence

If opera can be the barometer of the present, Blue is the opera for our times. Complicated family dy…
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Esteban Meneses
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ListN Up: Renee Baker (March 18, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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Adam Buffington

5 Questions to Adam Buffington about Mumbling Eye

Iceland is well known for its iconic experimental music scene. Most music enthusiasts likely know ma…
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Jacob Kopcienski
Donna Weng Friedman performs Quiet Poems

Video Premiere: Donna Weng Friedman Performs Sherman’s Quiet Poems

For composer Kim D. Sherman’s newest collection of solo piano works, necessity was the mother…
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Weavings album cover

Nicolás Jaar’s “Weavings” is a Fascinating Triumph of Technology

Since its inception in 2003, Unsound Festival has become well known for its carefully curated, genre…
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Clover Nahabedian
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5 Questions to Raquel Acevedo Klein (conductor, vocalist, composer, instrumentalist)

Raquel Acevedo Klein is a conductor, vocalist, producer, curator, illustrator, and composer based in…
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Gemma Peacocke
Adeliia Faizullina--Photo by Leisan Giliazova

ListN Up: Adeliia Faizullina (March 11, 2022)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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Lady Circon--Photo courtesy of the artists

Video Premiere: GM Sidestick by Lady Circon

As a band, Lady Circon’s influences are wide-ranging and complex, drawing inspiration from ele…
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