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Shawn Okpebholo--Photo by Greg Halvorsen Schreck

5 Questions to Shawn Okpebholo (composer)

Shawn Okpebholo is a widely sought after award-winning composer who has been described by composer A…
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Bill Doggett
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JJJJJerome Ellis Reframes Disability as a Means for Creation in “The Clearing”

For artist, writer and composer JJJJJerome Ellis, his name poses a challenge; not a challenge of ide…
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Charmaine Lee--Screenshot courtesy of Roulette

Charmaine Lee Delivers Electrifying, Experimental Improvisation at Roulette

There’s a weirdly reflexive magnetism between New Zealanders who live overseas. I think we find comf…
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Gemma Peacocke
Ting Luo, Founder of New Arts Collaboration

5 Questions to Ting Luo (Founder, New Arts Collaboration)

New Arts Collaboration (NAC), founded by pianist Ting Luo, is dedicated to bringing artists together…
Author
Tristan McKay
Cleo Reed--Photo by Cressida Fletcher

ListN Up: Cleo Reed (October 29, 2021)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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Speaking Together: Rufus Isabel Elliot on the Trans, Non-Binary, and Gender-Diverse World of OVER / AT

Rufus uses it/its pronouns. Rufus Isabel Elliot is a composer, musician, and the creative force behi…
Author
Chrysanthe Tan
Vilma Jackson in

Learning to Listen from Deaf Communities (Casting Light #6)

“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art…
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Jasmin Kent Rodgman, Vilma Jackson
Artifacts Trio...and then there's this

Artifacts Trio Builds a Bridge to the Unknown on “…and then there’s this”

The provocative title of the latest album from Artifacts Trio, …and then there’s this, suggest…
Author
Dalanie Harris
Tina Tallon--Photo by Rose Lincoln

5 Questions to Tina Tallon (creative technologist, sound artist)

Tina Tallon began her career as a researcher at MIT, where she developed computational tools to mode…
Author
Gemma Peacocke
Teiya Kasahara--Photo by Janet Kimber

ListN Up: Teiya Kasahara (October 22, 2021)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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The Soapbox Presents

The Soapbox Presents: Claiming Space for Black Joy

On July 3, 2021, all four corners of a busy Harlem intersection overflowed with funk. New York City…
Author
Lana Norris
Gina Izzo ladyybirdd

Video Premiere: Gina Izzo performs “into what is wanted” from “ladyybirdd”

“Stay until you lose the urge to leave.” This was the only musical instruction that flut…
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Daniel Alexander Jones--Photo by Rafael Hernandez

On the Ground and in the Weeds with Daniel Alexander Jones 

To understand the blueprint of who Daniel Alexander Jones is as a multidisciplinary artist and thoug…
Author
Jasmine IVANNA Espy
Lina Gonzalez-Granados--Photo by Toby Oft

5 Questions to Lina Gonzalez-Granados (conductor)

Colombian conductor Lina Gonzalez-Granados is a beautiful example of the incredible level of musical…
Author
Natalie Calma
Rajna Swaminathan--Photo by Yaara Perczek

ListN Up: Rajna Swaminathan (October 15, 2021)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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gabby fluke-mogul--Photo by Rachael Uhlir

5 Questions to gabby fluke-mogul (violinist, improviser, composer)

gabby fluke-mogul is a violinist, improviser, and composer whose music experiments with the boundari…
Author
Clover Nahabedian
Anna Clyne--Photo by Christina Kernohan

5 Questions to Anna Clyne (composer)

London-born Anna Clyne is a GRAMMY-nominated composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music. Since…
Author
Jennifer Jolley
AACM's Great Black Music Ensemble--Photo courtesy of the AACM

ACF Announces Compositions Celebrating the AACM’s 55th Anniversary

American Composers Forum (ACF) is thrilled to announce the premieres of music commissioned through i…
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Darius Jones--Photo by Ebru Yildiz

ListN Up: Darius Jones (October 8, 2021)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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Michael R. Dudley Jr.--Photo by Alan Hsaio

Music of the Unsung America Selects Michael R. Dudley Jr.’s “Elegy” From Call for Scores

ACF | connect partner Music of the Unsung America has announced the selection of Michael R. Dudley J…
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Pathos Trio performs Delirious Phenomena by Alyssa Weinberg

Video Premiere: Pathos Trio Performs Delirious Phenomena by Alyssa Weinberg

There’s a certain magic to a Four/Ten Media music video — intimate, provocative shots ca…
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Huda Asfour

5 Questions to Huda Asfour (composer, improviser, singer-songwriter)

Creatives all over the Arab world are using their talents to define themselves as a people and raise…
Author
Nebal Maysaud
jaimie branch--Photo by Abdesslam MIRDASS

ListN Up: jaimie branch (October 1, 2021)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con…
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ACF Artist Equity Summit 2021

ACF Artist Equity Summit Recap and Equity Report Card

Earlier this month, ACF hosted our annual Artist Equity Summit online and in downtown St. Paul in pa…
Author
Vanessa Rose
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