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Daniel Allas--Photo courtesy of the artist

ListN Up: Daniel Allas (July 23, 2021)

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Kyaness--Photo by Nori Webb, Layout by Egil Kalman

Efstathiou/Dyrnes Debut Album Kyaness is an Intimate Sensory Journey

If you cope with anxiety, you may be familiar with the 3-3-3 rule: name three things you see, identi…
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Tristan McKay
Pamela Z A Secret Code

Pamela Z Deciphers “A Secret Code” of Loops and Electronic Sound

Pamela Z is as wise, cultured, and artistic as she looks — and at the same time, is more than…
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Jasmine IVANNA Espy
Sara Serpa--Photo by Carolina Saez

ListN Up: Sara Serpa (July 16, 2021)

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McKnight Awardees 2021

2021 McKnight Composer Fellows and McKnight Visiting Composers Announced

American Composers Forum (ACF) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s McKnight Fellows…
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The Doppelgänger Within: How Depression Hides in the Creative Process

“Grief is despair in proportion to circumstance. Depression is grief out of proportion to circ…
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Aaron Helgeson
M. Lamar--Photo by Johnny Q

M. Lamar on Defining Negrogothic and the Liberated Black Man

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. M. Lamar embodies a gorgeous Afro Gothic…
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Dameun Strange
Arooj Aftab--Photo by Vishesh Sharma

ListN Up: Arooj Aftab (July 9, 2021)

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Techno-Noir Opera “Looking at You” Mines Privacy in the Digital World

If you have ever been the victim of credit card fraud or been lured into a dating app subscription,…
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Esteban Meneses
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Sonic Liberation Front: Palestine’s Underground Music Experimentalists are Resisting Erasure

The sound of liberation is a battle with silence. It is a mad mashup of noise, nostalgic ballads, an…
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Shirine Saad
Alya Al-Sultani and Marian Rezaei--Photo by Jonathan Crabb

Experimental, Amplified Voices Draw Live Audiences Back to Café Oto

London concert life is slowly reopening to limited audiences, and it was a particular pleasure to le…
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Caroline Potter
Sultana Isham--Photo by Nadia Sumac

5 Questions to Sultana Isham (composer, violinist, ethnomusicologist)

In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, nearly 200 confederate monuments have been removed i…
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Yaz Lancaster
One Voice Mixed Chorus--Photo by Paul Nixdorf

The Establishment of Genderqueer Sound Culture (Casting Light #2)

“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art…
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Kymani Queen, Aaron Gabriel
Gillian Friedman Fox--Photo by Meghan Sepe

5 Questions to Gillian Friedman Fox (Executive Director, Newport Music Festival)

Since its founding in 1969, the Newport Music Festival has presented over 2,000 concerts at Rhode Is…
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Amanda Cook
Carolina Heredia Dejate Caer

Video Premiere: Carolina Heredia Performs Dejate Caer

Much like something out of Godfrey Reggio’s 1982 experimental film Koyaanisqatsi, Carolina Her…
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ganavya -- Photo by Massinissa Selmani

ListN Up: Ganavya Doraiswamy (June 25, 2021)

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Quinteto Latino

Quinteto Latino Showcases the Diversity of Latin Identity with New Works

At a roundtable discussion in early June 2021, Quinteto Latino’s founder and director Armando Castel…
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Julia Kuhlman
New Music Gathering 2018--Photo by Austin Eamnarangkool

The 6th Annual New Music Gathering: Full Schedule, Keynote Speaker, Headliners

Hailed as “more than just another new music festival” (Wall Street Journal) and “a joyous celebratio…
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Video Premiere: “Gloria” from Mass for the Endangered

Ranging from architectural to celestial, the video album of Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for t…
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Adrian Dunn

5 Questions to Adrian Dunn (singer, songwriter, producer)

Adrian Dunn is a healer. Through his work, the Cleveland, OH native, creates a space for worship, vu…
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Jasmine IVANNA Espy
Gabriel Dharmoo--Photo by Jonathan Goulet

ListN Up: Gabriel Dharmoo (June 18, 2021)

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ACF Roundtable on the Asian American Experience

There is a full, vibrant spectrum of diversity that makes up the Asian American experience. In light…
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Dameun Strange
Art Srisayam and Bernadeta Astari in Ine Aya'--Photo by Nichon Glerum

Ine Aya’ Addresses the Deforestation of Kalimantan at the Holland Festival

The idea for Ine Aya’ – voice from a fading forest sparked off at a chance meeting between Ind…
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Thea Derks
Adolphus Hailstork

5 Questions to Adolphus Hailstork (composer) about Tulsa 1921

With an extensive catalogue of works for orchestra, chorus, opera, chamber music, and solo instrumen…
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Dalanie Harris
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