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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN Expands Perspectives with New Contributors

I CARE IF YOU LISTEN (ICIYL) and American Composers Forum (ACF) are proud to introduce the expanded…
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Susie Ibarra Talking Gong

Susie Ibarra Evokes Land and Community in Talking Gong

On composer-percussionist Susie Ibarra’s portrait album, Talking Gong, the dialogue between these re…
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Nebal Maysaud
William Robin--Photo by Emily Platt

5 Questions to William Robin (musicologist)

Musicologist William Robin is an assistant professor of music at University of Maryland and an advoc…
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Tracy Monaghan
Theo Baer--Photo by Kyna Marie

ListN Up: Theo Baer a.k.a. iT Boy (February 12, 2021)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing…
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Joseph Bohigian--Photo by Raffi Paul

5 Questions to Joseph Bohigian (composer-performer)

Armenian-American composer and performer Joseph Bohigian often explores displacement, heritage, and…
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Mary Kouyoumdjian
Patricia Brennan Maquishti

Maquishti Illuminates the Carpentry and Blacksmithing of Patricia Brennan

On her newly released album, Maquishti (Valley of Search), percussionist-composer Patricia Brennan o…
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Donna Lee Davidson
Paola Prestini--Photo by Axel Dupeux

5 Questions to Paola Prestini (Co-Founder and Artistic Director, National Sawdust)

Though Google Maps currently marks Brooklyn’s National Sawdust venue as closed, this fertile g…
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Stephanie Boyd
Elif Yalvaç Mountains Become Stepping Stones

Elif Yalvaç Haunts Ears and Minds on Mountains Become Stepping Stones

Elif Yalvaç grew up in an area of Turkey where, according to her bio, guitars were hard to come by.
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Sunny Jain--Photo by Ebru Yildiz

ListN Up: Sunny Jain (February 5, 2021)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing…
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They Will Take My Island--Photo by Ego Film Arts

They Will Take My Island: Collective Memory and Preservation

They Will Take My Island is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between Armenian-American composer Ma…
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Yaz Lancaster
Alexina Louie and Evie Mark

5 Questions to Alexina Louie (composer) and Evie Mark (throat singer)

Is it possible for Inuit-Western musical collaborations to be equitable and equal? The commission an…
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A. Kori Hill
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Meaghan Burke and The Rhythm Method Voice A Few Concerns

Meaghan Burke’s A Few Concerns (Gold Bolus Recordings) is the culmination of six years of work with…
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Tristan McKay
Walken Schweigert--Photo by Connie Chang

Walken Schweigert‘s Ritual Healing for Queer/Trans Lives

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. An opera must have drama, and what could…
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Sun Yung Shin
PUBLIQuartet--Photo by Lelanie Foster

ListN Up: PUBLIQuartet (January 29, 2021)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing…
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John Holiday--Photo by Shervin Lainez

5 Questions to John Holiday (countertenor) about Save The Boys

John Holiday is countertenor whose advocacy for the Black presence in classical performing arts alig…
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Bill Doggett
Xavier Beteta Lasting Shadows

Lasting Shadows: Xavier Beteta’s Dark, Elegiac Debut Album

A shadow can be defined as partial or complete darkness. So it seems only appropriate that composer…
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Nilina Mason-Campbell
Wendy Eisenberg--Photo by Magdalena Abrego

5 Questions to Wendy Eisenberg (improviser, composer, songwriter)

Wendy Eisenberg is a composer, performer, and guitarist whose music lives in the gray area between f…
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Clover Nahabedian
Imani Winds BRUITS

“We Cannot Continue This Way:” Imani Winds’ BRUITS Calls for Change

Amidst the social and political turmoil that has erupted in the United States over the past year, ma…
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Dalanie Harris
Samita Sinha--Photo by Shervin Lainez

ListN Up: Samita Sinha (January 22, 2021)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing…
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Naomi Perera and Adam Langley Strata

On Strata, Perera and Langley Create an Exquisite Corpse of Sound

When most musicians talk about “playing” music, what they mean is “performing.” But for improvisers…
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Julia Kuhlman
La Indita Cautiva at PROTOTYPE 2021--Photo by Raven Chacon

PROTOTYPE 2021: Diffusive and Exploratory Music-Theater

PROTOTYPE Festival has become known for nurturing intense, anguished music-theater pieces that go on…
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Lana Norris
Afa Dworkin--Photo by Kevin Kennedy

5 Questions to Afa Dworkin (President & Artistic Director, Sphinx Organization)

Afa Sadykhly Dworkin is the President and Artistic Director of Detroit’s Sphinx Organization. Born i…
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Gemma Peacocke
Yvette Janine Jackson Freedom

Freedom: Yvette Janine Jackson as Cartographer of Sonic Expeditions

Yvette Janine Jackson is dropping an LP entitled Freedom (Fridman Gallery) on January 29, 2021. Cons…
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Donna Lee Davidson
Marshall Trammell--Photo by Agatha Urbaniak

ListN Up: Marshall Trammell (January 15, 2021)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing…
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