
Essay
Money Matters is a NewMusicBox x I CARE IF YOU LISTEN collaboration, supported by New Music USA In ongoing debates about how to make the new music community more socioeconomically equitable and access…

Concert
In mid-July, London is in festival mood. Overlapping with the famous Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, a short festival of East and South-East Asian arts was taking place at the Southbank Centre. ESEA E…

Video
Kaleidoscopic images of a pianist’s hands are interspersed with exaggerated shots of empty interiors. A flower emerges from a milky substance; another is submerged in violet water, its petals fl…

Album
No sound is too potent for the trio of guitarist Ava Mendoza, violinist gabby fluke-mogul, and drummer Carolina Pérez. The three musicians, who each hail from a different corner of the experimental mu…

Concert
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp Brings Joyful Grooves to Rhode Island’s Machines with Magnets
Switzerland’s Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp (OTPMD) and Providence, Rhode Island’s dakoudakou are two groups that could absolutely perform for a seated audience; these are bands that, by desi…

Interview
For Cris Derksen, music is a conversation – a tool that brings attention to issues of the present and reaches back to the past. Whether it’s an Indigenous drum circle or Mozart, performances are an op…
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