
George Lewis leads his recent New York Times article-cum-playlist with some wise words from Muhal Ri...
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James May

One of the best parts of my grad school experience was performing with and composing for my friends.
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James May

The festival compilation is an album format especially particular to the New Music community; an ins...
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James May

Norwegian composer Øyvind Torvund’s recent release on Hubro Music, The Exotica Album, is a dreamlike...
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James May

OBEY Convention in K’Jipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia enters its 12th iteration May 30-June 2, 2019. OB...
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James May

I’ve had the privilege of spending the last six months living and studying experimental sound practi...
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James May

Composer, arranger, and violinist/violist Lev Zhurbin, a.k.a. Ljova, has a diverse array of musical...
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James May

How do musicians deal with politics? The question weighs on the minds of composers and performers al...
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James May

In the 1950s, Jan Oort hypothesized the existence of a huge collection of icy interstellar debris on...
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James May

I, constantly, must remind myself that when I first heard contemporary music, it was not a headlong...
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James May