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Kevin Baldwin

Kevin Baldwin, D.M.A., (he/him) is a composer, saxophonist, and visual artist, focusing on graphic and alternate notations. Kevin, based in greater Boston, is the founder of eyeMusic Projects, an ongoing collection of visual experimentations with notational elements.
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TJ Cole -- Photo by O'Neil Arnold

5 Questions to TJ Cole (composer)

This sponsored article is part of a paid partnership with the Curtis Institute of Music. Louisville-...
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Kevin Baldwin
Olivia de Prato -- Photo by Andrej Grilc

Finding Nuance in Every Detail, Olivia De Prato Explores the Intricacies of the Self on “Panorama”

Home, identity, and self are ideas that apply to everyone navigating their way through life; each st...
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Kevin Baldwin
TAK ensemble--Photo by Kaveh Kowsari

5 Questions to TAK Ensemble for their 10th anniversary

TAK ensemble has reached a milestone; the 2022-23 season marks their 10th anniversary as one of the...
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Kevin Baldwin
Jascha Narveson and Ashley Bathgate Flash Crash + Remixes

Jascha Narveson’s Flash Crash + Remixes Probes our Relationship with Technology

Technological advances in artificial intelligence, algorithms, and automation have provided advancem...
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Kevin Baldwin
Kinds of Kings Bouman Fellowship recipients Silen Wellington and Theo Baer

5 Questions to Silen Wellington and Theo Baer (2021-22 Bouman Fellowship)

The Kinds of Kings Bouman Fellowship is an advocacy, access, and amplification program for historica...
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Kevin Baldwin
Ensemble Decipher--Photo by Sophia Sagaradze

5 Questions to Ensemble Decipher

Founded in 2017 by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Ensemble Decipher (Nourbakhsh, Joseph Bohigian, Robert Cosgr...
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Kevin Baldwin
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Erin Rogers Develops Real-Time Compositions Through Extended Techniques on 2000 Miles

“… a radiant world of imagination and curiosity, where beauty comes disguised.” Th...
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Kevin Baldwin
NOMON Card II

NOMON Embodies the Physicality of Percussion on Rorschach-Inspired EP

In the first few seconds, Card II grips the listener, utilizing a blend of percussion, drum machine,...
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Kevin Baldwin
Reinaldo Moya Hearing it Getting Dark

Hearing it Getting Dark: Composer Reinaldo Moya’s Debut Album

Composer Reinaldo Moya’s debut album Hearing it Getting Dark (Furious Artisans) highlights the growt...
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Kevin Baldwin
Kaze and Ikue Mori Sand Storm

Sand Storm: Kaze and Ikue Mori Traverse Experimental Soundscapes

Sand Storm, a collaboration between Kaze and Ikue Mori on Circum-Libra Records, opens like a sensory...
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Kevin Baldwin
Jennifer Koh Limitless

Jennifer Koh Spotlights Composer-Performer Collaborators on Limitless

Limitless is an imaginative album featuring collaborations between violinist Jennifer Koh and eight...
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Kevin Baldwin
Members of the Boston Children's Chorus in I Am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams--Photo by Kathy Wittman | Ball Square Films

I Am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams: White Snake Projects’ Immigration Opera

The stage opens in silence to a bleak jail cell, brightly lit by abrasive fluorescents–a woman...
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Kevin Baldwin
Box Not Found--Photo by Russell Hebert

5 Questions to Box Not Found (Kevin Price and Natalie Calma)

Asking yourself hard questions in the mirror is not easy, but to recognize imperfections and make pr...
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Kevin Baldwin
Maria Finkelmeier A Line that Terminates at the Present

A Line that Terminates at the Present: Maria Finkelmeier’s Composer Debut

A Line that Terminates at the Present, Maria Finkelmeier’s debut album as a composer, skillfully wea...
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Kevin Baldwin
True Fluorescent Skeleton

True Fluorescent Skeleton: Unhinged and Psychedelic (Ehse Records)

The answer to what Bartok’s Mikrokosmos would have sounded like if he had access to psychedelics and...
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Kevin Baldwin
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Crazy: Songs by T. Patrick Carrabré (Winter Wind Records)

Crazy, a song cycle by T. Patrick Carrabré, seeks to explore the line necessary in the creative proc...
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Kevin Baldwin
Winnipeg New Music Festival

Winnipeg New Music Festival: “Music, Politics, and the Personal”

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” -Universal Declaration of Human Ri...
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Kevin Baldwin
Winnipeg New Music Festival Composers Institute

Fresh Faces at the Winnipeg New Music Festival Composers Institute

The Forks, where the two rivers in Winnipeg meet, is host to one of the longest ice skating trails i...
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Kevin Baldwin
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Winter at the Winnipeg New Music Festival: New Music like Nowhere Else

In an inconspicuous Canadian city due north of Minnesota, at times a meeting point between Fahrenhei...
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Kevin Baldwin
Andy Akiho

Emerald City Music Presents Andy Akiho Artist Spotlight in Seattle

The prototypical classical concert experience in a former warehouse converted to event space in the...
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Kevin Baldwin
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David Kirkland Garner’s Folk-Inspired Dark Holler (New Focus Recordings)

With a distinct aesthetic, David Kirkland Garner’s work Dark Holler (New Focus Recordings) weaves pu...
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Kevin Baldwin
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5 Questions to Gong Linna and Lao Luo about Cloud River Mountain

On July 14-15, 2017, Bang on a Can, Gong Linna, and Lao Luo bring you Cloud River Mountain as part o...
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Kevin Baldwin
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Seattle Symphony Orchestra does New York School

In the Grand Lobby of Benaroya Hall on February 5, 2016 at 10:00pm, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s...
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Kevin Baldwin
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Sō Percussion in Seattle and in Your Living Room

An excited audience waited in anticipation for the 7:30 pm downbeat by Sō Percussion in Meany Theate...
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Kevin Baldwin
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An Eclectic Night of Premieres at Wayward Music Series

A large and eager crowd attended the Good Shepherd Center’s Wayward Music Series for a concert of pr...
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Kevin Baldwin
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Noise and Driftwood: A Pairing of Improvisation Ensembles

“Is this the real life?” “If you’re happy and you know it…” “Is this just…” “CLAP YOUR HANDS!” “Carr...
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Kevin Baldwin

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