Origin stories can say it all. For the narrator of Sam Cooke’s song “A Change is Gonna Come,” having...
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Nick Stevens
Here’s a one-word review of Jennifer Curtis and Tyshawn Sorey’s collaborative album Invisible Ritual...
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Nick Stevens
Half a decade ago, “pivot to video” first became a buzzphrase and then, among those in media, a bitt...
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Nick Stevens
Sometimes the narrative just melts away. In spaces devoted to classical and new music, murkily curta...
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Nick Stevens
At one point in Heart Chamber, Chaya Czernowin’s fourth and latest opera, a filament bulb casts rust...
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Nick Stevens
Pigeonhole Jordan Plotner at your own risk. His resume includes scores for dozens of films, TV shows...
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Nick Stevens
Beautiful, algorithmic, organic, dystopian–on their latest album, Isaac Schankler collapses a...
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Nick Stevens
What does it mean to write music of substance in 2019? In olden days, the turn of phrase separated “...
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Nick Stevens
Columbus, Ohio tends not to attract much hype, despite being among the Midwest’s few fast-grow...
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Nick Stevens
In 2015, surreal images produced by AIs as they learned to parse objects launched an internet frenzy...
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Nick Stevens
Fifty-one years after the Summer of Love, a record from New Music Detroit (NMD) has arrived with an...
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Nick Stevens
In 2016, Sybarite5 launched a crowdfunding effort for a tenth-anniversary recording project. Nearly...
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Nick Stevens
