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Album
In today’s eclectically-aural world, rarely is a reviewer afforded the opportunity to rectify the mi...
Author
Norman Cahn
Following up his 2009 debut album, Enter Houses Of (on John Zorn’s Tzadik label), Minnesota-bo...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Perceiving and thinking about the way things change, we can sometimes pierce through to the elementa...
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Gavin Gamboa
Solo pianist Bruce Levingston‘s Heavy Sleep, released this year on the Sono Luminus label, car...
Author
Curtis Perry
The debate between absolute and programmatic music has been a point of contention for several centur...
Author
Norman Cahn
Titles that make any sort of bold claim usually push me away. When I was asked to review Powerhouse...
Author
Jarrett Goodchild
Composition is such a solitary act. So much so that we can easily forget just how huge and diverse t...
Author
Jay Derderian
Pianist, composer and educator Nils Vigeland (b. 1950) was born in Buffalo, NY into a musical family...
Author
Don Clark
Confronted with the title “A Space Odyssey,” memories of HAL 9000’s all-knowing red gaze and my own...
Author
Norman Cahn
Imagine a lava lamp. Shivering globules ooze around a tightly defined glass case in a state of amorp...
Author
Daniel Hautzinger
synesthesia | sinəsˈTHēZHə | n. the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part o...
Author
Justin Rito
Like the swirling masses of clouds that momentarily amass over Sumatran rainforests (those cumulus b...
Author
Gavin Gamboa
What distinguishes good from outstanding in a performing artist? It seems that the best performers h...
Author
Amanda Cook
Everything about Christopher Cerrone’s Invisible Cities project is stylishly executed. Judging from...
Author
Richard Barnard
Marcel Proust, his memory kindled by a simple madeleine cookie, characterizes my musical experience...
Author
Norman Cahn
A soloist with collaborative roots Jeffrey Zeigler’s recent solo album Something of Life illustrates...
Author
Christian Gentry
In a recent article that briefly examines some of the lasting impact that Beethoven has had on weste...
Author
Justin Rito
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is a $140 million construc...
Author
Gavin Gamboa
If, like me, you've been into Corey Dargel's music for a long time, you might have been wondering wh...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
In this imaginatively programmed disc from eOne Productions, violinist Anne Akiko Meyers and conduct...
Author
Don Clark
Angels and Watermarks is the latest self-released album (Snow Leopard Music) by Howard Hersh, an Ame...
Author
Joanne Lam
When discussing arts and culture, one often hears the phrase "the work speaks for itself" thrown aro...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Since their formation in 2010, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble has dedicated itself to commission...
Author
Jason Charney
