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Los Angeles Electroacoustic Ensemble

Los Angeles Electroacoustic Ensemble Places Electronics in a Chamber Music Lexicon

The Los Angeles Electroacoustic Ensemble’s debut self-titled album represents an exploration of elec...
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Padideh Aghanoury
TAK Ensemble--Photo by David Bird

Track Premiere: TAK Ensemble’s Star Maker Fragments

Microtonal electroacoustic experimentation meets sci-fi explorations of the universe and creation on...
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George Lewis’ The Recombinant Trilogy Reimagines the Boundaries of Experimental Music

A renowned member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971, le...
Author
Jillian DeGroot
Susie Ibarra Talking Gong

Susie Ibarra Evokes Land and Community in Talking Gong

On composer-percussionist Susie Ibarra’s portrait album, Talking Gong, the dialogue between these re...
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Nebal Maysaud
Patricia Brennan Maquishti

Maquishti Illuminates the Carpentry and Blacksmithing of Patricia Brennan

On her newly released album, Maquishti (Valley of Search), percussionist-composer Patricia Brennan o...
Author
Donna Lee Davidson
Elif Yalvaç Mountains Become Stepping Stones

Elif Yalvaç Haunts Ears and Minds on Mountains Become Stepping Stones

Elif Yalvaç grew up in an area of Turkey where, according to her bio, guitars were hard to come by.
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Christian Kriegeskotte
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Meaghan Burke and The Rhythm Method Voice A Few Concerns

Meaghan Burke’s A Few Concerns (Gold Bolus Recordings) is the culmination of six years of work with...
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Tristan McKay
Xavier Beteta Lasting Shadows

Lasting Shadows: Xavier Beteta’s Dark, Elegiac Debut Album

A shadow can be defined as partial or complete darkness. So it seems only appropriate that composer...
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Nilina Mason-Campbell
Imani Winds BRUITS

“We Cannot Continue This Way:” Imani Winds’ BRUITS Calls for Change

Amidst the social and political turmoil that has erupted in the United States over the past year, ma...
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Dalanie Harris
Naomi Perera and Adam Langley Strata

On Strata, Perera and Langley Create an Exquisite Corpse of Sound

When most musicians talk about “playing” music, what they mean is “performing.” But for improvisers...
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Julia Kuhlman
Yvette Janine Jackson Freedom

Freedom: Yvette Janine Jackson as Cartographer of Sonic Expeditions

Yvette Janine Jackson is dropping an LP entitled Freedom (Fridman Gallery) on January 29, 2021. Cons...
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Donna Lee Davidson
Rhonda Taylor AFTERPARTY

AFTERPARTY: Rhonda Taylor Reflects on Losing What you Didn’t Know You Had

In her newest album, AFTERPARTY (released November 8, 2020), Rhonda Taylor brings together an eclect...
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Sofía Rocha
Numinous The Grey Land

The Grey Land: Joseph C. Phillips Jr. Captures the Essence of Modern Black America

Joseph C. Phillips Jr. composes with no limitations. Undefined by any genre, the 2016 American Compo...
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Jasmine IVANNA Espy
Yoshi Weinberg REBIRTH EP

Out of Yoshi Weinberg’s REBIRTH Comes a Breath of Fresh Air

Ever-growing access to arts education has resulted in a treasure-trove of skilled performers along w...
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Nebal Maysaud
Du Yun and JACK Quartet A Cockroach's Tarantella

Du Yun and JACK Quartet Embody Anthropomorphized Insects on A Cockroach’s Tarantella

A Cockroach’s Tarantella is the latest collaboration between JACK Quartet and composer Du Yun. Relea...
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Ciyadh Wells
Wang Lu An Atlas of Time

An Atlas of Time: Wang Lu Explores the Imperfect Cartography of Memory

Two years have passed since the release of Wang Lu’s debut album Urban Inventory, making the release...
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Jennifer Jolley
2020 albums

Editor’s Picks: 2020 Contemporary Classical Albums

If this year has delivered any sort of message about our field, it’s that artists will inevita...
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Amanda Cook
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The Unheard Mixtape 1: Follow to the End Celebrates Experimentation and Black Expressive Culture

If there is a defining characteristic of 21st century classical composition, it’s a blurring o...
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A. Kori Hill
Carla Canales Duende

Carla Canales Navigates Cultural In-Betweens in “Duende”

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month in October 2020, Mexican-American opera singer and arts ad...
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Yaz Lancaster
We Are Who We Are--Photography by Yannis Drakoulidis/HBO

Dev Hynes Guides We Are Who We Are with a Classical Score and His Idol Presence

HBO quietly released We Are Who We Are this September, the first television show from director Luca...
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Greta Rainbow
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
Consortium Works: Solo Saxophone

Innovation at Work – Consortium Works: Solo Saxophone

In 2018, Canadian saxophonist Samantha Etchegary and composer Andrew Noseworthy launched a Solo Saxo...
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Lauren Ishida
Transient Canvas--Photo by Robert Torres

Track Premiere: Transient Canvas Performs Emily Koh’s \very/ specifically vague

Today’s track premiere features Transient Canvas (Amy Advocat, bass clarinet; Matt Sharrock, m...
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Grossman Ensemble Fountain of Time

Fountain of Time: The Grossman Ensemble Provides Space for Creative Incubation

On August 21, 2020, the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition’s Grossman Ensemble released its...
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Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
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