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Carl Stone and Lou Mallozzi at Experimental Sound Studio -- Photo by Alex Inglizian

What A Day of Live Music in Chicago Sounds Like

On a cloudless, crisp Saturday afternoon, a crowd of more than a hundred people are huddled in the b...
Author
Hannah Edgar
Shelley Washington and Wild Up -- Photo by Angel Origgi

Review: Wild Up and Shelley Washington “How We Hold Together”

Within the sonically contained black box theater at REDCAT, a prismatic playroom of toys, knick-knac...
Author
Isabel Li
Talea Ensemble -- Courtesy of artist

Review: Talea Ensemble Composer Spotlight on Amadeus Regucera

There is no music without the body. String players live with rock-hard finger callouses. Wind and br...
Author
Daniele Sahr
Julia Edith Rigby performs

Review: Julia Edith Rigby “Lithic Breathing”

As voices and footsteps of incoming audiences echoed within the First Congregational Church of Los A...
Author
Isabel Li
LARAAJI and Michael Brook perform at MEZAME festival -- Photo by David Iskra

Review: LARAAJI x Michael Brook at MEZAME Festival

Recorded interactions between LARAAJI and Michael Brook are scarce. Though they were both fixtures o...
Author
Raphael Helfand

Review: Nwando Ebizie “Ecsta­sy of the Virtues”

The desire to bring the music of Hildegard von Bingen into the modern day is not an uncommon one. As...
Author
Michelle Hromin
Vox Urbane -- Photo by Ben Roberts

Review: Vox Urbane at The Ditch

The Ditch doesn’t exactly sound like the name of a classical music venue. Situated in a fashionable...
Author
Caroline Potter
Violeta Garcia at Ultima Festival 2026 -- Photo by Nabeeh Samaan

Review: Ultima Festival 2026

Ever heard of a wolpertinger? The mythical creature is said to inhabit the forests of southern Germa...
Author
Amanda Cook
Leo Chang -- Courtesy of Venue

Review: Raven Chacon + Tashi Dorji + Alex Zhang Hungtai // Leo Chang at Roulette

Noise improvisation: the craft of experimenting with sound, sculpting a world for the listener to in...
Author
Vanessa Ague
Ami Dang at Sound and Gravity 2026 -- Photo by Bella Peterson

Review: Sound and Gravity 2026

I hope I never forget the warm September night when I saw Kari Watson and Katinka Kleijn perform at...
Author
Thulasi Seshan
Julius Eastman -- Photo by Ron Hammond

Review: AfriClassical Futures Presents “The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc”

What happens when an iconoclast becomes an institution? That question continues to unfold with Juliu...
Author
Hannah Edgar
Liz Draper -- Photo by Eric Reich

Review: Liz Draper at Edna’s Park

The sky can’t decide if it’s going to rain. Baby blue dots the gaps between hulking grey clouds over...
Author
Dustin Nelson
International Contemporary Ensemble -- Photo by Fadi Kheir

Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at TIME:SPANS Festival

In the last minutes of Márton Illés’ Forajzok (2021), every member of the International Contemporary...
Author
Jordan Silversmith
Piao Niu performs in Du Yun's

Review: Du Yun “The Ocean Etched in the Forest” (刻在森林的海)

A last-minute venue change brought Chinese Arts Week’s presentation of Du Yun’s The Ocean Etched in...
Author
Yaz Lancaster
Charlotte Kennedy and Archie Inns as Ramona and Ermon in

Review: Royal College of Music “Fantasy and Fairytales”

It’s end-of-term showtime at the London conservatoires, and recently I’ve seen some exciting new sho...
Author
Caroline Potter
Ash Fure at Pioneer Works -- Photo by Ahad Subzwari

Review: Ash Fure and Laurel Halo at Pioneer Works

Everything seemed perfectly engineered for presence on Jun. 25 at Pioneer Works. The sun twinkled go...
Author
Vanessa Ague
Vicki Ray in Wild Up,

Music, Mysticism, and Quiet Radicalism in Wild Up’s “The Interior Castle”

In a world of constant connectivity, what do we gain from looking within? Wild Up’s Jun. 6 program,...
Author
Dalanie Harris
Char Jeré at Roulette Intermedium -- Photo by Aiden Li

Char Jeré and Guests Mold Time and Space in “Planet/Tear”

“A shifting environment of unstable systems … Signals emerge, overlap, and dissolve, forming a tempo...
Author
Lana Norris
Standard Issue at Dig That Treasure! Festival 2026 -- Photo by Carl Northcote

The Ecstatic Experience of Dig That Treasure! Festival 2026

I don’t think I have ever seen the audience at Cafe Oto so animated and so joyful as they were on th...
Author
Robert Barry
CHAINES and Laura van der Heijden perform at Manchester Collective's

Music Flies Free in “Papillons” from Manchester Collective

The tagline for the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival is ‘a multi-arts festival powered by orch...
Author
Caroline Potter
International Contemporary Ensemble at Hannah Kendall Composer Portrait -- Photo by Stephanie Berger for Miller Theatre at Columbia University

Disorienting Dread in the Works of Hannah Kendall

Hannah Kendall expresses her fascination with a multi-dimensional rainbow of timbre through her rete...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
Kiki Hitomi of WaqWaq Kingdom at Rewire Festival 2026 -- Photo by Sabine van Nistelrooij

Rewire Festival Offers an International Space for Catharsis and Connection

The 2026 Rewire Festival opened not with a bang, but as a beautifully disjointed conversation. In th...
Author
Yaz Lancaster
Lucy Liyou -- Photo by Park Seung Won

Lucy Liyou Breaks Free in Visceral “Mister Cobra” Performance

Before she took the stage as “Babygirl,” we were preparing for Lucy Liyou’s character to bleed. Ushe...
Author
Connie Li
Camille Norment at Borealis 2026 -- Photo by Thor Brødreskift

Experimentalism in Transition: a Mercurial Week at Borealis 2026

Seated in the round at Åsane Kulturhus, a string of spoken words transmogrified in spatialized audio...
Author
Amanda Cook
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