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The Riot Ensemble

The Riot Ensemble Presents “Extinction Events” at Kings Place, London

Loss, degradation, toxic masculinity: these were the themes of The Riot Ensemble’s ‘Extinction Event...
Author
Caroline Potter
Bang on a Can All-Stars--Photo by David Andrako

Ecstatic Music Festival at 10: Bang on a Can People’s Commissioning Fund

On January 28, 2020, the Ecstatic Music Festival continued it’s 10-year run at the Kaufman Music Cen...
Author
Justin D. Wright
~Nois--Photo by Nick Zoulek

“Playfully Serious” Music: The Furies and ~Nois Take Scholes Street Studio

On Thursday, January 16, 2020, The Furies and ~Nois warmed Scholes Street Studio with a double-bille...
Author
Aaron Wolff
Magdalene--Photo by Maria Baranova

Magdalene Wrests Control from the Male Gaze in a Complicated Production at PROTOTYPE

Mary Magdalene is famous for her intimate position in Jesus’ inner circle at a time women were not c...
Author
Lana Norris
thingNY--Photo by Brian McCorkle

Music and Language Converge at thingNY’s “Hello. My Name Is…”

On December 18, 2019, enthusiasts of the playful, theatrical, and uncannily poignant thingNY (Jeffre...
Author
Tristan McKay
HEART CHAMBER, Director: Claus Guth, World premiere on 15 November 2019, Deutsche Oper Berlin, copyright: Michael Trippel

Deutsche Oper Berlin Stages Czernowin’s Heart Chamber

At one point in Heart Chamber, Chaya Czernowin’s fourth and latest opera, a filament bulb casts rust...
Author
Nick Stevens
GBSR Duo--Photo by Dejan Mrdja

GBSR Duo Play Feldman Tributes and New British Music in London

Like many of the London universities and conservatoires, City, University of London run a concert se...
Author
Caroline Potter
Gabriel Dharmoo's Anthropologies Imaginaires--Photo by Matthew Ricketts

Experimentation and Satire: Gabriel Dharmoo’s Anthropologies Imaginaires

Gabriel Dharmoo, an artistic polyglot whose work exists at the nexus of avant-garde vocal music, eth...
Author
Aaron Wolff
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Resonance Works Pittsburgh Works to Diversify the Canon

On Sunday, November 3, 2019, Pittsburgh’s resident multimodal performing arts company, Resonance Wor...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Afro Yaqui--Photo by David Roth

Afro Yaqui Music Collective Works to Resurrect Silenced Voices

On Thursday, October 24, 2019, the Afro Yaqui Music Collective took the stage on Pittsburgh’s North...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
~Nois and Kinds of Kings--Photo courtesy of Roulette

~Nois Celebrates Music by Kinds of Kings at Roulette

Chicago-based ~Nois is not a noise music ensemble, nor are they an electronic or computer-based band...
Author
Aaron Wolff
Steven Schick and ICE perform George Lewis' Soundlines: A Dreaming Track--Photo by Ian Douglas

Soundlines: Engaging Performances from ICE, Lewis, & Schick

Over the past decade, numerous projects have drawn composer George Lewis, percussionist Steven Schic...
Author
Jacob Kopcienski
Sphinx Virtuosi--Photo by Stephanie Berger

Sphinx Virtuosi “For Justice and Peace” Confronts Social Justice Issues

Music happens in real time. On Friday, October 11th, 2019, the Sphinx Virtuosi string orchestra conc...
Author
Lana Norris
Ensemble Pamplemousse's Chance and Circumstance Festival--Photo by Natacha Diels

Chance & Circumstance Festival: Absurdist Theater + Experimental Noise

The Chance & Circumstance Festival finished its three-night run on Saturday, September 21st with...
Author
Justin D. Wright
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...
Author
Kevin Baldwin
Ensemble Offspring--Photo courtesy www.ensembleoffspring.com

“The Night With” Ensemble Offspring and Duo van Vliet in Glasgow

While indie and jazz music makes a rite of passage and a home in dark and dank of basement venues, a...
Author
Myles Oakey
The Bell Ringers--Photo by LingYu

The Bell Ringers Encourages Participation and Discovery in Chicago

On September 9, 2019, composer and arts educator Danny Clay teamed up with Third Coast Percussion fo...
Author
Jillian DeGroot
Roomful of Teeth--Photo by Bonica Ayala

Roomful of Teeth and ACF | connect Converge at MASS MoCA

“In this past year, I have made a promise to myself to really get to know the performers I collabora...
Author
Amanda Cook
Ragnar Kjartansson, (Icelandic, b. 1976) Death is Elsewhere, 2019 Seven-channel video installation 77 minutes © Ragnar Kjartansson; Courtesy of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Endurance Art and Music: Ragnar Kjartansson’s Circle of Death, Beauty and Time

Death Is Elsewhere (2019) is a seven-channel video installation that captures a single song performe...
Author
Greta Rainbow
Bushra El-Turk's Silk Moth--Photo by Lidia Crisafulli

Grimeborn Festival Stages Daring Triple Bill Featuring El-Turk’s “Silk Moth”

It’s summer opera festival season in the UK–so, are you a Glyndebourne or a Grimeborn person?...
Author
Caroline Potter
ICE and IFCA at Mostly Mozart--Photo courtesy of DigitICE

ICE Showcases the Iranian Female Composers Association at Mostly Mozart

The Iranian Female Composers Association was founded in 2017 by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Anahita Abbasi,...
Author
Lana Norris
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Front Porch, Siegfried, & Boggs Transform National Sawdust With New Premieres

On the balmy evening of Sunday, July 28, the hard black and white geometry of National Sawdust seeme...
Author
Daniel Schreiner
Cevanna Horrocks-Hopayian performs at Battersea Arts Centre during the 2019 Proms

Proms at Battersea Arts Centre Showcases UK Experimental Music Scene

For me, summer in London would be unimaginable without two things: complaining about the weather bei...
Author
Caroline Potter
To the Moon at Manchester International Festival--Photo by Michael Pollard

To the Moon: Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang’s Bring VR to Manchester International Festival

With my head tilted back, I gazed up at the stars. Against the black of space, the constellation rea...
Author
Myles Oakey
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