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Tom Chiu and Brian Marks at MATA 2025 -- Photo by Cameron Kelly McLeod, courtesy of ISSUE Project Room

Concert

MATA 2025 Transports Listeners with a Beautifully Curated Cosmic Program

Anna Meadors, Anuj Bhutani, Brian Mark, Conrad Harris, Diallo Banks, Elsie Bae Han, FLUX Quartet, George Lewis, Giordano Bruno do Nascimentoruno do, Inga Chinilina, Jee Seo, Jessie Cox, Katie Porter, Kevin Ramsay, Kyle Hillman, Marshall Allen, MATA, Music At The Anthology, Negar Soleymanifar, Nina Fukuoka, Paul Novak, Pauline Kim Harris, Petra Strahovnik, RE:duo, Reza Vali, Rodrigo Espino, Roscoe Mitchell, Sun Ra Arkestra, Tom Chiu, Tyler J. Borden, Wilson Poffenberger

The annual Music at the Anthology (MATA) Festival connects courageous composers and listeners through daring works from the global compositional community. Since Lisa Bielawa, Eleonor Sandresky, and P…

Lana Norris

Jun 18, 2025

Album

The Crossing’s “At Which Point” is a Beautifully Executed Record of New Choral Works

Ayanna Woods, Donald Nally, New Focus Recordings, Tawnie Olson, The Crossing, Wang Lu

Released on April 4 2025, At Which Point (New Focus Recordings) from The Crossing continues the choir’s dedication to commissioning and furthering the genre of choral music. Having commissioned nearly…

Anne Goldberg-Baldwin

Jun 17, 2025

Paula Sanchez -- Photo by Luis Matias Kerman

Interview

5 Questions to Paula Sanchez (cellist, vocalist, composer)

Paula Sanchez, Relative Pitch Records

Paula Sanchez uses performance to traverse the connections between sound, material, and improvisation. The cellist and vocalist refined her interdisciplinary approach through music studies at Argentin…

Jacob Kopcienski

Jun 11, 2025

Album

BAKUDI SCREAM Reaches for Liberation On His Audacious Second Album, “Prey”

Alarm Will Sound, BAKUDI SCREAM, Fugazi, Rohan Chander

BAKUDI SCREAM, the pseudonym used by performer and composer Rohan Chander, released his second studio album Prey last month in collaboration with Alarm Will Sound. Chander uses a large host of sampled…

Clover Nahabedian

Jun 9, 2025

Jessie Cox -- Photo by Adrien H. Tillmann

Playlist

ListN Up Playlist: Jessie Cox (June 5, 2025)

Arthur Kampela, Charles Uzor, Dreamtime Ensemble, Ensemble Contemporary Insights, Ensemble Mothertongue, Isabel Pfefferkorn, Jessie Cox, Marshall Allen, Matük, Peyton Pleninger, Rupert Huber, Susie Ibarra, Viola Yip

ListN Up playlists are commissioned by American Composers Forum. Artists are selected by ACF staff (including I CARE IF YOU LISTEN and innova Recordings). Jessie Cox is Assistant Professor of Music at…

I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

Jun 4, 2025

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