Playlist
Denver, Colorado born Xavier Emmanuel (he/him) is a multi-hyphenate artist/scholar and PhD candidate in Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry at the Harvard University Department of Music. His work a…
Essay
On a spring day in 2022, an uninterrupted hum emanates from the center of a room, as natural as the human voice yet produced by electronic instruments. As I stand in the corner listening to Éliane Rad…
Album
The Estonian composer Madli Marje Gildemann explores the fragile thresholds between sound, embodiment, and perception. Her music often dwells in states of suspension and transformation, drawing on ext…
Concert
Before she took the stage as “Babygirl,” we were preparing for Lucy Liyou’s character to bleed. Ushers had proactively cautioned audience members in the first two rows at Performance Space New York th…
Album
Although Camae Ayewa, Tcheser Holmes, Luke Stewart, Aquiles Navarro, and Keir Neuringer had lived and worked in the same spaces for years, their latent connections finally crystallized in 2017 on…
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