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Claire Chase

Ojai Music Festival -- Photo by Timothy Norris

The 2025 Ojai Music Festival Manifests a Better World through Sonic Discovery

In a tranquil southern Californian park, shaded by oak trees, the Libbey Bowl transforms each June i...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
Claire Chase -- Photo by Karen Chester

Claire Chase Explores Minutiae and Ubiquity in Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s “UBIQUE”

In Edgard Varèse’s Density 21.5, a solo flutist pushes and shoves through ever widening intervallic...
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Julia Kuhlman
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Susie Ibarra’s “Sky Islands” is an Evocative Sonification of Fragile Rainforest Ecosystems

On the mountaintops of Luzon, Philippines are a collection of unique, high-altitude rainforest ecosy...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
Arlene and Larry Dunn -- Photo by Tanya Rosen-Jones

5 Questions to Arlene and Larry Dunn about the Fund for Afrodiasporic Music

In a 2023 concert review of the International Contemporary Ensemble featuring composer-performer Dou...
Author
Julia Kuhlman
JACK Quartet -- Photo by Shervin Lainez

Anatomy of a Commission: Performers as Commissioners

Designed for both music creators and their collaborators, “Anatomy of a Commission” is a digital res...
Author
Austin Wulliman
International Contemporary Ensemble at TIME:SPANS 2023 -- Photo by Felipe Wurst and Adele Fournet

International Contemporary Ensemble Introduces Vision for a Musical Polyaspora at TIME:SPANS 2023

As the new artistic director of the International Contemporary Ensemble, George Lewis aspires for th...
Author
Jennifer Jolley
Anna Thorvaldsdottir -- Photo by Kristinn Ingvarsson

5 Questions to Anna Thorvaldsdottir (composer)

Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir creates music with immersive and dreamlike qualities. In orc...
Author
Tristan McKay
Grace Parisi--Photo by Jono Gasparro

ListN Up: Grace Parisi (December 16, 2022)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Editor's Picks: 2021 New Music Albums

Editor’s Picks: 2021 New Music Albums

I think this is finally the year where I knowingly sacrifice I CARE IF YOU LISTEN’s SEO, becau...
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Amanda Cook
ganavya -- Photo by Massinissa Selmani

ListN Up: Ganavya Doraiswamy (June 25, 2021)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con...
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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...
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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
Andrew Norman--Photo by Jessa Anderson

This week: live streamed concerts (May 11, 2020 – May 17, 2020)

Virtual Commissions: Gus Solomons, Jr. | Works & Process Every Sunday and Monday, Works & Pr...
Author
Sam Reising
Shara Nova

This week: live streamed concerts (April 20, 2020 – April 26, 2020)

It Is One-Hundred Seconds to Midnight In honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, composer Dorian...
Author
Sam Reising
Momenta Quartet

This week: concerts in New York (October 14, 2019 – October 20, 2019)

Fifteen Years of Momenta | Momenta Festival V Momenta Festival V opens with a celebration of Momenta...
Author
Sam Reising
Ellen Reid--Photo by Arnaud Pyvka

This week: concerts in New York (September 23, 2019 – September 29, 2019)

John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series Presents: Wendy Eisenberg The John Zorn Commissioning S...
Author
Sam Reising
Anthony Braxton

This week: concerts in New York (June 10, 2019 – June 16, 2019)

Face the Music: Critical Mass with Claire Chase & Tri-Centric Foundation Face the Music joins fo...
Author
Sam Reising
Claire Chase, Peter Evans, and Joe McPhee--© Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Photo: Bryan Conley

Chase, Evans, & McPhee Evoke Deep Listening at Pittsburgh’s Warhol Museum

On Saturday, March 23, in collaboration with the Carnegie Museum of Art’s 57th triennial Carnegie In...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Amanda Gookin

This week: concerts in New York (March 18, 2019 – March 24, 2019)

Cecilia Lopez: Dos (tres) / Bifurcations with Aki Onda For the first concert of her 2019 Roulette re...
Author
Sam Reising
Claire Chase's Density 2036: part vi--Photo by Karen Chester

Claire Chase Prophesies What’s Possible in “Density 2036, part vi” at The Kitchen

Claire Chase‘s last “Density 2036“ episode, Marcos Balters’ Pan, was a 90-mi...
Author
Lana Norris
Inbal Segev

This week: concerts in New York (February 25, 2019 – March 3, 2019)

Cutting Edge Concerts The February 25 program will begin with pianist Nadia Shpachenko-Gottesman per...
Author
Sam Reising
Du Yun--Photo by Matt Zugale for Miller Theare

Du Yun Composer Portrait: Seeking the Personal and Profound

The auditorium was still only half-full at 8 PM on November 15 as Du Yun’s loyal fans were making th...
Author
Lauren Ishida
Tarik O'Regan

This week: concerts in New York (April 9, 2018 – April 15, 2018)

Great Choir: Immigrants – A Celebration of What Makes New York Great Instrumental ensemble Rose of t...
Author
Sam Reising
Rebekah Heller

5 Questions to Rebekah Heller (Co-Artistic Director, ICE)

Since its founding in 2001, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) has garnered acclaim not o...
Author
Lana Norris
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