“Darkness Sounding” Takes Music Outside The Southern California festival stretches from back yards to the desert. By Alex Ross February 22, 2021 On a chilly Los Angeles morning in late January, I [...]
From primitive instruments and sacred chants to today’s minimalist electronica and metal, drone music has a long and mystical history. A new book investigates. From the womb – where the rushing [...]
Nathan Bajar for The New York Times The bassist, bandleader and composer’s 10-disc “Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World” invites you to listen, and let the music do its work. [...]
The Newark native has long been lauded for his brilliant abstractions. Lately he’s writing about something more concrete — and producing his most powerful music yet. By Adam Shatz Jan. 7, 2021 [...]
Prototype, known for presenting visceral, chamber-scale new works, unveils an almost entirely streamed pandemic edition. By Zachary Woolfe Jan. 11, 2021 The annual Prototype festival of new [...]
“Times3,” a collaboration between Pamela Z (photographed here in San Francisco) and the theater artist Geoff Sobelle, is part of a pandemic edition of the Prototype festival of music [...]
In one sense, the voc-25 is just a keyboard controller triggering a synthesizer, with some visual yuks thrown in. But when I heard it played, I realized there’s a loud clack every time a [...]
Molly Joyce is among of the most versatile, prolific and intriguing composers working under the vast new-music dome. She’s composed spectral, searching works for orchestra, choir, string quartet [...]
The composer John Luther Adams combines immersive sound worlds with environmental activism. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim New York Times, Nov. 26, 2020 In the early spring of 1989, the composer [...]
As he releases a collection of work that has appeared in films, the English musician talked about making functional art, his most ubiquitous composition and why he dislikes wearing headphones on [...]
