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 […]
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 [...]
Jim Nollman is a composer of music for theater, a conceptual artist, an environmental activist, an author, and a pioneer of in the field of interspecies music and communication. He has recorded [...]
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 [...]
Alarm Will Sound used multiple videoconferencing tools to master the ambiguities of Tyshawn Sorey’s “Autoschediasms.” Last month, I did something I used to do often before the pandemic: I watched [...]
Jon Gibson, Minimalist Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 80 Best known for his long association with Philip Glass, Mr. Gibson also worked with Steve Reich, Terry Riley and La Monte […]
Whispers of an Italian-Jewish Past Fill a Composer’s Music Yotam Haber’s “Estro Poetico-Armonico III” combines live singing with archival recordings of cantors. Since early in his career, Yotam [...]
Jon Gibson, a composer, multi-instrumentalist, visual artist and collaborative musician who had a profound effect on the creation and dissemination of what would come to be known as “minimalist” [...]
Sharing an Intimate Musical Vision Sarah Hennies’s highly personal explorations of “queer and trans identity, love, intimacy and psychoacoustics” are increasingly played by others. “One of the [...]