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Critics have compared the San Francisco-based Santomieri-Farhadian Duo’s experimental musical compositions to everyone from modernist Anton Webern to rock icon Frank Zappa. This exciting pair — [...]

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 [...]

OBITUARY BY STEVE SMITH   Noah Creshevsky, a composer of sophisticated, variegated electroacoustic works that mingled scraps of vocal and instrumental music, speech, outside noise, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]