Julius Hemphill’s music uses stark, lyrical abstraction and svelte dissonances to confront the vicissitudes of black American life. “I like to make things,” the saxophonist and composer Julius [...]
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, Terry Riley decided to stay right where he was, which just so happened to be in Japan. The composer had arrived in the country in February 2020 to do [...]
“I am sitting in a room,” Alvin Lucier’s classic work of sound art, will be performed by 90 artists in honor of his 90th birthday. Alvin Lucier at home in Connecticut. His most famous work [...]
Services like Spotify and Apple Music pulled the business back from the brink. But artists say they can’t make a living. And their complaints are getting louder. The heart of musicians’ critique [...]
During the pandemic, some houses have continued finding ways to make their spaces and performances more environmentally sustainable. La Scala in Milan is now using LED bulbs and smart [...]
Julia Wolfe talks with SFCV’s Jonathan Leal about her new video performance of Steel Hammer (2009). Read the full article on San Francisco Classical Voice’s website.
Marc Masters outlines the extensive musical history of Mills College in Oakland and links to old and new releases. Read the full article on Bandcamp here.
(read the full article on NY Times here) Is the Music Over at Mills College? A hotbed of experimental sound for nearly a century, this school in Oakland, Calif., is preparing to close its doors. [...]
(from the New York Times) Since its inception in 1964, the Grammy for best album notes has been awarded to just three women. Davis, who won in 1993 for an Aretha Franklin boxed set, was the [...]
Lou Ottens, who put music lovers around the world on a path toward playlists and mixtapes by leading the invention of the first cassette tape, has died at age 94, according to media reports in [...]
