Listen to how artists have explored what it means — and could mean — to be American. A cone of silence hangs over the work of Black composers from Africa and its diaspora. It is not that Black [...]
La Monte Young, the composer who quietly shaped much of contemporary Western music, reaches his last act. THE COMPOSER LA MONTE YOUNG held his 84th birthday party on a drab, rainy Sunday [...]
Like most people these days, the sound artist Ellen Fullman is sheltering in place. But she has an unusual roommate: a massive installation she calls the Long String Instrument. “The Long String [...]
In the midst of a pandemic, those of us who are healthy, safe and able to work from home are of course lucky. Still, time can pass slowly when you’re cooped up in a Manhattan apartment… [...]
Richard Teitelbaum, an electronic artist, keyboardist and composer who combined an interest in non-western musical languages with a focus on experimental practice, died on Thursday at [...]
Krzysztof Penderecki, a Polish composer and conductor whose modernist works jumped from the concert hall to popular culture, turning up in soundtracks for films like “The Exorcist” and “The [...]
Charles Wuorinen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and formidable advocate for modernist music, high culture and the composer’s worth, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 81. His publicist, [...]
Lou Fancher wrote about the past, present, and future of Other Minds in her recent article for the San Francisco Classical Voice. Also in the article, interviews of Other Minds 25 participant Jen [...]
Friend of Other Minds, Terry Riley, received a large feature article in the New York Times, Dec. 19, 2019. The musician and composer is celebrating his 85th birthday — and his influence on a wide [...]
Gershon Kingsley, a composer who brought electronic sounds into popular music and wrote the enduring instrumental hit “Pop Corn,” died on Dec. 10 at his home in Manhattan. He was 97. You can read [...]
