Raven in the News
Since being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for 2022, composer and noise artist Raven Chacon has been getting a lot of attention, and rightly so. His prize was for […]
Lea Bertucci @ The Lab
Lea Bertucci is an artist, composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her longstanding practice with woodwind instruments, her work incorporates […]
Too many birds: Jim Nollman – Playing Music with Animals
It’s quite telling that when Jim Nollman went and recorded himself singing the Scottish folk song ‘Froggy-Went-a-Courting’ surrounded by three-hundred tom turkeys, in an attempt to harmonise with their incessant […]
Preserving the Past in the Digital Age Is Still a Massive Headache
When the greatest archive of the ancient world, the Library of Alexandria, was destroyed, all it’s precious resources disappeared. That’s certainly the way most people think of the vandalization that […]
For Michael Tilson Thomas, the grandeur of music answers a grim diagnosis
Nobody knows the now like Michael Tilson Thomas. The acclaimed conductor and composer, 12-time Grammy winner and Kennedy Center honoree, 77, also has an aptitude for the idiomatic. “Being a […]
At the Rothko Chapel, Tyshawn Sorey explores sound — and silence
Fifty years ago, composer Morton Feldman wrote music to commemorate the opening of the Rothko Chapel in Houston. A half-century later, composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist and MacArthur “genius” Tyshawn Sorey was […]
S.F. sound artist Evicshen brings the joy of subversion — and a lot of fake nails — to Audium
At Adobe Books in the Mission District, people crowd in for a free show, eagerly awaiting the headlining act. They watch as she arranges guitar pedals and a “turntable” made […]
Laurie Anderson Has a Message for Us Humans
For half a century, she has taken the things we know best— our bodies, our rituals, our nation — and shown us how strange they really are. By Sam Anderson […]
Wadada Leo Smith at 80
“Once you get over-the-hill, you really pick up some speed.” Quincy Jones has adopted that aphorism and spread it around — and it most certainly applies to Wadada Leo Smith, […]
