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The Musical Narratives of Jan Krzywicki’s Alchemy

Albany’s release of recent works by Jan Krzywicki captures the unique and coherent voice of this Phi...
Author
David Pearson

The Gaits: A soundtrack for the High Line

Last week, Make Music New York introduced a new annual event: Make Music Winter. For its first insta...
Author
Thomas Deneuville

As Serious as a Heart Attack: Sebastiano de Gennaro’s Hippos Epos

Hippos Epos is the latest release by Italian percussionist Sebastiano de Gennaro, on Trovarobato's P...
Author
George Heathco
Eddie Prévost - Photo by Vanita & Joe Monk www.monastery.nl

Free improvisation/Book launch – Eddie Prévost at Café Oto, Dalston

The free improvisation group AMM have, remarkably, been active since 1965, and founder-member Eddie...
Author
Paul Kilbey
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David Lang’s this was written by hand – Meditations on Memory

On his new album from Cantaloupe Music, this was written by hand, David Lang treats the piano altern...
Author
Rob Wendt

Christmas with North Sea Radio Orchestra @ St. Olave’s, London

It made a welcome change to a conventional Christmas concert to go and hear in the North Sea Radio O...
Author
Steven Berryman
yMusic - Photo by Ilya Nikhamin

We Go Together Like Ramma Lamma Lamma Ka Dinga Da Dinga Dong: yMusic’s “Beautiful Mechanical”

yMusic and New Amsterdam Records put on a release party earlier this month for their debut album, Be...
Author
Jeremy Howard Beck
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Mercy and Grand: The Tom Waits Project at Spitalfields Winter Festival, London

Mercy and Grand is a collaborative project commissioned by the UK group Opera North, in which a grou...
Author
Paul Kilbey
Kate Moore

5 questions to Kate Moore (Composer)

You described your piece Ridgeway as reflecting a search for identity. Can you explain what this mea...
Author
David Pearson
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Florent Ghys, phase à la française on Cantaloupe

Earlier this Fall, Cantaloupe (the record label created 10 years ago by the founders of Bang on a Ca...
Author
Thomas Deneuville

New music video series: Hanging out with Janus Trio

I am really excited to announce a new feature on this blog: a video series. Inspired by the amazing...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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Extended Techniques: Resource for New Sounds or Cheap Gimmicks?

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Author
Tai Livingston
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The Contemporary Classical Composer’s Bullshit Generator

This is too viral not to be posted… Last week Dominic Irving, a UK-based composer and pianist,...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès at Carnegie Hall: Dusting off Romanticism

What happens when a brilliant Lied performer is accompanied by a foremost composer? Well, something...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
David Lang

On artistic solidarity and the globalization of music

Like many readers of this blog, I am on the mailing list for Bang on a Can. A recent email described...
Author
Rob Wendt

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