Album
The multitudes of Black womanhood are center stage in Black Being, a new four-part song cycle by Flutronix. The latest project from the duo of flutist-composers Nathalie Joachim and Allison Loggins-Hu…
Concert
Opera Philadelphia’s Complications in Sue is a fun, fantastically stylish, genre-defying work that revels in the unexpected. The co-composed commission emerged from an accelerated creative process con…
Album
Ishmael Ali carries many titles and is in no danger of running out of projects. He is a cellist, improviser and bandleader; co-founder and audio engineer at Marmelade (a recording and rehearsal space…
Concert
When I got on the plane to attend Reykjavík’s Dark Music Days festival, I expected to have plenty of new and surprising musical experiences. What I didn’t anticipate was having several concerts moved…
Concert
Last summer, Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio invited ten artists to compose multichannel works for the 24 speakers mounted at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. The pieces were commissi…
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