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Leo Chang -- Courtesy of Venue

Review: Raven Chacon + Tashi Dorji + Alex Zhang Hungtai // Leo Chang at Roulette

Noise improvisation: the craft of experimenting with sound, sculpting a world for the listener to in…
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Vanessa Ague
Nursalim Yadi Anugerah -- Courtesy of artist

ListN Up Playlist: Nursalim Yadi Anugerah (Sept. 17, 2026)

Nursalim Yadi Anugerah is a musician and composer whose works are shaped by deep engagement with the…
Crossing 32nd Street Ensemble performs

Video Premiere: Crossing 32nd Street Ensemble Performs “Strobe” by Gabriel Bolaños

Bathed in cobalt blue, marigold, kelly green, and rose red, the four percussionists of Crossing 32nd…
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Ami Dang at Sound and Gravity 2026 -- Photo by Bella Peterson

Review: Sound and Gravity 2026

I hope I never forget the warm September night when I saw Kari Watson and Katinka Kleijn perform at…
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Thulasi Seshan
Claire Chase and Terry Riley -- Photo by Marico Miura

Claire Chase is Shaping the Future of Collaboration with “Density 2036”

For musicians seeking to collaborate outside of the neatly delineated roles of “composer” and “perfo…
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Julia Kuhlman
Katherine Young -- Photo by Andrew Thomas Lee

5 Questions to Katherine Young (composer, bassoonist)

Katherine Young’s immersive practice is rooted in the art of collection: her work searches for sound…
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Michelle Hromin
Camille Norment — Photo by Herman Dreyer

Camille Norment Doesn’t Want to Talk About Meaning

Camille Norment’s work embodies the best of experimental art: a space for curiosity and reflection;…
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Amanda Cook
Molly Joyce -- Courtesy of artist

ListN Up Playlist: Molly Joyce (Sept. 3, 2026)

Molly Joyce is a composer and performer whose work explores disability as a creative source. Describ…
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Christian Li -- Courtesy of artist

5 Questions to Christian Li (pianist, composer)

Christian Li is a pianist, composer, and arranger based in New York City whose work spans a wide ran…
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Tristan McKay
PRISM Quartet -- Photo by Jon Rohrer

Review: PRISM Quartet “Generate Music”

On their new album Generate Music (XAS Records), PRISM radically reimagines the saxophone quartet as…
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Jacob Kopcienski
Julius Eastman -- Photo by Ron Hammond

Review: AfriClassical Futures Presents “The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc”

What happens when an iconoclast becomes an institution? That question continues to unfold with Juliu…
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Hannah Edgar
Liz Draper -- Photo by Eric Reich

Review: Liz Draper at Edna’s Park

The sky can’t decide if it’s going to rain. Baby blue dots the gaps between hulking grey clouds over…
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Dustin Nelson
Sarah Davachi -- Photo by Sean McCann

Sarah Davachi is a Sonic Architect

The organ at the Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew looms over Sarah Davachi as she takes a seat t…
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Vanessa Ague
International Contemporary Ensemble -- Photo by Fadi Kheir

Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at TIME:SPANS Festival

In the last minutes of Márton Illés’ Forajzok (2021), every member of the International Contemporary…
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Jordan Silversmith
Sharon Chohi Kim -- Courtesy of artist

ListN Up Playlist: Sharon Chohi Kim (Aug. 20, 2026)

Sharon Chohi Kim is a Los Angeles-based performance-maker, vocalist, and composer whose work brings…
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Mary Kouyoumdjian -- Photo by Desmond White

Review: Mary Kouyoumdjian “Paper Pianos”

The work of Mary Kouyoumdjian is equally rooted in composition and documentary through projects abou…
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Clover Nahabedian
Imani Winds -- Courtesy of artist

Review: Imani Winds “Rise”

Imani Winds is an ensemble that has continually fulfilled its mission to inspire generations of musi…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Jennifer Koh -- Photo by Juergen Frank

Review: Jennifer Koh “The American Concerto, Volume One”

On The American Concerto, Volume One (Aug. 14, Cedille Records), the Grammy Award-winning violinist…
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Dalanie Harris
Christopher Thompson -- Photo by Ricky A. Richardson

5 Questions to Christopher Thompson (composer, percussionist)

Composer and percussionist Christopher Thompson deftly demonstrates how overlooking the constraints…
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Katie Brown
Rebekah Heller -- Photo by Olivia Bonnamour

Review: Rebekah Heller “Righteous Rage”

Rebekah Heller is on a mission to smash every tired stereotype or bad orchestra joke about the basso…
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Kathleen McGowan
Piao Niu performs in Du Yun's

Review: Du Yun “The Ocean Etched in the Forest” (刻在森林的海)

A last-minute venue change brought Chinese Arts Week’s presentation of Du Yun’s The Ocean Etched in…
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Yaz Lancaster
Sunken Cages, aka Ravish Momin -- Photo by Mike Vanemon

5 Questions to Ravish Momin (drummer, producer)

Electronic drummer, producer, educator, and clinician Ravish Momin is known for his groundbreaking r…
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Michelle Hromin
Amadeus Julian Regucera -- Photo by Michael Valiquette

ListN Up Playlist: Amadeus Julian Regucera (Jul. 23, 2026)

The work of Amadeus Julian Regucera (b.1984, He/They) engages with the embodied and acoustical energ…
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Sarah Hennies -- Photo by David Andrews

5 Questions to Sarah Hennies (composer)

Over the past 20 years, Sarah Hennies has developed an iterative musical practice that finds sonic a…
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Jacob Kopcienski
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