In the lobby area of the TivoliVredenburg contemporary music venue, shrieking electronics by IEMA En...
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Vanessa Ague
Over the past 80 years, Gaudeamus Festival has established itself as a place for pioneering composer...
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Vanessa Ague
No sound is too potent for the trio of guitarist Ava Mendoza, violinist gabby fluke-mogul, and drumm...
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Vanessa Ague
Dorian Wood was planning a major cross-country move when she received an out-of-the-blue phone call...
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Vanessa Ague
During the weekend of Big Ears, music is everywhere in Knoxville, Tennessee. Market Square, a centra...
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Vanessa Ague
Wooden blocks in various shapes are stacked on top of bright floral blankets onstage at the Experime...
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Vanessa Ague
This sponsored article is part of a paid partnership with the Curtis Institute of Music. Composer Ga...
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Vanessa Ague
Standing on the side of a yellow-lit stage, Laura Ortman drew a quiet, grainy hum out of her Apache...
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Vanessa Ague
An angelic hum pierced through the din of a crowd huddled on the third floor of the Whitney Museum o...
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Vanessa Ague
In 2000, writer, curator, and collector John Corbett found himself on his hands and knees digging th...
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Vanessa Ague
The music of Afro-Electronica composer, turntablist, and drummer Val Jeanty (aka Val-Inc) blends Hai...
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Vanessa Ague
A heap of ceramics sat in the middle of the floor at Roulette on Feb. 7, jumbled like a pile of jagg...
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Vanessa Ague
When Kronos Quartet traveled to Austria in 2018 to perform at Esterházy Palace – the home of Franz J...
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Vanessa Ague
Ellen Fullman’s Long String Instrument was almost invisible on stage at the Experimental Media and P...
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Vanessa Ague
Attending the Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M3) festival felt akin to sitting down at a warm dinn...
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Vanessa Ague
KiMani Bridges likes to try a little bit of everything when she writes a new work, and she’s confide...
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Vanessa Ague
I shyly took a seat onstage at Roulette, in Brooklyn, on May 19. It was an unusual prospect for an a...
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Vanessa Ague
At Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival, nothing is more exciting than pulling open the door to a new...
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Vanessa Ague
Andrew Yee took a seat onstage and swept the bow across their cello’s open strings without missing a...
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Vanessa Ague
A massive bronze head, with loops jutting out from every crevice of its face, sits amongst the orche...
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Vanessa Ague
When John Schaefer started broadcasting his WNYC show New Sounds in 1981, he was just playing music...
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Vanessa Ague
Sound artist and composer Fay Victor’s powerful voice cut through the din of chatter at Joe’s Pub, m...
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Vanessa Ague
For composer Carlos Simon, music is a place where communities can come together. “I want people to b...
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Vanessa Ague
