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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...
Author
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...
Author
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;...
Author
Amanda Cook
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...
Author
Tristan McKay
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...
Author
Vanessa Ague
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...
Author
Katie Brown
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...
Author
Michelle Hromin
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...
Author
Jacob Kopcienski
Andrew Yee -- Courtesy of artist

5 Questions to Andrew Yee (cellist, composer)

Andrew Yee, a multi-hyphenate new music powerhouse, continues to build an oeuvre that spans composit...
Author
Connie Li
Charmaine Lee -- Photo by Arturs Pavlovs

5 Questions to Charmaine Lee (vocalist, composer, and co-founder of Kou Records)

For experimental musician and artist Charmaine Lee, meaningful ideas are best expressed in a languag...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
José Martínez -- Photo by Julia Gang

5 Questions to José Martínez (composer)

José Martínez has charted numerous routes through tradition and storytelling by leaning into abstrac...
Author
Jacob Kopcienski
Ali Balighi -- Photo by Venus Bayat

5 Questions to Ali Balighi (composer)

Composer, electroacoustic musician, and educator Ali Balighi seems most comfortable in the unstable...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Danielle Jagelski and JL Marlor -- Courtesy of artists

Danielle Jagelski and JL Marlor Compose America

In the 250th anniversary of the United States, we might expect programming that focuses on the Found...
Author
A. Kori Hill
Glenn Branca and Reg Bloor -- Photo by Richard McCaffrey

Reg Bloor Steps Up to the Podium for the NYC Return of Glenn Branca’s Symphony No. 13

When Glenn Branca’s Symphony No. 13 (“Hallucination City”) for 100 Guitars was first performed at th...
Author
Vanessa Ague
TellTale Opera Theatre Team (L-R: Ben Ross, Meg Huskin, Elisheva Pront, and Michael Mills -- Courtesy of TellTale Opera Theatre

5 Questions to TellTale Opera Theatre

In the landscape of modern opera performance, everyone seems to be fighting an uphill battle. Compos...
Author
Clover Nahabedian
Lazyhorse -- Courtesy of artist

For Lazyhorse, Fragments of Ideas are Opportunities for Transformation

There’s often a moment in a group improvisation where musicians let go of trying to make sense of ea...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir -- Photo by Camille Blake

5 Question to Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir (composer)

The music of experimental composer Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir is surprisingly organic and elemental; eq...
Author
Amanda Cook
Malachi Brown -- Courtesy of artist

Malachi Brown and the Sounds of U.S.

For more than a century, the New York City neighborhood of Harlem has been a synchedoche for Black a...
Author
A. Kori Hill
Kavyesh Kaviraj -- Photo by Benny Moreno

Kavyesh Kaviraj Wears His Influences on His Sleeve – And Reminds Us of Our Common Humanity

“One might describe [my style] as a patchwork: you can really find the seams when you’re browsing th...
Author
A. Kori Hill
Dorian Wood -- Photo by Laura Pardo

Transgression is Freedom in the Artistry of Dorian Wood

A self-described anti-disciplinary artist, Dorian Wood seeks to “infect” spaces and ideologies in or...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Hamed Erfani and Yasaman Seif -- Photo by Cruz Pulido

5 Questions to Hamed Erfani (composer) and Yasaman Seif (cellist)

Hamed Erfani and Yasaman Seif are a formidable couple: as a composer and a cellist, respectively, th...
Author
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Ryan Alexander -- Courtesy of artist

5 Questions to Ryan Alexander (Founder, Project Poetic Justice)

With Project Poetic Justice, artist and activist Ryan Alexander combines his passion for social just...
Author
Thulasi Seshan
Mai Khôi -- Photo by Nate Guidry

5 Questions Mai Khôi (singer, composer, activist)

Few children dream of being a pop star and actually achieve that goal — but that is what happened fo...
Author
Chrysanthe Tan
Allison Loggins-Hull -- Photo by Roger Mastroianni

For Allison Loggins-Hull, Community and Reciprocity Feed Place-Based Music Making

This interview has been lightly edited for clarity. Flutist and composer Allison Loggins-Hull has al...
Author
Lana Norris
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