New Music
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On Not Killing The Music with Judith Berkson
Judith Berkson and Anna Heflin meet at Central Park to discuss Judith's upcoming release "Liederkreis II", Schoenberg Harmony and the relationships between the old and the new.
New MusicThird Coast Percussion and Two Assads Explore “The Stories That Connect Us All”
With a universal sentiment in mind — archetypes, after all, define human experience the world over — father and daughter began work on a monumental 12-movement cycle, each movement modeled after one of the archetypes proposed by Freudian psychoanalyst Carl Jung.
ReviewFor Lucie Vítková, Aging Brought the Melting of Melody
Things happen to people, and people make music. Therefore, there will always be a connection, conscious or unconscious, between the two. It was reaffirming to hear these views echoed by Brooklyn-based composer, improviser and performer Lucie Vítková when we discussed their upcoming album, "Aging".
New MusicVocalist Charmaine Lee’s New LP Speaks, Gargles, and Whimpers For Itself
The consistently fresh arc of "KNVF" offers a sense that it might have been recorded a hundred different ways—a testament to the value of being such a curious, permeable performer.
ReviewTAK Ensemble Reaches for the Cosmos
Taylor Brook’s "Star Maker Fragments" evoke the extraterrestrial.
ReviewHolland Andrews Phones It In
On the cusp of their EP release, the performance artist devises new ways of listening closely.
New MusicJudy Jackson’s "Superball" is a Robotic Dreamscape
In her robotic delivery over peppy electronics, Jackson, who records as Boule Goes Boing, invokes Laurie Anderson if she were narrating a children’s book. The effusive result manages to be at home both in a playroom and on the dance floor.
New MusicThrottling Transcendence and Intentional Unintelligibility in Liturgy’s "Origin of the Alimonies"
It was no coincidence that I spoke with Hunter Hunt-Hendrix about her latest Liturgy album, "Origin of the Alimonies", on the day of the Great Conjunction and the solstice. She felt that December 21 would set the tone perfectly for discussing her opera, and I am bound to agree.
New Music“Something To Hunt” Is A Microcosm of Ash Fure’s Musical Macrocosm
Something To Hunt gives a glimpse into what Ash Fure is striving for as a composer; she can hear her muscles flexing.
Deep DivesThe Great Silence In Osvaldo Golijov's "Falling Out Of Time" For Silkroad Ensemble
Osvaldo Golijov's Falling Out Of Time for Silkroad Ensemble is a masterpiece as intellectually stimulating as it is emotionally gripping. It cracks open how we experience time and how this experience is disrupted by grief and eventually dismantled by death.
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