Let’s Ask Matt Davignon
Experimental music impresario Matt Davignon is known all over the San Francisco Bay Area for organizing unusual music performances. In addition to being responsible for such events as the San…
Goldberg on (UNTITLED)
(UNTITLED), an original film satire of New York’s avant-garde art scene, will appear in theaters across the nation this fall. By poking fun at the idiosyncrasies of 21st century Bohemia,…
The coffee-table book, web version
On those longer, cooler, grayer days, stuck inside with a little time on our hands, one of the nicer pastimes for the music buff is to wander through the Flickr…
Copyright/Copyleft, Vancouver B.C.
For a lot of you Vancouver, British Columbia is one of those “way out there” places. But coming from its U.S. “way out there” sister Seattle, I know that the…
The Noises of Art
Many of us can recall a time, back in the day, when we brought cups of strong coffee to class and heard a professor tell us about the distant early…
Interview with Noveller
Sarah Lipstate is a musician and film maker. She’s only been in New York for a few years, but has already made a name for herself as a strong, independent…
Meeting in the Open (web) Space
Some years back I stumbled across The Open Space website, a creation of Perspectives of New Music stalwart Benjamin Boretz. PoNM was one of those forbidding obstacles every composition student…
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Let’s ask Gino Robair
The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary this week. On the final festival night, Saturday, September 19th, the program will include a special all-electronic performance of the…
Let’s ask Donald Swearingen
The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (SFEMF) kicks off next week, and several of its original founders will be performing in celebration of the festival’s tenth anniversary. One of them,…
Wordless Music meets Miller again
Ronen Givony’s Wordless Music is back at Miller Theater this Sept. 9-12, doing it’s indie-rock/electronic/classical/new-music thing. The 9th brings back the 802 Tour (Nico Muhly, Sam Amidon and Doveman, w/…