MCTS 2012 Post-Conference Report
Report by Tyran Grillo (between sound and space) Photos by Evan Cortens Music: Cognition, Technology, Society set a formidable intellectual task before participants of the selfsame conference at semester’s end…
Big Band
Chamber Music
Composers
Contemporary Classical
Events
Experimental Music
Festivals
Improv
jazz
Piano
Premieres
San Francisco
Saxophone
Sound Art
Women composers
2012 Outsound Summit lineup revealed
The San Francisco Bay Area’s underground music scene will come together this coming July in an annual celebration of its tremendous range of styles, its love of improvisation, and its…
Music: Cognition, Technology, Society
“How can music ‘speak’ and how do we have knowledge of it? What is its potential to express, represent, and communicate? How has changing expertise concerning sonic and musical knowledge…
Classical Music
Commissions
Composers
Composers Now
Concerts
Contemporary Classical
Festivals
New York
“Spring for Music” at Carnegie Hall – The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
On Tuesday evening in New York City, Edmonton is taking Carnegie Hall by storm. The “Spring for Music” series, a yearly Carnegie event, is an opportunity for symphony orchestras around…
Line Upon Line’s “Perspective: Xenakis”
This coming Friday, May 4, marks the beginning of Austin-based percussion trio Line Up Line’s Xenakis festival, dubbed “Perspective: Xenakis” (go here for ticketing information). While most fans of 20th/21st-century…
Behind the 2012 Fast Forward Austin Festival
The 2012 Fast Forward Austin contemporary music festival begins its 8-hour marathon of performances this afternoon at Austin, Texas’ versatile ND-501 studios. This year’s event, the second installment of the…
William Zuckerman and his Symphony Z
In December 2010, as I was still adjusting to the climate change between Houston, Texas and Ann Arbor, Michigan, I heard a piece that has stuck with me ever since.…
Wrapping Up “American Mavericks”
By now, the members of the San Francisco Symphony, their director Michael Tilson Thomas, and the rest of the musicians responsible for the orchestra’s magnificent “American Mavericks” Festival have left…
ACME at ATP (Video)
Our friends (and the performers on the last Sequenza21 concert) ACME appeared at All Tomorrow’s Parties last week. Quite a coup for the indie classical group, which is enjoying increased…
Composers
Contemporary Classical
Events
Experimental Music
Festivals
Los Angeles
Recordings
Twentieth Century Composer
John Cage events in Los Angeles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHnL7aS64Y We had just seen John Cage recite his mesostic/theater work, James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet. My composition teacher, a tenured faculty member who had won many…