Just Strings Concert in Santa Monica
On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 the innovative Soundwaves concert series continued at the Santa Monica Public Library featuring the music of Lou Harrison and John Luther Adams as performed by…
Microfest Presents Isaura String Quartet in Pasadena
On Saturday, May 14, 2016 Microfest presented a concert of string quartet music at Boston Court in Pasadena. This is the latest in a series of concerts around Los Angeles…
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Concert review
Contemporary Classical
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Experimental Music
Just Intonation
Los Angeles
Four New Angeleno Composers – Performed at Disney Hall
On Tuesday December 3, 2013 the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group presented LA Now: Four New Angeleno Composers, the latest in the Green Umbrella series of new music concerts.…
Composers
Experimental Music
Festivals
Improv
Just Intonation
Microtonalism
Opportunities
San Francisco
Sound Art
Call for Proposals: Music for People and Thingamajigs, 2011
The San Francisco Bay Area is home to a sizable community of sound artists, instrument inventors, and intonation innovators who spend all their time developing original and never-before-heard ways of…
The search is over; the Grail is here
Like Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham‘s fame will always be for his use of multiple electric guitars, often in non-standard tunings and often at just-about-ear-splitting volume. The slight shame is that…
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San Francisco
Performances next week at the Lab celebrate 25 years of oddity
I’ve been working so hard today I’ve forgotten to eat, and it’s in that spirit of lightheadedness and poor impulse control that I share with you the following San Francisco…
Interview with Terry Riley
Thursday morning I talked with composer Terry Riley, who is in New York this week to collaborate with the Bang on a Can All-Stars in the US premiere of his…
The Seventeen Lyrics of Li Po of Harry Partch
So with all pleasures of life. All things pass with the east-flowing water. I leave you and go—when shall I return? Let the white roe feed at will among the…
Underrated: Ben Johnston
For the first subject of this column I’ve picked Ben Johnston, someone who has gotten some coverage on this site but remains criminally neglected. Born in Georgia in 1926, Johnston…
Do the Just Thing
Dear Jerry- Thanks for your kind words earlier this year about the Ben Johnston String Quartet release on New World Records. I am the producer of that disc, and also…