Laura Cocks – FATHM
FATHM is the debut, solo album of American, New York-based flutist Laura Cocks (her X account suggests that she lives in the Occupied Native American Lenape Land). She is the executive director of the...
Sarah Belle Reid + Vinny Golia: Accidental Ornithology
“Ornithology” is still one of the most popular be-bop standards, almost eighty years after it was recorded by Bird, aka Charlie Parker (who changed the chord progression of another standard, “How High the Moon”)....
Spaces Unfolding + Pierre Alexandre Tremblay – Shadow Figures
Spaces Unfolding is the acoustic, free improvising trio of flutist Neil Metcalfe, known for his work with Evan Parker, Paul Dunmall and the London Improvisers Orchestra, violinist Philipp Wachsmann (who established The Bead Label...
New exciting musical relationships of the duo Perelman-Shipp
-A violent dose of anything - Perelman/Shipp/Maneri
Brasilia, the current capital of Brazil, is a place that has experienced unprecedented growth over the past three decades, thanks to a government project that wanted to build...
Anthony Cheung: Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions
It’s just as the title would have it. Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions, the fifth monograph album from composer Anthony Cheung, contains three works written for, or inspired by, film, sculpture, and closed...
Seth Parker Woods: Music as Choreography
Playing an instrument is, among other things, an action. At a fundamental level, a performance involves a sequence of purposive gestures—a set of intentions embodied in certain movements of the body directed toward the...
Anna McMichael & Clocked Out – Peak Plastique
Peak Plastique is a clever musical examination of the surprising sonic characteristics of plastic, while reflecting on the ubiquitous, paradoxical presence of this material across our environment and our complex relationship with it despite...
Irving Fine’s Twelve-tone Neoclassicism
Mid-20thcentury art music in America was largely dominated by twelve-tone composition. Other types of music were being composed, neoclassicism among them, but in the postwar years it was serial and other forms of composition...
Richard Valitutto plays Sarah Hennies’ SOVT
SOVT (Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract) (2017) is a 55-minute minimalist piece by American, New York-based composer-percussionist Sarah Hennies that addresses the vocal exercises that strengthen the voice by helping the vocal cords vibrate more efficiently,...