Amanda Cook
Amanda Cook (she/her) is a music critic and digital editor based in the Twin Cities. She is the Editor of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.
Dale Trumbore is a Los Angeles-based composer and writer whose music has been called “devastatingly...
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Anna Meredith, Dale Trumbore, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, John Corigliano, Kansas City Chorale, Laura Mvula, Miguel del Aguila, Shugo Tokumaru, Tori Amos
On a cloudless, crisp Saturday afternoon, a crowd of more than a hundred people are huddled in the b...
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A. Martinez, Ayanna Woods, Carl Stone, Chicago Chamber Choir, Constellation, Constellation Chicago, Elena Cholakova, Experimental Sound Studio, Jamila Woods, Julius Tucker, Lou Mallozzi, Masha Vlasova, Matt Ulery, Norman Long, Sound and Gravity Festival, The Crossing, Wendy Eisenberg
The violin doesn’t always sound like a violin on Marina Kifferstein’s new album, Strand Line (Oct. 2...
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Ashkan Behzadi, Gold Bolus Recordings, Liza Lim, Luciano Berio, Marina Kifferstein, TAK Ensemble, The Rhythm Method
The ancient Greek concept of poiesis is the creation of something that has never existed before. Tru...
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Brian Raphael Nabors, Bright Shiny Things, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Kevin Lau, Max Ball, Poiesis Quartet, Sky Macklay
Within the sonically contained black box theater at REDCAT, a prismatic playroom of toys, knick-knac...
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CalArts, Christopher Rountree, Collective Orchestra, REDCAT, Shelley Washington, Wild Up
There is no music without the body. String players live with rock-hard finger callouses. Wind and br...
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Adrian Morejon, Amadeus Regucera, Cy Twombly, Dennis Sullivan, EMPAC, James Baker, Joseph Jordan, Mike Lormand, Sae Hashimoto, Talea Ensemble
The double bass is one of several tools that Mali Obomsawin uses in a career that spans free jazz, e...
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Allison Burik, billy woods, Deerlady, Maalem Mahmoud Guinia, Magdalena Abrego, Mali Obomsawin, Noah Campbell, Out of Your Head Records, Pharoah Sanders, Taylor Ho Bynum
Alyssa Weinberg uses color, texture, and gesture to channel big emotions, creating music that is “qu...
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Alban Gerhardt, Alyssa Weinberg, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Donnacha Dennehy, Ensemble intercontemporain, Gabriel Cabezas, György Ligeti, International Contemporary Ensemble, Kaija Saariaho, Liam Byrne, Myung-Whun Chung, Nadia Sirota, Pierre Boulez, Salvatore Sciarrino, Saschko Gawriloff, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Unsuk Chin
Juri Seo thrives in the balance of complex compositional processes and aesthetic bliss. In an essay...
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Christian Euman, Friction Quartet, JACK Quartet, Juri Seo, Linda Oh, Michael Minor, Other Minds Festival, Shawn Myers
The desire to bring the music of Hildegard von Bingen into the modern day is not an uncommon one. As...
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Chisara Agor, Chisato Minamimura, Fliss Jackson, Grace Nyandoro, Hildegard von Bingen, Jadyn Arriola Bagayas, Laura Bowler, Mahogany Opera, Maria da Luz Ghoumrassi, Michelle Cornelius, Nwando Ebizie, Yu Chinen
It would be futile to impose a narrative on isabel crespo pardo’s art and artmaking — the Brooklyn-b...
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Carmen Quill, Celia Hill, Henry Fraser, iiisa, isabel crespo pardo, Kabir Adhiya-Kumar, Kalia Vandever, Leaving Records, Lester St. Louis, Rahul Carlberg, sinonó, tilt, toso toso
The Ditch doesn’t exactly sound like the name of a classical music venue. Situated in a fashionable...
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Barbara Dudek, Dan Ludford-Thomas, Emily Hazrati, Helen Meyerhoff, Jago Thornton, Kerensa Briggs, Lillie Harris, Shoreditch Town Hall, Tara Mack, The Ditch, Vox Urbane
Weston Olencki is a U.S.-born, Berlin-based musician and composer whose work is fundamentally concer...
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Charlotte Mundy, Sweet Wreath, TAK Editions, TAK Ensemble, Weston Olencki
Ever heard of a wolpertinger? The mythical creature is said to inhabit the forests of southern Germa...
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Alberto Bernal, Camille Norment, FRAMES Percussion, Gareth Mattey, Ícaro Zorbar, Jonas Lie Skaarud, Julian Sartorius, Kristine Tjøgersen, Lasse Marhaug, LEMUR, Miguel Ángel Garcia Martin, Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Oslo Philharmonic, Oslo String Quartet, Øyvind Torvund, Sarah Davachi, Tine Surel Lange, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Violeta Garcia, Yann Leguay, Yuri Umemoto
Andrea Clearfield is a composer whose music reaches across histories and artistic boundaries, transf...
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Andrea Clearfield, ANIMUS, Bill Koutsouros, Cookie Diorio, Hun Hazy, Margaret Garwood, Naizel Hargana, Primavera Fund Alumni Chamber Ensemble, Szalon, Tamir Hargana
Noise improvisation: the craft of experimenting with sound, sculpting a world for the listener to in...
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Alex Zhang Hungtai, Leo Chang, Raven Chacon, Roulette, Roulette Intermedium, Tashi Dorji
Nursalim Yadi Anugerah is a musician and composer whose works are shaped by deep engagement with the...
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Catherine Christer Hennix, Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage, Ellen Arkbro, Eyvind Kang, Hanne Lippard, John McCowen, Kou Records, La Monte Young, Madison Greenstone, Maria Zazeela, Nursalim Yadi Anugerah, Raven Chacon, Sarah Davachi, Tristan Perich, Vicky Chow
Bathed in cobalt blue, marigold, kelly green, and rose red, the four percussionists of Crossing 32nd...
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Crossing 32nd Street Ensemble, Gabriel Bolaños
I hope I never forget the warm September night when I saw Kari Watson and Katinka Kleijn perform at...
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7 Poets Trio, Ami Dang, Ana Roxanne, Bitchin' Bajas, Booker Stardrum, Dos Santos Quintet, Gregory Uhlmann, Jason Adasiewicz, Jason Roebke, Kari Watson, Katinka Kleijn, Mary Halvorson, Natural Information Society, Sound and Gravity Festival, Tomas Fujiwara, Tomeka Reid, Tomeka Reid Quartet, Tyondai Braxton, Will Miller
For musicians seeking to collaborate outside of the neatly delineated roles of “composer” and “perfo...
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Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Annea Lockwood, Claire Chase, Cory Smythe, Dai Fujikura, Edgard Varèse, Felipe Lara, George Lewis, JACK Quartet, Katinka Kleijn, Levy Lorenzo, Liza Lim, Marcos Balter, Matana Roberts, Nate Wooley, Seth Parker Woods, Susie Ibarra, Terry Riley, Tyshawn Sorey
Katherine Young’s immersive practice is rooted in the art of collection: her work searches for sound...
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Ben LaMar Gay, Chaikin Records, Katherine Young, Linda Jankowska, Mattie Barbier, Olivia Block, RAGE THORMBONES, wasteLand, Weston Olencki, Yarn/Wire
Molly Joyce is a composer and performer whose work explores disability as a creative source. Describ...
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Adrian Anantawan, Drake Music, Gaelynn Lea, Imogen Heap, Jimi Hendrix, John Kelly, Laetitia Sonami, Lee Abramson, Michel Waisvisz, Molly Joyce, The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Christian Li is a pianist, composer, and arranger based in New York City whose work spans a wide ran...
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Asher Kurtz, Christian Li, Endectomorph Music, JP Bouvet
