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.
Composer, electroacoustic musician, and educator Ali Balighi seems most comfortable in the unstable...
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Ali Balighi, Post Orientalism Music
Mari Esabel Valverde is an award-winning transgender Mexican-American composer in steady demand in t...
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21V, Amir Rabiyah, Andrew Yee, California All-State Choir, Katherine FitzGibbon, Mari Esabel Valverde, Melissa Attebury, Melissa Dunphy, Resonance Ensemble, SACRA/PROFANA, Saunder Choi, Seattle Pro Musica, Tove Ditlevsen, Trinity Choir
It isn’t often that performers approach microtonal music armed only with a set of tuning forks and t...
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Charlotte Mundy, Ekmeles, Elisa Sutherland, George Lewis, Iwo Jedynecki, Jeffrey Gavett, Katherine Balch, New Focus Recordings, Plainsound, Steven Hrycelak, Timothy Parsons, Tomás Cruz, Wolfgang von Schweinitz
In the 250th anniversary of the United States, we might expect programming that focuses on the Found...
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Amy Beach, Danielle Jagelski, Erin Schwab, Florence Price, JL Marlor, Joan Tower, Michelle Rofrano, Nadia Boulanger, PROTESTRA, Valerie Coleman
Metamorfosis opens with a yell. In “Tormentas,” a deity loosely based on the Aztec goddess of earth...
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Ana E. López, AVAJI, Matt Marks Impact Fund, Nnux, Paulina Parga
In a world of constant connectivity, what do we gain from looking within? Wild Up’s Jun. 6 program,...
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Christopher Rountree, Eliza Bagg, Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, Hildegard von Bingen, Isabella Leonarda, M.A. Tiesenga, REDCAT, Wild Up
Sound artist, composer, and visual creator Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe has developed a singular artistic...
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Charmaine Lee, Damon Locks, Kou Records, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
Lia Kohl is a composer and sound artist based in Chicago. Her wide-ranging practice includes composi...
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Alain Peters, Egil Kalmen, Floating Points, FRANKIE & Battle-ax, James Holden, Lia Kohl, Maalem Mahmoud Guinia, Macie Stewart, Whitney Johnson
When Glenn Branca’s Symphony No. 13 (“Hallucination City”) for 100 Guitars was first performed at th...
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Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca Ensemble, Lincoln Center, Reg Bloor
“A shifting environment of unstable systems … Signals emerge, overlap, and dissolve, forming a tempo...
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Braxton, C. Spencer Yeh, Char Jeré, Maggie Boyd, Michael Candy, pap souleye fall, Rena Anakwe, Roulette, Roulette Intermedium
I grew up in Bogotá in the late ‘80s. Toothpaste was no longer called “toothpaste” — it was Colgate.
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art music, Bad Bunny, classical music, Nirvana
In the landscape of modern opera performance, everyone seems to be fighting an uphill battle. Compos...
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Ben Ross, Elisheva Pront, Magdelena Ensemble, Meg Huskin, Michael Mills, Mira Fu-en Huang, TellTale Opera Theatre
There’s often a moment in a group improvisation where musicians let go of trying to make sense of ea...
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Andy Meyerson, Mali Obomsawin, Miriam Elhajli, Raven Chacon, Steve Hammond, The Living Earth Show, Travis Andrews
Sanaya Ardeshir (she/her) is an Indian producer and composer, with a parallel practice in electronic...
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BBC Symphony Orchestra, Charles Mingus, Dimlite, Gustav Holst, Mount Kimbie, Nala Sinephro, Nils Frahm, Sanaya Ardeshir, Sandunes, Susanna Mälkki, Suzanne Ciani
Though air hangs all around us, it’s usually imperceptible. But when it moves, we hear it. A gale ru...
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Bethany Younge, Eric Wubbels, Golnaz Shariatzadeh, Lewis Nielson, TAK Ensemble, Tyshawn Sorey
I don’t think I have ever seen the audience at Cafe Oto so animated and so joyful as they were on th...
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Abul Mogard, Ailís Ní Ríain, Cafe OTO, Canab Marwo, Dig That Treasure! Festival, DNA? AND?, Eric Chenaux, Fievel Is Glauque, Harry Górski-Brown, IKLECTIK Art Lab, Jennifer Walshe, Lawrence Casserley, Michelle Hromin, Mohammad Syfkhan, Rafael Anton Irisarri, standard issue, Tilly Coulton
For more than a century, the New York City neighborhood of Harlem has been a synchedoche for Black a...
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Alexander Davis, Malachi Brown, Recomposing America, Sugar Hill Salon
As SydeBoob Duo, soprano Anna Elder and flutist Sarah Steranka perform bold and athletic repertoire...
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Anna Elder, Anthony Braxton, Beat Furrer, Eric Moe, Max Johnson, Ramin Akhavijou, Rebecca Saunders, Sarah Steranka, SydeBoob Duo
What does it mean to bring a project to life with a collaborator you met by chance — say, at a celeb...
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Goal Weight, Jennifer Gersten, Marguerite Cox, Relative Pitch Records
The tagline for the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival is ‘a multi-arts festival powered by orch...
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Anssi Karttunen, Camberwell Incredibles, Cee Haines, CHAINES, Daniel Hay-Gordon, El Perry, Imogen Holst, Kaija Saariaho, Laura van der Heijden, Manchester Collective, Thick & Tight
“One might describe [my style] as a patchwork: you can really find the seams when you’re browsing th...
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American Composers Forum, Ernest Bisong, Grant West, Kavyesh Kaviraj, Khamara Pettus, Recomposing America, Reverend Carl Walker, Walker|West Music Academy
Hannah Kendall expresses her fascination with a multi-dimensional rainbow of timbre through her rete...
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Carrie Frey, Columbia University, Damian Norfleet, Hannah Kendall, International Contemporary Ensemble, Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, Jonathan Finlayson, Josh Modney, Levy Lorenzo, Miller Theatre, Nuiko Wadden, Timothy James Robinson, Vimbayi Kaziboni, Yu-Ting Cheng
A self-described anti-disciplinary artist, Dorian Wood seeks to “infect” spaces and ideologies in or...
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Adrián Cortés, April Guthrie, Carmina Escobar, Christopher Votek, Dorian Wood, Emily Elkin, Michael Corwin, New Amsterdam Records, Violetta Parra
