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Written by Michael Cyrs. On their 2015 album Dysnomia, Dawn of Midi created something for jazz, clas...
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BIG Talk, Dawn of Midi, Dysnomia, Jerome Fund for New Music, JFund, saxophone, Shelley Washington, Silk
Written by Michael J. Cyrs “Certain things for me are very hard to express with words,” explains JFu...
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Anna Akhmatova, Jonathan Creasy, Marfa, Martin Nevin, Shakespeare, Tenderness is Silent
For Immediate Release: October 30, 2018 Press Contacts: Bonnie Marshall, Vice President of Developme...
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Vanessa Rose
Written by Michael J. Cyrs On Björk’s audiovisual LP Biophilia, the Icelandic singer wore numerous m...
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Balinese music, Biophilia, Bjork, Flora Sensoria, gamelan, JMSL, Joel Mellin, Sudden Industries
by Michael J. Cyrs The setting: A concrete WWII-era bunker. The studio: Abandoned corridors of metal...
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Lea Bertucci, Metal Aether
by Michael J. Cyrs Will Healy has been playing piano for most of his life. The evidence is all over...
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CityScapes, ShoutHouse, Will Healy
Dr. Christos J. Granias remarks early in the conversation, “I’m a glass half full kind of person.” C...
When Lynn O’Brien won a Minnesota Emerging Composer Award (MECA) in 2016, she knew exactly wha...
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Bobby McFerrin, circle singing, improvisation, Jerome Foundation, Lynn O'Brien, MECA, Minnesota Emerging Composer Award, Rhiannon, vocal
People like Michael Betz don’t settle for one of two sides of the coin. Just because you choose to f...
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ChucK, Commodore 64, cyberpunk, Emergence, Enclosure, Michael Betz, St. Olaf University, Tombeaux
written by Michael J. Cyrs. Many sounds we hear in everyday life are no longer created the way they...
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Barbara Kingsolver, Jerome Foundation, Samuel Wells, Splice, The Lacuna
Last year, ACF-Philadelphia partnered with The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia (COP) for a three-y...
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ACF-Philadelphia, Adam Vidiksis, Annenberg Center, Clef Club, Joybells, Kimmel Center, Morgan Library, Murmurations, Open Spaces, Primavera Fund, Steven R. Gerber Residency Program, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
Written by Michael Cyrs. There are perks to playing music as a group. On top of taking cues and perf...
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Adara Meyers, Happy Days, Hotel Elefant, Leaha Maria Villareal, Samuel Beckett, The Bell for Waking_The Bell for Sleep, Vanessa Langer
Written by Michael J. Cyrs. “America is a great place. But it’s also not so great. You can have thos...
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Changing Same, Jerome Foundation, Joseph C. Phillips, Numinous, The Grey Land
written by Michael J. Cyrs In 1845, when expressionism was decades away from being an identifiable m...
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24 Hours, Brian Petuch, Herman Melville, JMW Turner, Moby Dick, The Pequod
In 1960, Smell-o-Vision came to the big screen. Accompanying a movie called The Scent of Mystery, mo...
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ACF board of directors, Ear + Nose, Institute for Art and Olfaction, Mary Ellen Childs, master nose, Museum of Arts and Design, Northern Spark, perfume, scent, Zeitgeist
written by Michael J. Cyrs At many classical music performances, concertgoers place themselves at th...
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JP Merz, Liquid Music, SEAMUS
by Michael Cyrs “I love the art of film music, but I’m not at all into defining labels when it comes...
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Alice Vogt, beautiful, Breathe, Brian Mark, Dark Elegy, film music, Invocation, Lucid Dreaming, Mourning, multimedia, towers, Tuesday, We Interrupt This Broadcast
By Michael Cyrs Close your eyes, turn out the lights, and listen to Trevor Babb’s “Septet.” Each gui...
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guitar, innova, innova Recordings, Pat Metheny, Trevor Babb, Warmth
JFund Profile by Michael Cyrs “Genre-defying” and “experimental” are words that critics enjoy tossin...
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Funeral Doom Spiritual, Hunter Hunt Hendrix, M. Lamar, The Lynching Suite
I am humbled and excited to announce that as of September 1st, I begin my term as the next President...
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ACF Chapter, ACF-LA, ACF-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Steven Homestead
by Michael Cyrs Reality is rarely compartmentalized into the rigid structure of a three-minute pop s...
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Asuka Kakitani, JFund
by J. Anthony Allen I spent the month of June on a residency aboard a ship in the Arctic. This was a...
by Michael Cyrs In May of 1995, Taiwan lost a cultural trailblazer. Teresa Teng, then 42 and already...
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Asymptote, C for G, China, Prime Knot, Steph Chou, Susan Jaffe, Taiwan, Teresa Teng
