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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Written by Michael Cyrs Even if it’s with someone unquestionably genuine, verbal communicatio...
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Aleksandr Brusentsev, Jerome Foundation, Jerome Fund
written by Tim Hansen In the 19th century, the Age of Enlightenment, there was a great leap forward...
written by Tim Hansen Sean Harold In the email ping-pong prefacing this article, JFund awardee Sean...
written by Tim Hansen The Vietnam War. An international clash of ideologies fought in the theatre of...
written by Tim Hansen When JFund awardee James Everest was three years old, he composed a thundersto...
written by Tim Hansen Tiffany Skidmore “My music is almost always several times removed from its ins...
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