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Margaret Brouwer: Multiple Planes
February 1, 2010 / By
Margaret Brouwer: Multiple Planes

Margaret Brouwer’s unapologetically polystylistic compositions are a personal response to centuries of music. Read the interview…

New Songs in Old Voices: Into the Archives with Brian Harnetty
January 20, 2010 / By
New Songs in Old Voices: Into the Archives with Brian Harnetty

Hear Harnetty talk about his discoveries in the Berea College Appalachian Sound Archives, plus full tracks from his recent release, Silent City.

Larry Polansky: Open Source
January 1, 2010 / By
Larry Polansky: Open Source

As an extremely prolific DIY publisher, editor, music software developer, theorist, musicologist, and composer, Larry Polansky has had a major impact on contemporary music as well as how it is made and disseminated. Read the interview…

Marielle Jakobsons and Agnes Szelag—Science and Folklore
December 23, 2009 / By
Marielle Jakobsons and Agnes Szelag—Science and Folklore

Marielle Jakobsons and Agnes Szelag exist concurrently as string players, computer programmers, and Eastern European dronemongers. Their duo Myrmyr is the result of this consanguinity.

Roger Reynolds: The Benefits of Being Outside the Loops
December 1, 2009 / By
Roger Reynolds: The Benefits of Being Outside the Loops

Although Roger Reynolds has been based in California for the last 40 years, his Midwest upbringing and formative experiences in both Europe and Asia have given him a world view that knows no boundaries. Read the interview…

Elsewhere is a Negative Mirror—The Music of Per Bloland
November 18, 2009 / By
Elsewhere is a Negative Mirror—The Music of Per Bloland

Bloland’s pieces are like Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities: they share many attributes and loose categorizations, but are superficially quite different from one another.

Rinde Eckert: In Search of the Dream You Can’t Imagine
November 1, 2009 / By
Rinde Eckert: In Search of the Dream You Can’t Imagine

From the challenges of collaboration to the boundaries of imagination, Rinde Eckert shows us why it’s often more about an open mind than an open checkbook, more about always trusting than always being right. Read the interview…

Wow and How: Steve Lehman’s Unexpected Confluences
October 14, 2009 / By
Wow and How: Steve Lehman’s Unexpected Confluences

Steve Lehman’s synthesis of hard bop and spectralism has taken him into uncharted territory that is all his own.

Marilyn Crispell: Between the Lines
October 1, 2009 / By
Marilyn Crispell: Between the Lines

From Boston to Woodstock, from the Creative Music Studio to the Braxton Quartet and then beyond, Marilyn Crispell has explored a rich catalog of music both alone and in the company of some of the field’s most talented artists. Read the interview…

Going Underground with Amy X Neuburg
September 16, 2009 / By
Going Underground with Amy X Neuburg

Combining her own powerful voice with her arsenal of electronic gear and the talents of The Cello ChiXtet, Amy X Neuburg has put together 13 songs that, each in their own unique way, speak to “the inane and perpetually unfinished business of love and war—and New York.”