New Music

 I didn't have any major musical ventures this past week, opting to stay local and play host to some friends at my favorite watering hole/music spot: Barbès. Which isn't at all

  I've been fascinated with Edgar Varese's Poeme Electronique since I was an undergrad, when I spotted a photo in the back of my music history book of the striking modernist pavilion

  When I learned this week that Williamsburg's Monkeytown will be closing its doors for good in two weeks due to "landlord issues," it made me question yet again the long-term

 I took a break from the litany of holiday music last weekend with a pair of concerts that offered two very different visions of where classical music is at the end

Some of you may remember my visit to Pop Montreal in October, where I discovered this art installation based on Charles Spearin's Happiness Project, in which he recorded interviews with his

I'm not sure if three performers rubbing Nivea Cream into their hands qualifies as music, but the bill for Saturday night's A Fantastic World Superimposed On Reality (part of Performa 09)

A Ballad of Accounting 2009: Composition for Cello and Brooklyn Queens Expressway, with Alex Waterman performing live cello to a film by Elizabeth Wendelbo. Part of yesterday's Performa 09 activities. (Presumably, Ms.

The biennal art festival known as Performa 09 wraps up with weekend in NYC, inlcuding a number of events devoted to experimental music. Last night, I saw the first of