New Music

"Living in large cities, we've lost the ability to identify with the sounds of nature – and, by extension, the relationship of music to the natural world. All the sounds

I'm on a school bus, on my way to the Rare Forest for a "Soundwalk" hosted by Canadian composer/acoustic ecologist R. Murray Schaefer. We've been told that the performance begins

I'll be making my way to Kitchener, Ontario this weekend for the biennial Open Ears Festival of music and sound, featuring an array of performances and sound installations throughout this

"Climaxes of great sonority and high complexity appear and are dissolved into the endlessness. At times you feel you  have never done anything all your life long but listen to

It took 45 years for Terry Riley's In C to make it to Carnegie Hall, but if Kronos Quartet founder/concert organizer David Harrington is to be believed, tonight's performance should be

Michael Gordon's Trance, an hour-long work for acoustic and electronic orchestra, was rocked by Signal tonight in the middle of the Le Poisson Rouge floor. It starts out with Gordon's

The Tank's annual Bent Festival – similar to December's Blip Festival – invites hackers and composers to reconfigure electronic toys through circuit bending, creating a strange, often exciting form of

So, you know those holiday craft fairs they have during Christmas time, where locals sell beaded jewelry, knit scarves, and 50/50 raffle tickets? Replace those tables with ones filled by