New Music

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

Take four percussionists, eight MacBooks, and a pair of electronic pranksters, put it all together, and you get a hot mess of sound that falls somewhere between computer music and

There's this thing that happens when a concert begins – when the music is light and gentle and penetrating – when you suddenly find yourself living completely in the moment. Time and

So, having attended two of the MATA Festival concerts last week at Le Poisson Rouge, it would seem that there certain partisans of new music who would prefer that it

itsnotyouitsme and So Percussion performing Jason Treuting's 16 Words, Players Theater, 3/25/09

For several years now, Gabriel Prokofiev – yes, he is Serge's grandson – has hosted a monthly in London's East End called Nonclassical ,which gives that city's nascent new music

Serena Jost, Barbès , 3/12/09 Ansambl Mastika (More pics below.)

Ok, I know these are tough economic times, but you (and you and you) should call in to WFMU this week with a pledge during their annual Marathon, if for