New Music

At 4pm, I met up with composer Bradford Reed and about 15 others outside the Carroll St. F train stop, where he had us all download three of his "pieces"

Inspired by Daniel Neumann's soundwalk "Demasking the Bridges", I sat under the Manhattan Bridge for a half-hour. It's like sitting inside a tunnel, the rumble of trucks and trains creating

I was taking pictures on the Union St. bridge when I heard a strange blend of melodicas, clarinets, kazoos and keyboards approaching. I turned to my left and saw Marc

Walking across Union St. trying to catch up with Marc Ribot's Gowanus soundwalk, I pass this old factory space and hear the slow movement from Beethoven's 4th piano concerto coming

Having thoroughly enjoyed my soundwalk through the woods of Kitchener last month, I was happy to hear that Issue Project Room will be hosting their first annual "Soundwalk-a-thon" this Sunday, (6/7)

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During a break from the action yesterday, I spoke to a composer friend, who had a bit of a different take on the Marathon: "Bang on a Can is kind

Well, at least they're appropriately named: after taking nearly 40 minutes to set up, Chicago post rock vets Tortoise finally started their marathon-ending set at 11:32 tonight. So much for

Kicking off the marathon's final stretch is Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, who gives us an hour of tranquility (including a melodic piano solo and a new work written for the