Winnows
Blank Aberration (Adam Lutz & Kristian de Leon) presents an immersive multimedia work for quadraphonic (4-channel audio) synthesis, live percussion, real-time generative projections. Drawing from architectural ideas of material, physicality, and form, WINNOWS establishes a richly textural and dynamic style that Blank Aberration calls "ambient brutalism." There will be a short opening performance featuring new… Read more »
Oct 05, 2024
cowhause & Hamster Theatre
Prepare for an extraordinary night of musical innovation as two groundbreaking acts co-headline an unforgettable concert. cowhause and Hamster Theatre, each pioneers in their own right, will take turns commanding the stage to deliver an evening of genre-defying soundscapes and captivating performances. This double bill showcases the cutting edge of contemporary composition, offering audiences two… Read more »
Oct 05, 2024
3rd Annual Listening Room Film Festival
The 3rd Annual Listening Room Film Festival Friday and Saturday, December 6, 7, 13 and 14, 3pm to midnight Sunday December 8 and 15, 3pm to 9pm, at Henry Turner Jr.’s Listening Room 2733 North Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802. Film passes are $5.00 per block, $10.00 per day or $50 for the entire festival.… Read more »
Oct 04, 2024
Chamber Music @ AEIVA
Iron Giant Free Association plays new music by local composers in boundary-stretching performances, with connections to a solo survey exhibition of abstract painter Odili Donald Odita. Iron Giant has worked with members of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance to create a group of flexible compositions that reward creative investment from performers and audiences alike. Details… Read more »
Oct 04, 2024
Kusha
Held on the eve of South African Day of Reconciliation, Castle of our Skins presents the US premiere of “Kusha”: an audience-participatory, highly immersive and largely improvised musical work by South African composer Monthati Masebe. Grounded in African sound healing technologies and a desire to preserve South African indigenous soundscapes, “Kusha” will be performed using… Read more »
Oct 03, 2024
45th Annual BGSU New Music Festival, October 17-19
Bowling Green's annual New Music Festival presents its 45th program October 17-19 on campus in Bowling Green, OH. This year's festival features guest composer Paola Prestini, the Parker Quartet, cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, and performances by faculty and students from the College of Musical Arts. Most events are free and open to the public, and some… Read more »
Oct 03, 2024
Las Migas
After receiving a Latin Grammy Award for Libres (Best Flamenco Album 2022), Las Migas has returned with a new collection entitled Rumberas. For this all-female quartet from Barcelona, being a “rumbera” goes beyond the musical style of rumba and extends to a creative mindset without limitations in which female artists express themselves fully and freely.… Read more »
Oct 03, 2024
Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos
Join World Music Institute for an evening of two projects from the multi-faceted composer, guitarist, and activist Marc Ribot, who celebrated his 70th birthday this year. Marc Ribot released his album Songs of Resistance (Anti-), eleven politically charged tracks, in September 2018. The collection blends Civil Rights and WWII resistance songs with Ribot’s original compositions,… Read more »
Oct 03, 2024
Carlos Núñez
Few artists pack as much energy, virtuosity, and charisma into their performances as multi-instrumentalist and WMI Honorary Board member Carlos Núñez. Steeped in the rich Celtic traditions of Galicia on the northwest coast of Spain where he was born and still resides, he is renowned as the world’s leading gaita player, mastering the bagpipes of… Read more »
Oct 03, 2024
Forged in Fire presented by Coro Allegro
Join Coro Allegro, Boston's LGBTQ+ and allied classical chorus to experience the breathtaking power of Zoltán Kodály’s "Missa Brevis", which was composed amid the chaos of World War II when the composer sought refuge in Budapest as bombs rained down. Also featured on the program is "i see others like me", an evocative newly commissioned… Read more »
Oct 03, 2024
Five Years, Five Reflections
I recently reached the fifth anniversary of my move from London to New York to become the President & CEO of New Music USA. Time has flown! This milestone has inspired me to reflect on what we have learned as an organization since I arrived in 2019; a transformative period that included seven months of… Read more »
Oct 03, 2024
Children of Dharma – World Premiere
Ragamala Dance Company’s Children of Dharma builds upon decades of the company’s pioneering work centering ancestral wisdom, artistic excellence, and creativity to contextualize the immigrant experience. Created by mother-daughters Bharatanatyam artists Aparna Ramaswamy, Ranee Ramaswamy, and Ashwini Ramaswamy, Children of Dharma explores life – forever sprouting, transforming, dissolving, and renewing – through three characters from… Read more »
Oct 02, 2024
Shine On! CLCS
Join us for Shine On!, our family friendly, music-dance-spoken word showcase shining the light on Black artistry! With performances by COOS artists and BSU Fellows, the performance will feature music by legendary Black composers, including Samuel Coleridge Taylor and Undine Smith Moore, paired with sounds from contemporary voices, like Jessie Montgomery and Kendrick Lamar; inter-mingled… Read more »
Oct 02, 2024
Shine On! Rockport
Castle of our Skins presents a family friendly, music-dance-spoken word performance that shines the light on Black artistry through solo and chamber works by legendary Black composers like Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Undine Smith Moore as well as contemporary voices like Jessie Montgomery and Kendrick Lamar. These works are presented with a mingling of spoken word… Read more »
Oct 02, 2024
Electronics & New Music
Join us as we venture into the electrifying realm of new music, featuring a brand-new commission by the brilliant Anne Hege. This program also includes mesmerizing works by Angélica Negrón, and the late, legendary Kaija Saariaho.
Oct 02, 2024
The LGBTQ+ Music Study Group 2024 Symposium
The LGBTQ+ Music Study Group is delighted to announce our 5th symposium, “Caring Amidst Neoliberalism: History, Solidarity, Desire.” In resistance to ongoing insidious ahistorical extortionist neoliberal greed, our symposium echoes the call of our previous events to center care and community in the slow, often tumultuous path toward justice. We all recognize the long slog… Read more »
Oct 02, 2024
Music for Wilderness Lake
PROGRAM Day 1 Quinn Mason: Solitude Chorales I–V Dwayne Milburn: Gabrieli in LA Jordan Nobles: Surface Tension Jordan Nobles: Nocturn R. Murray Schafer: “Dusk” from Music for Wilderness Lake Day 2 R. Murray Schafer: “Dawn” from Music for Wilderness Lake Jordan Nobles: Rogue Waves Dwayne Milburn: Gabrieli in LA Quinn Mason: Solitude Chorales VI–X PROGRAM… Read more »
Oct 02, 2024
Soundry with Pamela Z and the Center for Deep Listening
Join us for Soundry, an experimental music workshop series, based in Omaha, Nebraska and curated by Dr. Stacey Barelos. In this session we will create soundscapes inspired by Pauline Oliveros. Special Guests: Pamela Z, who will lead us in her piece "Amplified Silence" from the upcoming book "A Year in Deep Listening".
Oct 01, 2024
Redline Redefined: Launch Party + Concert
Join Thingamajigs for a launch party and concert presenting a multiyear project, Redline Redefined❗ Through the lens of 8 Bay Area artists, we explore the discriminatory practices redlining has in our neighborhoods, and how these vibrant areas are being redefined by the communities currently residing there. 🏢 🔺We commissioned 8 artists thanks to grant funding… Read more »
Oct 01, 2024
Staggerwing
Winner if the 2020 Zepick Modern Opera Commission, Staggerwing tells the story of female pilots Louise Thaden and Blanche Noyes as they compete in and win the 1936 Bendix Trophy Air Race – the first time women pilot teams are allowed to compete. World premiere of the expanded production and score
