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Raven Chacon, Loud and Clear 

Avatar photo by Marya Errin Jones June 30, 2022July 12, 2022

The acclaimed composer and noise artist talks to Hyperallergic about his Pulitzer Prize-winning composition “Voiceless Mass.”

Posted inIn Brief

A Ceremonial Chord Change for John Cage’s 639-year-long Concert

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia September 8, 2020November 5, 2020

An organ recital of a piece by the composer began in 2001 and will run until 2640. This weekend, listeners gathered to hear its 14th chord change.

Posted inArt

Tune Into a World-Wide Sonic Meditation, Inspired by Pauline Oliveros

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell April 14, 2020April 15, 2020

Requiring no musical experience at all, the meditation invites participants to take part in a “world-wide musical exchange” through a series of synchronized breathing and tonal exercises.

Posted inPerformance

The Complicated Staging of Experimental Music in Art Spaces

Avatar photo by DeForrest Brown, Jr. September 4, 2019September 4, 2019

Veteran musician Onyx Ashanti’s performance prompted larger questions of how personal, cultural works hold value in commodified spaces of leisure, excess and consumption.

A recent Marginal Consort performance (courtesy Pioneer Works)
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An Experimental Music Collective with Fluxus Undertones Comes to Brooklyn

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton May 30, 2018

Since it was formed in 1996 by former students of composer and Fluxus member Takehisa Kosugi, Marginal Consort has gathered once every year to perform without any planning or rehearsal.

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Setting the Puzzling Language of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake to Music

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 5, 2017April 5, 2017

Over 100 contributors to the project Waywords and Meansigns are setting James Joyce’s experimental 1930s book Finnegans Wake to music.

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A Chronicler of Experimental Music Releases His Own

by Joseph Nechvatal August 16, 2016August 16, 2016

PARIS — While in New York some years ago, I virtually met Laurent Fairon, a French blogger and record collector based in Paris, when he was documenting and archiving for the web the Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine in partnership with UbuWeb.

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The Artist Who Turns Glass Shards and IV Drips into Instruments

by Claire Voon July 22, 2015July 23, 2015

For decades, Lucas Abela played turntables hooked up to all sorts of objects, from swords to meat skewers to amplified trampolines. Since 2003, however, the Australian experimental sound artist’s instrument of choice has been a large shard of glass.

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Five Musical Instruments of the Future

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 13, 2015February 13, 2015

Instruments that translate electronic music into physical actions and acoustic instruments that sound as space-age as any synthesizer are just some of the 20 semi-finalists in the 2015 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition.

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How to Compose a Song for 1,000 Years

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 6, 2014August 6, 2014

In composing a song to play for 1,000 years, the variables of technology, societal upheaval, and public understanding cannot be overlooked.

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The Sound Of Two Borders Dissolving

by Ellen Pearlman April 16, 2014April 20, 2014

HONG KONG — Unlike the Berlin Wall, which began with the division of post-World War II spoils, or the Israeli West Bank barrier, which divides parts of Israel and Palestine, the Shenzhen/Hong Kong fence, or “Frontier Closed Area,” has as much security power as wet tissue paper.

Creative Dialogues: Curating with Community Partners
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Join the New-York Historical Society for a virtual discussion on how museums and community leaders can collaborate with Ryan N. Dennis, Peggy Fogelman, and Betsy Bradley.

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