Pitchfork
Album Review: Kelly Moran, Moves in the Field
Album Review: Vince Guaraldi Quintet, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (50th Anniversary Edition)
Album Review: Sarah Davachi, Long Gradus
Album Review: Mary Lattimore, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada
Album Review: Setting, Shone A Rainbow Light On
Album Review: Alan Courtis / David Grubbs, Braintrust of Fiends and Werewolves
Album Review: Éliane Radigue, Naldjorlak
Album Review: Katrina Krimsky, 1980
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I Care If You Listen
At the Sun Ra/El Saturn Archive, the Iconic Bandleader’s Legacy is Living Inspiration
50 Years and 1,100 New Works In, Kronos Quartet shows no signs of Slowing Down
Ellen Fullman’s Singular and Suitably-Named
‘Long String Instrument’ Reverberates at EMPAC
M3 Festival Celebrates Networks of Support and Empowerment for Artists of Marginalized Genders
Looking to Pin Down the Sounds of Today, Bang on a Can
Jam-Packs Long Play 2023 with Joyful Experimentation
Andy Akiho Wrings New Sounds out of Colossal Sculptures
After 40 Years of New Sounds, John Schaefer is Still Actively Listening
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the Quietus
Album Review: Jlin, Akoma
Album Review: Jürg Frey / Quatuor Bozzini, String Quartet No. 4
Unacceptable Ideas: An Interview with Bill Orcutt
Album Review: Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden…
Album Review: Adjunct Ensemble, Sovereign Bodies / Ritual Taxonomy
Album Review: Lia Kohl, The Ceiling Reposes
Album Review: Daniel Pioro, Saint Boy
Album Review: Oren Ambarchi, Shebang
Album Review: David Friend & Jerome Begin, Post-
Album Review: Eiko Ishibashi, Drive My Car OST
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The Brooklyn Rail
Concert Review: Caterina Barbieri & Eli Keszler
Deep Listening to Pauline Oliveros Across the Internet
Q&A: Brendon Randall-Myers with Vanessa Ague
Q&A: Matt Evans with Vanessa Ague
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The Wire
Monthly contributor of album reviews, concert reviews, book reviews, and reported pieces since September 2020. To read digital editions of the magazine, please visit: https://www.thewire.co.uk/
NPR Music
Album Review: In the devastation of climate change, Daniel Bachman captures what's left behind
Texas Monthly
At the Kerrville Folk Festival, the Real Magic Isn’t On Stage
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Bandcamp Daily
Album of the Day: Beverly Glenn-Copeland, The Ones Ahead
Album of the Day: Katherine Kyu Hyeon Lim, Starling
Kalia Vandever Says Yes to Going Solo (and Effects Pedals)
Album of the Day: Cruel Diagonals, Fractured Whole
Album of the Day: Nyokabi Kariũki, Feeling Body
Lisel and the Humanity of Auto-Tune
Kali Malone Finds Freedom In Restriction On “Does Spring Hide Its Joy”
Album of the Day: Horse Lords, Comradely Objects
For Cellist Lori Goldston, the Magic’s in the Mistakes
Ghosts of Egypt’s Past Haunt Nancy Mounir’s Latest
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WNYC’s New Sounds
Power Struggles and Rebellion In “Eight Songs For A Mad King”
Ambient Noise or Compelling Sounds? An Exploration of MASS MoCA’s
Sound Installations
The Sounds of the Bang On A Can Summer Festival Meet the Sights of MASS MoCA
Hell Gate
Splendor and Destruction on the Gowanus
Stereogum
Sightlines
Premiere concert for KMFA’s Draylen Mason composer-in-residence program launches new music for classical radio
Density512 premieres the opera “Eva and the Angel of Death: A Holocaust Remembrance Story”
Border-busting MXTX project builds musical bridges between U.S. and Mexico
The little Austin music festival that could? The ‘It’s Winter Somewhere
Composer Festival’
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Musicworks
Album Review: Bekah Simms, Ghost Songs
Album Review: Aiyun Huang, Resonances
Album Review: Alex Eddington, A Present from a Small Distant World
(Redshift Records)
Album Review: JunctQín Keyboard Collective, reTHiNK
Album Review: Saman Shahi, Breathing in the Shadows
Liner/Program Notes
Currently writing program notes for the Seattle Symphony Orchestra
and Lincoln Center
Other recent notes:
Program Notes: Felipe Lara’s Composer Portrait at Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Program Notes: London Contemporary Orchestra’s LCO: 24 at the Barbican
Liner Notes: Wadada Leo Smith / Andrew Cyrille / Qasim Naqvi, Two Centuries
Liner Notes: JR Bohannon/Ben Greenberg/Ryley Walker, For Michael Ripps (Husky Pants Records)
Liner Notes: Robert Honstein, Middle Ground (Other Minds Records)
Liner Notes: Dary John Mizelle, The Music of Dary John Mizelle (Other Minds Records)
Liner Notes: Dan Langa, I’m Alright, I’m OK