Hearing Beyond The First Layer of Sound with Jay Campbell
Jay Campbell discusses Catherine Lamb's "descensus".
InquiryOverdone and Done Over
I used to think that early music was stodgy and stuck in the past. Here are a few of the recordings that convinced me otherwise.
Early MusicExperiments in Tenderness: Jane in Ether’s Freshman Album Release
The sonic landscape crafted by Magda Mayas (piano), Miako Klein (recorders), and Biliana Voutchkova (violin and voice) pulls the listener beyond the realm of the sensual, arousing one’s memory and imagination in the spaces left untouched by tenuous gestures.
ReviewWhat Label Owners Want You To Know About Releasing An Album
Label owners answer questions about working with labels, recording, self releasing and starting a label.
InquiryOpera and TV had a Baby, and There's A Lot to Love
It's a little weird seeing Hollywood actors pantomime opera, but this is a genre to watch.
ReviewChris Cerrone and Timo Andres on Musical Economy
A conversation with Chris Cerrone and Timo Andres about economy in music, the challenges of aleatoric music, the drama inherent to Chris’s compositions and loungewear.
InquiryYour Next Binge-Watch Includes Sopranos (But No Mobsters)
A collaboration between Boston Lyric Opera and Long Beach Opera creates a new genre: the opera miniseries.
Vocal MusicOn Not Killing The Music with Judith Berkson
Judith Berkson and Anna Heflin meet at Central Park to discuss Judith's upcoming release "Liederkreis II", Schoenberg Harmony and the relationships between the old and the new.
New MusicOwl Mirror: The Berlioz We Deserve
Spring is in the air and with it wafts in a sense of Romanticism. There’s nothing like the perfect musical accompaniment to a daytime stroll, and my recent research requires me to share the swoon-worthy Romanticism of Berlioz with you, my dear reader.
PerspectiveThird Coast Percussion and Two Assads Explore “The Stories That Connect Us All”
With a universal sentiment in mind — archetypes, after all, define human experience the world over — father and daughter began work on a monumental 12-movement cycle, each movement modeled after one of the archetypes proposed by Freudian psychoanalyst Carl Jung.
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