Alvin Lucier
Deer Tick discuss influences behind new LP 'Emotional Contracts'
Featuring Bob Dylan, Corita Kent, Steve Poltz, Alvin Lucier, NRBQ, and more…
What's Going on Thursday?
Thursday’s NYC-area shows include Anti-Flag, Taking Back Sunday, Bouncing Souls, Special Interest, Deer Tick, Pierre Kwenders, Thievery Corporation, and more.
Alvin Lucier, pioneering experimental composer, dead at 90
Lucier’s works were highly conceptual, often based around scientific ideas that created soundscapes, most famously on his 1969 work, ‘I Am Sitting in a Room.‘
Big Ears 2019 adds Spiritualized, Mercury Rev, Richard Thompson, Yves Tumor, more
Big Ears also includes Sons of Kemet, Bill Frisell, Jlin, Vijay Iyer, Meredith Monk, Stephen O’Malley, the music of Harold Budd, and more.
Red Bull Music Academy NYC 2017: Solange, Gucci Mane, Sacred Bones, Werner Herzog & more
The Red Bull Music Academy is back for it’s fifth straight year in NYC, happening April 29 — May 21
Yo La Tengo played the Ecstatic Music Festival w/ Alvin Lucier (pics / setlist)
On Wednesday, at New York’s Merkin Concert Hall, Yo La Tengo appeared as a combination of cover band and bare-minimum orchestra for the electro-acoustic composer Alvin Lucier in a program of his works, laced with three band pieces, presented by the 2016 edition of the Ecstatic Music Festival…
Ecstatic Music Festival 2016 schedule (Yo La Tengo, Pharoahe Monch, William Tyler, Lee Ranaldo, Man Forever & more)
The annual Ecstatic Music Festival returns in 2016 from January 29 to March 19, with all performances happening at NYC’s Merkin Concret Hall except the opening night at The…
an interview with Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O))) on playing solo, Nazoranai & more ++ pics from Big Ears Festival
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Upon his return home to Paris after the 2014 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN (and after touching down on four continents in just four weeks, a NYC show at Baby’s All Right included), Stephen O’Malley of Sunn O))), Nazoranai and countless other projects, graciously took some time to discuss his three performances at this exceptional U…
Ecstatic Music Festival 2014 lineup & tix (Hospitality, Mirah, William Basinski, Buke & Gase, Colin Stetson, and more)
Hospitality at Glasslands in October (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)
The annual Ecstatic Music Festival is returning to its usual location, the Merkin Concert Hall (except for the kickoff show at The Green Space, and one show happening at Carnegie Hall) in 2014 from January 31 to March 29…
Bang on a Can Marathon schedule released
Glenn Branca Ensemble at last year’s Marathon (more by Andrew Frisicano)
As previously announced, the 2012 River to River Festival will kick off with the annual 12-hour Bang on a Can Marathon on June 17 from noon to midnight at the World Financial Center Winter Garden:Some highlights include Bang on a Can All-Stars, astonishing cellist Maya Beiser, Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening Band, sound pioneer Alvin Lucier, indie guitar sensation Kaki King, jazz genius Matthew Shipp, music (Dirty Projectors), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Steve Reich, David T Little, Ruby Fulton, Michael Harrison; film, and much more…
