Morton Feldman Brought the Avant-Garde to the Classical Tradition. The composer's quiet, slow, spacious musical aesthetic is remarkable in music history.

Review of Wild Up’s forthcoming release of Julius Eastman/Gay Guerrilla just dispatched. Crikey, what a recording that is. May need the rest of the day off to recover.

New post. Listening to Jon Catler's microtonal electric guitars in "The Young Mountain of the East" and Cristiàn Alvear's monotonal guitar in "Sin título #30 – Singularidad #1 (Carrasco – Astaburuaga)". www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

Excited to present Annea Lockwood’s work in Turku July 9. Programme: Buoyant 6’18 min Dusk 7’ min Jitterbug approx. 40’ min For Jitterbug, Annea will be accompanied by Livia Schweizer (flute), Mark Reid Bulatovič (guitar) and me (kantele, percussion), improvising from a score of rock images.

Audio recording of me with a take

My classical music picks for June, in and around Philadelphia, include a Morton Feldman rarity on Friday: Three Voices (1982) with the great Charlotte Mundy singing live with two pre-recorded tracks of her voice. The result is likely to be spellbinding More in my latest column for WRTI #Feldman100

Final Ekmeles concert of the year tomorrow, 4:30PM at DiMenna Center. US premiere by George Lewis, works by Kaija Saariaho, Christopher Trapani, and Bethany Younge, all for electronics and voices.

Harry Partch - Plectra & Percussion Dances 1953 Beautiful and funny, disorienting microtonal music. Easily my most treasured record. I would love to know how this gem ended up in a crate of easy listening records in a yard sale in Tulsa in the late 90s.

Today's the day! Ekmeles's third record Nonsongs is out. Music by Katherine Balch, George Lewis (ft. Iwo Jedynecki on accordion), and Wolfgang von Schweinitz.

Night 1 of the MATA Festival, with some Morton Feldman. some NY premieres, Steve Reich performed in tap, and more wild and weird music

On Sunday, May 24, at 3 pm, the season's final livestream from the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (or see it at the American Philosophical Society, in person). Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano Julia Yang, cello Amy Yang, piano Menu: Bartók, H. Yang, Schubert, R. Schumann, and Kian Ravaei (b. 1999)

New post. The premiere of Jürg Frey's Clarinet Quintet; plus Je laisse à la nuit son poids d’ombre. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

Coming out this Friday — Ekmeles: Nonsongs The intrepid contemporary vocal ensemble Ekmeles, directed by Jeffrey Gavett, releases their third recording featuring works written for the ensemble by George Lewis, Wolfgang von Schweinitz & Katherine Balch newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/nonsongs

Coming out this Friday — A Forest Unfolding: A Collaborative Cantata Inspired by Trees A Forest Unfolding is a collaborative work inspired by recent scientific research into the rich communication and subterranean connectivity between trees newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/a-fore...

The composers Eric Moe, Melinda Wagner, Stephen Jaffe, and David Kirkland Garner set these words into a unified whole. The resulting whole traces a narrative arc beginning with human estrangement from nature and ending with a glimpse of the endless cooperation that knits a forest together

12tet / 43-edo / 7-limit JI

Oh man, just spent my day editing a long interview with the brilliant Soosan Lolavar for Purposeful Listening. This one's going to be a doozy. Out this time next week; subscribe if you don't want to miss it (you won't)! purlis.substack.com/subscribe

It was a pleasure to interview @juergfrey.bsky.social about the gobsmackingly beautiful 'Clarinet Quintet', out now on @anothertimbre.bsky.social. Read the interview and get your hands on the album. London premiere on 29 May at @musicwedliketohear.bsky.social. www.anothertimbre.com/products/jur...

Coming out this Friday — SydeBoob Duo: Au Naturel SydeBoob Duo is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of performance in repertoire for soprano & flute, bringing their virtuosity to ambitious works that highlight their commitment to broad representation and the highest aesthetic standards

some cool new microtonal chamber music from Joshua Mastel & Alec Goldfarb is in pre-order on Gold Bolus today alecgoldfarb.bandcamp.com/album/firmam...

We lost composer and pianist Michael Harrison today, but we will always have his music — resonant, ravishing, and wide open to the world. Fly on, fellow traveler 🎶 youtu.be/SM6Upe1o0iE?...

Are you in or near Rome this Thursday? Come hear me with other Ekmeles singers as soloists in this Bang on a Can oratorio www.auditorium.com/it/event/dav...

5 New Albums out on Sawyer Spaces! Michael Pisaro-Liu, Manja Ristić, Dylan Kerr, miska lamberg, Annie Dodson. Great tunes and new packaging! sawyerspaces.bandcamp.com

WOW! This year's @massmoca.bsky.social's Bang on a Can LOUD weekend lineup looks 🔥 Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Conrad Tao playing Rzewski, Morton Feldman's Piano and string quartet, etc etc I might have to go to some of them massmoca.org/event/bang-o...

Not much bread coming in lately and then the car battery died this week. So I dropped the price of the 200+ title discography to 85% off $169.69 thinking maybe some folks would want to help out. canary-records.bandcamp.com

I'm leading this pretty cool Composing Ecology weekend at Hawkwood, Stroud in June - a few days of listening to nature and making music in the most beautiful of surroundings. Does this sound like your thing? In which case, come and join me! www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/our-programm...

Now streaming: feast your ears on Evening Light: Raga Cycle I — the first chapter in a planned 8-album series, co-composed by Michael Harrison (piano in just intonation) and Ina Filip (vocals), with Elliot Cole (synth), Benoit Rolland (electro-acoustics), and Mir Naqibul Islam (tabla).

I got severely just-intonation-pilled a few years ago and have no regrets. As with a lot of things in music, working through tuning concepts systematically has made my intuitive experience much richer and more dimensional afterwards.

Who is ready for The Village Trip 2026? Arts, activism, music, and celebrating everything that makes up the Village! Interested in being part of the festival? Check out our website, link in bio, or email [email protected]. #thevillagetripfestival #activism #arts #festival

It’s bandcamp Friday, ya’ll - the day where you’re money helps support the artists most! Look at all these beautiful people: they all make great music that you can listen to sawyereditions.bandcamp.com/merch

NEWS: I've been working on a new project called Composing Ecology, centred on a collection of mostly text scores called New Nature Pieces, for individuals and groups. Do check it out - you can download everything for free and use it. I'd be delighted if you'd take a look! composingecology.com

Chatham Baroque: Bach’s Sublime Chamber Music Mar 27-29 Meet the Artist: Andrew Fouts, violin His playing has been praised for its “mellifluous sound & sensitive style” & “superb technique & spirit.” He also performs w/Apollo’s Fire, & is concertmaster for Washington Bach Consort. chathambaroque.org

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

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Pittsburgh, one of my favorite cities. I will be at Jerry's Records and then I will be at this lovely show, while on tour with @danibeepboop.bsky.social this April: calendar.pitt.edu/event/dobkin...

10-11 April,Hyperchromatic Festival, Goldsmith's University, London, See Microtonal Projects' website Composers can submit digital recordings (audio, video or midi) of microtonal works, to be exhibited as part of a listening session. Submit by 10th March per drive link to [email protected]

Matt Sargent (guitar/electronics) and Giacomo Fiore (guitar) perform "Several Angels," a concert of computer-generated variations on Shaker hymns, alongside composer/performer Chris Everingham's (bass guitar/electronics) monolithic just intonation piece Searching. www.indexical.org/events/2026-...

www.anothertimbre.com/products/mor... This is phenomenal. Remarkable. Intriguing , compelling and brilliant. Completely rescues these pieces

Video link youtu.be/TN3ks5ghJT8

Tonight.

A moment of vulnerability here as a I announce that I have started a Substack. I am deeply anxious about putting out my thoughts out there like this, but I think this is a new way for me and for my social media world... aquantifiablelife.substack.com

periodic reminder that your creative and artistic work has ripple effects beyond your field of view, and that it's good for your soul and happiness, and yes that's important. please keep going, keep making and sharing, especially when it's grim. don't ever stop, we need you

And if you need more Estoppey in your life (I do since we'll be playing music in 15 minutes). polyorchard.bandcamp.com/album/scree-n polyorchard.bandcamp.com/album/an-exc...

"Feldman constructed his grand compositional labyrinths out of petite, pared-back melodic cells that you’d reckon might just be enough to sustain a ringtone. The grand scale of his music sat in inverse proportion to its notes." The genius of Morton Feldman:

NEW YORK - I am playing oud with the incredible Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble next Saturday 1/17 at the Church of St Luke and St Matthew in BK. I will play on Sinan Samanlı's beautiful harmonic-laden work 'Üç Anayasa,' which sets texts in Turkish and Greek by Cemal Süreya and Plato.

Witrh music performed upon a live microtonal orchestra

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see also: anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/morton...