New York in December! extendedtechniques.com/2025/12/01/n...

Any colleagues attending ASEEES25? See you there!

From pianist Igor Levit, the opening of Frederic Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!" (1975) 👊

New York in November! extendedtechniques.com/2025/10/31/n...

What a delightful conversation about writing history as an art. i've been thinking about this a lot and now get a specific advice on how to do this.

Arvo Pärt indeed figured out how to draw audiences to new music. From young to old, hipsters to fashion ladies to real music connosieurs. His avant-garde opuses stood the test of time. The most amazing were the violinints, Midori and Hans Christian Aavik, they showed that Tabula Rasa has future.

Best protest music ever!

NYC today!

October in New York! extendedtechniques.com/2025/10/01/n...

The best way to celebrate a composer’s birthday is to listen to their music the way they intended it. Pauline Oliveros’s 80th, Terry Riley’s 90th, and Valentyn Sylvestrov’s 88th (yesterday). It's impossible to find a point of comparison. One thing I can say for sure, at the latter I cried the most.

Join us tomorrow for a book talk by our Executive Board member, Svitlana Biedarieva! Organized by the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute as part of the Decolonizing Ukrainian Studies event series. www.huri.harvard.edu/event/svitla...

Okkyung Lee ~ just like any other day (어느날): background music for your mundane activities acloserlisten.com/2025/09/13/o...

What you need today: Arvo Pärt is 90 Years Old, the latest at KillYrIdols open.substack.com/pub/killyrid...

Today is the birthday of Theodor W. Adorno, Arvo Pärt, and Victoria Poleva. Since most here are familiar with the men, I will be posting some of Poleva's music! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBfL...

It was a delight to run into a mention of Victoria Poleva's Ode to Joy in this essay on Beethoven by Maria Popova. Referencing the concert commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, she concludes: (a thread) soundcloud.com/victoria-pol...

With a new teaching load and other projects, I finished the calendar only on September 3rd! Luckily, there were no events before today, so this can count as the official start of the month for new music listeners!

Keep running into wonderfully strange ensembles in Estonia! kultuur.err.ee/302508/peete...

The key word here is "attempts." Indeed an enjoyable book, basically proving that really loving the art makes it almost impossible to hate its creator. (My observation of Tchaikovsky's admirers supports this claim.)

Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon. But she was one of the first artists to make conceptual art, and the creator of one of the movement’s masterpieces.

August used to be a boring month for a new music listener in NYC. Then, one after another, arts organizations decided to take advantage of lack of events and plan a festival, a music series, a residency... Now August is a busy month, just like any other month. extendedtechniques.com/2025/08/01/n...

Looking forward to this documentary!

"Where is the Original?" - A story for a possible article about stealing/borrowing practice in Soviet art.

I feel like this timeline needs baby pictures. I don't have a baby anymore, but looking at these makes me happy!

It looks like there are a lot of hipsters even in the financial district! They don't mind giving up 2% of their millions.

July in New York - it never gets cooler extendedtechniques.com/2025/06/30/n...

Mamdani would be the first mayor of New York City who was a former rapper and honestly I think that’s enormous

a very important article for Jewish friends who still have doubts www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o...

Last week, Pinya coded the entire In C in scratchcat. Then saw the announcement of this concert and asked me to get the tickets! This is the first time he is going to a concert of contemporary music on his own initiative.

My ballot 100% corresponds a to Pulitzer-winning playwright's ballot. 100% agree- "cultural diversity that had made the city a magnet is under siege. There’s a whole generation of artists who are opting not to live in New York. “It will have tremendous repercussions for the city in 5-15 years.”

Listening to this delightful conversation and thinking of all poets who would benefit from free busses, free childcare, and rent freeze www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyRD...

1. Many things reported with confidence in the first hours and days will turn out not to be true

It was a pleasure to interview Maarja Kangro about her father's music last week in Tallinn. Her memories, poems and short stories helped me better understand Estonia. I agree with her statement that Estonia is a land of opportunity for creative people. The government invests so much in the arts!

These numbers mean a lot for the mayoral platforms. "Approximately 349,500 New York City residents are millionaires. The city also has 744 centi-millionaires (individuals with at least $100 million) and 60 billionaires." www.cbsnews.com/news/city-wi...

To celebrate the release of 'Herald of a Restless World' in paperback, I am doing a BOOK GIVEAWAY. For a chance to win and find out why a philosopher's lectures caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway share this post and tag someone in the comments! I'll announce the winner a week from now!

NYC today

Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics. Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.

June in New York extendedtechniques.com/2025/06/01/n...

I am so grateful to @balticstudies.bsky.social for this opportunity to come back to Tallinn and engage with Estonian music!

What an inspiring episode! Be obsessed with writing and invent your own career path.

May in NYC extendedtechniques.com/2025/04/30/n...

A must read for anyone who doubts the future of classical music.

It was such a pleasure to work with their music! I'm so glad the episode found its listeners.

#HandsOff2025 Protests across the country 🇺🇸 📷@michell71078349

Lesson 13: "Practice corporeal politics... Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them." ***There will be chances to practice corporeal politics all over the USA on April 5th.*** Find yours here: handsoff2025.com

An ever more obvious example of making America un-American. See you at the protest! handsoff2025.com

Today, many things can sound like a joke, but NYC ET calendar is always real! extendedtechniques.com/2025/04/01/n...

April 5th! Choose your rally wherever you are! (picture from 8 years ago, still relevant) handsoff2025.com

3 incredible and very different days of music and literature - March 14-15. www.ucmfnyc.com/2025

This month in New York - very appropriately, 6th annual Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival (and other cool events)

Economic Boycott today! robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott?fb...