"Kendall’s music MUST mold you into corporeally uncomfortable places to provoke the thoughts these pieces are asking you to have, the images she is asking your mind’s eye to create and consider." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/04/diso...

"Being here in Boston and creating work in response to what is, I feel, a culture of white colonialist gatekeeping, how my transgressive little heart is so resistant and so prolific in the framework of that challenge.” icareifyoulisten.com/2026/04/tran...

"Our approach to music has changed in a fundamental way. We no longer separate our life from our art. Our experiences, our struggles, and our memories are now part of everything we create." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/04/5-qu...

"This playlist of songs that [have] taught me so much about how to write, perform, record, and live with authenticity. And to remember the beauty in not always taking yourself so seriously, so I’ve learned a lot from this music, and I hope you enjoy it too. icareifyoulisten.com/2026/04/list...

"That’s why PPJ is so intentional with who we hire, from composers to poets to instrumentalists. We want individuals who represent the inclusive, communal side of art making." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/04/5-qu...

"We exchanged small glances and half-grins, acknowledging the collective disorientation we endured...within discomfort and wild experimentation, we [seek] safe havens for vulnerability, affirmation, and deeply human connection." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/04/rewi...

"I realized I had to find a new musical language to express my frustration and rage about Vietnam’s treatment of activists like myself. I had no choice but to scream." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/04/5-qu...

"On Brouhaha: Shaped by Fire, violinist Maiani da Silva suggests that listeners might renew their connection to nature by attuning to different rhythms and cycles in music." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/04/maia...

“It’s how you show up and contribute to the bigger picture. We’re all trying to do what we’re all trying to do, and it really is a thing that is much easier to do if you have your people. It’s way more fun… way more human.” icareifyoulisten.com/2026/04/alli...

“You can’t be wrong in improvising because it’s coming from your heart. It’s coming from your soul. You don’t know what you’re going to do, but you listen. If you’re playing with others, you listen to each other. That’s how we played.” icareifyoulisten.com/2026/04/perp...

"I think we all have a kind of understanding about repetition as the foundation of so much of our world ... Yet at the same time, materials and substances are constantly changing." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/04/list...

The journey of listening to Radigue’s works and all their tiny changes leaves you with the feeling of truly being alive in the moment. What a gift to be united in [her] unbroken drone: beyond and through time, held eternally in the ever-evolving pulse of sound. icareifyoulisten.com/2026/04/elia...

"Moving fluidly across a continuum of musical transformation, Gildemann crafts immersive, destabilising sonic fields that invite close listening." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/04/madl...

"The multimodal show “Mister Cobra” transmuted accumulations – of trash, generalized pop yearning, digital conversations, and “discourse” – to encounter and process self-actualization amid harm." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/04/lucy...

"I like to make the room sing. I feel as if I am cultivating a relationship with the space as I am with the audience. Sometimes.. in a space the pacing of the composition sounds totally wrong for some reason...I might even adjust the length of the piece." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/03/5-qu...

"The result is distinct and emotionally heartfelt as the album enacts grief, love, despair, and wonder in equal measures, while speaking to the history of the Black music that forms its roots." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/03/harr...

"The premiere [by] Camille Norment...was a standout moment of the 2026 Borealis festival. She...underscored how easily innocence and goodness can be corrupted... Yet it was also a reminder that the inverse is true: we can counteract the dark times with love." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/03/expe...

"Johnson, Kohl, and Stewart are a powerhouse trio of improvisers ... And yet, BODY SOUND is more than the sum of its impressive parts — it is a cohesive album that urges us to slow down and bask in the beauty of sound." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/03/body...

"Eternal Series was carefully executed and beautifully curated. Ultimately, Cape, Kadish, and Mordecai urged us toward creating a space that is eternal: where we may always hone our own artistic work; where we may also find a community. This series gives hope to the future of London’s music scene."

"Ever since I was in middle school, around the time when I first was getting passionate about music, it wasn’t the act of playing but the discovery and the discovering of new music that really brought me so much joy." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/03/list...

"The Great Wall of Los Angeles truly embodied the idea that everything that is old becomes new again... Here, a work of art chronicled history while becoming history itself." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/03/thro...

"TacocaT is a 22-minute gallop through various machine learnings. Noise is an inherent part of our lives, our dreams, and also machine learning. It is the basis of diffusion. Must machines dream?" icareifyoulisten.com/2026/03/vide...

"At its heart, "Luminescence" provided space for intentional listening, motivated by the introspection and innovation of each performance. Throughout the weekend, artists experimented with musical form to spellbinding effect." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/03/lumi...

"The evening was a sumptuous feast of sonic textures and human emotions, things a composer can write down before the performance. But it was also an experience in 'the vividness of the exchange' between performer and audience, as Bielawa describes it." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/03/in-m...

"Having experiences that go outside of your comfort zone give you a way of challenging your own perceptions…if you don’t make that available to everybody in society, then I think you’re failing the political potential of the art and music.” icareifyoulisten.com/2026/03/pete...

"Hello! I’m Rachel Beetz, a flutist and composer. I’m sharing some sounds made by people who I cherish. Their work inspires me both as a musician and as a human. Please enjoy!" icareifyoulisten.com/2026/02/list...

"We need to divest from our productivity models and calculus and create alternative ecosystems that center artists, their livelihoods, and their rhythms as a profound transformation of the ways we think and work together. " icareifyoulisten.com/2026/02/arti...

"Lament for the Maker is music that balances complete freedom from limitations with strategically implemented restrictions that require out-of-the-box thinking ... a beautiful documentation of a longstanding musical collaboration between colleagues." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/02/on-z...

"We live in a time when global access is often mistaken for global understanding. But embodiment cannot be downloaded. Technique matters. Discipline matters. Focused study on the instrument is essential." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/02/cros...

"The new work created for LAB 2026 explores how we might uncover something unknown from a well-established format....In an artform that can be so prescriptive, The Industry is creating a space for artists to reimagine opera from their distinct point of view." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/02/the-...

"I am sitting in Davao Del Sur, Philippines, in my auntie’s home. ... When I am here, I feel a uniquely specific sense of quietude that I cannot access anywhere else. I put together this playlist with this in mind." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/02/list...

"The latest project from the duo of flutist-composers Nathalie Joachim and Allison Loggins-Hull grapples with historical traumas while emphasizing the grace and resilience that Black women have shown through these hardships." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/02/flut...

"There is something exhilarating about the way Complications in Sue came together: a mosaic of musical styles, theatrical approaches, and creative voices ... buoyed by Jackson’s incisive libretto and a production that embraces both spectacle and critique." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/02/oper...

"The opening track [explores] the cello’s harmonic spectral palette, while bell-like, dissonant chords circle around the upper octaves of the piano... giving the sensation of suddenly opening one’s eyes and emerging from a deep and focused daydream." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/02/ishm...

"When I got on the plane to attend Reykjavík’s Dark Music Days festival, I expected to have plenty of new and surprising musical experiences." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/02/dark...

"Since the original...was intended as public art, audiences can engage with each piece on many levels. The listener lucky enough to spend a full 90 minutes with the exhibition is taken through an entire emotional cycle, challenged and stretched and calmed again" icareifyoulisten.com/2026/02/expe...

"After each artist illuminated themselves, the entire group used songs, instrumentals, and improvisation to collectively process each other’s stories and complications of identity." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/02/bloo...

"This playlist brings together music by artists I have been in conversation with for many years, musicians I came to know after immigrating to the United States, whose presence, generosity, and ways of listening have deeply shaped my artistic life." \ icareifyoulisten.com/2026/01/list...

"Is classical music's sudden embrace of entrepreneurship an admission of defeat? An acceptance that no one should expect a comfortable living as a musician anymore? Let's talk about what's going on from the two sides of the table: artist and administrator." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/01/the-...

"Since the album’s release, I’ve seen a shift in the Yiddish cultural world more broadly, particularly people feeling like they have more liberty to say certain things on stage that they were perhaps reticent to say in the last couple years.” icareifyoulisten.com/2026/01/lide...

"For some reason Icelandic artists are not afraid to mix genres, or create their own, just not afraid to be themselves – and not afraid to fail. ... There is a high level of nerdiness that I love, and passion." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/01/5-qu...

"Like a true friendship, this sonic collaboration traverses wild and wonderful emotional terrain. The full album, released Dec. 5, 2025 on Take It Easy Policy, is just as enjoyable in one sitting as it is on a loop or track shuffle."

"The music itself, as it tends to do since the pandemic, was pretty driven by emotions at the time and trying to translate those feelings through harsh and interesting soundscapes." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/01/5-qu...

"I heard one half of GAX, Vasco Alves, live in February 2025 and haven’t been able to stop thinking about his performance since then. This whole cassette by GAX is absolutely phenomenal, so please do listen." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/01/list...

"My broken-necked cello reflects my life path, how my artistry has emerged from having to survive. I’ve had to quilt myself back together in the places where the world tried to tear me apart." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/01/5-qu...

"Tarabita Espiral lets each member of the trio shine. It’s easy for an artist to claim that they are going against the grain by subverting their roles in a traditional ensemble context, but this trio justifies the oft used phrase." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/01/on-t...

"I think for most creatives we explore feelings and, for a lot of us, the way we do it changes with time as we go through experiences and we evolve as a person." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/01/5-qu...

"As an album, How You Been is action-packed and sonically dense, and the quintet is in top form here: technically, creatively, and empathically. Supergroups are often overhyped, but there is something genuinely special about the collective that is SML." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/01/sml-...

“What does it look like to be an Indigenous person from Minneapolis today, and how my narrative can and has the power to shatter stereotypes — that’s one of the levels and layers.” icareifyoulisten.com/2026/01/tufa...

“As I became more involved with the new music community, the distinction between art and popular music often felt arbitrary to me.” Have you read our interview with Cristina Lord yet? Check it out at: buff.ly/HwQND0w