"Throughout history, composers have redefined authorship by constructing systems of constraint rather than simply writing notes. In our own time, that tradition continues through data and algorithms..." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/5-qu...

We're looking for experienced writers to join our team of contributors at the leading new music publication in the U.S. dedicated to living composers. Deadline to apply is Sunday, July 12th. icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/writ...

"In the month of Marsha P. Johnson, I would like to focus my playlist on a topic that impacts potentially everybody, and that is bodily autonomy. Consider this a shout out to some of my favorite living composers and poets." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/list...

"Music that goes beyond incidental microtonality... can sometimes come off with a bad reputation for being contrived beyond the point of “feeling it.” But on Nonsongs, Ekmeles contradicts that narrative...to bring real verve to the listening experience." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/micr...

"Their commentary on the 250th anniversary of the United States is a clear-eyed reckoning with our nation’s history. Both composers recognize the use of shrinking — of exclusivity — to dampen the impact of women, Indigenous people, and people of color." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/dani...

"The performance immersed the audience in an experience that both interrogated the depth of one’s inner world and demonstrated how it can be enriched by sharing it with others." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/musi...

"At the heart of Lowe’s soundscapes is a mastery of spatial arrangement. He works in four dimensions, structuring foreground, middleground, and background across time with finesse so that each sound occupies its own depth." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/robe...

"I'm so excited to share this playlist with you, it's a bunch of music that has inspired me this year and one track that I made with Whitney Johnson and Macie Stewart. Hope you enjoy!" icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/list...

“It is a little humbling to be standing there in his stead, because he should be the one standing there, but it's my responsibility now, so I take that seriously.” icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/reg-...

"Planet/Tear sets the standard for artistic confrontation that teaches us to open our eyes, embrace both joy and rage, and refresh our imaginative capacities with intuitive listening." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/char...

"We tend to forget that these composers were trying to get paid. They were trying to secure patrons, performance, and survival. To erase that friction is not to honor them — it is to misunderstand them." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/05/colg...

"'Scrappy' has become something of a mantra for us whenever we feel that pinch. To us, 'scrappy' means that the most important thing is making the work exist, and that we’ve created an environment where we and our collaborators can take creative risks." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/05/5-qu...

"Lazyhorse is fundamentally interested in misfit energy; not refinement, but friction. Noise functions less as sonic aggression than as connective tissue, something capable of binding radically different musical sensibilities together." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/05/for-...

"Meditation is something I lose and return to periodically, but I always miss it when it’s absent from my life.... this is what all my work is really about: the attempt to attain a still, vibrating mind, and everything that happens surrounding that want." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/05/5-qu...

A review of the Dig That Treasure! Festival is up on @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social & includes some kind thoughts on the performance by @abulmogard.bsky.social & @blackknoll.bsky.social 🖤 @iklectikartlab.bsky.social @cafeotodalston.bsky.social icareifyoulisten.com/2026/05/the-...

"The album of musical extremes foregrounds texture, using many extended techniques and the full spectrum of timbres and pitches possible on the mixed-quintet’s instruments." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/05/the-...

"While Dig That Treasure!, the radio show, focused on private press rarities and outsider music from across the globe, the festival has developed its own identity over the years... that echoes the economic refrain of Marie Kondo: does it spark joy?" icareifyoulisten.com/2026/05/the-...

“When we think of ‘America’ and an ‘American composer,’ it’s been some random white man, and that doesn't represent the populace of who makes up America ... we’re going to hear a lot more new voices in the coming years.” icareifyoulisten.com/2026/05/mala...

"What unites these technically demanding, free-flowing, and heady compositions — and what ultimately makes the album so compelling — is a heightened focus on timbre, gesture, and the raw qualities of sound." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/05/syde...

"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...