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byThis year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list, as is usual, included the names of several musicians, including a few working within contemporary music (for more…
Features
No More Old Rules
by‘You could say on a surface level that there’s an emphasis upon a certain kind of beauty, towards the sublime almost’, begins Philip Thomas…
Ingenuity and Inadequacy
byIt’s a truism, but when it comes to the annual BBC Proms season, you can’t please everyone. Each April, when the announcement is made…
Tectonics Festival, Glasgow
byAnyone who’s part of the new music world will probably have heard of the cross-genre experimental music festival Tectonics. It takes place in an…
My Listening: Mira Benjamin
byThe space Where are you? I usually listen at home, in our living room, because we have ways to play most kinds of media…
July ’17 News Digest
by[wcm_nonmember] To access this article in full, you must purchase a subscription or log in if you are a subscriber. [/wcm_nonmember] [wcm_restrict plans=”1-year-super-subscriber,1-year-subscription,1-month-subscription”] The…
A Beautiful Dent
bySeduction through beauty – the oldest Orphic trick in the book. Kate Molleson speaks to EXAUDI cofounder and director James Weeks
Sanctuary of Sound
by‘For Sciarrino to come to a little small town like Dundalk must be quite weird’ – Louth CMS founder Eamonn Quinn on running the best small music festival in Ireland.
Jennifer Walshe at MaerzMusik, Berlin
by‘A vision of the string quartet in 2017 – emerging spectacular from an iridescent disc, wielding a flaming sword’ – our critic sees Jennifer Walshe in Berlin.
My Listening: Chris Shurety
by‘The most energising and creative space and state to be in’ – Chris Shurety tells us about his listening