Improv and Avant-Garde

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  Ryuichi Sakamoto Is Selling Sheet Music to Fight a "Flood of Independent Transcriptions or Arranged Versions"

  PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2022

  Even the most ardent listeners of Ryuichi Sakamoto make mistakes when it comes to transcribing music from his past performances — an issue...

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  The Body and OAA Announce Collaborative Album 'Enemy of Love'

  PUBLISHED Jan 6, 2022

  After getting together with Big Brave for Leaving None but Small Birds last year, the Body have laid plans for another collaborative album....

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  Brian Eno on NFTs: "Now Artists Can Become Little Capitalist Assholes as Well"

  PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2021

  In spite of its fluid end-rhyme with his surname, prolific composer Brian Eno hasn't bought into the current commotion around crypto. The...

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  Matthew Tavares on His Departure from BADBADNOTGOOD: "The Environment Was So Negative"

  PUBLISHED Dec 10, 2021

  After taking a hiatus from touring with BADBADNOTGOOD in 2017, keyboardist and band co-founder Matthew Tavares confirmed his departure from...

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  Lingua Ignota's Kristin Hayter Details Abuse Allegations Against Daughters' Alexis Marshall

  PUBLISHED Dec 9, 2021

  Kristin Hayter (a.k.a. Lingua Ignota) has come forward with allegations of "mental, emotional and sexual" abuse against Alexis Marshall, th...

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  Vulfpeck Return with New Album 'Vulf Vault 005: Wong's Cafe'

  PUBLISHED Dec 8, 2021

  Michigan funk outfit Vulfpeck will release new album Vulf Vault 005: Wong's Cafe on January 7 through the band's own Vulf Records, and toda...

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  Experimental Composer Alvin Lucier Dead at 90

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2021

  Alvin Lucier — the American composer of experimental music and sound artist known best for his 1969 work I Am Sitting in a Room — has died....

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  Boris Sign to Sacred Bones for New Album 'W'

  PUBLISHED Nov 30, 2021

  Boris have detailed a follow-up to last year's NO. The experimental outfit will deliver new album W on January 21 via Sacred Bones, marking...