Modern Composition

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  Caterina Barbieri

  Ecstatic Computation

  PUBLISHED May 6, 2019

  Somewhere along the way, the spirit of early electronic music shifted from large-scale grandiosity to a more modest laptop DIY aesthetic. T...

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  Disasterpeace

  Under the Silver Lake

  PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2019

  Richard Vreeland has undergone quite the metamorphosis from his days as a chiptune artist and 8-bit videogame composer. While there were pl...

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  Alvin Lucier

  Orpheus Variations

  PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2019

  It may be the least linear piece of music you've ever heard. Influential American composer Alvin Lucier has transformed a seven-tone chord...

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  Ingar Zach

  floating layer cake

  PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2019

  Full of exciting sonic revelations, the pair of lengthy compositions on Norwegian percussionist and composer Ingar Zach's floating layer ca...

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  Justin Wright

  Music for Staying Warm

  PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2019

  Music for Staying Warm is an antidote to anticipatory anxiety. The debut LP from Montreal composer and cellist Justin Wright — who has work...

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  Joep Beving

  Henosis

  PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2019

  Dutch composer Joep Beving began work on what would become a trilogy of albums in relative obscurity. As much to his surprise as everyone e...

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  Dustin Laurenzi

  Snaketime: The Music of Moondog

  PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2019

  Musician and composer Moondog (born Louis Thomas Hardin, Jr.) held court on 6th Avenue in New York City between the late 1940s and early '7...

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  Beth Gibbons and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

  Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)

  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2019

  Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3 took 15 years to become a hit. After premiering in 1977, a 1992 recording gave the then-living composer an...