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Speak Now: #45miniatures

Speak Now: #45miniatures

To me, the result of the election was an “unpresidented” [sic] embarrassment on a global level. I found myself wondering what I could do, as a performer. I posted on Facebook that I was thinking of commissioning a piece called Suite #45, or potentially writing it myself. After some thought, I set up an open “Call for Scores” and changed the name to #45miniatures, combining the hashtag styling of Trump’s favorite social media pastime and a word with obvious double entendre implications.

Ain’t I A Woman Too

Ain’t I A Woman Too

As a black woman who composes and performs, Elizabeth A. Baker opens up about fighting for a place in an industry that too often equates successful “diversity initiatives” with the...

Randy Weston: Music is Life Itself

Randy Weston: Music is Life Itself

It has been more than three quarters of a century since the bebop revolution transformed how people made music together. So it is not surprising that so few musicians who...

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Morocco, Iceland, Finland, and Cyprus: To Change and Be Changed

Morocco, Iceland, Finland, and Cyprus: To Change and Be Changed

The Passepartout Duo has embraced the benefits of continual travel for music. While every artist residency is different in its financial burden, its scope, and its circumstance, this week they...

A Holistic Approach to Sound

A Holistic Approach to Sound

An extended technique is any action that produces a result outside the fundamental parameters of sound that an instrument was designed to make. But as useful as I’ve found this...

Passepartout Duo: Music on the Move

Passepartout Duo: Music on the Move

At this point, the Passepartout Duo has completely given up location-dependent life. Their home moves from month to month, and this has profoundly changed their musical practice.

Collaboration as Performance Practice

Collaboration as Performance Practice

Kate Soper and Eric Wubbels have turned away from the hierarchical paradigm of classical music, where the composer works in isolation on a piece before handing the final product to...

The Importance of Exchange

The Importance of Exchange

There is very little effort made to bridge the gap in cultural understanding. This is where the intersection of Chinese traditional music and new music has the potential to play...

Opinions from the Dux Femina Facti: Women Leaders at the Grassroots of New Music

Opinions from the Dux Femina Facti: Women Leaders at the Grassroots of New Music

Through interviews with women leaders from grassroots music organizations from all over the country, we explore topics related to managing ensembles and festivals, commissioning, curating, and creating collegial workspaces where...

Fierceness Devoted to Truth—Remembering Glenn Branca (1948-2018)

Fierceness Devoted to Truth—Remembering Glenn Branca (1948-2018)

Scientists say that black holes are so dense with matter that light isn’t able to escape. Such fierce density is theorized but not experienced. Imagine a sound that is the...

Poetry and Community in Guangzhou

Poetry and Community in Guangzhou

Upon returning from my first stay in China in 2016, I began to seek out works by living Chinese writers in order to help enrich my understanding of the country...

Playing Like a Girl: The Problems with Reception of Women in Music

Playing Like a Girl: The Problems with Reception of Women in Music

Any new music or new message has problems with reception, but women, in particular, have problems with reception in music.

Emotion, Through Music, As Weather

Emotion, Through Music, As Weather

While I do not claim to hold technical qualifications to discuss the weather or emotional psychology, I do intend to write from my own experience, with sincerity and imagination. In...

An Introduction to the Chinese Bamboo Flute Orchestra

An Introduction to the Chinese Bamboo Flute Orchestra

In its five years of existence, the Chinese Bamboo Flute Orchestra (中国竹笛乐团) founded by Zhang Weiliang (张维良), has done substantial work. It has commissioned and promoted the music of living...

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Clint Needham

Born: Thursday, August 20, 1981 Texarkana, Texas | NewMusicbox article | NewMusicbox article

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