Buke and Gase: “General Dome”

A Brooklyn band I wrote about back on the first of the year, Buke and Gase, will be playing in Paradiso later this month (in fact, tickets for the concert went on sale today) – one of a

The Soundcloud Round-Up: Givan Lötz, Mithatcan Öcal, The Sandman’s Orchestra

Tonight’s round-up begins with “Strutt,” a piece which an artist and composer living in Johannesburg, Givan Lötz, has loaded on his Soundcloud page; and but for its last extra letter, the

Buke and Gase

At a far remove musically from a band like Balún, but equally at home in Brooklyn (though they now spend at least part of their time in upstate New York, in the city of Hudson), is the

Through Rooms of Music: Heidi Locher and Frederick Paxton’s “Hotel Kalifornia”

The year coming to an end conduces to thoughts about transience – and about the zones wherein whatever comes and goes might abide for awhile. Pieces of music can provide the

A New Discovery at the New Museum in New York

In the Rosemarie Trockel retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, a short film of thirteen minutes from 1912 is included

At the Ventana 244 Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn: “Sweat Tests”

At the Ventana 244 gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (right now I am on a visit in New York) the current show (until the fifteenth of the month) presents the video work

A Musical Painter (or Two) at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco (where I happen to be at the moment) is a retrospective of the work of Jasper Johns called “Seeing with the Mind’s Eye” that merits a visit

The Stedelijk Is “Open”

Amsterdam’s largest museum of modern and contemporary art, the Stedelijk, opened its doors again today to the public after several years of renovation, and one of the artists

Franck Christoph Yeznikian

That portion of contemporary classical music that is mainly about other music or other artworks which are in some way musical without themselves being music (if it is indeed “about”

Rory Smith

A young composer living in Midhurst, England, Rory Smith is well-known in Soundcloud circles throughout the world on account of having been chosen as the “Soundclouder of the day” last

Nicolas Jaar and His Friends

A little while ago I wrote a bit about Valentin Stip, an electronic musician who was signed to the Clown and Sunset record label, founded by Nicolas Jaar as a home for himself and his

Luiz Henrique Yudo

Luiz Henrique Yudo is a contemporary Brazilian classical composer who’s lived for many years in Amsterdam. Educated in his native country as an architect and in this city at the

Downtown New York

It’s early Friday evening, and time for a change – so how about a playlist that presents some of the music, satire, and humor circulating in one particular corner of downtown New York – the one

Nico

Nico (Christa Päffgen, 1938-1988) remains a fierce presence even nearly twenty-five years on. Some of the most prominent female singers of today owe quite a bit to her and to facets

Gregory Douglass

A singer/songwriter in Burlington, Vermont, Gregory Douglass has built up an extensive body of work over the last fifteen years or so; but it’s his covers that are most readily available on

“The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic” (Part II)

What a superb piece of theatre! Biographical it was, but with much omitted and even more that had been stylized for the stage, Abramović and Wilson’s work was both beautiful and sharp. The singer

“The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic” (Part I)

This evening there’s a performance of “The Life and Death of Marina Abramović” at the Holland Festival – a production that premiered last year at the Manchester International Festival.

Boogie Belgique

These days there’s some very witty dance music being made in Ghent, Belgium – by an outfit with the name of Boogie Belgique. Who knew that dialogue from the classic Hollywood cinema