The Sunday Soundcloud – Dash?

As regards this and the other Musicuratum website, the last week has largely been absorbed by the work after the work, which proved to be somewhat less protracted than the former but

Eines Nachts in Berlin

Poised now as we are here on the verge of Spring, I’ve been finding myself ready for a voyage – mainly a nocturnal one, though my hope is to conduct it without nostalgia – into the past and to

T-Michael

Sometimes one comes across an image that is indeed more eloquent than any number of words (or even of notes?) could possibly be, and the convocation of beautiful people that just took

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

The Soft Moon: A New Video and a New Audio Upload

Having just released a new album, Zeros, and currently on a tour of several European cities (according to the schedule posted on its website, a concert in Utrecht is slated for

A Correction Concerning the Band Light Light

Alexandra Duvekot of the band Light Light has sent word that the Dutch four-piece was not the band that performed earlier this week in California, as I had suggested – much as they might have

Light Light

Another new Amsterdam band is Light Light, which is a project recently initiated by Alexandra Duvekot and Thijs Havens of the duo Saelors in conjunction with Björn Ottenheim

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”

Son Lux

Glimpsed from across the Atlantic, the current new music scene in New York looks and sounds as though more and more is happening on and off the grid there, where the paths of contemporary

College

Those who, having missed it the first time around or paid insufficient attention back then, require instruction in electronica of a sort of which more than a few scores for Hollywood films

A Canal Pride 2012 Finale: Two French Chansons

To close out the Canal Pride weekend, here are a couple of French chansons. First, a short playlist with three very different renditions of “Il n’y a pas d’amour heureux”

Klaus Nomi

With the Canal Pride weekend commencing here in Amsterdam, I’ll cast an eye back three decades to the birthplace of today’s gay movement, New York, and offer a playlist featuring the

Daphne Guinness

The English heiress Daphne Guinness (she divides her time between New York, London, and Paris) is renowned for her couture, but less often recognized is the fact of her early operatic

On the Occasion … (II)

Today, in view of the upcoming Gay Pride weekend, let’s have a bit of Jean Genet. Here are two versions of “Le Condamné à mort” set to music by Hélène Martin – in the first she’s also the singer

On the Occasion …

Here in Amsterdam, the Gay Pride weekend will soon be upon us; so by way of acknowledgement it won’t be straying too far from the purpose of this site to embed a few early works of quality on this

Pursuit Grooves

Pursuit Grooves, as the multitalented New Yorker Vanese Smith is known in her work as a DJ (in this capacity she performs frequently on both sides of the Atlantic) and music producer

Nick Pitera

Nick Pitera is the well-known baritone who, with an astonishing falsetto range and a voice that’s protean, is able to interpret male and female parts with equal ease, a talent he puts to

Angélica Negrón

One of the most active and interesting young composers in New York now is Angélica Negrón, who, with her guest programming for the WQXR radio station and her numerous other

Xavier Baert

The hour’s gotten late and some silence is in order. But silence isn’t just one thing – some silent films are actually rather musical. Some of Xavier Baert’s short films represent

Christophe Ruetsch

Another interesting discovery on Soundcloud is Christophe Ruetsch, who’s active in the hub of musical activity in Toulouse that the composer, conductor, and performer