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- Music, Music Feature Feb 21, 2018
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The world catches up to iconoclastic composer Julius Eastman
He died homeless almost three decades ago, and his work was nearly lost. But classical music finally has room for a queer black voice in the minimalist pantheon.
- Music, Music Feature Mar 31, 2014
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David Grubbs on the meaning of records
In a new book the former Gastr del Sol front man discusses why the experimental music of the 1960s was so rarely recorded at the time—and what changes when we listen to it today.
- Music, Music Feature Mar 17, 2014
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Alvin Lucier is sitting in a room (at the MCA)
The composer whose curiosity about acoustic phenomena transformed contemporary classical music comes to Chicago for a historic three-day career retrospective.
- Music, Music Feature Jan 7, 2013
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Music of the hemispheres
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Katinka Kleijn premieres a duet for cello and brain waves
- Music, Music Feature Dec 5, 2012
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Gifts for hungry ears
The cream of the year-end crop of box sets and reissues: Coleman Hawkins, Bessie Smith, Tunji Oyelana, Bill Withers, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 3, 2012
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Brain-wave music to go
You can buy the machine Ghost's Masaki Batoh used to translate brain waves to sound for his new album.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 21, 2012
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Eighth Blackbird does less and more
Eighth Blackbird celebrates musical minimalism and maximalism this weekend at the MCA.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 17, 2011
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Aperiodic's Post-Cage Throwdown
Young new-music collective Aperiodic dives headfirst into post-Cage experimentation with its second concert, Sunday afternoon at Elastic.
