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Composer, academic and broadcaster who focused on American experimental music and pioneered the teaching of jazz in Britain

The Guardian - UK

New research suggests that silence is something you can actually hear

Team at Johns Hopkins University wanted to address the debate of whether people can hear more than sounds, which they say “has puzzled philosophers for centuries”

MusicRadar

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV review – the adventures of a multimedia maverick

Documentary shows the awe-inspiring vocation of this avant garde disruptor, who foresaw the internet and meme culture’s importance in the 1970s

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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Japan’s master of electronic music

A prolific solo artist and composer who worked with musicians from Bowie to Madonna, Sakamoto refused to stay within the confines of one genre

The Independent UK

Ryuichi Sakamoto obituary

Japanese composer and electronic music pioneer behind the soundtrack for the 1983 film Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence

The Guardian - UK

From Tchaikovsky to Pankhurst, the quiet love stories of history's queer musicians

Classical music doesn't have a particularly radical reputation, but that doesn't mean that queer culture hasn't been thriving for centuries within its ranks.

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Sundance 2023: Documentaries and Short Films of Note

In the last of a four-part survey, our film critic CJ Sheu reviews documentaries and short films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

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‘Humanity hit a brick wall’: John Cale on the Velvets, Nico, Covid and a gun-ridden world gone bad

As he hits 80 and releases a softly raging album inspired by the ugliness of the pandemic years, the ever restless and eternally avant-garde musician unburdens himself

The Guardian - UK

Ghost Music by An Yu review – the meaning of silence

A former pianist is haunted by the life she could have led in this intriguing exploration of music, self-knowledge and marital discord

The Guardian - UK

Tom Phillips obituary

Painter, printmaker and collagist known for his extraordinary breadth of involvement in the arts

The Guardian - UK

OzAsia Festival puts Asian Australian artists centrestage while plotting a post-COVID increase in international programming

Maria Tran struggled to break through in white- and male-dominated movie industries, so she's making her own. Hers is one of many kickarse stories in this year's OzAsia Festival.

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Toy piano virtuoso Margaret Leng Tan: ‘I played Beethoven in Beethoven’s house – eat that, Schroeder’

The 76-year-old has played everything from toys to teapots to become a famed avant-garde musician. Ahead of Australian shows she speaks about her toy piano collection, OCD and believing in fate

The Guardian - AU

Cerith Wyn Evans review – lose yourself in broken windscreens and neon scribbles

The longer you stay the more there is to experience in this giddying, transporting exhibition that comes with a dash of danger

The Guardian - UK

Japanese avant-garde pioneer composer Ichiyanagi dies at 89

Avant-garde pianist and composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, who studied with John Cage and went on to lead Japan’s advances in experimental modern music, has died

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Commentary: At 80, Peter Greenaway remains film’s reigning musical maverick

LOS ANGELES — It can be argued that Peter Greenaway is today’s feature filmmaker with the most wide-ranging musical imagination. His best-known films — “The Draughtman’s Contract,” “A Zed & Two Noughts,” “Drowning by Numbers,” “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover” and “Prospero’s Books” — were celebrated…

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: The Dream of Gerontius, Bach’s Mass in B minor and Nathan Laube at the Proms

Jamie Barton and Allan Clayton lead a dream Gerontius in a week of choral epics at the Proms. Elsewhere, deep listening and silence…

The Guardian - UK

From Signal to Decay Volume 1 – review: An exhibition that sings to itself

Using ambient, dubby noise as well as drawings and video art, Mathison’s engrossing show ‘plays’ the echoing spaces of the gallery

Tribune News Service

Steven Schick drums up world of sonic adventure on 'A Hard Rain' double album, a percussive tour-de-force

SAN DIEGO — What do Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney and Todd Rundgren have in common with acclaimed percussion master, orchestral conductor and University of California San Diego music professor Steven Schick, a 2014 Percussion Hall of Fame inductee?

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Salon

Nic Cage's underrated bloody baptism

Panos Cosmatos’ psychedelic cult horror/sci-fi film "Mandy" set the tone for the actor's transformations to come

The Guardian - UK

‘He would get high before teaching’: how Mills College gave birth to music’s boldest minds

Fuelled by psychedelic counterculture, the Californian university has nurtured Steve Reich, Laurie Anderson and more – and caused riots at its concerts. But can it survive?

The Guardian - UK

John Woolf obituary

Violinist who founded the Park Lane Group to provide platforms for performers and composers at the start of their careers

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