Avant Music News

The 2005 Open Ears Festival takes place in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada starting in about 3 weeks. Surf on over for a lineup and more details.

Another review of this relatively recent Braxton release is available.

The European Free Improvisation has had a recent update, including pointers to many new releases of interest.

Althougth its not obvious from the review, Iyer and Ladd’s recent Philadelphia performance is reviewed.

The 2005 Mills College Signal Flow Festival will take place this weekend, featuring student composers.

Zorn’s The Stone gets another preview.

Leo Records has released the following so far in 2005:

Lauren Newton / Patrick Scheyder / Vladimir Tarasov - Artesian Spirits
Anthony Braxton Ninetet (yoshi’s) 1997 - Vol. 3
Steve Lacy / Joelle Leandre - One More Time
Mark Harvey & The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra - Trumpet Madness
Enrico Fazio 7tet - Live In Milano - Villa Litta
Mark O’leary / Mat […]

The Braxton / Szabados / Tarasov CD, recently released on Leo is reviewed.

The Velvet Lounge will be moving soon and they need a lot of money to do so.

As most of you already know, Fred Anderson is going to have to relocate the Velvet Lounge very soon. For a lot of us, the Velvet Lounge has been a home base, a Mecca of […]

The AACM is putting on a number of shows to celebrate their turning 40, culminating in early May.

The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), internationally recognized as the foremost experimental music collective of our time, is commemorating its 40th Anniversary with two days of celebration: Saturday, May 7, at 2 pm, […]

Two late 70’s Sun Ra efforts are reviewed.

Soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson has sung the works of “Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen, Elliott Carter, Ned Rorem, Chares Wuorinen, George Crumb, Gyorgy Ligeti, Roger Sessions, Harrison Birtwistle, Hans Werner Henze and even Frank Zappa.”

A long interview with one of the world’s most reknowned living composers is available.

Gotta love the name…the festival takes place April 1st and 2nd in Florida.

As a forum for contemporary music that is decidedly out of the mainstream of current popular and classical trends (yet draws easily from both traditions), the Bonk Festival provides an opportunity for audiences to be challenged and entertained by first-rate performances of cutting-edge […]

The final installion of Cuneiform news:
Miriodor News Spring 2005
Work on our new CD Parade is completed. It will be released on Cuneiform Records in May. It will be a double CD, with one disc of new material (with three pieces with Lars Hollmer) and one disc with the live recording of our performance […]