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26.4.2025 18:00Comment on AMN Reviews: Apocryphos – Ultimum Saeculum (2025; Cryo Chamber) by Richard GrantSource: Substratum. Sound artist and label head Yann Novak has launched an arts preservation effort. Donations are welcome. Substratum provides a permanent foundation for at-risk websites, ensuring their continued accessibility and preserving their presence on the web for future generations. We envision a web where digital culture never truly disappears – where website owners and […]
26.4.2025 14:00Substratum Foundation LaunchedSource: Electric Eclectics Festival. Adam Basanta Bobby Gadda Bonnie Trash Brandon Auger Colby Richardson DJ TRICKSTR Dorit Chrysler Duo Cichorium Edwin van der Heide & Bill Coleman Esther Splett Field Work Funny Farm Radio Gen Ken Montgomery & The Enchantress of Bioluminosity Greydini Jorgen Teller + Radio Ensembles Aiida John Oswald presents the Plunderphonic Coveralls […]
26.4.2025 13:00Electric Eclectics Festival 2025 LineupSource: Now Is. Saturday, April 26 Ryan Opera Theater 70 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston IL 847.491.7575 12:00PM NUNC! 6 Bienen School Saxophone Studio — music by Yotam Haber, Joanne Na, Benjamin Martin, Tina Tallon, Max Eidinoff, Timothy Kramer Galvin Recital Hall 70 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston IL 847.491.7575 7:30PM NUNC! 6 Contemporary Music Ensemble — […]
26.4.2025 12:30Coming to ChicagoSource: Jazzword. Tom Jackson/T.J. Borden Parr’s Ditch Kairos Fragments de temps Floridis/Bauer/Hertenstein Temporal Driftness Bechegas/Madeira/Mitzlaff Open in Finder Clément Janinet La Litanie des Cimes Woodlands Quebec-Berlin String Trio Thuya
26.4.2025 12:00Jazzword ReviewsSource: FIMAV. Victoriaville, April 25, 2025 – After a hugely successful first edition in 2024, FIMAV’s new artistic director, Scott Thomson, supported by an experienced team, is once again inviting audiences to discover exceptional experimental music, sound art, and cinema in downtown Victoriaville (Qc). At the heart of the program for this 41st festival, to […]
26.4.2025 11:00FIMAV 41 AnnouncedSource: Bay Improviser Calendar. Friday, April 25 Fri 4/25 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St SF] Other Dimensions in Sound presents Pete Schmitt Fri 4/25 7:00 PM Wyldflowr Arts [09 37th Street oakland, CA 94706] Roopa Mahadevan presents a Carnatic concert, featuring some of the Bay Area’s amazing South Indian classical instrumental talent. […]
25.4.2025 14:00Coming to San FranciscoSource: The Squid’s Ear. Abdou / Gouband / Warelis – Hammer, Roll and Leaf (Relative Pitch) Paul Bley Trio – Floater & Syndrome – The Upright Piano Sessions Revisited (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd) Zeena Parkins / Chris Brown / William Winant / Ben Davis – Scree (Relative Pitch)
25.4.2025 12:00The Squid’s Ear ReviewsSource: Metapsychosis. Stripped of the usual markers—no instruments, no performers—only resonance remains, threading itself through your thoughts and desires, reflecting them back in shimmering echoes. The sound is not passive; it extends from you, projects through you. With every footfall, something emerges. Something is being built.
25.4.2025 11:00The Music of mc.gender Featured in MetapsychosisSource: Dusted. Sophie Agnel — Song (Relative Pitch) Apartment House and James Weeks — GOMBERT (Another Timbre) Gunn-Truscinski Duo — Flam (Three Lobed)
25.4.2025 10:00Dusted ReviewsRest in Peace, David Thomas.
24.4.2025 13:34Comment on RIP David Thomas of Pere Ubu by emilyc74499edaaSource: EMAS. Friday, April 25Zucker / Jarvis Duo // Shante Clair + Krista Kopper3807 Troost Ave KCMO7pm Doors / 8pm Show Wednesday, April 30Matthew Daher/Shanté Clair/Seth Andrew Davis3807 Troost Ave KCMO7pm Doors / 8pm Show Saturday, May 10KDB (Toledo, OH) // EMASPat’s Loft (KCK)7pm Doors / 7:30pm ShowEvent PageEmail for Address
24.4.2025 13:30Upcoming Kansas City PerformancesSource: 5:4. Only Connect 2025 Christopher McFall – Late Night Fate Directory Mads Emil Dreyer – Figure Pieces Christopher McFall – Disengaged Songs for Disenchanted Lovers Christopher McFall – Epilog (Recombinant)
24.4.2025 13:005:4 ReviewsSource: The Guardian. David Thomas, who fronted the wild and free-thinking American rock band Pere Ubu, has died aged 71… That band were indeed a force to be reckoned with, channelling the raucous, raw energy of garage rock into adventurous songwriting decked out with saxophones, funky bass and Thomas’s spirited exclamations.
24.4.2025 12:26RIP David Thomas of Pere UbuSource: Chain D.L.K.. Staraya Derevnya: Garden Window Escape Andreas O. Hirsch: The Salamander Treaty David Lee Myers: Sensus Lea Bertucci + Olivia Block: I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea Philippe Petit: Closing Our Eyes
24.4.2025 12:00Chain D.L.K. ReviewsSource: CKCU. New Trumpet Sounds – new releases featuring Wadada Leo Smith, Ralph Alessi and Aaron Shragge.
24.4.2025 11:00Rabble Without A Cause Show – April 23, 2025Source: Vital Weekly. DE FABRIEK – KRAUTSALAT (CD by De Fabriek Records & Tapes) TONSPUR – LIVE IN THE ST. STEVENSKERK NIJMEGEN MAY 11 2024 (cassette by De Fabriek Records & Tapes) DE FABRIEK – HBBGVB (cassette by De Fabriek Records & Tapes) SORRY FOR LAUGHING – RAIN FLOWERS (2CD by Klanggalerie) DIRK SERRIES – […]
24.4.2025 10:00Vital Weekly Reviews 1481Source: Perceived Sound. Perceived Sound began as a label imprint in 2021 by Los Angeles-based sound artist Devin Sarno. In 2025, it expanded into a free form internet radio station (broadcasting on weekends) which will transmit label sounds as well as guest curated shows. Stay tuned as our programming takes shape & feel free to […]
23.4.2025 13:00Perceived Sound Radio StationThe latest from More Eaze and Claire Rousay is reviewed. The 50th anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Rubycon is celebrated. The Faust Tapes is revisited, 52 years later. SynGate Records has shut down.
23.4.2025 12:30Newsbits: More Eaze and Claire Rousay / Rubycon at 50 / Faust Tapes / SynGate RecordsSource: Burning Ambulance Music. Burning Ambulance Music is proud to announce the release of Quartet (England) 1985, a digital box set of four complete, previously unreleased concerts by the Anthony Braxton Quartet (Marilyn Crispell, piano; Mark Dresser, bass; Gerry Hemingway, percussion) from its 1985 tour of England. The recordings will be released exclusively on Bandcamp […]
23.4.2025 11:00Newly Found Anthony Braxton 1985 UK Recordings Coming Soon From Burning Ambulance MusicSource: The Free Jazz Collective. Drank (Ingrid Schmoliner, Alex Kranabetter) – Breath in Definition (Trost Records, 2025) FMP Today: Q&A with Markus Müller Wendy Eisenberg, More Eaze, Emily Wittbrodt and Ryan Sawyer at JAKI, Cologne 2025 Big Ears Festival, Day 4: Sunday, March 30 2025 Big Ears Festival, Day 3: Saturday, March 29 2025 Big […]
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