Mona Sangesland takes a personal journey through nature, indigenous literature, and climate change music to (re)claim an understanding of environmentalism in the realm of classical music-making.
In this essay, composer Brandon K. Smith reflects on perfection(ism) through the lens of his own experience and begins to parse the ways in which it is harmful to practitioners of Western art music.
In what he calls a "mental unload for [his] own sanity," film composer/editor and Academy Award winner John Ottman passionately defends voter rights against an unprecedented far-right American voter suppression stratagem, all framed within the context of the 2022 film "Don't Look
Musician Mona Sangesland critiques the end-gaining mindset ubiquitous in music higher education that not only precludes musician fulfillment but denies music's power to enact social change.
In this precursor article, Ian Nutting proposes Žižekian non-doing as a response to politics-as-art-object — and as an antidote to the ceaseless hustle in which we live.
Chloe Chung shares her experience of the second COVID-19 lockdown in Sydney, Australia through her drawings, screenshots, and reflective journal entries.
Ian Nutting muses poetically and philosophically on the potential of music in our current society.
