Harpist Noël Wan conducts a séance with the ghosts of Adrienne Rich, Jacques Derrida, and the Angel in the House to explore the nuances of being a female artist in our time.
A Mosaic of Alternative Voices, A Movement of Artistic Conscience
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Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena questions the non-presence of Southeast Asian death sounds in Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon.
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 critiquing art's power to enact historical change, Ian Nutting finds messianic hope in a radical re-conceptualization of art itself.
Ethnographer Michael B. Silvers confronts choral Christianity and exclusion in American school music through discussion of Jewish musicality and "meaningful musical experiences."
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
Confronting the status quo of jazz historiography, multi-instrumentalist and musicianer Lauryn Gould traces the connection between Cuban danzón and New Orleans jazz.
In this insufferable, sardonic jaunt through ethnography and speculative phenomenology, Ian Nutting critiques our modern understanding of selfhood and ponders art's power to transform our selves and our context.
In this robust and dynamic listicle, conductor Allegra Martin confronts the gap between “thought" and “action" in efforts to diversify Western art music.
Trumpeter Melissa Muñoz bridges music and children's literature to advocate for critical representation in Western art music pedagogy
