Music Review | Either/Or : Cryptic Messages or Silence From the â60s Avant-Garde
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Either/Or, a new and first-rate new-music ensemble, returned to the self-absorbed world of the 1960s avant-garde on Friday night.
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âRiver: The Joni Letters,â by Herbie Hancock can be understood as a celebration of the academyâs more high-minded pop impulses.
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In an abbreviated program from the International Contemporary Ensemble, two pieces offered examples of how differently machine-made sounds and acoustical instruments serve the human voice.
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Both Radiohead and a former Talking Head have advice for young artists on navigating the chaotic music industry.
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Martin Mills Midem Interview This is the second of four interviews on the State of Digital Music from this week's Midem event in Cannes. We'll hear from AIM's Alison Wenham next, followed by a view from the songwriters and composers.â¦
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Revisiting the best online music store for indie fans.
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TORONTO  - Arriving at the best possible moment, this documentary about groundbreaking postpunk band Joy Division is playing festivals alongside "Control," music-video master Anton Corbijn's well-received feature on the band. A solid, well-presented history of the English group's brief career, "Joy Division" has appeal for music buffs but could get mileage in theaters from a smart coordination with the feature film's release.
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Where âControlâ might have been literal-minded and sentimental, it is instead enigmatic and moving, much in the manner of Joy Divisionâs best songs.
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Legal debate and lyricism in âMargaret Garner,â an opera imbued with gospel and spirituals.
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The works featured at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center interact in interesting ways, most obviously in how they alternate between macrocosmic and microcosmic and between noise and silence.
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The portable stereos that ruled city streets in the 1980s aren't shipping in high volumes anymore. But some sound artists are finding new ways to incorporate the devices into performances and ad-hoc radio networks. By Elizabeth Biddlecombe.
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Former execs from iriver, Musicmatch and Diamond Multimedia work in stealth mode on a new MP3 player that could be the first major advance in years. By Eliot Van Buskirk.
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You have new ways to hear--or read--the messages that matter and skip those that don't.
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When civilization falls, does it make a sound? Two books about the end of worlds--and what follows
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Nicky Wire, Isobel Campbell, Tim Wheeler and others on national identity and music
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âYouth Without Youthâ is a narratively ambitious, visually sumptuous surrealist enterprise that tries to bend time and space together as neatly as the folds in an origami swan.
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The jingling piano, the humming traffic and the prancing horse tap out separate if connecting songs in the beguiling nonnarrative film âThe Silence Before Bach.â