streams of expression

Bill Dixon and “the form of the song” (Preview)

Romance and Revolution, Feeling and Form (Preview)

Pat Thomas, Architecture, Abstraction (Preview)

The Sound of Wadada Leo Smith (Preview)

November Updates

Triumph of the outcasts, coming! (Preview)

First Nettles, Earliest Persons (Substack)

Recent writing elsewhere

What is a reading? John Wieners at Brooklyn College

Louis Moholo-Moholo: The Quality of Truth

There's a Riot Going on

“I say ‘I’”: Alice Notley (1945-2025)

MaerzMusisk 2025 Report: Part 3

MaerzMusik 2025 Report: Part 2 (Mazen Kerbaj, 'Lungless')

MaerzMusik 2025 Report: Part 1

Paul Shearsmith (1946-2025)

Recent Poems Read

Reprints from Materials

New Year

Blog Posts in 2024

N.H. Pritchard, Albert Ayler...

Always, already there: an incubator for Afrodiasporic New Music

Festivals and Funerals / After the end of the world

Donaueschinger Musiktage 2024

Extended Spaces – Resonant Bodies: A festival dedicated to the work of Alvin Lucier

Cassette Releases

Music against Death: Joana Mallwitz conducts Nono and Mahler

"You invest in Loss": Abdullah Ibrahim Live

Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Schoenberg and Ives

Never By Itself Alone

New from Materials: Nhã Thuyên and Askia Touré

History Project Event