From irony to sincerity – and back again. On a new metamodern sensibility in British contemporary music.

In a brown tracksuit top and wired headphones, with ponytails split in her signature style, Maddie Ashman looked stylistically out of joint around the corporate suits rushing to grab lunch around King...

‘My temperature monitor reads 31.2 degrees.’

Clarinet Quintet   (2023/2025)    54:10 Apartment House Heather Roche  clarinet      Mira Benjamin & Chihiro Ono, violinsBridget Carey, viola    Anton Lukoszevieze, cello Interview with Jürg Frey ...

In the early 2010s, the coolest thing a music graduate with an interest in all things experimental could do was to set up a small, independent concert series.

1    Why Patterns?      (1978)       29:55 Taylor MacLennan, flutes    Siwan Rhys, piano    George Barton, glockenspiel   2   Crippled Symmetry    (1983)      90:47 Taylor MacLennan, flute & bass ...

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival—or HCMF for short—is in full swing, celebrating its 48th edition with performances, workshops, installations and more, all against the backdrop of mounting eco...

The Metamodern Songs of Francesca Fargion

Every time cultural organizers huddle to pick a festival theme, their brainstorming heat surely counts as a modest contribution to global warming. In today’s attention economy—where information is ove...

Marat Ingeldeev reviews Musik Installationen Nürnberg 2025.