William Basinski has announced his first tour in two years. The 13-date trek kicks off on September 11 in New York and wraps up on October 22 in Miami. The composer will also stop off in Philadelphia, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, Memphis, and more, with support from Faten Kanaan on select dates. Check out Basinski’s full schedule via the tour poster below.
Last year Basinski released two albums: his solo LP
Lamentations, as well as a record with his new project Sparkle Division titled
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Iraqi-British musician Khyam Allami began to study the oud at the age of 23, after years of learning guitar, bass and drums. The composer
, who is now completing a PhD in composition at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, says that biases are deeply ingrained – even in modern music-making.
In an era when
musicians and composers are increasingly dependent on digital apparatus
, he says the dearth of tools catering to musicians working in traditions that use microtones, rather than the classical
western 12-tone octave, reveals a deeply ingrained bias stemming from the supremacy of
western music theory.
Frustrated by the way this