When it comes to 20th- and 21st-century music, Professor of Music Theory Daphne Leong along with her colleagues in the world of rhythm in music performance and scholarship engages in intense research and endless experimentation which brought her to Montreal’s McGill University for a recent residency.
The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST) is delighted to announce the opening of two exhibitions dedicated to exploring the work of Iannis Xenakis.
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Though few others than middle-aged alumni of the IDM listserv may realize it, from the mid 1990s to the mid 2000s, Cristian Vogel had one of the greatest runs in experimental techno. Club avant-gardists rarely maintain their lofty standards for more than a quarter century; Surgeon and Jeff Mills come to mind, but not many more. But Vogel makes a strong case for entry to that pantheon with his 25th album,
Rebirth of Wonky.Â
âWonkyâ was a fleeting musical trend around the turn of the last decade, one that Simon Reynolds described in
Retromania as âstrands of glitchy electronic, experimental hip hop and spacey seventies jazz fusionâ whose âoff-kilter beat structures and mutant funk groovesâ were embellished with âday-glo synth tones and snazzy riffs that hark back to eighties electro-funk and video-game music.â Although Vogel certainly has created his share of âoff-kilter beat structures,â he never really be