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Joan Tower — hailed by The New Yorker magazine as “one of the most successful woman composers of all time” — will be visiting Ithaca College as part of the Enduring Masters series tomorrow, on Tuesday, Feb. 5. Featuring performances by various Ithaca College ensembles, “The Chamber Music of Joan Tower” will start at 8:15pm […]

Yikes! Sorry to have been away from here for so long. This past month really flew by, but we are so excited for 2008 and everything it has to offer. We feel wide-eyed and bushytailed, and we have so many ideas, plans and goals for this year. We’ll start posting much more regularly now, but […]

[Image above: Lewis Hine (American, 1874-1940), Sunday Morning, March 7, 1909, Morris Herowitz, ten years old, 1909. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Martin Z. Margulies. Photo credit: Courtesy of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art] Since we ran in this space Nancy Geyer’s review of the video art exhibit at the Johnson Museum, it […]

I just found out that Kronos Quartet will be performing tonight at Herkimer County Community College as the college’s inaugural concert for the “Robert H. Wood Great Artists Series.” The performance begins at 8pm. Click here for ticket info. From what we can tell, the drive is about two hours.

Here’s another Buffalo show if you’re up for the drive: Bad Religion will perform tonight at 8pm at the Town Ballroom.  They were another band that I loved growing up, and it would be so much fun to see them live after all these years. They were such a major part of the Socal punk/hardcore […]

We recently posted about an article that we wrote for the Ithaca Times about experimental choreographer, dancer and performance artist Jonah Bokaer. He’s an incredibly busy guy — we interviewed him last summer, when he presented the excellent show ” | underscore | ” — so this time around, we tried to focus on his […]

Please join us at No Radio Records this Thursday, June 28th, 2007, at 8pm, for the first installment of what we hope will become a regular series of shows at various locations around town. “Ithaca Noise & Electronics” is what we are calling it, for now.
Performing Thursday will be Differance Engine, both solo and […]

One of the pleasures of following electronic music today is the speed by which forms mutate, develop, and coalesce. It can take no more than a few new software developments, a transmogrified approach to sampling, a few alterations to tempo and beat structure, and voila, a group of people somewhere on the planet are […]

Last month Popcorn Youth made a quick trip to Brooklyn and Manhattan to attend a handful of music-related events. The first was a talk held at the Brooklyn Public Library (Central branch) entitled “Brooklyn Music Now,” with discussants Alan Licht, Brad Truax, Brian Chase, and Carlos Giffoni. Licht is a musician and writer […]

Well, ‘review’ may not be the appropriate word. ‘Notes on an event of startling simplicity and beauty’ might, however, be more fitting, if a bit bombastic . . . . In any case, the event was very much an aural treat and, after all, a person must ask themselves this: How often does one […]

The major snow storm afflicting the midwest and northeast has found its way to Ithaca too, so we thought that we would take a moment to catch up on a number of thoughts and events that we’d like to discuss.
First, we appreciate the discussion that Art Room Closet opened in response to our article and […]

Whether you’re looking for 20th century classical music, dance parties, indie pop, or jam bands, there should be no lack of free live music tonight. 8pm at Bailey Hall, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, conducted by Mark Davis Scatterday, will perform. The night will feature the premiere of Pulitzer prize-winning Cornell composer Steven Stucky’s “Hue and […]

Saw Jamie Lidell perform over the weekend at Hamilton college and was seriously impressed. Among other things, Lidell performed tracks from Multiply, which sounded even more convincing live than on record, if you can believe that. It is difficult, if you know Lidell’s ten year history with Warp, his collaborations with Christian […]

In an attempt to compile the majority of writing I’ve done in the past six months, I’ve created a new category on the site, which you can access by clicking on the tab “My Writings” at the top of the page. This will include my previous articles for other websites Blender Magazine, Neumu, Harmonium Music, […]