Archive for the 'Uncommon Sonorities' Category

[Text by Aaron P. Tate; photo of Vic Rawlings; article from the Ithaca Times] If you happened to hear the performance by Brooklyn duo Mouthus earlier this month at No Radio Records, you witnessed an auditory event hovering somewhere between Sonic Youth’s Bad Moon Rising and the industrial clamor of early Einstuerzende Neubauten, but updated […]

[Text by Aaron P. Tate; from the Ithaca Times]

New music aficionados in Ithaca will be pleased by what is on offer this week. On Wednesday, trumpeter Jacques Coursil will perform in the first of two events hosted by Cornell devoted to his music and thought. Free and open to the public, his first performance will […]


[Text by Aaron P. Tate; photo of Carter in 2000 by Meredith Heuer; appears in the Jan. 31 edition of the Ithaca Times]
Though his birthday is not until December 11, the year 2008 marks the centenary of the birth of one of America’s finest living composers, Elliott Carter, whose seven decade-long meditation on form, pitch […]