New Classical
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Those of us new to this “50-piece ensemble that doesn’t exist” have some catching up to do. The U.K. act made its debut in mid-2017 with the well-received debut Happy Birthday. One of the band members put it this way: “It was our attempt to write songs for people across the world to stumble across…
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Brooklyn’s Clarice Jensen has established an international reputation as an accomplished cellist, composer and collaborator. Her resume includes recordings and performances with a long list of heavyweights: Jóhann Jóhannsson, Max Richter and Blonde Redhead among them. She’s also artistic director of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble. Drone Studies is her second solo release. As the…
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The reports from Brazil of acre after acre of Amazon Rainforest burning to the ground, perhaps intentionally, have lent a different kind of urgency to the arguments surrounding the state of our environment. It is estimated that higher than 20 per cent of the planet’s oxygen comes from this part of the Amazon. Those of…
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Couple of things you should know if you’re considering a move to Svalbarð, the archipelago that lies inside the Arctic Circle, between Norway and the North Pole. First, get used to reindeer and polar bears. A lot of them. With a hypercarnivorous bear population something close to 3,000, they outnumber the locals by about 15…
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French author, philosopher and literary theorist Maurice Blanchot’s life spanned almost the entirety of the twentieth century. Born in a Saône-et-Loire commune called Devrouze in September 1907, he lived to see 2003. During those years, his work was sufficiently complex and wide-ranging that Christophe Bident would author a biography of the great man entitled Maurice…
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One of our heroes dropped a new album on Friday. Ryuichi Sakamoto is out with a soundtrack to an episode from Black Mirror’s fifth season entitled Smithereens. I won’t ruin it for you. If you’re a fan of the series, you’ll enjoy the episode’s exploration of the tension between analytics and intuition, between data-rich corporations…
The Moderns 