Avantgarde News

Sometimes, Sainkho Namtchylak sounds like an opera tenor, with a clear and bright voice.

IN 1980, the Residents released four films, each one minute in length. The One Minute Movies, as they're known, were created to promote their new record, The Commercial Album, which consisted of 40 60-second ...

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German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's name is virtually a synonym for 'avant-garde modern music' - Canadian pianist Glenn Gould once parodied him in a short film as a spaced-out hippy 'playing' whooping ...

German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's epic Licht cycle is to be staged in its entirety for the first time.

Personal: 59; born and raised in Los Angeles. Attended University of Southern California; while a student, worked with Igor Stravinsky, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Aaron Copland on premieres of ...

Solo works by John Cage, Lou Harrison, Elliot Carter and Iannis Xenakis and chamber music by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Steve Reich and Luc Ferrari.

BBC presenter Patrick Kielty, avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, and actor Stephen Rea, are to be honoured by Queen's University Belfast this year.

Local musician Bob Salley was a recent finalist in a competition sponsored by new music Web site ACIDplanet.com , a forum of sorts for digitally minded musicians who use the mixing software ACID.