SPOTLIGHT SESSION

Decoding Ken Ueno
Ken Ueno is a man comfortable with a gear shift—a composer of music that thrills with its interior complexity in one case and probes the ear deeply with a simple overtone vocal line in the next. He is also as likely to pick up the inspiration for his work inside a candy store and a childhood memory as in the text of Calvino, Beckett, or Joyce.
By Molly Sheridan
Published: 7/21/2008

Sharing Secrets—The Enigmatic Music of Molly Thompson
On stage, Molly Thompson's music comes across as honestly raw and yet sophisticatedly crafted, filled with intimate lyrics and intriguing cross-genre influences. Off stage, she's disarmingly forthcoming—the kind of woman you could easily think of as your best friend after a 15-minute conversation. Still, her musical personality seems to draw a curtain around some more mysterious internal characters, and it keeps her audiences on their toes.
By Molly Sheridan
Published: 6/23/2008

VIEWPOINT

Dispatches From the End of the Jazz Wars
Perhaps the fissure between neoclassicists and progressives doesn't seem as pressing when jazz itself is on the ropes—unity in the face of adversity.
By Darcy James Argue
Published: 7/16/2008

Maximize Information Flow: How to Make Successful Live Electronic Music
In any performance, there is an information network that exists between the performer, the instrument, and the audience. By maximizing information exchange between objects in the performer/instrument/audience network and creating interactions between the separate information streams of that network, an electronic composer/performer is more likely to create a compelling performance.
By Sam Pluta
Published: 6/18/2008