Too many competing sounds results in a jumbled mess of frequencies and noise, which don't create good visual results, while "beat-orientated music will react differently to minimal ambient music." As ...

BERLIN — One of the most prominent figures of the international electronic music scene, Robert Henke has been making music since the beginnings of Berlin techno, after the fall of the wall. Known by ...

Cellist Joan Jeanrenaud spent more than twenty years as a member of the experimental and always innovative Kronos Quartet. She left the group in 1999, and has since created an adventurous and ...

They say never judge a book by its cover. The same should probably go for albums. But let's be honest, a great cover can inspire us to pick an album off the shelf and give it a listen. For as long as ...

John Opper, “Untitled (185J)” (1983), acrylic on canvas, 54 x 66 inches (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) It was once a common notion that abstract painting was analogous to music. Why you ...

Oscar, Emmy and Grammy award winner Atticus Ross was presented with the BMI Icon award “in recognition of his exceptional body of work” at the performing rights society’s annual Film, TV and Visual ...

Cellist Joan Jeanrenaud had been a member of the celebrated Kronos Quartet for more than twenty years when, she found herself sidelined with a serious health issue. Following an extended leave from ...