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Watch Now: New Music Solidarity Fund Solo Marathon

On Thursday, May 14, 2020, flutist Claire Chase performed a four-hour live marathon from her living room of music from the Density 2036 project. The marathon was generously hosted by...

Learn more about the New Music Solidarity Fund

New Music Solidarity Fund

The New Music Solidarity Fund is designed to help new/creative/improvised music freelancers whose projects have been canceled during the COVID-19 crisis.

New Music USA’s Response to COVID-19

We’re excited to share a big update about the New Music Solidarity Fund's progress. This emergency response for independent musicians impacted by COVID-19 has now raised a total of $380,000 and successfully...

New Music Solidarity Fund Information for Applicants

Having more than tripled its initial $100,000 goal, the Fund now aims to raise $500,000 by May 15, allowing for a total of 1000 grants of $500 each.

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We have been incredibly lucky to hear artists in their own words throughout NewMusicBox's 20 years of existence. Whether in interview or essay form, their words have motivated us, challenged...

Going Digital – A Toolbox

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Our Journey to Olly Wilson: Remixed and Beyond

Our own journey with Olly Wilson began in 2014. We were entranced by the music and intrigued by the man, who clearly carried a special spirit. As a “Special COVID-19...

Beginning Again

I am, once and for all, the eternal beginner. – Gustav Mahler, 1909   I read this sentence over a century after it was written, six months after leaving an...

Creativity in the Age of COVID-19

Maintain a consistency of creative work and to try not and focus on where it may or may not lead. To compose, practice, and play (albeit on the Web) is...

6 Strategies for Using Time Effectively During COVID-19

Ideas for treating lockdown as an opportunity rather than an imposition.

How the New Music Community is Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic

In the hopes that this can lead us toward a consensus about what might be best practices for how to deal with this extraordinary and unprecedented situation moving forward, we...

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ORATORIO FOR THE EARTH-KAMA: River of Stars

ORATORIO FOR THE EARTH-KAMA-River of Stars:multi-movement work by Pamela Madsen for orchestra, choir, ensembles, electronics, video

Auxiliary Superpower

a new evening-length work by Mark Applebaum

Chasing Memories in ‘Choreograph’: new music inspired by the photographs of James Welling

Commissioning project between fivebyfive and The George Eastman Museum, with open rehearsals and a concert among the photographs

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