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Kate Wallich and Perfume Genius unite a team of musicians, dancers, and designers to create a stunning and emotionally complex performance that radically integrates indie rock with contemporary dance. Kate Wallich and Perfume Genius unite a team...
The Sun Still Burns Here
15 Photos is a physical song cycle on aging, masculinity, medieval epics, death, and love.15 Photos is a physical song cycle on...
15 Photos @ Mana Contemporary
Breaking and Entering is a collaborative work between celebrated artists known for their unique artistry which incorporates their physical disabilities.Breaking and Entering is a collaborative work between...
Breaking and Entering
"Jazz is an inclusive music.""Jazz is an inclusive music."
Myra Melford: Freedom and Form
By: Frank J. Oteri
"We will be guided by the belief that when our most oppressed are liberated, we are all liberated.""We will be guided by the belief that...
It’s Time to Let Classical Music Die
By: Nebal Maysaud
"What does substantially help composers is making personal connections with members of the musical community.""What does substantially help composers is making personal...
Do you need a doctorate in composition?
By: Jason Eckardt
The next iteration of Project Grants deadline will be January 30, 2020 at 5 pm Eastern time. Updated guidelines will be posted in early November 2019.The next iteration of Project Grants deadline will...
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Counterstream Radio is your online home for exploring the music of American composers.Counterstream Radio is your online home for exploring...
About Counterstream Radio
They did it! 6 concerts in 7 days in 6 cities!They did it! 6 concerts in 7 days...
EMEWS to the East

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Featured projects
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Mending Wall
Something there is that doesn't love a wall
CULTIVATE 2018 Emerging Composers’ Institute
The Future is HERE!
In the Brink – New Work for Bergamot Quartet + Percussion
A new work for the Bergamot Quartet + percussionist Terry Sweeney that extends the quintet, comparing moral and environmental corruption.

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My Journey With Bird Songs
Every day for five weeks, I improvised with songbirds and any other creatures that made their voices heard, and recorded each session. My goal was to become a member of...
The Curious Case of Keiko Yamada
The evening of August 31 began like most Saturday nights at the start of the fall semester. I was reviewing course plans and readings for the upcoming week, while I...
Truly a Wenren—Remembering Chou Wen-chung (1923-2019)
Chou Wen-chung is a music giant who mentored us in our creative lives for decades. He has made a huge contribution to the music of our time, yet he is...
Myra Melford: Freedom and Form
Myra Melford is equally comfortable performing a blues tune, jamming in a completely free-improvisatory setting with other musicians, or exploring more predetermined structures in the compositions she writes for her...
Sealing the Deal: Signing the Contract and Completing the Collaboration
Assuming you are setting a completed text in a transactional partnership, you’re now ready to write up your contract, get it signed, and start composing.
Pursuing the Ir Rational
As my understanding of the Inner Ear grows, I ask if it can be separated from the Mind itself. It’s no longer a radical notion that our individual memories have...
What You Get and What You Give: Permission and Compensation for Setting a Text
Who owns what rights will depend on the nature of your collaboration and what you negotiate. For transactional partnerships involving pre-existing text, the author/publisher keeps the copyright of the words,...
Transactional and Collaborative Approaches to Working with Authors
Informed consent is essential for successfully collaborating with writers. However, what each person must be informed about and consent to depends in part on whether the partnership will be transactional...
A Primer on Collaborating with Authors
Introduction I could wax poetic about why composers should set texts by living authors. Some big reasons include texts that stand out amid the sea of well-worn Public Domain poems,...
Tyshawn Sorey: Music and Mindfulness
Tyshawn Sorey’s music emerges from a vast array of experiences, communities, storytelling, and a deep engagement in mentor-mentee relationships. When I listen to his recent works Pillars I, II, III,...
Towards a Framework for Responsible Trans Casting Part 4: The Framework
After pondering a list of 10 questions representing the most frequent and pernicious” you should ask yourself to avoid bad trans writing in opera and music theater, we encourage you...
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