As centenary events celebrate Simeon ten Holt’s work, music historians have questioned his omission from histories of Minimalism, and its focus on American greats. By Hugh Morris Reporting from London ...

For the past couple of years, Ecoute has been a considered a staple third-party music player on the Mac. Known for its lightweight, minimalistic design, Ecoute works as an iTunes companion. With ...

Curious about minimalism in music? Not every good song has to be an enormous, elaborate work of art. Sometimes, the real power of a song lies in its most stripped-down elements. So what exactly is ...

Defining Bang on a Can is hard. Founded in 1987 by composers David Lang, Michael Gordon, and Julia Wolfe, it is a musical collective made up of composers and musicians dedicated to performing, ...

"Live" takes you on a 75-minute long musical journey and leads you into the cosmos of Swiss-based AKKU Quintet led by drummer and composer Manuel Pasquinelli (also known for his work with Sonar & ...

Today, The Tonearm's needle lands on music critic George Grella Jr. He just published Minimalist Music, part of Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 Genre series. His central argument is that minimalism isn't defined ...

“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four,” the avant-garde composer John Cage once said. “If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it ...

Dittytoy user [srtuss] has recreated one of the most influential works of electronic music in an elegant nineteen kilobytes of Javascript code. The recreation of Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygene Part IV on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It doesn’t bother pianist R. Andrew Lee when you fall asleep at his performances. They can last awhile longer than most classical music concerts — sometimes ...