"Merging and combining genre in a genuine and authentic way is not easy, as it requires a deep respect, understanding, and reverence of the styles involved, but if done correctly, it can be a key to increase diversity and representation within classical music." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/08/5-qu...

"Rebekah Heller is on a mission to smash every tired stereotype or bad orchestra joke about the bassoon. Her new album...left me wondering why it took so long for the world to hear how cool bassoons are." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/08/revi...

"The Jino children who were a critical part of the project had been denied visas three separate times...With this context, the work held a spirit of resistance... highlighting the resilience of peoples who seek to define their own collective histories." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/08/revi...

"I’ve worked with this idea of water: a finite resource – as both sustenance and destruction.  While the name of my duo looks ahead to a time-period where water will soon become more valuable than jewels, Sunken Cages takes on a darker narrative." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/08/5-qu...

"Hi, my name is Amadeus Julian Regucera and I am a composer, instrumentalist, and curator from Oakland, California, based in Troy, New York. I’m interested in how experimentalism can be an invitation into new worlds of possibility and transformation." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/07/list...

"So much of my past music has come from a place of processing difficult experiences in my life, and these recent works are something else (I think!) that I don’t fully understand, that is even more mysterious and thus even more thrilling to me to work on." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/07/5-qu...

"In many ways, the album is something of an artifact: a snapshot of a fleeting moment in the studio, a singular relic from the meeting of these minds. It’s an attempt to capture and preserve a shared language of spontaneous creation." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/07/revi...

"I'm less interested in language as legible content than as pure sound event. Abstracted syllables and utterances, the suggestion of a word without its literal translation, can achieve a deeper emotional precision than the word itself." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/07/5-qu...

"On 3 July, the RCM collaborated with adventurous opera company Tête-à-Tête. This year’s theme was ‘Fantasy and Fairytales’" icareifyoulisten.com/2026/07/revi...

"Fure’s music was transmitted from her intense motions to the audience; Halo’s felt like a salon, an offering from somewhere inside the mind. Both left room for us to find ourselves in the mix, letting sound be a vehicle for whatever we needed that night..." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/07/revi...

"In the end, the album is deeply engaging, as Lizée and Kronos Quartet curate a history and lineage through deep collaboration and a keen ear for electronic music’s past and future." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/revi...

"To me, music is a highly malleable, structural architecture, an incredible playground; to a choreographer or actor, it could be that but also an atmosphere, a medium in which they can suspend their movement and let their performances soar." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/5-qu...

"Throughout history, composers have redefined authorship by constructing systems of constraint rather than simply writing notes. In our own time, that tradition continues through data and algorithms..." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/5-qu...

We're looking for experienced writers to join our team of contributors at the leading new music publication in the U.S. dedicated to living composers. Deadline to apply is Sunday, July 12th. icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/writ...

"In the month of Marsha P. Johnson, I would like to focus my playlist on a topic that impacts potentially everybody, and that is bodily autonomy. Consider this a shout out to some of my favorite living composers and poets." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/list...

"Music that goes beyond incidental microtonality... can sometimes come off with a bad reputation for being contrived beyond the point of “feeling it.” But on Nonsongs, Ekmeles contradicts that narrative...to bring real verve to the listening experience." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/micr...

"Their commentary on the 250th anniversary of the United States is a clear-eyed reckoning with our nation’s history. Both composers recognize the use of shrinking — of exclusivity — to dampen the impact of women, Indigenous people, and people of color." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/dani...

"The performance immersed the audience in an experience that both interrogated the depth of one’s inner world and demonstrated how it can be enriched by sharing it with others." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/musi...

"At the heart of Lowe’s soundscapes is a mastery of spatial arrangement. He works in four dimensions, structuring foreground, middleground, and background across time with finesse so that each sound occupies its own depth." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/robe...

"I'm so excited to share this playlist with you, it's a bunch of music that has inspired me this year and one track that I made with Whitney Johnson and Macie Stewart. Hope you enjoy!" icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/list...

“It is a little humbling to be standing there in his stead, because he should be the one standing there, but it's my responsibility now, so I take that seriously.” icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/reg-...

"Planet/Tear sets the standard for artistic confrontation that teaches us to open our eyes, embrace both joy and rage, and refresh our imaginative capacities with intuitive listening." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/06/char...

"We tend to forget that these composers were trying to get paid. They were trying to secure patrons, performance, and survival. To erase that friction is not to honor them — it is to misunderstand them." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/05/colg...

"'Scrappy' has become something of a mantra for us whenever we feel that pinch. To us, 'scrappy' means that the most important thing is making the work exist, and that we’ve created an environment where we and our collaborators can take creative risks." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/05/5-qu...

"Lazyhorse is fundamentally interested in misfit energy; not refinement, but friction. Noise functions less as sonic aggression than as connective tissue, something capable of binding radically different musical sensibilities together." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/05/for-...

"Meditation is something I lose and return to periodically, but I always miss it when it’s absent from my life.... this is what all my work is really about: the attempt to attain a still, vibrating mind, and everything that happens surrounding that want." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/05/5-qu...

"The album of musical extremes foregrounds texture, using many extended techniques and the full spectrum of timbres and pitches possible on the mixed-quintet’s instruments." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/05/the-...

"While Dig That Treasure!, the radio show, focused on private press rarities and outsider music from across the globe, the festival has developed its own identity over the years... that echoes the economic refrain of Marie Kondo: does it spark joy?" icareifyoulisten.com/2026/05/the-...

“When we think of ‘America’ and an ‘American composer,’ it’s been some random white man, and that doesn't represent the populace of who makes up America ... we’re going to hear a lot more new voices in the coming years.” icareifyoulisten.com/2026/05/mala...

"What unites these technically demanding, free-flowing, and heady compositions — and what ultimately makes the album so compelling — is a heightened focus on timbre, gesture, and the raw qualities of sound." icareifyoulisten.com/2026/05/syde...