Music

On the intertwined histories of music, sampling and influence

Ahead of its South London Gallery performance, how Tom Phillips’s Irma – a work that questions the genre of opera itself – is being staged

From Stravinsky in a car park to concerts in living rooms, how is classical music culture changing? 

'Romantic, muscular, propulsive': Jace Clayton discusses his tribute to the American minimalist, ahead of its London performance this weekend

Artist and composer Ari Benjamin Meyers on exhibiting music 

SoundCloud has been invaluable to the new music community for both documentation and discovery – now the audio-sharing platform is in peril

On the anniversary of the 2016 Orlando massacre, Brendan Fernandes reclaims the dancefloor as a site of resistance

Remembering the pioneering composer, visionary thinker, multimedia artist and techno-utopian, who died in May

What are the implications of documenta 14’s focus on the aural?

X-ray records in the Soviet Union

Released today on Semiotext(e), Holy Shit’s album Solid Rain gets nostalgic for the freewheeling creativity of a pre-gentrification LA

Rewire Festival and a photography project documenting Den Haag’s underground

A new album by theatre group Object Collection warns against political nostalgia 

From eternal music to the secret of eternal life: what to read this weekend

Writer Hari Kunzru speaks about his new novel, White Tears, a timely reflection on race, class and cultural appropriation in the US

With the reissue of their eponymous debut album, revisiting the career of legendary Berlin art project / punk band Die Tödliche Doris

Phillip Sollmann’s latest composition pays homage to three distinct and unconventional instrument makers

Recent rereleases from new-age music's 1970s and '80s heyday speak to current social anxieties

Samson Young's multidisciplinary work confronts the ways in which sound can both transcend borders and enforce them

A series of installations and a new LP from artist, composer and percussionist Eli Keszler