On Brouhaha: Shaped by Fire (Sono Luminus, 2026), violinist Maiani da Silva suggests that listeners might renew their connection to nature by attuning to different rhythms and cycles in music. The recording and performance project features six new works for solo violin, with each composer considering a unique idea about humanity’s place in the Earth’s …

This interview has been lightly edited for clarity. Flutist and composer Allison Loggins-Hull has always been focused on storytelling. Her projects tend to include history and social commentary, as seen in key collaborations with Julia Bullock and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Toshi Reagon and Alarm Will Sound, and Castle of our Skins. Those throughlines …

Defining the full scope of Amina Claudine Myers’ artistry feels impossible. At 84, she has nurtured an expansive practice defying genre and boundaries across classical, jazz, gospel, and avant-garde idioms. As a pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, improviser, and educator, she has worked all over the world, from touring with celebrated musicians Anthony Braxton, Archie She...

Denver, Colorado born Xavier Emmanuel (he/him) is a multi-hyphenate artist/scholar and PhD candidate in Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry at the Harvard University Department of Music. His work as a musician, scholar, and multi-hyphenate artist situates music as a lens to explore sonic and systemic organizations of labor, emotion, movement, behavior, and b...

On a spring day in 2022, an uninterrupted hum emanates from the center of a room, as natural as the human voice yet produced by electronic instruments. As I stand in the corner listening to Éliane Radigue’s L’Île re-sonante (2000), I notice every subtle waver and new overtone from this small collection of notes. The …