DJ Spooky

The Queen of Soul will be immortalized this summer by the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. The Tennessee organization said Wednesday that Detroit's Aretha Franklin will be inducted during an Aug. 14 ceremony. Read More

In this video from PSFK CONFERENCE NYC , DJ Spooky presents a live music mash-up of his Antartica-inspired music using a violinist and a DJ using his app. In setting up the performance, the musician and artist spoke to PSFK founder and editor-in-chief Piers Fawkes about how apps have absorbed the way early types of multimedia haveworked (including the phonograph and kinescope ) and that the app has changed the creative act more than anything because of its ubiquity. Read More

Singer/Songwriter, Brechtian Punk Cabaret Priestess, Piano-Slayer, Blogmistress, Performance Artist, Ukelele-Freak, Creativity Muse Amanda Palmer unveiled a Kickstarter campaign early Monday morning to fund her first new studio album release in four years (her last full length album being the widely acclaimed Who Killed Amanda Palmer in 2008). Read More

Just off a 3-month long tour in Europe and India, composer/percussionist Lukas Ligeti returns to his hometown of New York City with a trio of live performances ranging from avant-jazz collaborations to a curatorial concert series in Brooklyn. Read More

Berklee's second annual Rethink Music conference happening today and Tuesday at the Hynes Convention Center features business leaders from major companies like YouTube and Spotify, along with big-name artists, workshops, panels and more. Read More

An evening of dynamic new music from live electroacoustic pioneer Earl Howard and FLUX Quartet violinists Tom Chiu and Conrad Harris. 2011 Guggenheim Fellow Earl Howard, a pioneer in the development of live electronic processing and extended instrumental techniques, presents the premiere of his Guggenheim project Superstring, with Wu Wei (sheng, erhu), Alan Jaffe (guitar), Miya Masaoka (koto), Ernst Reijseger (cello), Mark Dresser (bass), Harris Eisenstadt (percussion), and Earl Howard , (Kurzweil K2600). Read More

Kelly Strayhorn Theater, in collaboration with Alia Musica, presents Pittsburgh's only festival celebrating new music and sound arts. Read More

Bang on a Can takes over Alice Tully Hall presented by Lincoln Center's Great Performers series in a triple-bill birthday bash on Saturday, April 28 at 7pm featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Asphalt Orchestra , and MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika. Bang on a Can is celebrating 25 years during 2012, having grown from a one-day New York-based Marathon concert (on Mother's Day in 1987 in a SoHo art gallery) to a multi-faceted performing arts organization with a broad range of year-round international activities. 25 celebration at Lincoln Center opens with MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika performing its signature piece, Bang on a Can All-Stars founding clarinetist and composer Evan Ziporyn 's Tire Fire," a blend of ancient tradition and modern technology that The New York Times describes as "an exuberant blast of metal fireworks."Read More

Young the Giant, Marcus Samuelsson, DJ Spooky and Sir Richard Branson are among those set to appear at the April 24 event. Read More

Kelly Strayhorn Theater, in collaboration with Alia Musica, presents Pittsburgh's only festival celebrating new music and sound arts. Read More