Karlheinz Stockhausen

The most popular group in the history of popular music made many masterpieces. Read More

It's unlikely they'd mention quietly spoken, conciliatory, mystically inclined southerner Jonathan Harvey. Read More

As an avid fan of German progressive/experimental music from the late '60s and early '70s, it offered fascinating insight into the lives of many of the musicians commonly linked under the heading of "Krautrock". Read More

Maryanne Amacher, an influential composer whose experimental sound installations and multimedia works sometimes required full buildings to present their powerful melding of electronic timbres and live, natural ambience, died on Thursday in Rhinebeck, N.Y. She was 71 and lived in Kingston, N.Y. Ms. Amacher's death was announced by Micah Silver and Robert The, artists and friends of Ms. Amacher who recently began assembling an online archive of her work at maryanneamacher.org . Ms. Amacher was drawn to extremes: some of her scores — for example, the music she composed for the choreographer Merce Cunningham 's "Torse" (1976) — could be so soft as to be nearly inaudible at times. Read More

'It's ironic,' says the composer Kevin Volans. Read More

The video of musikFabrik's 2008 production of Michael's Journey Around the World has been posted to YouTube, and it's well worth watching. Read More

Well before there were arguments over multiculturalism, there were advocates against the Eurocentrism of the high culture being imported and imitated in the New World. Read More

Sutekh (San Francisco producer Seth Horvitz) has been one of American electronic music's heaviest cats for over a decade. Read More

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno was a philosopher only after he was a composer, as if the music he made in his youth required an entire system, and a later age, of interpretation. Read More