Anna Pavlova
Anna Pavlova was a Russian Empire ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th century. She is widely regarded as one of the finest classical ballet dancers in history and was most noted as a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev.
Steven Ellison ~ Flying Lotus
Steven Ellison, known by the stage name of Flying Lotus, is an experimental multi-genre music producer, laptop musician, and rapper from Los Angeles, California. He is the great-nephew of the late jazz pianist Alice Coltrane, and her husband saxophonist John Coltrane. He is also the cousin of musician Ravi Coltrane. Additionally, he is the grandson...
Clint Mansell
The name Clint Mansell may or may not sound very familiar, but one thing is for sure, his film scores most likely will, as he is the man responsible for the music behind some of the most interesting films of the past decade. I first heard of this English musician & composer when I was...
Tim Hecker
Tim Hecker is a Canadian-based musician and sound artist, born in Vancouver. Since 1996, he has produced a range of audio works for Kranky, Alien8, Mille Plateaux, Room40, Force Inc, Staalplaat, and Fat Cat. His works have been described as “structured ambient”, “tectonic color plates” and “cathedral electronic music”. More to the point, he has...
Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (originally christened Brian Peter George Eno), professionally known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno, is frequently referred to as one of popular music’s most influential artists and his name is often used as a synonym for describing a genre he has helped bring out from relative...
William Basinski
William Basinski is an avant-garde composer based in New York. He is also a clarinetist, saxophonist, sound artist, and video artist. Basinski is best known for his four-volume album The Disintegration Loops (2002–2003), constructed from rapidly decaying twenty-year-old tapes of his earlier music. William Basinski was born in 1958 in Houston, Texas. A classically trained clarinetist, he studied jazz saxophone and composition at North Texas State...
Anna Meredith
Anna Meredith is a composer and performer of electronic and acoustic music. She has been composer in residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the PRS/RPS Composer in the House with Sinfonia ViVA. She came to public attention through her 2008 work froms for the BBC Last Night of the Proms which was broadcast...
Nicolas Jaar
Nico is one of the most interesting and promising musical minds of our time with a singular sound and approach to his music. His original music, mixes and remixes have earned him a devoted international following. His father is artist Alfredo Jaar ~ see the PBS Art 21 program on him HERE Via Wikipedia Nicolas...
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was a highly-influential American jazz double bassist, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist. Mingus’s compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music. Yet...
Clara Rockmore
Clara Rockmore (March 9, 1911 – May 10, 1998) was a virtuoso performer of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument.
Born as Clara Reisenberg in (present-day) Vilnius, Lithuania, Rockmore was a child prodigy on the violin and entered the Imperial conservatory of Saint Petersburg at the age of five. She studied violin under the virtuoso Leopold...
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Pièces de Clavecin en Concert, Premier concert for violin, viola da gamba, and obbligato harpsichord in C Minor 1. La Coulicam 2. La Livri 3. La Vezinet Performed by Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord Rachel Podger, violin Jonathan Manson, viola da gamba Le Rappel des Oiseaux, Wilhem Kempf La Laborde Suite: Les Boréades Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra...
Is Joakim Bouaziz the most overlooked genius composer of our time?
I think yes. Joakim is one of the most distinctive and inventive musical minds of our time. He’s an anomalous artist who realizes and shares his creative vision on his own terms. __ Biography Via Resident Advisor Joakim is hard to pin down: part club music, part jazz, part electronic experimentalism. One of France’s foremost...
