Extended Techniques

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a monthly listing of new music events in New York City a podcast and resource about contemporary music https://extendedtechniques.com

One interesting addition in NYC this July is Roulette's "No Fun" Festival. It feels like most names with "new," "contemporary," "experimental" and "weird" are already taken and they want to make sure that people who like easy (fun?) music don't show up. extendedtechniques.com/2026/07/01/n...

NYC Calendar July 2026

July 1-August 2ClinamenA visual and sound installation by Céleste Boursier-MougenotVENUE: Park Avenue ArmoryADMISSION: starting at $30 WEDNESDAY, July 17PM Teiku Album release with Blacks’ My…

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Laurie Anderson - the artist of saying exactly the words we need to hear today - speaking about the relationship between love and power. The deepest, most meaningful, and most effective showmanship I've seen. (Fair enough, I'm not a denizen of shows.) Priceless and free of charge. @Central Park

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I spent an entire concert in earplugs for the first time in my life, but the performance was still mesmerizing. From a trance-like drumbeat, to gradually changing timbres and reverberations, to the guitarists' excitement, to Reg Bloor's energetic conducting, final dance, and theatrical collapse.

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Paul Pinto’s Octet is unlike anything you’ve heard before, unless you’ve heard Julia Wolfe’s Forbidden Love, or Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko’s Mariupol. Still, the shower of flying pencils was a new experience for me. Imagine what he will do in his opera? (Livestream in comments.)

August used to be a boring month for a new music listener in NYC. Then, one after another, arts organizations decided to take advantage of lack of events and plan a festival, a music series, a residency... Now August is a busy month, just like any other month. extendedtechniques.com/2025/08/01/n...

NYC Calendar August 2025

Highlights of the month:TIME:SPANS festival, August 9 – 23John Zorn’s residency at the Stone, August 13-16 FRIDAY, August 1 – THURSDAY, August 7Monk In PiecesMonk in Pieces, a doc…

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The podcast episode we produced last year has reached 5,092 downloads! There is still time to catch up with experimental operas by Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko inspired by Richard Foreman, David Lynch, Jorge Louis Borges, Umberto Eco, Karlheinz Essel and Jorge Sánchez-Chiong.

Episode #6 Archeological Operas of Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko

This episode presents an overview of major works by award-winning composer duo Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko, the creators of 12 operas and the founders of Opera Aperta – a laboratory of exper…

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