Vanessa Ague
@vanessakayague.bsky.social
Writing about experimental music at various publications. Blogging at The Road to Sound. Based in NYC.
MY OFFICIAL REVIEW OF BIG EARS 2025 FOR @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social icareifyoulisten.com/2025/04/big-...
Big Ears Festival 2025 Reminds Us to Open Ourselves to Wild and Wonderful Sounds
Vanessa Ague reviews concerts by Tyshawn Sorey, Mabe Fratti, Macie Stewart, and more at the 2025 Big Ears Festival in Nashville, Tennessee.
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The 2025 NYC Experimental Music Venues Tournament is HERE. To participate, email your bracket to: nycexperimentalvenuesbracket@gmail.com. May the weirdest and wildest win 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Some (more) musings on the ever-evolving Long String Instrument live now on my blog: theroadtosound.com/2025/02/05/o...
On the Long String Instrument, as seen at Roulette
Ellen Fullman and Theresa Wong in performance at Roulette on 1/31/25 “What’s the Long String Instrument?” my Lyft driver asked when he picked me up from the Albany-Rensselaer Train Station. I told …
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I wrote about some of the albums that shaped my 2024. Live now on my blog, The Road to Sound: theroadtosound.com/2025/01/01/2...
2024, in Music
Dear Reader, Another year is under our collective belt. Can you believe it? I always feel a little incredulous when December comes around and I try to think of all the things that I did over the la…
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“Visions, imaginings, composition, improvisation, all could be thought of as a dream.” Took a little journalism trip upstate to profile Kite, a performing artist using Lakota visual language to make improvised music from dreams, for I Care If You Listen: icareifyoulisten.com/2024/12/lako...
Lakota Ontologies, AI, and Graphic Scores Find a Symbiotic Home in the Waking Dreams of Kite
Vanessa Ague profiles Kite (Suzanne Kite) at EMPAC and the intersections of Lakota tradition, modernity, and experimentalism in her work.
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Blogged about my favorite show of the year — Wadada Leo Smith and Amina Claudine Myers at Roulette last week: theroadtosound.com/2024/12/09/w...
Notes from Wadada Leo Smith and Amina Claudine Myers at Roulette
Photo by Matt Mehlan (@matt_mehlan), courtesy of Roulette It is rare to be so present that the earth seems to stop spinning. But if anything can do it, it’s live music — the kind that’s so meaningf…
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Wrote about tashi dorji for the pitchfork songs list 🤘🏻🤘🏻 happy year-end list season to all who celebrate pitchfork.com/features/lis...
The 100 Best Songs of 2024
Featuring Waxahatchee, Chappell Roan, Kendrick Lamar, skaiwater, Tyla, Xavi, and more
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year (vince guaraldi season)
Versionland is a surrealist fantasy using music to explore the unknown phenomena of “the hum.” My album-of-the-week review for @thequietus.com: thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
Mmmm: Jamie Hamilton & Phaedra Ensemble present Versionland | The Quietus
A new composition performed by London’s Phaedra Ensemble is inspired by a curious sonic phenomenon known as The Hum. Vanessa Ague investigates
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ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to post about experimental music on a social media app called bluesky
Had the pleasure of interviewing Elaine Mitchener in advance of Edinburgh’s Deep Time festival for @thequietus.bsky.social. A truly lovely conversation centering on the ‘80s New York arts scene! Read here: thequietus.com/news/elaine-...
Elaine Mitchener on Curating This Year's Deep Time Festival
Elaine Mitchener speaks to Vanessa Ague about the influence of John Cage and Jean-Michel Basquiat on her curation for this year’s Deep Time Festival
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