UNUSUAL SOUNDS: Xpress explores WNC's avant-garde music scene, spotlighting some of the acts that are contributing to the area’s eclectic mix. Featured, starting left, Min Xiao-Fen, Tashi Dorji ...

Why the public shuns the avant-garde and what to do about it. John Cage, an icon of the contemporary avant-garde, occupies an odd status in the music world. A seminal figure in the history of ...

Fred Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor known for his work in experimental and avant-garde ...

Rohan de Saram, the cellist who has died aged 85, was a leading light in avant-garde music, spending almost 30 years with the Arditti Quartet performing works by 20th-century composers including ...

For nearly a decade now, TURNmusic has been Vermont’s contemporary classical chamber music ensemble sharpening the state’s cutting edge. And while that important role will continue, TURNmusic is ...

Listen on YouTube Chad Clark, musician and producer “Max Brown” by Jeff Parker. If I tell you I’m going to play some “avant-garde jazz,” I think I know what you are expecting.

The music presented this year runs the gamut: It includes turntablism, folk-steeped fiddling, jazz-informed trance music, free improvisation, and new classical. Constellation hosts five of the ...

Phill Niblock, the acclaimed avant-garde composer known for his pioneering work in minimalist drone music, has died, The Wire reports. No details of Niblock’s death are available at present. He ...

Rohan de Saram, the cellist who has died aged 85, was a leading light in avant-garde music, spending almost 30 years with the Arditti Quartet performing works by 20th-century composers including ...