Tag: M.A. Tiesenga

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Since her last solo album Black Origami - which musically still feels of the present moment, but factually came out in something of a time that land forgot, way back when in the spring of 2017 - the Indiana composer Jlin produced scores for new dances by the choreographers Wayne McGregor and Kyle Abraham, wrote Perspective for the Chicago-based...

Originally from Chicago and now based in Los Angeles, the interdisciplinary artist Marta Tiesenga is something of a polymath, whose practise includes musical performance and composition, printmaking, pen and ink drawing and album art, their interests zig-zagging between collage, maps, puzzles and asemic writing while they hold a bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of Music in saxophone performance...

For the Uyghurs of the Tarim Basin who continue to raise a voice against the twin spectres of internment and cultural assimilation, muqam remains a key mode of expression, the name for a set of melodic formulas which guide musical improvisation and often take the form of sprawling epic suites. Combining song, dance and instrumental sections, characterised by rhythmic...