Vanessa Ague

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.

MY OFFICIAL REVIEW OF BIG EARS 2025 FOR @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social

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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 🤘🏻🤘🏻

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 …

Some (more) musings on the ever-evolving Long String Instrument live now on my blog:

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So glad to hear that! Happy listening!

Thank you so much ❤️🤘🏻 happy new year!

Happy listening and happy new year!

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…

I wrote about some of the albums that shaped my 2024. Live now on my blog, The Road to Sound:

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it’s time to lock tf in

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.

“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:

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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…

Blogged about my favorite show of the year — Wadada Leo Smith and Amina Claudine Myers at Roulette last week:

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🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

king fr!!

The 100 Best Songs of 2024 Featuring Waxahatchee, Chappell Roan, Kendrick Lamar, skaiwater, Tyla, Xavi, and more

Wrote about tashi dorji for the pitchfork songs list 🤘🏻🤘🏻 happy year-end list season to all who celebrate

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Love this :) track five is eternal!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year (vince guaraldi season)

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

Versionland is a surrealist fantasy using music to explore the unknown phenomena of “the hum.” My album-of-the-week review for @thequietus.com:

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peaking 5 days into having this app

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to post about experimental music on a social media app called bluesky

thank you for reading and finding me over here! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

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

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:

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