Check out our latest podcast: an intriguing survey of new creative and improvised music, highlighting freshly-recorded organ music by Pascal Dusapin, piano music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir and gamelan music by Larry Polansky. Sample the new live electronic album from Tender Buttons, along with jazz and improv albums from Henry Threadgill, Dave Liebman and William Parker, and the massive new 16-CD retrospective of acousmatic music by Denis Dufour. Finally, our 50 years ago in the avant-garde feature takes us back to Donaueschingen, West Germany in October 1971 for the premiere of landmark works by Stockhausen, Penderecki and Don Cherry.
Photo credits and annotated playlist by host Michael Schell in Comments.