I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
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Advocating for marginalized artists & racial equity.
https://icareifyoulisten.com/
"I also enjoy music that brings me closer to an unexplained force and elicits deeper meanings. I like music that simply sounds good, and I like music that is interesting and makes me use my brain."
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November 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"I also enjoy music that brings me closer to an unexplained force and elicits deeper meanings. I like music that simply sounds good, and I like music that is interesting and makes me use my brain."
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"An anonymous survey was carefully written to elicit detailed responses on pay conditions from professional composers working regularly in the United States... when it comes to composing, there is a pervasive silence in our community on pay."
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November 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"An anonymous survey was carefully written to elicit detailed responses on pay conditions from professional composers working regularly in the United States... when it comes to composing, there is a pervasive silence in our community on pay."
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"At a time where there’s vicious debate around belonging and who can claim certain spaces as home, the LA Phil continues to lead the charge in inclusive programming for American orchestras."
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November 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"At a time where there’s vicious debate around belonging and who can claim certain spaces as home, the LA Phil continues to lead the charge in inclusive programming for American orchestras."
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“Amongst many emotions, the music carries me to places I can’t physically go — like Tibet. Yet Tibet resides within me. This album is a meditation, a return, and a way to stay connected ....”
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November 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“Amongst many emotions, the music carries me to places I can’t physically go — like Tibet. Yet Tibet resides within me. This album is a meditation, a return, and a way to stay connected ....”
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"There is no longer a need to travel to learn about music...However, one critical question remains: how far can traditions blend before losing their identity, especially when two musical languages share little in common?"
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November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"There is no longer a need to travel to learn about music...However, one critical question remains: how far can traditions blend before losing their identity, especially when two musical languages share little in common?"
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"As our world edges further into fascism and Indigenous, trans and queer bodies are increasingly criminalized...I feel an urgent need for spiritual and ancestral support. I want to engage with and learn from the sentinels of an Indigenous, gender-expansive past."
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November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"As our world edges further into fascism and Indigenous, trans and queer bodies are increasingly criminalized...I feel an urgent need for spiritual and ancestral support. I want to engage with and learn from the sentinels of an Indigenous, gender-expansive past."
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"I believe we are multiplicities, encapsulated in the idea of being one person ... but inside, there is a visceral torrent of contradictory, dark, intense passions that cannot be channeled on the surface, but can emerge in the form of reverberation and music."
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November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"I believe we are multiplicities, encapsulated in the idea of being one person ... but inside, there is a visceral torrent of contradictory, dark, intense passions that cannot be channeled on the surface, but can emerge in the form of reverberation and music."
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"We clap. We 'like' their announcement post on social media. We may even write a congratulatory message. But somewhere, deep down, the quiet voice of self-doubt that usually stays in the background begins to make itself heard."
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November 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"We clap. We 'like' their announcement post on social media. We may even write a congratulatory message. But somewhere, deep down, the quiet voice of self-doubt that usually stays in the background begins to make itself heard."
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"...Each concert is by nature a potent artistic mirror of current events, a grand display of multiple composers’ psyches exploring that alchemical magic between painful human experience and the balms we create from them."
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November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"...Each concert is by nature a potent artistic mirror of current events, a grand display of multiple composers’ psyches exploring that alchemical magic between painful human experience and the balms we create from them."
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“I’m very interested in mystery and the sense of creating an immersive, atmospheric space....an emotional experience that feels like — for lack of a better word — a resonant spiritual space. And Hildegard does that beautifully.”
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October 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“I’m very interested in mystery and the sense of creating an immersive, atmospheric space....an emotional experience that feels like — for lack of a better word — a resonant spiritual space. And Hildegard does that beautifully.”
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"Typical student jobs, such as babysitting, dog walking, or working as a barista are prohibited.... I have seen students lose their legal status after performing a single gig one day before their work authorization officially began."
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October 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"Typical student jobs, such as babysitting, dog walking, or working as a barista are prohibited.... I have seen students lose their legal status after performing a single gig one day before their work authorization officially began."
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"Building a personal relationship with the musical ideas of Lake Heritage feels imperative to the listening process, with “Paco’s one hundred years” echoing a similar wavy pattern that we’ve heard from the start."
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October 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"Building a personal relationship with the musical ideas of Lake Heritage feels imperative to the listening process, with “Paco’s one hundred years” echoing a similar wavy pattern that we’ve heard from the start."
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"Ambrose Akinmusire’s title track feels the most lifelike — something between a painting and a sculpture — with lush textures that let the cello and viola really go for it in both technique and volume."
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October 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"Ambrose Akinmusire’s title track feels the most lifelike — something between a painting and a sculpture — with lush textures that let the cello and viola really go for it in both technique and volume."
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"Working with the four beautiful musicians of Yarn/Wire is exhilarating — a fast ride with four brilliant minds and deep experience,” [Annea] Lockwood says. “I love the way they listen: their sound is fully alive, detailed, and beautifully shaped."
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October 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"Working with the four beautiful musicians of Yarn/Wire is exhilarating — a fast ride with four brilliant minds and deep experience,” [Annea] Lockwood says. “I love the way they listen: their sound is fully alive, detailed, and beautifully shaped."
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"By the time we reach 'Seaglass/Pebble,' which feels the most exacting and lean, we have become well accustomed to The Rhythm Method’s ability to switch from full-throttle grime to sheer rippling in a snap."
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October 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"By the time we reach 'Seaglass/Pebble,' which feels the most exacting and lean, we have become well accustomed to The Rhythm Method’s ability to switch from full-throttle grime to sheer rippling in a snap."
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"I don’t think we can achieve true artistic excellence from the position of ego. Service to humanity is my goal, and creating from a place I call the innerverse is the best way to compose and perform in a way that offers a profound experience for audiences."
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October 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"I don’t think we can achieve true artistic excellence from the position of ego. Service to humanity is my goal, and creating from a place I call the innerverse is the best way to compose and perform in a way that offers a profound experience for audiences."
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"Most musicians, no matter where they live, are within driving distance of at least one ensemble... filled with real musicians and conductors who could become peers and future collaborators."
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October 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"Most musicians, no matter where they live, are within driving distance of at least one ensemble... filled with real musicians and conductors who could become peers and future collaborators."
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"Bhatia’s composition stretches far beyond mere ambience. This music is not gentle; it’s big, at times aggressive and chaotic. It moves like crashing surf and expands across space like dazzling lightning followed by awesome thunder."
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October 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"Bhatia’s composition stretches far beyond mere ambience. This music is not gentle; it’s big, at times aggressive and chaotic. It moves like crashing surf and expands across space like dazzling lightning followed by awesome thunder."
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"In my music, I’ve found this recurring desire to take thick beds of sound and try to reign them in. It feels like a meditation."
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October 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"In my music, I’ve found this recurring desire to take thick beds of sound and try to reign them in. It feels like a meditation."
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"There's so much music that I've been so blown away by or I'm so impressed with or even love. But within that, there's always, for me at least, a small sliver of music that I can spend my daily life with or keep coming back to..."
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October 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
"There's so much music that I've been so blown away by or I'm so impressed with or even love. But within that, there's always, for me at least, a small sliver of music that I can spend my daily life with or keep coming back to..."
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"In a time when it’s easy to say nothing or obfuscate to avoid consequences and discrimination, Talk Low Festival 2025 had something to say. That queer and trans people are part of our history... that the safety of one person cannot be at expense of another..."
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October 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"In a time when it’s easy to say nothing or obfuscate to avoid consequences and discrimination, Talk Low Festival 2025 had something to say. That queer and trans people are part of our history... that the safety of one person cannot be at expense of another..."
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"My hope is to become an artist and composer who leads by example, and to show that music can be both serious and playful, whilst also freeing and full of opportunity."
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October 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"My hope is to become an artist and composer who leads by example, and to show that music can be both serious and playful, whilst also freeing and full of opportunity."
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“I spent a lot of time at theaters watching actors work and understanding those hit points: the moments at which the story has to progress.... That whole interaction is baked into my music and the way I think about how to present the music."
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October 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“I spent a lot of time at theaters watching actors work and understanding those hit points: the moments at which the story has to progress.... That whole interaction is baked into my music and the way I think about how to present the music."
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"Voices were layered, split into multiple tracks, slowed down or sped up into varied intonations, and then re-stacked into speech collages. There was a rawness to the audio, like the crackle and pop of opening a can of soda."
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October 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"Voices were layered, split into multiple tracks, slowed down or sped up into varied intonations, and then re-stacked into speech collages. There was a rawness to the audio, like the crackle and pop of opening a can of soda."
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"In the darkness, small gestures feel amplified, and silence itself becomes more present. I wanted to capture that sense of subtlety, the spaces between sounds, and the expressive power of absence..."
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September 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"In the darkness, small gestures feel amplified, and silence itself becomes more present. I wanted to capture that sense of subtlety, the spaces between sounds, and the expressive power of absence..."
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