Danalogue: Telling the Future Through Old Machines
This week we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on synthesist and producer Danalogue . Danalogue is a founding member of The Comet Is Coming a...
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Suzanne Ciani: The Buchla's Orchestral Homecoming
This week, we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on five-time Grammy-nominated composer Suzanne Ciani . Suzanne has spent decades innovating e...
Steven Bernstein: The Trumpet's Blank Slate
This week we’re putting The Tonearm 's needle on trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Steven Bernstein . Amongst his many activities, Steven...
Alden Hellmuth: Saxophone Tethered to a Galaxy of Bass
This week, we’re putting The Tonearm 's needle on saxophonist and composer Alden Hellmuth . Alden grew up in Hartford, studying in the Jacki...
Dave Douglas: Transcend Is Not the End
This week, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas . Douglas’s latest album, Transcend, came out in April....
Ora Cogan: Hard Hearted Is How You Survive
Today, we’re putting The Tonearm ’s needle on singer and songwriter Ora Cogan . Ora Cogan’s music pulls from folk, country, psychedelia, and...
Billy Polo: Audio Engineer as Archaeologist
Today, we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on Billy Polo , in-house audio and mastering engineer, at iconic Jamaican music label VP Records...
Stephen Emmer: Composing at the Edge of Silence
Today, we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on Stephen Emmer, a Dutch composer and musician based in Amsterdam. Stephen came up in the late 7...
George Grella: The Time-Bending Art of Minimalist Music
Today, we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on George Grella , one of the sharpest music critics working today. George is the music editor of...
Meredith Bates: The Quiet Science of Sound Worlds
Today we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on Meredith Bates , a JUNO Award-winning violinist and composer based on Salt Spring Island, Briti...
Nick Fraser: Still Screaming Into the Snare Drum
Today, we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on Toronto drummer and composer Nick Fraser . Nick Fraser is one of the most distinctive voices i...
Maria Schneider: Composing in the Age of Curated Rage
Today, The Tonearm’s needle lands on composer and avid birdwatcher Maria Schneider . Few composers working today have Maria Schneider's rang...
Caroline Davis: The Saxophone Reimagined in the Fallows
Today, we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on Caroline Davis , a saxophonist and composer based in New York. Her new album, Fallows , just c...
Miho Hazama: The Conductor Who Leads with Love
Today, we’re putting The Tonearm's needle on composer and chief conductor of the Danish Radio Big Band, Miho Hazama . Miho grew up inside th...
Tomeka Reid: The Low Seat, the Long Haul, and 'dance! skip! hop!'
Today, The Tonearm ’s needle drops on cellist and composer Tomeka Reid . Tomeka Reid has spent the last decade building one of the most dist...
Ben Wendel: Assembling the Mallet Avengers
Today we put The Tonearm 's needle on Ben Wendel . Ben is a Grammy-nominated saxophonist, composer, and co-founder of Kneebody, with a disco...
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore: Like Tears in Rain
Today, we’re putting The Tonearm 's needle on Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore . Julianna is a composer, vocalist, and producer whose mus...
Bellbird: Montreal's Jazz Collective Heeds the Call
Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on the Montreal jazz collective Bellbird . Bellbird formed during pandemic park jams and has since...
Sam Wenc: The Experimental Language of the Pedal Steel Guitar
Today, we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on guitarist and composer Sam Wenc . Wenc is a Philadelphia-based artist who has spent nearly a d...
Zeena Parkins: Invention, Loss, and the Living Harp
Today we're putting The Tonearm 's needle on Zeena Parkins , composer, improviser, and one of the most singular forces in experimental music...