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Notes From the Subtropics

Space and sound are closely related, even if it often goes unnoticed. Over the course of two weeks, many of the performances at the Subtropics Festival in Miami Beach confronted this relationship. Paula Matthusen, a former Miami resident, spent hours …

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The Seeds and Sounds of the Subtropics Festival

Since its launch in 1989, the Subtropics festival has offered South Florida a multi-day event focused squarely on experimental music and sound art. This year the two-week Miami

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Tatsuya Nakatani, Gongs, and the Essence of Sound

[This preview can also be viewed on the WLRN website.] A gong hangs suspended from its stand, light dancing across its bronzed surface, each hammered dent hinting

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Vocalizing on the Winter Jewish Music Concert

Early in the proceedings at the Fifth Annual Winter Jewish Music Concert, I circled a couple of names who I wanted to highlight in this review, as a

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FETA’s The Street Festival Goes Beyond Ones and Zeros

In Wynwood last Saturday night, the streets were overflowing with random bits of energy, from the insect car parade driven by camera-ready hairdos gelled into disarray to the

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Human Meets Machine at The Street Experimental Music Festival

If you hear the words experimental music, you might not think of robots, cyborg belly dancers, old-style televisions morphed into synthesizers, or a human beatbox. But this is