Electroacoustic Composition News Today

Swedish musicians Kajsa Magnarsson and Marta Forsberg make eccentric sound art that crosses borders on their album Kompisitioner.

In the wake of 2020's unprecedented protests for racial justice, electroacoustic composer Yvette Janine Jackson released Freedom, a collection of two experimental radio operas exploring the Middle Passage and its wake. Inspired in part by the mid-century radio plays produced by Richard Durham, Johnson’s work offers a counterpoint to his affirming narratives of Black achievement and contributions to American history. By contrast, Jackson explores the hidden and murky depths of Black freedo...