Tatsuya Nakatani, a Kobe-born percussionist who now lives in Pennsylvania, pulls a bow across a large gong, slicing the air with long, shocking tones. The sound is hauntingly melodic and mesmerizing, ...

The Polish composer’s spectral, textural music—written on an instrument he designed from scavenged organ pipes—swarms with beautifully unruly ideas. By taking the pipes out of their liturgical setting ...

This could have been tear-makingly dull: Droning textural music under one woman's ethereal voice, all caught in gauze-like overdubs ... Save this story Save this story This could have been ...

Sophia Stel’s shifting, textural music owes its existence to three things: a synthesizer, digital drums, and guitar. But with just those three instruments, the 26-year-old Vancouver native constructs ...