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Established in December 2010 by Thomas Deneuville, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN was created to discuss Contemporary Classical Music, also known as New Music, in a way that is easy to understand. The platform also covers various interdisciplinary subjects, including Art and Technology.

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ListN Up Playlist: Lia Ouyang Rusli (OHYUNG) (June 26, 2025)

3 days ago | icareifyoulisten.com | Amanda Cook

ListN Up playlists are commissioned by American Composers Forum. Artists are selected by ACF staff (including I CARE IF YOU LISTEN and innova Recordings). Lia Ouyang Rusli (She/they) is a film composer and makes solo music under the moniker OHYUNG. She produces genre-shifting music that moves between ambient, experimental pop, and distorted noise.
MATA 2025 Transports Listeners with a Beautifully Curated Cosmic Program

1 week ago | icareifyoulisten.com | Amanda Cook

The annual Music at the Anthology (MATA) Festival connects courageous composers and listeners through daring works from the global compositional community. Since Lisa Bielawa, Eleonor Sandresky, and Philip Glass founded the festival in 1996, the New York City staple has evolved to not only offer composers a flexible platform but also attract an audience bold enough to trade sonic risk for the reward of fresh perspective.
The Crossing's "At Which Point" is a Beautifully Executed Record of New Choral Works

1 week ago | icareifyoulisten.com | Amanda Cook

Released on April 4 2025, At Which Point (New Focus Recordings) from The Crossing continues the choir’s dedication to commissioning and furthering the genre of choral music. Having commissioned nearly 170 works, often on social justice and environmental topics, this album brings together three works from Ayanna Woods, Wang Lu, and Tawnie Olson.
BAKUDI SCREAM Reaches for Liberation On His Audacious Second Album, "Prey"

2 weeks ago | icareifyoulisten.com | Amanda Cook

BAKUDI SCREAM, the pseudonym used by performer and composer Rohan Chander, released his second studio album Prey last month in collaboration with Alarm Will Sound. Chander uses a large host of sampled material from hardcore, film, hip hop, and beyond to create an ever changing soundscape as a backdrop for songs, sung in a mixture of English, Hindi, and Tamil, that explore the rise of the right in South Asia and juxtaposes the traditions of sounds of disparate cultures.
ListN Up Playlist: Jessie Cox (June 5, 2025)

3 weeks ago | icareifyoulisten.com | Amanda Cook

Jessie Cox is Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University and a scholar of experimental music as well as a composer and drummer who reimagines the world through music. His first monograph Sounds of Black Switzerland: Blackness, Music, and Unthought Voices (Duke UP, 2025) addresses how thinking with blackness and experimental musical practices might afford the opening of new discourses, such as thematizing Black Swiss Life.
Risk & Access: Nadia Sirota Curates “Living Music Underground” Summer Series

3 weeks ago | icareifyoulisten.com | Amanda Cook

For the second consecutive summer, Living Music Underground returns to Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City programming. Experimental and post-genre music has always thrived in New York – but recently has made its way out of the margins and into some of the city’s largest institutions.
5 Questions to Theresa May (trumpeter, composer, educator)

3 weeks ago | icareifyoulisten.com | Amanda Cook

Theresa May’s multifaceted work as an artist, performer, educator, and advocate illustrates the abundant possibility of a career centered on fully embracing your interests. A classically-trained trumpeter, May maintains a robust teaching schedule at Cuyahoga Community College where she serves as a professor of applied trumpet and world music. Outside of the classroom, however, May transforms into a conduit for the fullness of Black art and advocacy.
In "She Who Dared," Jasmine Barnes and Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton Center the Overlooked Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

1 month ago | icareifyoulisten.com | Amanda Cook

The story of Rosa Parks – tired after a long day at work, refusing to move to the back of the bus to make room for a white passenger – is a foundational act of defiance in the history of the Civil Right Movement. But it was also part of a carefully crafted plan to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama that was carried to fruition by a group of women whose names have not been spoken nearly enough.
The Myth of Making It

1 month ago | icareifyoulisten.com | Amanda Cook

Money Matters is a NewMusicBox x I CARE IF YOU LISTEN collaboration, supported by New Music USA. By 2012, Eighth Blackbird had been together for 16 years. We had two Grammys, ongoing residencies at the University of Richmond and University of Chicago, and were about to start a three-year residency at Curtis. We were touring the world, playing big houses like Sydney Opera House and Carnegie Hall. We had commissioned Steve Reich a few years back, and he won a Pulitzer for the piece.
ListN Up Playlist: Sharon Udoh (May 22, 2025)

1 month ago | icareifyoulisten.com | Amanda Cook

Sharon Udoh is a Nigerian-American pianist, composer, arranger, curator, and vocalist based in Chicago. Her collaborators have included clipping., Tune-Yards, Los Angeles Gay Men’s Chorus, Mabel Kwan, Ben LaMar Gay, Angel Bat Dawid, and Allen Moore; her performances have been described as a warm bowl of soup, a tornado, a jalapeño pepper, a Jackson Pollock painting, a bulldozer, magnetic, dangerous, and kind.