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That’s how I connect to my art: it’s like seeing/feeling when you hear the music. You experience an emotion, a feeling, with all of your senses.

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‘We Must Use Everything We See And Hear’ Dutch composer-filmmaker Michel van der Aa’s The Book of Sand is a digital, interactive song cycle created to live online.

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‘You Can Get All Balled Up’ Scott Wheeler’s music captures the American contemporary classical idiom with commanding grace.

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‘A Higher Plane’ Randy Gibson is a sound-world architect. He’s best known in connection with the Avant Music Festival each year in New York.

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Dan Trueman is a composer, a violinist, and an electronic musician whose latest recording, Nostalgic Synchronic from New Amsterdam Records, is a mind-teasing eight etudes for “bitKlavier”—a “prepared” digital piano.

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On Traveling Musicans And Deep Woods Off In this chance to talk to globe-trotting violist Nadia Sirota for #MusicForWriters, we found her going beyond her usual stage performances; beyond her recordings (First Things First and Baroque); and even beyond her Meet the Composer series on New…

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In perhaps the most singularly powerful collaborative work of contemporary classical music so far this year, the 23-year-old Jodie Landau sings to “You Of All Things” with the benefit of wild Up, Graduale Nobili, and Bedroom Community’s best. A remarkable entry in #MusicForWriters.

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In one of the most significant and harrowing releases of the year, eerie, folksy, fearful, composer Sarah Kirkland Snider and writer Nathaniel Bellows make “Unremembered” unforgettable. Our Music for Writers interview is with Snider on being “creeped out by the music” and more.

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A master of tension in music, Iceland’s Anna Thorvaldsdottir talks about a “sound world” influenced by her Icelandic heritage. You’ll hear it in Music For Writers.

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In a four-hour, three-disc release, cellist Matt Haimovitz surveys composition from the 20th century’s “Tower of Babel” and keeps his own artistic voice above the fray, in Music For Writers.