- Arts Organizations
- Artist Residencies
- Blogs
- Composers, Musicians and Artists
- Computer Music
- Educational Institutions
- Ensembles and Groups
- Funding Sources
- Magazines and Journals
- Music Festivals
- Music Publishers
- New Music Calendars
- Performance Spaces and Concert Series
- Radio and Interesting Websounds
- Resources for Artists
- Record Labels
- Web-Based Art
Arts Organizations
- American Composers Forum
- American Music Center
- American Symphony Orchestra League
- Art of The States
- Artpool - a non profit alternative art institution in Hungary
- ArtsWire - online communication for the arts
- ASCAP - American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers
- Bang on a Can
- Barlow Endowment for Music Composition
- BMI
- Boston New Music Initiative
- Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers (CPCC)
- Chamber Music America
- CIRM, Centre National de Creation Musicale - Nice, France
- College Music Society
- Composers Collaborative Inc. - promoting new music as an integral part of life and culture
- Deep Listening Institute - organization founded by Pauline Oliveros, based upon her philosophy and practice of Deep Listening
- Electronic Arts Intermix
- Fractured Atlas
- Fromm Music Foundation
- Gaudeamus - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Harvestworks
- iDIDJ Australia - The Australian Didgeridoo Cultural Hub
- International Computer Music Association
- International Urban Film and Music Society, Inc.
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- Just Intonation Network
- Koussevitzky Music Foundation
- Logos Foundation - a Ghent, Belgium-based non-profit organization promoting new music and arts by means of new music production, concerts, performances, compositional and technological research projects and other contemporary music related activities
- London Musicians Collective - a charity and membership organization devoted to contemporary music
- lovebytes.org - exploring the cultural potential of new technology
- Meet the Composer
- Music Information Centre Norway
- Music unbound - redefining conceptions of music
- National Endowment for the Arts
- NewTown - CA
- Opera America
- Other Minds
- Performing Arts Alliance
- Phonos Foundation - Barcelona, Spain
- ReSoundings
- San Diego New Music
- SEAMUS - Society for Electro-Acoustic Music
- Société de musique contemporaine du Québec
- Society of Composers, Inc.
- The Audio Foundation - experimental audio culture in New Zealand
- The Electronic Music Foundation
- The Electronic Poetry Center
- The International Alliance for Women in Music
- The Thing
- V2
- WOOLOO.org
- World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
Artist Residencies
Blogs
- Avant Music News
- Classical Beat - Washington Post classical music critic Anne Midgette
- Clef Notes - Baltimore Sun classical music critic Tim Smith
- Creatquity - composer and new music advocate Ian David Moss
- Deceptive Cadence - NPR Classical Music Blog
- Hurd Audio - composer and audio professional Devin Hurd
- Ionarts - something other than politics in Washington, DC
- Mind The Gap - music journalist Molly Sheridan
- Mixed Meters - David Ocker
- Monotonous Forest - music/arts journalist Bruce Hodges
- My Big Gay Ears - music journalist Joseph Dalton
- Night After Night - New York Times music critic Steve Smith
- Notes from The Kelp - composer Alex Shapiro
- PostClassic - composer and music critic Kyle Gann
- Proper Dischord
- Radio Wonderland - composer/performer Joshua Fried’s blog
- Sequenza 21
- Sound Directions - concert saxophonist Brian Sacawa
- Sounds and Fury - thoughtful mutterings and rabid rants
- The Concert - Soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird
- Think Denk - Jeremy Denk, pianist
- Unquiet Thoughts - New Yorker music critic Alex Ross
- Urban Modes - Cornelius Dufallo, violinist and composer
- What’s my name? - Jonathan Morris, composer and guitarist
Composers, Musicians and Artists
- Allen, Susan - harpist extraordinaire
- Andres, Timothy - composer, pianist
- Bastien, Pierre - french composer and multi-instrumentalist
- Bates, Mason - composer
- Beglarian, Eve - composer
- Berndt, John - composer, improvisor
- Bielawa, Lisa - composer
- Bowman, Paul - classical guitarist
- Brittelle, William - composer
- Buckner, Thomas - baritone
- Burhans, Caleb - composer, countertenor, multi-instrumentalist
- Burtner, Matthew - composer and sound artist
- Cage, John - at New Albion Records
- Castillo, Patrick - composer
- Cervetti, Sergio - composer
- Chartier, Richard - sound artist
- Choi, Jennifer - violinist
- Cluett, Seth - sound artist
- Clyne, Anna - composer
- Collier, Robert P. - Thumb Piano Project
- Cuomo, Douglas - composer
- Dargel, Corey - composer, performer, writer
- Dekyndt, Edith - artist
- Dresser, Mark - contrabassist and composer
- Dufallo, Neil - violinist, composer
- Dunn, Dorsey - sound artist
- Duykers, Max Giteck - composer
- Edgar, Robert - composer & performer
- Elal, Yotam - multimedia artist
- Emre, MK - electronic music composer
- Ergun, Cenk - composer
- Fox, Jim - composer
- Francesconi, Ryan - multi-instrumentalist, balkan music performer, media artist, and programmer
- Fried, Joshua - composer
- Fulton, Ruby - composer
- Galindo, Gilbert - composer
- Gann, Kyle - composer, educator and music critic
- Gardner, Alexandra - composer
- Gatonska, Michael - composer
- Gelb, Philip - shakuhachi player/teacher
- Glass, Phillip - composer
- Goldstein, Malcolm - composer, violinist, improvisor
- Gorbos, Stephen - composer
- Gosfield, Annie - composer
- Greenstein, Judd - composer
- Griffin, Sean - composer
- Horick, Sarah - composer
- Horowitz, Steve
- Hostetler, Randy - composer, performer, the inspiration for this website
- Johnson, Allison - composer
- Johnson, Jenny Olivia - composer
- Joseph, Dan - composer
- Kasprzyk, C. R. - composer & saxophonist
- Kermani, Elise - sound artist
- King, John - composer & guitarist
- Klucevsek, Guy - accordionist
- La Rose, Andrea - composer & flutist
- Lewin-Richter, Andres - composer
- Lewis, Steve - musician, therapist, writer
- Ligeti, Lukas - composter & percussionist
- Lin, Jenny - pianist
- Lockwood, Annea - composer/sound artist
- Lopez, Francisco - sound artist
- Marcus, Bunita - composer
- Mazzoli, Missy - composer
- McMackon, Jennifer
- Monahan, Gordon - sound artist
- Mooke, Martha - electric violinist
- Muhly, Nico - composer
- Nordschow, Randy - composer and sound artist
- Oberthaler, Eric - musician
- Perich, Tristan - artist and composer
- Peters, Steve - sound artist and composer
- Polansky, Larry - composer, music software developer
- Powell, William E. - clarinestist
- Reginato, Peter - artist
- Repetto, Douglas - artist and teacher
- Rigler, Jane - flutist, composer
- Rodrigues, Ernesto - violinist
- Russell, Jonathan - composer, clarinestist, saxophonist
- Sacawa, Brian - concert saxophonist
- Sandow, Greg - composer and music critic
- Satie, Erik - the official homepage
- Schrader, Barry - composer
- Schrock, Roddy - digital composer
- Senn, Dan - sound artist
- Simpson, Andrew Earle - composer and pianist
- Smallwood, Scott - composer
- Smith, Ishmael Wadada Leo - composer, trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist
- Snider, Sarah Kirkland - composer
- Spaneas, Demetrius - saxophonist and composer
- Spangler, Erik - composer & DJ
- SPART - Northern Irish artist Justin McKeown
- Straus, Michael - saxophonist and improvisor
- Supove, Kathleen - pianist
- Tamburo, Mike - guitarist
- Tedeschi, John - performer
- The David Tudor Pages - retrospective of the music and philosophy of the noted twentieth century composer
- Thompson, Douglas - the art snob
- Ueno, Ken - composer
- Visconti, Dan - composer
- Weaver, Sarah - composer and conductor
- Weber, Elana - clarinetist
- Wharf, Red - music and multimedia works by Graham Bowers
- Yoon, Bora - composer, experimental multi-instrumentalist
- Z, Pamela - vocalist, composer, performance artist
- Zarou, Richard - composer
Computer Music
- CEAIT - Center for Experiments in Art, Information & Technology at CalArts in Valencia, CA
- CIRMMT - Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (Montreal, Quebec)
- CNMAT - Center for New Music and Audio Technology (Berkeley, CA)
- Computer Music Journal
- CRCA - Center for Research and Computing in the Arts (San Diego, CA)
- Cycling 74 - music software & tools for new media
- EarLevel Engineering - strategies for audio and MIDI freedom
- IRCAM
- reactable - a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface
Educational Institutions
- CalArts School of Music
- CEAIT - Center for Experiments in Art, Information & Technology at CalArts in Valencia, CA
- CNMAT - Center for New Music and Audio Technology (Berkeley, CA)
- Cornish College of the Arts
- CRCA - Center for Research and Computing in the Arts (San Diego, CA)
- Curtis Institute of Music
- McGill University Schulich School of Music
- Mills College
- MIT Media Lab
- New England Conservatory
- Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
- The Julliard School
- The Mannes School for Music
Ensembles and Groups
- ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble) - NYC new music ensemble
- Alarm Will Sound - a 20-member band committed to innovative performances and recordings of today’s music
- American Modern Ensemble
- ART+COM - an interdisciplinary media and design group
- Asko Ensemble
- Boston Modern Orchestra Project
- Boston Musica Viva
- Brooklyn Rider - NYC-based string quartet
- California EAR Unit - new music ensemble
- Cambridge Symphony - Boston, MA
- Common Sense Composers Collective
- Corigliano Quartet
- CUBE - Chicago new music ensemble
- Da Capo Chamber Players
- Detritus - dedicated to recycled culture
- Dither Quartet - NY-based electric guitar quartet
- Duo46 - violin & guitar duo Ilana Schneider and Matt Gould
- Earthboys - spontaneous improvisations
- Eighth Blackbird - new music ensemble
- Either/Or - NYC new music ensemble
- Electric Kompany - contemporary music rock quarter
- Embassy of Anaphoria Island - microtunal tunings and experimental shadow plays
- Ensemble 21 Artists - composer Jason Eckardt and pianist Marilyn Nonken
- Ensemble Intercontemporaine
- Ensemble Klang
- Ensemble Modern
- Ensemble Pi - NYC new music ensemble
- Ensemble Sospeso
- Ensemble, Adorno - San Francisco new music ensemble
- Essential Music - fearless and intrepid NYC new music ensemble
- Ethel - contemporary string quartet
- Flexible Music - NYC new music ensemble
- Forecast Music - NYC new music ensemble
- Great Noise Ensemble - Washington, DC-based new music ensemble
- hago - the Hampshire guitar orchestra
- Hybrid Groove Project - saxophonist Brian Sacawa and DJ/Composer Erik Spangler
- ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) - new music ensemble
- JACK Quartet
- Merce Cunningham Dance Company
- Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co.
- New York Art Ensemble - NYC new music ensemble
- Newspeak - NYC new music ensemble
- NOW Ensemble - NYC new music ensemble
- one people voice - contemporary artist collective
- Peace by Piece - funk-based Brooklyn, NY band
- PRISM Quartet - NYC-based saxophone quartet
- Rachel Rosenthal Company - interdisciplinary performance
- rare degree - saxophone and bassoon duo
- Relache - new music ensemble
- Roomful of Teeth - NYC new music vocal ensemble
- Seattle Chamber Players - new music ensemble
- Snark Ensemble - DC-based new music ensemble performing new scores for silent film
- SOLI Chamber Ensemble - San Antonio, Texas new music ensemble
- Sqwonk - bass clarinet duo
- The FutureFarmers - poppin’ fresh
- The Palm Wine Boys
- The Robin Cox Ensemble - avant-garde, jazz, and classical influenced chamber music
- the toids - Balkan new music ensemble
- ThingNY - NYC experimental new music collective
- Third Millenium Ensemble - Washington, DC new music ensemble
- Velodrome - a new generation of Parisian artists
- Walter Thompson Orchestra - interdisciplinary improvisational ensemble based in NYC
- Xdrop - dance/performance organization
Funding Sources
Magazines and Journals
- Art Commotion - The Los Angeles Contemporary Art Magazine
- BOMB Magazine - a quarterly arts and culture magazine since 1981
- Book Works - a commissioning organization for artist publications
- Computer Music Journal
- Fluxus Online
- hardpress.com - resources and information on publishing and book publishers
- Leonardo Music Journal
- Musicworks - everything to do with sound and its organization in Canada, based in Toronto
- n.paradoxa - international feminist art journal
- NewMusicBox - web magazine of The American Music Center
- Open Space Magazine - an experimental arts publication
- Otherzine
- Playback - ASCAP Playback Magazine Archive
- Project Gutenberg - the oldest producer of free electronic books
- The Electronic Poetry Center
- The Internet Archive - a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form
- The Julliard Journal
Music Festivals
- Aspen Music Festival
- Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival (BEAF) - Bellingham, WA
- Berliner Festpiele - Berlin, Germany
- Big Ears Festival - Knoxville, TN
- Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music - Santa Cruz, CA
- CrossSound International Contemporary Music Festival - Alaska
- Festival international Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques - Montreal’s biennial international new music festival
- Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - UK
- International Gaudeamus Music Week - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Lucerne Festival
- MATA FESTIVAL - New York, NY
- Mixology Festival - NYC
- Other Minds Festival
- Rien à voir - electroacoustic music festival in Montreal
- Salzburger Festpiele - Salzburg, Austria
- Seattle Improvised Music - Seattle, WA
- Sonic Circuits - Washington, DC
- Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts - Minneapolis, MN
- Subtropics - experimental music & sound art festival in Miami, FL
- Switchboard Music Festival - Washington, DC
- The Bang on a Can Marathon - annual event produced by BOAC in NYC
- The Six Exquisites International Sound Art Festival III - Tacoma, WA
- Tribeca New Music Festival - NYC new music ensemble
- Ultima Festival - Oslo, Norway
- Verbier Festival - Vevey Switzerland
- Vision Festival - cutting edge music, dance, poetry, and visual art in NYC
Music Publishers
- Arsis Press - concert music by women composers
- Boosey & Hawkes
- Carl Fischer
- Dorn
- Edition Peters
- Faber
- Frog Peak Music
- G. Schirmer
- Periferia
- Presser
- Schott
- Smith Publications
- Subito
- Universal Edition
- Vivace Press
New Music Calendars
East Coast
- Arts Electric - worldwide calendar of new music and media art
- Boston Improv Calendar
- Nonsensenyc.com
- On Stage in NC - performing arts events throughout North Carolina
- SoundArt Inc. - contemporary music concerts in and around NYC
- UMBC Arts and Culture Calendar - University of Maryland at Baltimore County
Central US
- Cleveland Composers Guild Concerts
- New Sounds OUT POST - events in Northeast Ohio, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh
West Coast
- Lira Productions - Los Angeles concert calendar
- Los Angeles Sound Calendar
- roccoinla - concerts in a variety of Los Angeles settings
- Tentacle.org - NewMusic/AvantJazz guide to the Pacific Northwest
- Urban Honking Super Cal - Portland, OR experimental arts and music calendar
Canada
- EarSay - contemporary music calendar from Vancouver to Seattle
- Open Space - events in Victoria, BC
- Vancouver New Music
Europe
Performance Spaces and Concert Series
- Bargemusic - NYC’s floating concert hall
- Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
- Bimhuis - The Netherlands
- Brooklyn Academy of Music
- Caramoor Center for Music and Arts
- Cornelia Street Cafe - NYC
- Dangerous Curve - Call for Performance Artists & Experimental Musicians
- Diapason Gallery - a unique space for sound and intermedia installations founded by Michael J. Schumacher and Ursula Scherrer in Lower Manhattan
- Evolution Contemporary Music Series - Baltimore, MD
- Freight and Salvage Coffee House - Berkeley, CA
- Galapagos Art Space - Brooklyn performance space
- Gallery 1412 - musical arts venue in Seattle
- Greenwich House Arts - NYC
- Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center - Buffalo, NY
- IBeam - Brooklyn, NY performance space
- In Frequency - LA concert series
- Interpretations - New York’s home for the musical avant-garde, produced by Thomas Buckner
- Invisible Dog Art Center - Brooklyn, NY performance space
- Issue Project Room - Brooklyn, NY performance space
- Karnatic Lab - Amsterdam concert series
- Lampo Performance Series - Chicago
- Le Poisson Rouge - NYC
- Left Bank Concert Society - Washington, DC
- Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey - Los Angeles, CA
- Meridian Gallery - Propose a Concert!
- MidAmerica Productions - Carnegie Hall concert series
- Miller Theatre - Columbia University
- Mobtown Modern - Baltimore new music series
- Monday Evening Concerts - Los Angeles concert series
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Music With A View - Kathleen Supove’s NYC concert series
- Muziekcentrum De IJsbreker - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- On The Boards - Seattle
- Performance Space 122 - NYC
- pfMENTUM - Ventura, CA new music concert series
- ps742.org
- Red Light New Music - NYC performance series
- REDCAT - Performances at CalArts Disney Hall, LA
- Roulette - NYC
- sfSoundSeries - contemporary music series in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Share.LA - free audio/video jam night!
- Symphony Space - NYC
- The Dia Center for the Arts
- The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series - NYC
- The Kitchen - NYC center for video, music, dance, performance, film and literature
- The Knitting Factory - NYC performance space
- The Red Room - Baltimore, MD experimental music venue
- The Stone - NYC East Village Performance Space. Has a nice piano!
- Tonic - NYC. Although this performance space has closed, they curate concerts at the Abrons Arts Center
- Washington Musica Viva - Concerts in and around Washington, DC
- Wordless Music - NYC music series
Radio and Interesting Websounds
- acoustic musicians and poets sound archive
- Art On Air
- Arts of The States
- Bentstrings Radio - curated by Martin Herman
- Beta Lounge - live Sunday afternoon party for experimental musicians and DJs
- Borderline – Musik for Grenzganger - a program of Freie Radio Kassel
- DFM RTV INT - free interactive radio/chat/multi-media community
- Dub beautiful collective radio
- Fritz - German radio
- gogaga - freeform eclectic
- Greek radio station links
- Kalvos and Damian’s New Music Bazaar - archives from 1995-2005
- Music for Internets - WRIU 90.3 FM
- Music Next Millenium
- musicNerve.com - strange music for strange people
- NetNewMusic - a listing of contemporary music pages with midi and/or digital audio files
- New American Radio - 115 full-length New American Radio works
- On Sunday Mornings - bringing you digital works, sounds, movies, graphics and fashionable time travel, so you can look good anytime
- Pacifica Radio
- Princeton Sound Kitchen Radio Show - archives
- Radio Bremen - Mehr Inhalt fÄrs Netz, mehr Netz fÄr Bremen
- Radio Lada - Italian art radio
- Radio OZOne
- Radio Roulette - NYC experimental music
- Radio Wonderland - composer/performer Joshua Fried’s blog
- radio-locator - find a radio station anywhere!
- radioqualia
- UbuWeb - a fantastic resource for all things avant-garde
- Underground Radio 3WK - alternative radio
- WFMU 91.1 (or 90.1) - Jersey City, NJ
Resources for Artists
- European Free Improvisation Pages
- EXIT – Experimental International Transit - a trading place for music, performance, dance, photo and visuals based on improvisation and experiment
- Gallery 41 - resource for jazz music and information
- Improvisation Database - designed to help free improvisers find performances venues
- NewMusNet - a place within ArtsWire to access information about new music and discuss issues concerning composers, performers and presenters of experimental music
- NewNetMusic - an online new music community
- UbuWeb - a fantastic resource for all things avant-garde
Record Labels
- Artifact Recordings - San Francisco Bay Area experimental electronic music
- Bivouac - avant garde experimental music and arts label based in New York City
- Bridge Records
- Charnel Music - ranging from sheer noise assault to rhythmic and psychedelic music
- Cold Blue Music - innovative Los Angeles-based record label
- Cryptogramophone - creative jazz
- ECM Records
- Frog Peak Music
- Innova Recordings - label of the American Composers Forum
- JungleJar - independent electronic music (electronica)
- Lovely Music
- Mode Records
- Mutable Music - the label of new music baritone Thomas Buckner
- New Albion Records
- New Amsterdam Records
- New World Records
- Nonesuch
- O.O. Discs
- Optic Echo Records - electronic music
- simballrec - experimental electronica
- Songlines Recordings - jazz and world music
- Starkland - new experimental music on CD and surround sound DVD
- Talking Drum Records - a world of rhythm
- Tzadik - John Zorn’s label of experimental and avant-garde music
Web-Based Art
- Atlas Magazine : Cyberbilly
- Binarykatwalk - online new media exhibition focusing on experimental work
- ChickenFish
- Chronique Sonore: Sound Chronicles - a continuing series of audio montages created from snap shots of lo-fi field recordings from the mid-1970s to the present
- Communimage - an enormous virtual mural…stunning!
- ctheory multimedia
- day-dream - relax into anxiety…still the most rad…this is not photography
- Discord Aggregate - nice noisy stuff – take a listen
- Douglas Repetto - artist and teacher
- Douglas Thompson - the art snob
- Elektronengehirn - constant changing cSounding database-driven computer art
- etugueScore - a Java application which generates a graphic score based on any given image. Musicians are most welcome to use it and test it for instrumental or voice performance
- FutureFarmers - poppin’ fresh
- Giles Denmark - performance art
- incorect - have a look!
- Jodi - the poster children of web art
- magicrobot - a definite must!
- Multi-Cultural Recycler - a fantabulous project by Amy Alexander
- Muse-O-Matic - you provide a word, and algorithmic music is generated
- Nervous Objects - collective of artists from six Australian states concerned with a range of approaches to the digital realm or-bits.com – online platfom for displaying contemporary artists, producing new works and promoting practices across disciplines and media
- or-bits.com - online platfom for displaying contemporary artists, producing new works and promoting practices across disciplines and media
- pianographique - wacky musical fun
- Pictor Project - an online introduction to contemporary art
- plainegg - wildly creative online art by andrea wilkinson
- Pulse.Time - an experimental musical and cinematic suite of poems by Neil Zusman
- Radioactive Future - underground art gallery
- Spongefork - creative software development for the manipulation of music and media
- The 12hr ISBN JPEG Project - since 1994, a round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery by Brad Brace
- The Invisible Guy - a real soundtrack for an imaginary spy film by Arthur Jarvinen
- unreal-estates - the work of Drew Browning and Annette Barbier
- Walker Art Center
- Web Tones - algorithmic music from URLs!
- Zu Casa - an online laboratory for the promotion of experimental and contemporary music
