The Resource Room

Arts Organizations

American Composers Forum
American Music Center
American Symphony Orchestra League
Artpool - a non profit alternative art institution in Hungary
Art of The States
ArtsWire - online communication for the arts
ASCAP - American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers
The Audio Foundation - experimental audio culture in New Zealand
Bang on a Can
Barlow Endowment for Music Composition
BMI
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
The Electronic Music Foundation
The Electronic Poetry Center
Fromm Music Foundation
Gaudeamus
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Harvestworks
iDIDJ Australia - The Australian Didgeridoo Cultural Hub
The International Alliance for Women in Music
International Computer Music Association
International Urban Film and Music Society, Inc.
Just Intonation Network
Koussevitzky Music Foundation
Logos Foundation - a Ghent, Belgium-based non-profit organisation 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 organisation 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 - a global new music community
Performing Arts Alliance
Phonos Foundation - Barcelona, Spain
ReSoundings
San Diego New Music
Société de musique contemporaine du Québec
SEAMUS - Society for Electro-Acoustic Music
Society of Composers, Inc.
The Thing
V2 - interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
WOOLOO.org - online art community
World Forum for Acoustic Ecology

Artist Residencies

Blogs

Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise - New Yorker music critic Alex Ross
Classical Pontifications with Professor Heebie McJeebie
Hurd Audio - composer and audio professional Devin Hurd
Ionarts - something other than politics in Washington, DC
Mind The Gap - music journalist Molly Sheridan
Night After Night - New York Times music critic Steve Smith
Notes from The Kelp - composer Alex Shapiro
PostClassic - composer and music critic Kyle Gann
Radio Wonderland - composer/performer Joshua Fried's blog
Sequenza 21
Sounds and Fury - thoughtful mutterings and rabid rants
Sounds Like Now - concert saxophonist Brian Sacawa
The Concert - Soprano Anne-Carolyn Bird
Think Denk - Jeremy Denk, pianist
Urban Modes - Cornelius Dufallo, violinist and composer
What's my name? - Jonathan Morris, composer and guitarist

Composers, Musicians and Artists

Susan Allen - harpist extraordinaire
Timothy Andres - composer, pianist
Pierre Bastien - french composer and multi-instrumentalist
Mason Bates - composer
Eve Beglarian - composer
John Berndt - composer, improvisor
Lisa Bielawa - composer
Paul Bowman - classical guitarist
William Brittelle - composer
Thomas Buckner - baritone
Matthew Burtner - composer and sound artist
John Cage - at New Albion Records
Patrick Castillo - composer
Richard Chartier - sound artist
Jennifer Choi - violinist
Seth Cluett - sound artist
Anna Clyne - composer
Robert P. Collier Thumb Piano Project
Douglas Cuomo - composer
Corey Dargel - composer, performer, writer
Edith Dekyndt - artist
Mark Dresser - contrabassist and composer
Neil Dufallo - violinist, composer
Dorsey Dunn - sound artist
Max Giteck Duykers - composer
Robert Edgar - composer & performer
Yotam Elal - multimedia artist
MK Emre - electronic music composer
Cenk Ergun - composer
Jim Fox - composer
Ryan Francesconi - multi-instrumentalist, balkan music performer, media artist, and programmer
Joshua Fried - composer
Gilbert Galindo - composer
Kyle Gann - composer, educator and music critic
Alexandra Gardner - composer
Michael Gatonska - composer
Philip Gelb - shakuhachi player/teacher
Phillip Glass - composer
Malcolm Goldstein - composer, violinist, improvisor
Stephen Gorbos - composer
Judd Greenstein - composer
Sean Griffin - composer
Randy Hostetler - composer, performer, the inspiration for this website
Steve Horowitz
Allison Johnson - composer
Dan Joseph - composer
John King - composer & guitarist
Andrea La Rose - composer & flutist
Steve Lewis - musician, therapist, writer
Lukas Ligeti - composer & percussionist
Jenny Lin - pianist
Annea Lockwood - composer/sound artist
Francisco Lopez - sound artist
Missy Mazzoli - composer
Jennifer McMackon
Gordon Monahan - sound artist
Nico Muhly - composer
Martha Mooke - electric violist
Randy Nordschow - composer and sound artist
Eric Oberthaler - musician
Steve Peters - sound artist and composer
Larry Polansky - composer, music software developer
William E. Powell - clarinetist
Peter Reginato - artist
Douglas Repetto - artist and teacher
Andres Lewin-Richter - composer
Jane Rigler - flutist, composer
Ernesto Rodrigues - violinist
Jonathan Russell - composer, clarinetist, saxophonist
Brian Sacawa - concert saxophonist
Greg Sandow - composer and music critic
Erik Satie - the official homepage
Barry Schrader - composer
Roddy Schrock - digital composer
Dan Senn - sound artist
Sarah Kirkland Snider - composer
Erik Spangler - composer & DJ
SPART - Northern Irish artist Justin McKeown
Scott Smallwood - composer
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith - composer, trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist
Michael Straus - saxophonist and improvisor
Kathleen Supove - pianist
Mike Tamburo - guitarist
John Tedeschi - performer
Douglas Thompson - the art snob
The David Tudor Pages - retrospective of the music and philosophy of the noted twentieth century composer
Ken Ueno - composer
Dan Visconti - composer
Sarah Weaver - composer and conductor
Elana Weber - clarinetist
Red Wharf - music and multimedia works by Graham Bowers
Bora Yoon - composer, experimental multi-instrumentalist
Pamela Z - vocalist, composer, performance artist

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, Berkley, CA
Computer Music Journal
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, Berkley, CA
Cornish College of the Arts
McGill University Schulich School of Music
Mills College
MIT Media Lab
New England Conservatory
Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University

Ensembles & Groups

ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble) - NYC new music ensemble
Adorno Ensemble - San Francisco new music ensemble
Alarm Will Sound - a 20-member band committed to innovative performances and recordings of today's music
American Mmodern Ensemble
ART+COM - an interdisciplinary media and design group
Asko Ensemble
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Boston Musica Viva
California EAR Unit - new music ensemble
Common Sense Composers Collective
Corigliano Quartet
CUBE - Chicago new music ensemble
Da Capo Chamber Players
Detritus - dedicated to recycled culture
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 quartet
Embassy of Anaphoria Island - microtonal tunings and experimental shadow plays
Ensemble 21 Artists - composer Jason Eckardt and pianist Marilyn Nonken
Ensemble Intercontemporaine
Ensemble Modern
Ensemble Pi - NYC new music ensemble
Ensemble Sospeso
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
The FutureFarmers - art/design company in San Francisco, CA
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
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
The Palm Wine Boys
Peace by Piece - funk-based Brooklyn, NY band
PRISM Quartet - NYC-based saxophone quartet
rare degree - saxophone and bassoon duo
Relache - new music ensemble
The Robin Cox Ensemble - avant-garde, jazz, and classical influenced chamber music
Rachel Rosenthal Comapny - interdisciplinary performance
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
ThingNY - NYC experimental new music collective
Third Millennium Ensemble - Washington, DC new music ensemble
Walter Thompson Orchestra - interdisciplinary improvisational ensemble based in NYC
the toids - Balkan new music ensemble
Velodrome - a new generation of Parisian artists
Xdrop - dance/performance organization

Funding Sources

Magazines and Journals

Art Commotion - The Los Angeles Contemporary Art Magazine
Playback - ASCAP Playback Magazine Archive
BOMB Magazine - a quarterly arts and culture magazine since 1981
Book Works - a commissioning organization for artist publications
Computer Music Journal
The Electronic Poetry Center
Fluxus Online
hardpress.com - resources and information on publishing and book publishers
The Internet Archive - a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form
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
Project Gutenberg - the oldest producer of free electronic books

Music Festivals

Aspen Music Festival
The Bang on a Can Marathon - annual event produced by BOAC in NYC
Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival (BEAF) - Bellingham, WA
Berliner Festspiele - Berlin, Germany
Big Ears Festival - Knoxville, TN
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music - Santa Cruz, CA
CrossSound International Contemporary Music Festival - Alaska
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - UK
International Gaudeamus Music Week - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lucerne Festival
MATA FESTIVAL - New York, NY
Festival international Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques - Montreal's biennial international new music festival
Rien à voir - electroacoustic music festival in Montreal
Salzburger Festspiele - Salzburg, Austria
Seattle Improvised Music - Seattle, WA
The Six Exquisites International Sound Art Festival III - Tacoma, WA
Other Minds Festival
Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts
Subtropics - experimental music & sound art festival in Miami, FL
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
Presser
G. Schirmer
Schott
Smith Publications
Subito
Periferia
Universal Edition
Vivace Press

New Music Calendars

East Coast

Arts Electric - worldwide calendar of new music and media art
Boston Improv Calendar
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

Electroacoustic Concerts and Festivals in Denmark
IRCAM - events calendar, Paris

Performance Spaces and Concert Series

Bargemusic - NYC's floating concert hall
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Cornelia Street Cafe - NYC
Dangerous Curve - Exhibitions & Live Art, LA
The Dia Center for the Arts
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
The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series - NYC
IBeam - Brooklyn, NY performance space
Interpretations - New York's home for the musical avant-garde, produced by Thomas Buckner
Issue Project Room - Brooklyn, NY performance space
Karnatic Lab - Amsterdam concert series
The Kitchen - NYC center for video, music, dance, performance, film and literature
The Knitting Factory - NYC performance space
Lampo Performance Series - Chicago
Le Poisson Rouge - NYC
Left Bank Concert Society - Washington, DC
Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey - Los Angeles. CA
Meridian Gallery - Composers in Performance Series, San Francisco
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 Contempory Art, Los Angeles
Music With A View - Kathleen Supove's NYC concert series
Muziekcentrum De IJsbreker - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
On The Boards - Seattle
pfMENTUM - Ventura, CA new music concert series
Performance Space 122 - NYC
ps742.org
REDCAT - Performances at CalArts Disney Hall, LA
Red Light New Music - NYC performance series
The Red Room - Baltimore, MD experimental music venue
Roulette - NYC
sfSoundSeries - contemporary music series in the San Francisco Bay Area
Symphony Space - NYC
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
Share.LA - free audio/video jam night!

Radio and Assorted Interesting Websounds

acoustic musicians and poets sound archive
Art of The States
Art On Air
Bentstrings Radio - curated by Martin Herman
Beta Lounge - live Sunday afternoon party for experimental musicians and DJs
Borderline - Musik fur 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
musicNerve.com - strange music for strange people
Music Next Millenium
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
radioqualia
Radio Bremen - Mehr Inhalt fÄrs Netz, mehr Netz fÄr Bremen
Radio Lada - Italian art radio
radio-locator - find a radio station anywhere!
Radio OZOne
Radio Roulette - NYC experimental music
Radio Wonderland - live FM radio performance by Joshua Fried
Ubuweb - the largest internet archive of historical, contemporary, and found visual, concrete, and sound poetry
Underground Radio 3WK - alternative radio
WFMU 91.1 (or 90.1) - Jersey City, NJ

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 - a composer's collective
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
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

Resources and Information for Artists

European Free Improvisation Pages
Gallery 41 - resource for jazz music and information
EXIT - Experimental International Transit - a trading place for music, performance, dance, photo and visuals based on improvisation and experiment
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
NetNewMusic - an online new music community
UbuWeb - a fantastic resource for all things avant-garde

Web-Based Art

The 12hr ISBN JPEG Project - since 1994, a round-the-clock posting of sequenced hypermodern imagery by Brad Brace
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
Giles Denmark - performance art
Discord Aggregate - nice noisy stuff - take a listen
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
incorect - have a look!
The Invisible Guy - a real soundtrack for an imaginary spy film by Arthur Jarvinen
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
pianographique - wacky musical fun
plainegg - wildly creative online art by andrea wilkinson
Pictor Project - an online introduction to contemporary art
Pulse.Time - an experimental musical and cinematic suite of poems by Neil Zusman
Radioactive Future - underground art gallery
Douglas Repetto - artist and teacher
Spongefork - creative software development for the manipulation of music and media
Douglas Thompson - the art snob
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