John Cage

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company: Story/Time

Out There 2012 at the Walker

Stage artists converge for experimental theater festival

Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Farewell Tour

Stage artists converge for experimental theater festival

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company: Story/Time

Stage artists converge for experimental theater festival

Northern Sparks Festival: Nuit Blanche

Stage artists converge for experimental theater festival

Marijuana Deathsquads perform for City of Music

​We've got a real treat for you this week -- as part of our ongoing City of Music series, we're stoked to debut one of the more experimental and artistic music videos we've seen from the MPLS.TV camp. For this week's video, producer Dan Huiting rounded up a whopping 15 cameras to film the seven co ... More >>

Tacita Dean Film Installation

​We've got a real treat for you this week -- as part of our ongoing City of Music series, we're stoked to debut one of the more experimental and artistic music videos we've seen from the MPLS.TV camp. For this week's video, producer Dan Huiting rounded up a whopping 15 cameras to film the seven co ... More >>

5ingles

​We've got a real treat for you this week -- as part of our ongoing City of Music series, we're stoked to debut one of the more experimental and artistic music videos we've seen from the MPLS.TV camp. For this week's video, producer Dan Huiting rounded up a whopping 15 cameras to film the seven co ... More >>

The xx, the King Khan & BBQ Show, and more

​We've got a real treat for you this week -- as part of our ongoing City of Music series, we're stoked to debut one of the more experimental and artistic music videos we've seen from the MPLS.TV camp. For this week's video, producer Dan Huiting rounded up a whopping 15 cameras to film the seven co ... More >>

Eye of the Great Protector

​We've got a real treat for you this week -- as part of our ongoing City of Music series, we're stoked to debut one of the more experimental and artistic music videos we've seen from the MPLS.TV camp. For this week's video, producer Dan Huiting rounded up a whopping 15 cameras to film the seven co ... More >>

Point of Departure: Experimenting with music

Artists like John Cage and Alvin Lucier can actively change the way you listen to music.

iPod Hijack! Big Trouble's Top 10 Most Played

Big Trouble's favorites could teach all of us a few things about behaving musically.

Skoal Kodiak, Squid Fist top list of local bands bringing the noise

Living loud: A local history of experimental music

Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether or Not I Have Stopped Dancing

Living loud: A local history of experimental music

Trisha Brown Dance Company

Living loud: A local history of experimental music

Concert Highlights for the Week of May 16 - May 22

Living loud: A local history of experimental music

Casting Off Shadows

Josh Davis goes outside, and disappears in the light

Chihei Hatakeyama: Minima Moralia, Boris: Sound Track from Film "Mabuta No Ura"

Josh Davis goes outside, and disappears in the light

Our Dinner About Huang Yong Ping

Walker show inspires chat about scary bugs and nature of reality

The Gambler

How Merce Cunningham changed modern dance--and my life

The Mad Genius Next Door

Composer, poet, novelist, and all-around oddball Franz Kamin has hobnobbed with John Cage, Thurston Moore, and lots of other left-of-center heroes--now he just wants to finish what he started.

Milo Fine/Davu Seru/Elliot Fine: Percussion Music; Improvised

Composer, poet, novelist, and all-around oddball Franz Kamin has hobnobbed with John Cage, Thurston Moore, and lots of other left-of-center heroes--now he just wants to finish what he started.

Matmos: The Civil War

Composer, poet, novelist, and all-around oddball Franz Kamin has hobnobbed with John Cage, Thurston Moore, and lots of other left-of-center heroes--now he just wants to finish what he started.

Too Much Information

Wading through 3 days, 21 hours, 38 minutes, and 3 seconds of live recordings with Farmers Manual

The Man With The X-Ray Eyes

'By Brakhage' reveals a filmmaker who saw into our souls

Flipping the Bird

With sparrows squawking in the distance, Fog subverts new-age music for the old-soul set

Jason Moran: Modernistic

With sparrows squawking in the distance, Fog subverts new-age music for the old-soul set

You Don't Have The Right To Remain Silent

Making a lot of noise over a few quiet moments

Come On, Feel the Noise

The music of Lightning Bolt and Erase Errata speaks volumes

Musical Chairs

The ICP Orchestra Shuffle Musical Genres and Play Their Seats

Quiet Riot

The ICP Orchestra Shuffle Musical Genres and Play Their Seats

Song Of Songs

Barbara Sibley's all-encompassing love of music has inspired her to sacrifice her time, her blood, and a whole lot of shelf space. A look at record collecting as a metaphor for life--and life as a metaphor for record collecting.

The Unessential Hits

Barbara Sibley's all-encompassing love of music has inspired her to sacrifice her time, her blood, and a whole lot of shelf space. A look at record collecting as a metaphor for life--and life as a metaphor for record collecting.

Belligerent Dance Music

With their boundlessly experimental album Confield, Autechre turn flights of fancy into a power trip

Controlled Chaos

Davu Seru and Gus Lucky's Unum series liberate jazz from the burden of expectations

The Trickle-Up Theory

Long after the advent of the personal Web page, local zines and journals keep striving to change the world of writing with print runs of 200 copies

Talk Dirty to Me in Esperanto

Sonic Youth and Stereolab redefine the intimate grammar of rock, again

SY2K

Sonic Youth's Goodbye 20th Century remembers the auld lang syne of the avant-garde

Fast Trax

Sonic Youth's Goodbye 20th Century remembers the auld lang syne of the avant-garde

various artists: Orbitones, Spoon Harps & Bellowphones: Experimental Musical Instruments

Sonic Youth's Goodbye 20th Century remembers the auld lang syne of the avant-garde

The Music of Sound

Click, shriek, boom! Sonic collage artist Escape Mechanism cuts and pastes while aural trickster Lost in Translation slashes and burns

Bring in the Noise

From Wrong's free-improv chaos to Savage Aural Hotbed's circle-saw precision, a disparate local noise scene maps the sound of modern anxiety

Simply Stated

From Wrong's free-improv chaos to Savage Aural Hotbed's circle-saw precision, a disparate local noise scene maps the sound of modern anxiety

Back to the Future

From Wrong's free-improv chaos to Savage Aural Hotbed's circle-saw precision, a disparate local noise scene maps the sound of modern anxiety

Bang a Gong!

The Roof Is On Fire: The Bang on a Can All-Stars take new music out of the rarefied realm of half-empty concert halls.

Spring Heel Jack: Busy Curious Thirsty

The Roof Is On Fire: The Bang on a Can All-Stars take new music out of the rarefied realm of half-empty concert halls.

Star Child

The Roof Is On Fire: The Bang on a Can All-Stars take new music out of the rarefied realm of half-empty concert halls.

Headz 2a by various artists

The Roof Is On Fire: The Bang on a Can All-Stars take new music out of the rarefied realm of half-empty concert halls.

Hearing & Believing

The Roof Is On Fire: The Bang on a Can All-Stars take new music out of the rarefied realm of half-empty concert halls.

Can Do

The Roof Is On Fire: The Bang on a Can All-Stars take new music out of the rarefied realm of half-empty concert halls.