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  • A.D. Amorosi on Blindspot’s avant-garde organ

    A.D. Amorosi wrote about Blindspot, the festival that teamed our experimental concerts with Anna Drozdowski’s Ladybird events at Christ Church. He noted how the pairing gave artists room to stretch even further.…

  • Blindspot in the Inquirer listings

    The Inquirer’s listings picked Blindspot, our festival with Ladybird around Christ Church’s pipe organ, with performers including Marshall Allen and Farid Barron, Tony Conrad and the Dufala Brothers, running through March 6.…

  • Blindspot, previewed by Molly Eichel

    Molly Eichel previewed Blindspot, our festival at Christ Church in Old City built around the church’s pipe organ. She described it as a new collaboration between Dustin Hurt of Bowerbird and Anna…

  • Graham Lambkin, Jason Lescalleet and Weyes Blood at the Rotunda

    The Inquirer’s weekly music picks included our free Rotunda concert with Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet, who build environmental sound collages from electronics and tape loops, with avant-folk singer Weyes Blood also…

  • Three duos at the Rotunda, in the Inquirer listings

    The Inquirer’s listings picked our night of three duos at the Rotunda: Architeuthis Walks On Land (viola and bassoon), turntablist Maria Chavez with audio engineer Daniel Neumann, and Jesse Kudler with Ian…

  • Sullender, Cater and Murayama at the Powel House

    The Inquirer’s listings picked our concert at the Powel House Museum with the banjo and harmonica duo of Woody Sullender and Seamus Cater, percussionist Seijiro Murayama, and trombonist Dan Blacksberg with guitarist…

  • Program notes: Éliane Radigue’s Naldjorlak, American premiere

    For the American premiere of Éliane Radigue’s Naldjorlak in Philadelphia on September 24, 2010, the program included an essay tracing Radigue’s path from musique concrète and feedback loops to her ARP 2500…

  • The JACK Quartet at the Kimmel Center, reviewed

    David Patrick Stearns reviewed the JACK Quartet in the Kimmel Center’s Fresh Ink series, a co-promotion with Bowerbird in the Innovation Studio, with music by Jeff Myers, Wolfgang Rihm and Matthias Pintscher.…

  • Our first Philadelphia Cultural Fund grant

    Stephan Salisbury reported on the Philadelphia Cultural Fund’s 2009 grants, naming Bowerbird among the 15 organizations receiving support from the fund for the first time. Read “Phila. arts groups win $3.7 million…

  • Philly’s experimental music circuit, in The Inquirer

    David R. Adler’s story on Philadelphia’s underground music presenters noted that Ars Nova Workshop and Bowerbird had nourished the city’s experimental music circuit for several years. The piece describes how the presenters…