July 29, 2022

2022 Mizzou International Composers Festival July 29th schedule features Laraaji in concert with Katina Bitsicas and the Onishi-Beis Duo

Tonight, the Mizzou Interational Composers Festival presents celestial-ambient music pioneer Laraaji headlining a 7:30 PM (CDT) concert at Studio 4 at McKee Gymnasium on the Mizzou campus. The July 29th concert is co-hosted by Dismal Niche Arts, and will also feature new media artist and Mizzou Assistant Professor Katina Bitsicas, and the Onishi-Beis Duo. The general admission concert is free to the public. Laraaji Laraaji, one of modern experimental music’s most distinctive, prolific and charismatic artists, has been creating radiant, luminous long-form compositions for electronically treated zither, kalimba, piano and more for over 40 years. He released…

June 22, 2022

Mizzou New Music Initiative collaboration with Dismal Niche Arts continues as part of 2022 MICF

From the time that Dismal Niche Arts, a non-profit organization in Columbia, Missouri, started the Columbia Experimental Music Festival in 2015, a partnership between them and the Mizzou New Music Initiative at the University of Missouri seemed inevitable. William Basinski Now that the 2022 MICF is returning to in-person concert performances, the relationship between MICF and Dismal Niche that began in 2019 is set to continue — and a co-production is once again part of the Festival. On Friday, July 29th, Dismal Niche will welcome William Basinski, experimental composer, sound sculptor, and video…