harmonic series is a digital magazine for adventurous music, especially at the interfaces of classical and jazz and noise. Each issue is intended to include:

  • a transcribed interview, guest essay, or other larger feature;

  • a smaller rotating feature like annotations, which samples non-standard notation in the spirit of John Cage & Alison Knowles’ Notations and Theresa Sauer’s Notations 21; and

  • reviews, unranked and unrated, with an emphasis on recently released recordings of music.

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After Silence | commentary- & mix-based podcast

Avant Music News | newsfeed

Bandcamp Daily Contemporary Classical & Experimental & Jazz | reviews

B-Journal | periodical for writing, sometimes scores

Boring Like A Drill | reviews

Catalytic Sound Quarterly | features, essays, etc.

Complete Communion | reviews

crow with no mouth | blog, reviews, interviews

Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice

Dusted | reviews

Ear | Wave | Event | periodical creative and critical

endaural | new releases

erstwords | blog

esoteros | reviews

The Experimental Music Yearbook | composition & performance approaches, notation

Fluxus Performance Workbook

Foxy Digitalis | reviews, interviews, mixes, more

The Free Jazz Collective | reviews, interviews, features

Graphème | print publication for alternative notation

Graphic Scores & Musical Post-Literacy

IM-OS | periodical for open scores

ISSUE Project Room archives | performances

Just Outside | reviews, blog

Lateral Addition | sound-based intermedia

The Light of Lost Words | blog

Meta-Hodos

mumei | print publication for scores

Nameless Sound: 20 Years of Sound | performances & reflections

News from the Shed | interviews

Night After Night | new releases

Notations

On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music

OPTION | performances & interviews

Organ Grinder | reviews

Point of Departure | journal, columns, reviews, interviews

Rare Frequency | radio

Recordedness | interviews

The Renfusa Revue | radio

The Road to Sound | reviews, premieres, features

Signifying Something | interview-based podcast

Sound American | periodical, essays

The Squid’s Ear | reviews

surround | periodical

Tactile Paths | Christopher A. Williams’ dissertation on open scores

Tone Glow | interviews, reviews, features

tone science | radio

UbuWeb Sound | recordings

vital weekly | new releases

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility


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