Beat avant-garde was neither a movement, nor a style or a musical genre. It lasted for five, maybe six years – ranging from around 1968 to 1974. Xawery Stańczyk explores this small island in the ...

(Photo by Jack Mitchell/Getty Images) Scientists have created a “mini-brain” using the cells of avant-garde composer Alvin Lucier and are using it to make new music. The groundbreaking fusion ...