The Darmstadt Essential Repertoire festival highlights cherished works from the experimental music canon. This year's program features Karlheinz Stockhausen, Morton Feldman, and Terry Riely.

Robert Ashley’s Vidas Perfectas, a new Spanish-language production of his ground-breaking opera Perfect Lives (1983), will premiere at Irondale Theater in Brooklyn, directed by Alex Waterman. Starring Ned Sublette, with Elio Villafranca, Elisa Santiago, Abraham Gomez Delgado, and music produced by Peter Gordon.

Everyday Experimental draws its inspiration from commonplace activities and inconsequential sounds of the everyday. With a special focus on the contributions of women to sound art, ISSUE Presents works by Alison Knowles, Moniek Darge, Annea Lockwood, and Olivia Block.

A Gala Honoring William Basinski, featuring an exclusive New York premiere of music from Robert Wilson's "The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic," with William Basinski, and Marina Abramovic.

Through extended engagement with new forms of electronic technology, the works of Oliveros, Radigue and Spiegel exhibit innovative and intuitive processes that rethink concepts of musical perception and redefine the traditionally hierarchical roles of performer/listener, professional/amateur, and musician/non-musician.

Associates of Tokyo's Onkyo group , these artists explore the role of silence in shaping and subverting the musical event. Their use of silence as foreground, and their sparse, minimal playing, deconstruct traditional correlations between intended sound and its absence, creating a seamless flow of sounds and silences.