"My job is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet." —Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger died yesterday at the age 94. Simply put, I can't think of a single human being—musician or otherwise—who lived their life with more honesty and integrity. Over the course of a 75-year career that saw him perform with everyone from Woody Guthrie to Bruce Springsteen, Pete was convicted for contempt of Congress, was banned from ABC for refusing to sign a loyalty oath, and was censored by CBS for singing a Vietnam protest song. Later in life, Pete took up environmental activism, eventually guilting General Electric into cleaning up the PCBs it had dumped into the Hudson. 

A linchpin of the Village folk revival of the 1950s, Pete performed straight up until the end of his life; we covered Pete's brief duet with Arlo Guthrie at his Clearwater Great Hudson River Revival in 2012. Read all about Pete's incredible life and legacy here.  

Multimedia composer/performer Bora Yoon has spent the better part of a decade developing her one-woman show, Sunken Cathedral, which she describes as "an architectural journey through a house, and an archetypal journey through the subconscious." Sunken Cathedral will be released in April on Innova Records; Bora performs it live at HERE this week as part of the annual Culturemart festival of works-in-progress. (Tickets and info here.)

I sat down with Bora a few weeks ago to discuss her work as a singer and composer, how being a member of Voices of Ascension has informed her performance practice, and her thoughts on what electronic and classical music can learn from each other. Check it out below.

The Nouveau Classical Project is known for eclectic musical productions as well as for their forays into the world of fashion. On Tuesday, January 28, the group performs their latest program, Inside Out, at SubCulture—featuring music by David Bird, Morton Feldman, Jordan Nobles, Brian Ferneyhough, and Chen Yi. The evening will also include a special preview of music from composer Trevor Gureckis' upcoming experimental ballet, Potential Entergies, which is set to premiere at BAM in May. 

Tickets are available through SubCulture.