John Hastings

John Hastings is a musician, artist, reader, and sometime writer living in New York City. 

April 2026Music

Paul Pinto’s MANO A MANO

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Composer and vocalist Paul Pinto’s new operatic monodrama, MANO A MANO, opens on a bit of dazzling wordplay: a history of Western writers, rulers, and kings, from Homer to King Arthur and beyond.

Paul Pinto’s MANO A MANO

October 2025Music

BRIAN HARNETTY with John P. Hastings

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Brian Harnetty is a composer based in Columbus, Ohio. Many of his works and projects begin from listening to audio from sources—spoken word, field recordings, music. Noisy Memory is about the process of listening to and engaging with these found sounds. It is also a memoir of sorts.

Brian Harnetty. Photo: Jennifer Harnetty.

November 2024Music

Paths of Sound

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Tendrils of connection, links, strings; when the pandemic created distance between musical artists, new modes of performance sprang up along with great losses (in a great many ways).

Katie Porter. Photo: Peter Gannushkin.

November 2023Music

Bent Duo: Embodying Queer Sonics

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Over the course of two days of performances, single audience members were blindfolded and led into the titular room where the twenty-five minute work unfolded. Sounds swirled around the listener, who gave themself over to the experience while the duo created a virtuosic sonic performance, an environment where all the senses were heightened.
Bent Duo performing ghostses. Photo courtesy of Leeds University.

May 2023Art Books

Kevin Beasley’s A View of a Landscape

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This monograph offers an expansive portrait of the artist’s practice through sound, performance, and sculpture, and displays how his personal and familial histories are used throughout his oeuvre. Filled with essays, photographs, poems, and more, the book amply displays Beasley’s varied artistic output from 2011 to 2020.
Kevin Beasley’s A View of a Landscape

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