When his 802 Tour comes to the Walker this weekend, composer Nico Muhly will “do musical violence” to shape-note singing, a notation for communal singing that he calls “an incredibly old-fashioned way to think about how music works.”

Unlike Naked, presented in the Walker galleries in 2010, Eiko and Koma’s Fragile will be performed to a live soundtrack by Kronos Quartet at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this weekend.

Last week the Minnesota State Arts Board announced recipients of $1.2 million in arts funding. The 140 grantees include choreographer Penelope Freeh, poet Bao Phi, artist Liz Miller, and painter (and former Walker Teen Arts Council member) Luke Tromiczak.

NPR offers a first listen to the forthcoming album by jazz pianist Vijay Iyer, who played a mini-festival at the Walker over the weekend. Featuring his trio, Accelerando—play faster—is slated for release March 13.

The album cover for Santi White’s next album includes a painting of the singer by artist Kehinde Wiley. Based on Joshua Reynolds’ 1782 portrait of British Gen. Banastre Tarleton, the painting is Wiley’s first ever featuring a woman.

“Improvisational music forces us to focus and have an imagination,” says Kennedy Center jazz adviser Jason Moran. “I want to promote that, that audiences come in as thinkers, just as much as the musicians or the performers are thinkers. To me that’s inviting.”

Accompanying its recent segment on Meredith Monk, On Being links up video of a haunting performance by the vocalist with dancers and musicians inside a 78-foot-tall tower designed by artist Ann Hamilton.