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.

Over eight nights in April, MoMA hosts the German experimental electronic band Kraftwerk who’ll perform each of their eight albums, one each night, going from 1974’s Autobahn to the 2003 album Tour de France.

Performances from the Walker’s 2010 mini-festival of music by Minneapolis drummer Dave King (The Bad Plus, Happy Apple, and others) makes up the backbone of a new documentary screening February 24 at Missoula’s Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

Never heard of a Harpejji, Tenori-on, or Eigenharp? That’s likely because established rock musicians seem “more inclined to try just about any instrument other than a new one.” Why? One inventor blames the “music industrial complex.”