Archive for: December 2010

I had a conversation yesterday that started, “You like sound art, right?” Uh oh, I thought. I had an idea where this was heading. I responded, “That’s sort of like saying, ‘You like sculpture, right?’” The …

I’m on a major notation kick lately.  Just found this on the youtubes.  It’s a “listening score” made by Rainer Wehinger for the Ligeti’s electronic piece Artikulation, one of three pieces Ligeti composed while working in the electronic music studio …

“The new structure required a concentration more demanding than if the technique were that of still photography, which for me is what precise notation had come to imply.”

-Morton Feldman

My undergrad alma mater, Connecticut College, just published an article titled Sounding Off, profiling several alumni composers, including me. The online version of the article includes a link to mp3s of works by each profiled composer.

Many thanks …

Apropos of my post a couple days ago, about Cage’s sound, I want to quote a few lines from Christian Wolff, who’s interview with William Duckworth I’m reading in the latter’s Talking Music:

“John’s music … had nothing to do with …

For fun, today, I traced my musical lineage back a bit. I’d like to do this in a more serious way some day, actually do a bit of real research. The only logic here is that these are …

I have a little obsession lately with the Appalachian folk song, “Black is the colour of my true love’s hair.”

The first version I ever heard was from Berio’s Folk Songs song cycle.  I found this nice video on youtube, which …

Home just now from tonight’s concert at Issue Project Room, the S.E.M. Ensemble performing works by John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Petr Kotik, part of the Darmstadt: Essential Repertoire Festival.  Wonderful concert, I’m really glad they do this series …

Last night I went to hear a concert of Berio’s first ten sequenzas, put on by the Darmstadt: Classics of the Avant Garde series. It was a night of wonderful performances. I was especially moved by Josh …