Category: new music

“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

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 …

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 …

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 …

For some time now, I’ve had the idea to start …

Here’s my interview with David Weinstein for Art on AIR, about my upcoming premiere, Standing Water: A Soundmap of the Gowanus Canal, to be performed this Saturday as part of the 2010 Ear to the Earth festival.

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Coming toward the end of one of my busiest periods I’ve had. It’s been a wonderful couple months, working with some of my favorite musicians and artists.

Before I take a little break, though, there are three more events this …

I am now feeling as though I was a bit hasty in yesterday’s criticism of Kyle Gann’s post, “Almost all is Vanity”. I was angry when I read it because it seemed to me that here was …

My wife just walked in and saw the title of this post as I working on it, and figured I was writing about our almost-two-year-old, busy whining in the next room about matters large and small.  Actually, though, I’m writing …